Underworld - Classic or Dud?

ha, that's delightful (and for sure Rick on stick)

Karl was always the singer in Freur (or at least: I had the picture disc of Doot Doot shaped like their squiggle from before they had a name, and it's his voice on it), but the obvious reason he's not singing there is that he is English

I've never been to Wales but I imagine everyone acts like that

Stick Rick was the hardest boss in Mega Man 5

I live in Wales and can confirm that's true xp

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?

indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSFq5KhQ_oo&fbclid=IwAR2BMO-yb4_dS5sdY_5cDHHoDq0FxRMhsgRi-7uu1zy8Z4XGmFWHkip4Vp8

i think something weird happened with that embed so here it is again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSFq5KhQ_oo

maybe it's getting tiring to say "this fucking rules" every single time but

Thanks Brad!

going back to April now but Custard Speedtalk is phenomenal

Custard Speedtalk is the best video

that mega banger tune they've been playing live is now out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFkp1-R0DA

it almost seems custom made to segue into Pearl's Girl

this is one of the best yet from Drift

oh my fuckin GOD border country

it is really quite something

well this is good

second half in particular is amazing. this has got to be the fastest track they've done since..."Tin There" maybe? crazy

one thing I can't figure out is how the songs on this EP are gonna fit together...they're all very different from each other. I wonder how much they're gonna tweak for the release.

ep1 was the only time they reordered tracks weren't it? For 2, Molehill got a nice coda. 3 practically unchanged.

all episodes have started strong. I expected Border Country to start 5.. so really hype for what they're going to drop in 2 weeks

Figure that's Rick going "dub da lubby dub"?

it's not like any of the drift EPs have particularly fit together really

https://www.bpmdatabase.com/music/search/?artist=Underworld&sort=-bpm

fwiw

Starting to seriously consider pre-ordering the box set.

not a lot of tracks there... but anyway u think you saw on the forum where someone was making the point that they haven't had a song in this specific tempo,before,maybe? It was confusing. Underworld: not always slow

*I think you

I need to stop posting on my phone. scuse me.

oh yeah..."Scribble" I guess would be the obvious one. can't believe I forgot about it. anyway yeah on the boards it says this tune is 133...so slower than "Push Upstairs"? idk it feels faster. I immediately thought of "Tin There" and "Pearls Girl" b/c it has that same rush to it.

It didn't strike me as particularly fast

I enjoyed rediscovering both of these prime not-Underworld tracks recently and thought you might like to join me.

Realised that the Shakespeare's Sister 'Black Sky (Dub Extravaganza Part 2)' had soundtracked a few splendid dancefloor moments, both back in the day and more recently.

https://youtu.be/nHT-wy2Uudw

Rick Smith remixing Rob Playford and Goldie's 'The Shadow', I guess he's basically overlaying Underworld synths on those beats. Rules pretty hard.

https://youtu.be/9g3y4eMh6Eg

Also. Hey.

https://youtu.be/NP56homYkjw

so are all these live & rehearsal things going to be in the big box set or no?

I really doubt it - unless it's tucked away in the data section of the Blu-ray or something (can you even do that? I don't own a single Blu-ray). a bit frustrating, this stuff is great but it's pretty lame that it's all in low bitrates - the "Silver Boots" release sounds better than the ripped-from-radio version, but not by much. kinda silly to complain about a band releasing this much great stuff at once though

No.

xp

Another Misterons mix today, up on both mixcloud and youtube, with new joints back next week:

The finishing touches are being put on Episode 5, Part 1 as this reaches you. Keep your eyes on your inbox next Thursday for your next serving of DRIFT straight out of Central Mexico…

that mix (called "Chillin at the Shed") is very much worth a half hour of your time

first context I've ever liked "Push Downstairs" in by the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB6G7KgBX24

fuck yes

most of Episode 5 has been less whelming than the previous ones, but today's is 13 mins of gorgeous bleepy jazz noodling, with one of the best videos so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG74FOPyijY

https://www.mixcloud.com/DarrenPrice/darren-price-todd-terje-bs-dubplate/?

couple of records arrived yesterday. dubnobass is one I've wanted to own on vinyl for like, 15 years. but before this recent reissue they were not only expensive ($60+) but very difficult to find. same place had Barbara Barbara for $14 so I had to go for it

https://i.imgur.com/yTR0ZzD.png

wanna get the full set but OWB & Barking are OOP and fetch pretty crazy prices on the secondary market

Nice! second toughest reissue shouldn't be hard to find? I bought and returned it... record one was the A side twice. That was a new one on me.

Barnes & Noble has it for $24 with free shipping so I guess I'll spring for that. its the shipping costs that really kill ya.

fun story behind the BF LP, I bought it off eBay in 2005, it didn't arrive for nearly 2 months and despite being listed as "Never Played" and in "Like New" condition the thing was full of fingerprints and very scratched up - it skips a bunch and "Push Upstairs" gets into a locked groove a minute in (kinda neat, actually). I left the dude negative feedback (something I pretty much never do but this guy deserved it) and he went absolutely berserk on me, sending me a bunch of emails that I won't share here due to an abundance of homophobic language. Amusing enough to nearly make up for the unplayable record. Figured "well, you can always frame it..."

eBay's returns situation has since improved :)

Dia de los Muertos makeup for Mexico City gig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmsXMmZUDTc

Quite like this. Bit of a Juanita vibe with Karl's vocoder style vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9bW0RpMU7o

i'm guessing they cut Appleshine Continuum on the boxset so they could fit all of the Necks collaborations into one disc but it's still such a shame they did

meh the full thing is out there. Real question is, is there a longer Altitude Continuum?? lol

some UK people have the box already. There's a download code that apparently includes the in between week things.... but it doesn't yet work,lol. it would be great if the 64kbps mixcloud stuff is there in higher quality

oh wow that would be something

haven't given the new mix of Appleshine Continuum much time yet but my impression is they cut off the beginning part, which is basically just all of Appleshine again? this one seems to start where the Necks really take over

easy to swap 'em out on your own playlist but I like the mixing on the new one a lot more - more balanced, not as sharp & piercing

wonder if the audio on the Blu-ray got a once over. that would fix that up

Underworld turned into a lounge act so gradually that I hardly noticed.

Karl was always the singer in Freur [...] but the obvious reason he's not singing there is that he is English

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, June 18, 2019 7:05 PM (five months ago)

yep:

https://i.imgur.com/ZW2Vupk.jpg

is that from "I Am Dogboy"?

yep ii!

got the box set too (numbered and signed, even, nice) - download code no worky, confirmed