And as evidenced by the single version of Soniamode, a lot of these tracks are probably going to get polished up and be even better on the album.
― groovypanda, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
yeah, hell i dunno. The text on the new track was sweet, "Two people helping each other forever..."
― maffew12, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
And yeah, while there might be a bassline or pattern reused here or there in the Drift stuff, it seems to be all material written and recorded between 2017 and, in one case, the week of release.
In between chapters they've dropped stuff from 1997 to 2018: things they've had on the web in like 96kbps before, one they've never released studio versions of before, one brand new track they used as an intro on the first commercial Drift, a 26-minute 2008 studio improv version of Pearls Girl, and so on.
(So far it's about 3 hours 45 of Drift, over an hour of additional material. Plus other bits only on Mixcloud, like this 1998 jam/rehearsal for Beaucoup Fish figuring out the live versions)
― tfw you are not easily whelmed (sic), Friday, 24 May 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
xpost!
some of the accompanying notes (especially to Brussels and Soniamode) seem to imply the tracks have only come together in the last few days.
I think they specify that when it happens because it's unusual, not that they're writing a piece a week. The Necks sessions were in early 2018, and they noted that some of those were riffing on pieces they'd already written/recorded for Drift.
Whatever, I still find it amazing that these guys who are into 30+ years together as a band are churning out new tracks every week that have an incredibly high hit to miss ratio.
40 years this year!
― tfw you are not easily whelmed (sic), Friday, 24 May 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
to track one piece via workflow we have info for:
Rick and Karl wrote and recorded Soniamode together on the 1st of April, 2015. It then sat untouched until...
per the sleevenotes to Drift, Rick was looking for a track to finish for that Thursday's release on Tuesday January 22nd, and dug up Soniamode.
On the Wednesday afternoon, he picked up Appleshine, and finished it at 6:45am for release a few hours later.
Having slept, he then started working on mixing the Necks version of Appleshine on the Friday, on which day Karl recorded a "new vocal" for another piece that hasn't been released yet.
Rick continued mixing Appleshine Continuum through the weekend, finishing it on Monday 28th.
On the Tuesday, Rick and the video bloke decided that Molehill would be the track to come out on Thursday. On the Wednesday, they rehearsed for a gig in Dubai, then Rick mixed Molehill & delivered for video at 2am. They rehearsed again on the Thursday, then packed up the gear to ship to Dubai on the Friday.
Rick wrote new material on Saturday 2nd Feb. On the Sunday he worked on a piece that hasn't come out yet, and then on the video for Threat Of Rain. He worked on the same unreleased piece on Monday morning, then finished the video version of Threat Of Rain at 2am Tuesday.
Later on Tuesday Feb 5th, Karl recorded new vocals for Soniamode.
They flew to Dubai on the Wednesday, played on Friday night, flew home on Saturday. Rick worked on the mix for the EP version of Threat Of Rain in his hotel room while we were listening to the free/youtube version.
Jetlagged on Sunday, Rick picked up another unreleased piece and Brussels on Monday 11th, then chose Brussels on the Tuesday and finished it before midnight on Wednesday.
On the Thursday, he finished mixing Appleshine Continuum.
On Saturday 16th, he worked on some Drift future planning and more on Soniamode.
On Monday the 18th, Karl wrote new words and recorded vocals for Soniamode and one of the above not-yet-released tracks. Rick mixed it for video and sent it to the video bloke at midnight.
On Tuesday the 19th, they started writing the Game version of Soniamode.
On Thursday Feb 21st, the Soniamode they finished 55 hours earlier was released.
Three months later, and 211 weeks after they started it, on Tuesday May 21st the single / Game version of Soniamode was released.
― tfw you are not easily whelmed (sic), Saturday, 25 May 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
So there's rarely a plan even six days ahead, and the videos are frequently being made between 2am and the morning release. But they're absolutely not making a track per week!
