DRIFT Series 1 - New album, Nov 1, 2019

[Dino3D]

My faves of the tracks are:
Big Bear
Doscentitos
Two Arrows

Least fave:
One True Piano (way too empty and boring)

[kontakt1968]

Im in the UK and my cd ( signed on the back) , vinyl which has a nice weight and is very yellow and my tickets to wembley all arrived yesterday!

[purlieu]

Imagine the speculation between 2005 and 2008 when they repeatedly said that's the kind of thing they were going to do, and then didn't.

[dubman]

They said a lot of things
Like how they were going to hand off Underworld so that it didn’t end when they were done with it.
It’s all art-world, what-if comics fugue talk
Then they actually do it and it’s like whaaaaaaat

[34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j]

well there's a big difference in the way music is consumed now as opposed to then. I think the Riverruns were hurt by the fact that they weren't in stores, weren't on iTunes, you had to go through a clunky storefront that was down a lot of the time. maybe the fact that it was just one continuous track turned some people off too. I have no idea what the sales were, I know we all went nuts over it but I never got the sense that the public at large was that interested. It kinda made sense that by '06 they were more focused on the next CD


nowadays it seems pretty easy to finish something and have it out across the board on streaming services the next day, people don't really listen to CDs much anymore and the idea that an "album" has to be something between 40-80 minutes is kind of outdated. so the time is right for this sort of thing.

[khouri]

Originally Posted by 34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j

well there's a big difference in the way music is consumed now as opposed to then. I think the Riverruns were hurt by the fact that they weren't in stores, weren't on iTunes, you had to go through a clunky storefront that was down a lot of the time. maybe the fact that it was just one continuous track turned some people off too. I have no idea what the sales were, I know we all went nuts over it but I never got the sense that the public at large was that interested. It kinda made sense that by '06 they were more focused on the next CD

I've always thought that the delivery system and what I perceived to be Underworld just being cheap severely hurt Riverrun's appeal. The Underworld website itself has to the best of my recollection never been particularly intuitive, always seeming to be hand-coded (or might as well be), and the Riverrun era especially. Zip files and PDFs you had to buy on a dodgy platform, it was all extremely inelegant. And the accompanying physical products were mainly remixes! That for the most part sucked! And the major physical release of the time was Live in Japan, the kind of product we'd been begging for, and it was limited only to that region. In other words, the group did everything they could to make Riverrun and its attendant content as unbuyable as possible to all but the most hardcore fan.

These days there's a much better technological apparatus in place for this kind of thing. Social media, streaming, YouTube, all sorts of tools to deliver any sort of content at all. And the advent of the deluxe edition boxset offers a physical product that's far superior to a traditional CD and jewel case (NIN refuses to make CDs ever again, supposedly, moving strictly to vinyls and downloads). As ever Underworld were ahead of their time, but Drift takes judicious advantage of all this.

I suspect that if Underworld repackaged Riverrun it would be worth the effort. It remains a kind of holy grail for new Underworld fans who weren't around to get it the first time. Imagine a boxset with full size artwork, books of jam, high fidelity sound, liner notes, etc.? And promoted properly and enhanced through all the channels mentioned above. It'd be marvelous.

[dubman]

I for one am extremely pleased that my other favorite group now makes 8 hour "albums"

[34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j]

always thought the intention was to repackage it for the deluxe edition of either AHDO or (more likely) OWB. perhaps they want to spend some time to remaster them? because they still do sound like lossy MP3s with some notable audio glitches. maybe the wavs sound better.

Originally Posted by dubman

I for one am extremely pleased that my other favorite group now makes 8 hour "albums"

still remember around the time of Draft 7.30 when half of their fans were patiently waiting for them to make accessible music again

[aphasein]

Originally Posted by 34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j

always thought the intention was to repackage it for the deluxe edition of either AHDO or (more likely) OWB. perhaps they want to spend some time to remaster them? because they still do sound like lossy MP3s with some notable audio glitches. maybe the wavs sound better.

still remember around the time of Draft 7.30 when half of their fans were patiently waiting for them to make accessible music again

Ha! Glad to see some Autechre shout outs in this community - my other favorite group as well since '97, though UW was first in '96 and still tops the list.

Hope we hear about plans for AHDO and OWB sets before too long, and they are still in the works during Drift Series 2 time period.

[dubman]

i'd be more excited for the possibility last week, before i read that they're still annoyed about how rushed it was.

which, ????. but, perfectionists.

i like how loose it is and wish they'd sort of embrace that more, but oh well.

Originally Posted by 34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j

still remember around the time of Draft 7.30 when half of their fans were patiently waiting for them to make accessible music again

i MiSs AmBeR, tHeY sHoUlD dO tHaT aGaIn
then they up and called their first two albums cheesy. loved it. IDIOTS.
though tbf they did also get a release of 89-93 tapes, so, good for them. idiots.