ok it's not exactly a continuous mix but they did manage to make it feel very album-shaped which i'm so impressed with
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
i also love that it is somewhat by necessity their most bangin' album ever
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
it is a good job. I remember the Sampler tracklist coming out and everyone commenting was like... Those songs?? Listen to their No into Border Country is pretty jarring, as is anything coming after Border Country. Guess they didn't want to close on that note. Custard works better as a closer than I would've thought.
― maffew12, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
track for track the flow of it reminds me a lot of Beacoup Fish. you know...chill opener, several singles in a row, some more ambient stuff, then you got "S T A R" taking the "Bruce Lee" / "Kittens" spot, wonky rhythm track "Imagine a Box" somewhat like "Something Like a Mama", then a striking closer
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
i still think my favorite thing from the drift series is "threat of rain"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
great one. the brand new songs on the box remind me of that episode 2 vibe. You should like em. That was my fave episode.... now ...I.. don't... know... anything
― maffew12, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
further reports now that i'm deeper in the box:
- as with the eps the first disc is still the weakest. i enjoy the "pearls girl"-y ride of "another silent way/drift poem/better than diamonds" a lot though- "roof off" is a jam- frankly i'm getting blown away by the episode 3 all over again. the extended "drum street" is a dream. were "poet cat" and "dune" always this amazing? is "pinetum" oddly sinister to anyone else and if so does the sourceless knocking freak y'all out? and forget what i said upthread, "custard speedtalk" is by far the best track to come out of these sessions and is a quintessential underworld experience. and both of the new tracks slap. wonderful
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
the 15 minute suite on disc 1 is a trip
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
the live/looped(?) drums on "custard" are so beautiful. i feel like, given their approach to improvisation, i've always sort of unconsciously wanted a jazzier underworld record and ... i finally have one and it's more gorgeous than i'd ever imagined
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
yeah first time I heard it I was about 2 minutes in before wondering if it was in fact the best UW tune ever
I wonder if that direction was something picked up by Karl's solo excursions - lotta live drums on the Hyde/Eno records, mixed towards the front like they are on here
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
xp about Pinetum, it's a weird one. Fun or scary depending on my mood, like, I find. I've heard this description about a lot ambient music, and though I like plenty of that stuff, not much of it ever sounds happy to me
― maffew12, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
i didn't spend a lot of time with episode 5 before the box came out and wtf how is "toluca stars" so beautiful
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
"so beautiful" that's my review of drift series 1 by underworld
i've always sort of unconsciously wanted a jazzier underworld record
"Tree and Two Chairs" probably gonna be up your alley then
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
it really is, as is "doscentitos" which is prob my favorite of the new new tracks
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
I don't think I enjoy UW enough nowadays to listen to six discs but the sampler is quite nice, certainly it caught my attention more than Barbara. "Appleshine" and "Brilliant Yes" stood out as highlights
― Vinnie, Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:48 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah "Custard" was really interesting too! The synth work is kind of "Rez"-y but the vibe created by the piano/live drums makes it so different
― Vinnie, Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
he'll be back
― maffew12, Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
I'm only an Underworld dilettante but this is luminous. Custard Speedtalk is the drifting summer capsule I need right now.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Thursday, 7 November 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
i'm really loving the sampler as its own thing. best underworld album since oblivion with bells imo, maybe even better than that
as i said a few posts ago, this song is incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J34Z7hE35sc
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
i don't think the sampler is quite as good as barbara barbara but i'm still enjoying it
― ufo, Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
finally going through all the new tracks from the box-set and some of these are wonderful - "another silent way/drift poem/better than diamonds", "doscientos" and "two arrows" are all fantastic. this is making my attempt at a drift best-of even more difficult
― ufo, Saturday, 16 November 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
Big Bear is such a fucking jam
― frogbs, Friday, 22 November 2019 04:51 (four years ago) link
I sort of lost track of this throughout the year - downloaded things and then left them lingering on the computer somewhere.