― tfw you are not easily whelmed (sic), Saturday, 25 May 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
ah that puts it all into context well, that the EPs are fairly spontaneous but the album will likely be a more polished compilation of the best of the all the material
― ufo, Saturday, 25 May 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
cheers xp
― groovypanda, Saturday, 25 May 2019 05:33 (four years ago) link
Karl Hyde is now two years older than Leonard Cohen was when he wrote Closing Time.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 May 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
that whipper-snapper Rick is 3 years younger than Karl
― StanM, Saturday, 25 May 2019 08:17 (four years ago) link
Whatever, I still find it amazing that these guys who are into 30+ years together as a band are churning out new tracks every week that have an incredibly high hit to miss ratio. Long may it continue.
lol it's them and....They Might be Giants
― frogbs, Sunday, 26 May 2019 03:38 (four years ago) link
anyway if UW really wanna make this their best year ever they need to record and release one of these live shows, similar to the Tokyo 2005 album, I'm still in awe of how great that set was
― frogbs, Sunday, 26 May 2019 03:39 (four years ago) link
This week's newie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Sobf9OW9g
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 30 May 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
(free download is back, too)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 31 May 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
if you were waiting for Most Ospitible, Who Rings the Bell, and King of Snake to have a baby, this one belongs to you.I like!
― maffew12, Friday, 31 May 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link
spoilers (??) if you care about that sort of thing
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/underworld/2019/concert-hall-sydney-opera-house-sydney-australia-391b993.html?fbclid=IwAR3FjZkfTztZ9z4Zu54foh_SEL-RKEDMihYrmjDKAUjxNih7dLLRtEZYp8k
assuming "Border Country" is some future track
― frogbs, Friday, 31 May 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
reading through the Drift Episode 2 liner notes i noticed that Rick suddenly says "There was no Agata (Melt Banana) on that" while he and Karl are discussing the violin and sax players on "Appleshine" which i didn't quite understand what he meant by it, so i went digging and i found an interview from a few years ago where Karl mentions he has a side project collaborating with Melt-Banana in the works and he's a big fan of them so i'm thinking maybe some sort of Melt-Banana collab will show up in Drift at some point? Rick might have just been comparing their playing style as the opposite of Agata's but to me it sounds like it could imply they were working together recently? really would have no idea what an Underworld/Melt-Banana collab would sound like though
― ufo, Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
I went digging around to try and track which songs came out in what formats and which have different versions and so forth, and found that Darren Price had his own big mid-Drift-style archive cleanout in the months before Drift started:
Two remixes of Lenne Penne from RiverRun, that were never used:https://soundcloud.com/dj-darren-price/underworld-lenne-penne-darren-price-acid-mix-unreleaded-2006https://soundcloud.com/dj-darren-price/underworld-lenne-penne-darren-price-drums-remix
A mix of Deep Arch used in the Olympics opening ceremony but not included on the album:https://soundcloud.com/dj-darren-price/underworld-deep-arch-darren-price-unreleased-mix
A mix of Dark & Long he did with High Contrast that only appeared on the Olympics album in cut-down form:https://soundcloud.com/dj-darren-price/underworld-dark-long-unreleased-6m-28s-darren-price-high-contrast-remix
A mix of Cherry Pie that he and High Contrast did that was meant to be used during the athletes' march, but they marched too fast:https://soundcloud.com/dj-darren-price/underworld-cherry-pie-darren-price-high-contrast-mix-unreleased
A first-draft mix he did of Twenty Three Blue off Barbara Barbara, that got shelved when the original got relegated to a bonus track in Japanhttps://soundcloud.com/dj-darren-price/underworld-twenty-three-blue-darren-price-unreleased-mix-2015
aaaaaand a 2002 mash-up he did of the Nuxx vocals over a track on Carl Cox's label, of which he made two dubplates and gave one to Cox, so nobody else has played this sincehttps://soundcloud.com/dj-darren-price/underworld-born-slippy-darren-price-unreleased-dubplate-2002
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 3 June 2019 08:37 (four years ago) link
nice! Thanks for that. Only just got hold of a copy of his Under the Flightpath, which I've been enjoying a lot.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
yeah - those mixes with High Contrast are great. weren't they playing a lot of Price's stuff during those '05/'06 shows? "Yard Beat", "Moroccan Meatballs", "Aquafunk", etc.? surprised none of that's come out.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
James - his soundcloud also has chunks of unreleased solo material, like 13 minutes of tracks from a 1998 followup album for NovaMute, and these two songs from the same shelved release
weren't they playing a lot of Price's stuff during those '05/'06 shows? "Yard Beat", "Moroccan Meatballs", "Aquafunk", etc.? surprised none of that's come out.
