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Personalized Drift Album
"It's not meant to be an album"
"Why do this if UW have already given us their own version" "isn't this kind of disrespectful?" "let some time pass for us to digest the object as intended, for pete's sake" "You know that UW might know far better than us on how an album, such as it is, would be structured out of this, right?" all of these imaginary critiques that i just came up with are LIES. a 40-track monster was dropped in our lap, we all have broadly different opinions on it, and i know you over-particular little goblins have made your own private album of the whole affair just as i have. i want to see it and, if we're feeling jovial, we can even try out each other's versions! for my own part, i did try to side-step the personal playlist best-of trap and tried to come up with a plausible underworld album in structure and momentum, even including songs that weren't faves and more in line with that you'd expect from UW. I ended up compromising by stuffing it a bit and maybe having more heavy-hitters than usual but it's gotta be mine somewhere. Plus the closer i got to what seemed right, the more i relied on the sampler versions. it was a weird little journey that looked back a lot and considered previous albums in a much more analytical way than i usually do. anyway! Another Silent Way / Drift Poem / Better Than Diamonds Listen to Their No (Sampler Version) Border Country (Sampler Version) Mile Bush Pride (Sampler Version) Soniamode (Aditya Game Version) Toluca Stars This Must Be Drum Street (Final Version) Big Bear S T A R Seven Drone Music Low Between Zebras --and if we want to get Japanese 2CD version about it-- Pinetum (Final Version) Universe of Can When Back (2018 version) Dexters Chalk (2018 version) Roof Off Do Breakers Trip Two Arrows Schiphol Test (Sampler Version) Brilliant Yes That Would Be (Sampler Version) S T A R (Rebel Tech) Imagine A Box Doscientos Dune and that's it! curious to see if anyone test drives this or has something similar to mine, but mainly intrigued as to how others have done it for themselves Last edited by dubman; 12-16-2019 at 02:40 PM. |
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Re: Personalized Drift Album
Mine's come out somewhat close to the Sampler Edition, possibly unsurprisingly.
1. Appleshine 2. Another Silent Way / Drift Poem / Better Than Diamonds 3. Border Country 4. Listen to Their No 5. Dune 6. Brilliant Yes That Would Be 7. S T A R 8. Schiphol Test 9. Custard Speedtalk Appleshine is very much the typical Underworld slightly-understated-moody-techno opener, follows on from Dirty Epic, Mo Move, Crocodile, Bird 1 and just sets things off well for me. The extended Another Silent Way suite is a nice '90s throwback, structurally, and follows the moody opener with a more energetic track, as Push Upstairs, Two Months Off, Beautiful Burnout and Always Loved a Film did. The two obvious singles round out the more energetic first half. Border Country's quick opening makes it flow better from ASW for me, with Listen to Their No following on nicely. Then we have a break for a couple of slower tracks to break things up, Beaucoup Fish-style. S T A R takes the position of the late-album-banger to keep things from getting too sedate - thinking Dinosaur Adventure 3D, Bruce Lee, Cowgirl - before winding down with Schiphol Test - a kind of Something Like a Mama / Air Towel moodier number - and ending with Custard Speedtalk, which is the logical album closer of everything here for me. Nine tracks, 75 minutes, meaning it feels more in line with the '90s albums. If this has actually been the album, I'd have had no problem putting it in my top 3 UW records on first listen. |
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Yes! I had debated starting one of these threads several times over the past couple of weeks. I have been playing A&R man with this collection a lot, and just found it way too hard to boil it down to the length of one disc. For me this is Underworld's Physical Graffiti. Here's my album:
Disc 1: Drift - Dusk Listen to Their No Another Silent Way/Drift Poem/Better Than Diamonds Brussels Appleshine Mile Bush Pride Border Country Soniamode (Aditya Game) Toluca Stars Disc 2: Drift - Dark Brilliant Yes That Would Be Low Between Zebras/This Must Be Drum Street (Sampler Version) STAR Doscientos Seven Drone Music Universe of Can When Back Give Me The Room Schiphol Test Japanese Bonus Track: Dune Single 1: Another Silent Way B-Side: Two Arrows Single 2: Border Country B-Side: Dexter's Chalk
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took a try at making my own 'definitive album', to which i tried to put most of my favourite DRIFT tracks in a cohesive order. i found that limiting the tracklist to only a certain number of tracks would challenge how the list turns out. with 20 tracks total, it can be split into a double album. both would be able to fit on separate discs, but still, it runs well as a great playlist
(all taken from the Series 1 release) DISC 1 1. Universe of Can When Back 2. Another Silent Way / Drift Poem / Better Than Diamonds 3. Appleshine 4. This Must Be Drum Street 5. Listen To Their No 6. Low Between Zebras 7. Hundred Weight Hammer 8. Soniamode (Aditya Game) 9. Doscientos 10. Poet Cat DISC 2 1. Molehill 2. Appleshine (All the Lights) 3. Brussels 4. Border Country 5. Mile Bush Pride 6. Imagine A Box 7. S T A R 8. Doris 9. Tree and Two Chairs 10. Custard Speedtalk |
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If I didn't care about format time constraints...
DRIFTER 01. Listen To Their No 02. Another Silent Way 03. Brussels 04. This Must Be Drum Street 05. Tree And Two Chairs 06. Appleshine 07. Seven Drone Music 08. Border Country 09. Altitude Dub 10. Give Me The Room 11. Universe Of Can When Back 12. Dexters Chalk 13. Pinetum 14. Dune 15. Threat Of Rain 16. Imagine A Box 17. Roof Off 18. Custard Speedtalk Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7E...Tkum-_BKFO4lrg And if I did want to keep them within CD length, DRIFTING is like my main room, powerful UW while the ADRIFT is like the chilled, laid back UW. Something for different moods. DRIFTING 01. Listen To Their No 02. Another Silent Way 03. Brussels 04. Universe Of Can When Back 05. Appleshine 06. Border Country 07. Dexters Chalk 08. This Must Be Drum Street 09. Imagine A Box 10. Give Me The Room 11. Custard Speedtalk Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1c...TkuLZ7BAPsQfdw Total runtime: 1:16:14 ADRIFT 01. Toluca Stars 02. Tree And Two Chairs 03. Dune 04. Pinetum 05. Mile Bush Pride 06. Altitude Dub 07. Seven Drone Music 08. Brilliant Yes That Would Be Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0K...TxCuqgaaJOsrvg Total runtime: 1:16:25 Last edited by iamneorev; 12-20-2019 at 10:18 PM. |
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got half through this doing the dishes and found it interesting. the transitions made me itchy (i have not found an upbeat companion to appleshine aside from drum street) but i went with it and it was different than anything i'd put together. enjoyed it! almost convinced me to switch listen to their no (which is the closest to push upstairs as the short punchy one imo) with border country on my own list buuuuut i'm sticking to it so far. got the rest of these on their own playlist so i'll see how those go soon |
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My 'Drift Songs' album uses the artwork that was put out originally (with grey background colour) and is basically my best of Drift that I think flows pretty well:
1 Appleshine 2 STAR 3 Universe of can when back 4 Dexter's Chalk 5 Another Silent Way 6 Soniamode (Aditya Game Version) 7 Border country 8 Brussels 9 Mile bush pride 10 Imagine a box 11 Schiphol test 12 This must be drum street 13 Listen to their no 14 Custard Speedtalk 15 Dune I wanted to add Doscientos and A Moth at the door at the end but they didn't seem to work after Dune! |
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