Underworld - Drift

I'm only an Underworld dilettante but this is luminous. Custard Speedtalk is the drifting summer capsule I need right now.

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

i don't think the sampler is quite as good as barbara barbara but i'm still enjoying it

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

Big Bear is such a fucking jam

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.

"one true piano need hand" kind of rules if you think of it as a ten minute prelude to Appleshine

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

the one modification I make is putting "Are You Rockstar?" as Track 1 on EP 3. it makes a great prelude to "Dune".

* 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 *

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https://underworldlive.com/drift-live/

"and the Misterons"

keeping Darren busy

Listen to Their No
Jumbo
Juanita
Another Silent Way
Border Country
Dirty Epic
S T A R (Rebel Tech)
Rez/Cowgirl
TMO
KoS
NUXX

wheeew

not enough Drift, too much NuXX imo

Juanita and Dirty Epic though

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!

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

Looks like this was the Antwerp setlist!

https://i.ibb.co/5kgdxM7/75552894-10212183819429217-546777700744822784-o.jpg

a) wooooooww that is killer
b) bodes really well if they’re mixing things up that much, night to night

At least one song from every album too

I like how they list the decibels for each track :-)

lol

assuming they're BPMs which means STAR is in happy hardcore territory

wot a laf

https://youtu.be/ixxG2DCeSX8

http://youtu.be/ixxG2DCeSX8

ah, fuck this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixxG2DCeSX8

i thank you

think i'm happy enough with my Drift single disc best-of

Appleshine
This Must Be Drum Street
Listen To Their No
Border Country
Brussels
Doscientos
Schipol Test
Custard Speedtalk
Another Silent Way
Dune

https://underworldlive.com/events/
San Fran on May 15
LA on May 16
NYC on May 20
Detroit on May 23
Toronto on May 27

Seems like there's a new version of the box set forthcoming for the bargain price of £35

New DRIFT Series 1 – CD/DVD Boxset

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.

Had to go find that on the Facebook group just now cuz it looks like the store closed message is back up. The writeup also mentioned a new Underworld Bandcamp page. Currently empty. Wonder what they're cooking up. (Also fans of hard, hard takes will enjoy the past couple days of the Facebook group... lol)

Lol yeah - not many fans of Drift actually in that group

Just wild. I'm still beside myself that Drift happened. Single artist "communities" are always brutal I guess.

a UW bandcamp page is long long overdue

the bargain price of £35

Plus £9.46 shipping and £7 VAT.

https://underworld.bandcamp.com/album/ricksdubbedoutdriftexperience-live-in-amsterdam

Assuming all those girls names are off the Manchester Street Poem album?

And the bloke's name.

Full Rick set is now available as part of the original box set's download (it was missing a couple of tracks before today). I guess you have to re-download the entire massive zip file though!

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/underworlds-drift-series-1-interview

Lolz:

Hyde: Can I say something? I don’t even know what song you’re talking about. Like, you would have to sing them to me and then I go, “Of course! I know every detail of that track.” But “Threat of Rain” now? Don’t know what it is. [Smith plays the track from his phone -ed.]. Oh, I was listening to that last night! I love that one. The way you did that hi-hat thing is amazing. Those reverbs they’re just…it’s so incredible. [back to interviewer] This is a constant problem. I have no idea what anyone’s talking about.

Also sounds like Series 2 is a definite go :)

Hyde: One day we’ll be able to encourage [session drummer extraordinaire] Steve Gadd to join the band.

to be fair Hyde is barely on that track

also it kinda speaks to how accomplished these dudes are? like, I remember the band pulled out "Dirty Epic" in like, 2010 or so, and someone noted that Karl was reading the lyrics off a piece of paper because he'd forgotten them! I mean, imagine writing so much great music that you can't even remember how "Dirty Epic" goes

Can I say something? I don’t even know what song you’re talking about.

ha ha, Karl OTM

relieves me to hear Karl himself has trouble remembering their music from the titles. even for some UW songs I love, it's taken me years to associate the music with the title

Two-part podcast "interview" with all the questions cut out: in part 1, they talk about how Drift came from a complete change in their relationship. For no apparent reason whatsoever, in Australia in 2017, Karl started listening to Rick for the first time ever, and that facilitated this more fluid way of working. (Karl also talks about how validating he found the process of publishing Drift - aside from their output not being mediated through the publicity/licensing machine, they'd also get immediate feedback not just from youtube comments, but also friends dropping a text to comment on the week's release.)

In part 2 they talk in broader terms about the role of the artist in society,their application of this, and not being a band.

MP3 links above, website here