I'd guess either: he just doesn't have enough of a name for labels to be bothered; or he was simply happy having both a day job with Underworld where he got to play his music live to people and a night job DJing where he gets to play his recorded music to people, without having to try and promote & sell it to anyone.
He did start a new label last year to release a track Underworld were playing from 2011-2014, with new B-sides (audio on youtube), and here's a recording of Underworld playing his Nicodemus in 2010
BTW Underworld just did four nights in a row at the Sydney Opera House, and included one new song and a few Drift tracks in the sets - here's the unreleased one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjJ6gtBafRo
(unlisted video, might not embed)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
Cute video released today on the Sydney shows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WerkBv-bQP0
Wonder if they're going to release a full show or compilation.
Going to wait on hearing Border Country. It has to be part of what's left of Drift. I've seen fans online losing their minds over it since they debuted it live (early last year?).
― maffew12, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knGbjeIqkUs
might be the strangest track yet
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
hahaha i'm glad drift has provided them an avenue to do bizarre things like that
― ufo, Friday, 7 June 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
someone on the boards mentioned Soul Coughing which makes total sense to me. but yeah I'm in agreement, as much as I love stuff like "Threat of Rain" or "Schlipol Test" from last week, this is the sort of thing I'm interested in hearing them try
― frogbs, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
this sounds like loads of ‘90s Australian hip-hop
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 7 June 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
lol as soon as i heard the beat i was like "karl's gonna do some 'bruce lee'/'ring road' shit over this" and lo
i love it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 7 June 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
This is the only song of theirs on the "Bruce Lee" template that I've liked
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 7 June 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
new one's an ambient piece...sounds a bit like Aphex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cAlgzLzOQ
it's short...but! there is apparently an entire album of this stuff. I guess it was done a couple years ago, but still...
https://mcrstreetpoem.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=52418
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
Score is very nice. Love ambient Rick
― maffew12, Thursday, 13 June 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
sounds a bit like Aphex
it does!
for those not signed up, instead of a free mp3 this week, you get that link to buy the entire Manchester Street Poem album (pay what you want, minimum £5.00, proceeds go to the charity). Now that the eventual album and box set are announced, they're evidently prompting themselves into messing around with the week-to-week format in new ways.
I guess it was done a couple years ago, but still...
An early mix of Doris is in the background of this trailer featuring Karl painting, posted in December 2017, and there's more score in this mini-doco (also note that the new video of Doris is cut down by about a minute from the album)
They seem to be interested in clearing the decks rn at the same time as generating loads of new music: as well as this sudden bonus album, there's the in-between-chapters releases and streams, the Iggy Pop collab EP from July 2018 was recorded in 2016, they're digging into unfinished tracks and the Necks sessions for Drift... as if they want to come out the other end with no "maybe we'll come back to that" projects hanging around.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 13 June 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
... and finally go back to being a funk act
― maffew12, Thursday, 13 June 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
I would 100% go to an Underneath The Radar 33rd anniversary concert
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 14 June 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
is it now a drift too far?
― maffew12, Friday, 14 June 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
― maffew12, Thursday, June 13, 2019 8:21 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Mostly not as mellow as "Doris". Nice techno in here.
― maffew12, Friday, 14 June 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
doubt anyone will be shocked to hear this but the 17 minute track is amazing
feels like it could've been the inspiration for "Pinetum"
― frogbs, Friday, 14 June 2019 04:20 (four years ago) link
I just remembered that AHDO is due for an 'ultra deluxe' reissue soon, though I have no clue how many rarities they have lying around from then. Their singles from that era were quite lean. They could easily do a 4+ CD version of Oblivion With Bells though. Does anyone remember a drum n' bass track called "Swing Up High" that was offered up for download on underworldlive.com a decade or so ago? It fuckin' ruled!!