Now playing ... there's actually loads of amazing stuff on here.
― djh, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
"one true piano need hand" kind of rules if you think of it as a ten minute prelude to Appleshine
― maffew12, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
the first "Drift" show is happening like right now. Rick "and the Misterons" do a set before the main one. Interested to hear something out of this
― maffew12, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
the one modification I make is putting "Are You Rockstar?" as Track 1 on EP 3. it makes a great prelude to "Dune".
― frogbs, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
* the first "Drift" show is happening like right now. Rick "and the Misterons" do a set before the main one. Interested to hear something out of this *
?
― djh, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
https://underworldlive.com/drift-live/
― StanM, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
"and the Misterons"
keeping Darren busy
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 22 November 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
Listen to Their NoJumboJuanitaAnother Silent WayBorder CountryDirty EpicS T A R (Rebel Tech)Rez/CowgirlTMOKoS NUXX
wheeew
― frogbs, Friday, 22 November 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
not enough Drift, too much NuXX imo
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 22 November 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
Juanita and Dirty Epic though
― frogbs, Friday, 22 November 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
yeah Jumbo / Juanita / Dirty Epic are great classics for a Drift show. way too many bangers from this year to need to keep leaning on Snake & Nuxx for the encore though!
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 22 November 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
Rez / Cowgirl ending main set, Two Months Off opening encore before, say, Listen To Their No or Big Bear and Border Country is a perfect amount of pandering that still flows
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 22 November 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
Looks like this was the Antwerp setlist!
https://i.ibb.co/5kgdxM7/75552894-10212183819429217-546777700744822784-o.jpg
― groovypanda, Saturday, 23 November 2019 07:02 (four years ago) link
a) wooooooww that is killerb) bodes really well if they’re mixing things up that much, night to night
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 23 November 2019 07:06 (four years ago) link
At least one song from every album too
― groovypanda, Saturday, 23 November 2019 07:09 (four years ago) link
I like how they list the decibels for each track :-)
― StanM, Saturday, 23 November 2019 07:39 (four years ago) link
lolassuming they're BPMs which means STAR is in happy hardcore territory
― groovypanda, Saturday, 23 November 2019 07:41 (four years ago) link
wot a laf
― maffew12, Saturday, 23 November 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/ixxG2DCeSX8
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
http://youtu.be/ixxG2DCeSX8
ah, fuck this
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixxG2DCeSX8
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
i thank you
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 December 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
think i'm happy enough with my Drift single disc best-of
AppleshineThis Must Be Drum StreetListen To Their NoBorder CountryBrusselsDoscientosSchipol TestCustard SpeedtalkAnother Silent WayDune
― ufo, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
https://underworldlive.com/events/San Fran on May 15LA on May 16NYC on May 20Detroit on May 23Toronto on May 27
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
Seems like there's a new version of the box set forthcoming for the bargain price of £35
― groovypanda, Friday, 12 June 2020 12:24 (three years ago) link
New DRIFT Series 1 – CD/DVD BoxsetDRIFT was released as a sampler and a super deluxe, seven-disc box set that sold out on release.Responding to both demand and many people’s changed circumstances, the band have remodelled the package for a new compact edition that contains all of the original seven CDs and accompanying BluRay along with a perfect bound, 50-page book and a previously unreleased, hour-long recording of Rick Smith’s DRIFT pre-show set recorded live before Underworld’s show at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on November 23rd 2019.
DRIFT was released as a sampler and a super deluxe, seven-disc box set that sold out on release.
Responding to both demand and many people’s changed circumstances, the band have remodelled the package for a new compact edition that contains all of the original seven CDs and accompanying BluRay along with a perfect bound, 50-page book and a previously unreleased, hour-long recording of Rick Smith’s DRIFT pre-show set recorded live before Underworld’s show at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on November 23rd 2019.
― groovypanda, Friday, 12 June 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link