― frogbs, Friday, 14 June 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
I'd be shocked to see a Hundred Days box. Maybe something to cover their entire '00s? Riverrun and all thatBut I'm not sure of the economics of these things anymore. Maybe it is worth their while to press up a small number of boxes and get renewed interest on streaming services for the material (and extras).
― maffew12, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
I just want the epic ambient tracks collected on vinyl. Peach Tree, Ansum, 23 Blue (i've got the 7" from Electronic Sound, but passed on the bonus 12" due to ridiculous shipping) etc. There are a handful of great tunes that didn't make it to vinyl or were very limited on vinyl.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 14 June 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
I'd be shocked to see a Hundred Days box.
nah, there's plenty for a concise & tidy merely "deluxe" Hundred Days box, or a messy blowout one if they include the remixes of the time (that were pretty boring iirc) and the 2000 version and remixes of Cowgirl and 2003 version and remixes of NUXX.
Whether you dump that stuff on a fourth disc or not, there's half an hour of fairly placid b-sides, and 13 minutes of the two versions of 020202, that could stand alone or get filled out on a disc with similar-sounding unreleased and developmental tracks like the other reissues. And then highlights of a Lemonworld broadcast or two could pack a third disc. (Or, though it dates from the end of Emerson's time, the Blue Mountains session would make a great value fourth disc.)
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Maybe something to cover their entire '00s? Riverrun and all that
I can see a supermegadeluxe 2005-2008 box, skipping all outside remixes, as apparently much of the Sunshine soundtrack, most of the Breaking & Entering soundtrack and all (?) of Oblivion With Bells came out of the work that started as the Riverrun sessions.
But Riverrun alone would take two CDs to press just in the mixed-together versions, and judging by some of the tracks that have been released unmixed, might fill out those two in full versions. If you include the remixes by other people & the Misterons in-house mix, even with no unreleased material, that's easily four discs just covering November 2005 to June 2006, let alone the rest of the decade.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 15 June 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
might fill out those two in full versions
OK I checked (and typed up details and then accidentally pasted a URL over the entire post)
But the unmixed Pizza With Eggs promo blows out from 25 minutes to 45, including a 20-minute (!) Ancient Phat Farm Coat*. The unmixed Lovely Broken Thing is only 34, including a ten-minute Lenny Penne, but that's a full 80-minute CD even if I'm A Princess only gained one second per track... but there are two different commercially-released edits of Peach Tree alone that are each over 12 minutes.
*four of the six tracks had commercially-released edits that were slightly shorter than the promo.
(why yes, I have already been inspired by Drift to dig back into some of the C21 Underworld I skimmed or skipped, and in this era just gave up and stuck with the old 192k mp3s on my ipod while waiting for the 20th anniversary box)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 15 June 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
I just want "Bamboo"
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 June 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
I’d be satisfied with however many seconds of “Showlder” were left off on either end of the mixed version
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Saturday, 15 June 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
gave up and stuck with
(oh alright then, I downloaded some maniac's multiple re-mixed-together compilations of the best performances on the Oblivion With Bells tour releases, and then whittled down his different versions into two and a half hours of Best of The Bests, two hours of Alternative Best Versions, and another four and a half hours covering one version of every song played on the tour.
(and then put it in a folder unplayed and went back to listening to Drift and single / compilation tracks from the last ten years that I'd missed.)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 15 June 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
hah I've had those kinda nights
today it's pretty much been "Pinetum" over and over
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 June 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
i've been playing the megadeluxe edition of STITI in the car lately and it's so good, all of it. what a group.
― omar little, Saturday, 15 June 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
someone on the UW Drift FB group found this. I had no idea Freur had a different lead singer in the beginning. Also: what the Fuck???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWkccmluYOs&fbclid=IwAR3Rsv6GZSy4SyPX8gfPcw6Ek3FEP5NdSixMKBllzk21_ZGK5xv2MOpQFFY
first comment is killing me
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
embed no worky, what's the link?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 07:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWkccmluYOs
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 07:44 (four years ago) link
Karl on guitar and pretty sure Rick is the guy dancing with the stick
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 07:51 (four years ago) link