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Soundtrack

Please download the MP3 file to your phone, or stream it from the Dropbox link. Hit play at the starting point and follow the walking route. The walk lasts about 90 minutes.

MP3 (226MB) Dropbox link

Set List

• Distelweg - coldsummerwave
• Valentino Mora & Yoshitake EXPE - Astrometric Effect
• Efdemin - Parallaxis (Traumprinz’s Over 2 The End Version)
• Lord of the Isles & Ellen Renton - Let the Colours Flood In
• Distance Dancer - Brain Dance
• Pavel Milyakov - the thrill (feat. Yana Pavlova)
• Efdemin - Acid Bells (Martyn’s Bittersweet Mix)
• Last Rhythm - Last Rhythm (Ambient Version)
• A Name For Both Of Us - It’s Always Raining In Heaven
• SOPHIE - Whole New World (doss and sophie remix)
• Sonic Youth - Free City Rhymes
• Tomaga - A Perspective with No End
• Loraine James - For You And I
• A C Marias - There's a scent of rain in the air
• Distelweg - All Ecstasy
• Orphax - Samen aan het Water
• Dead Sound - Coming Home
• Ex-Easter Island - Lodestone
• Larz - Machineworld

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Walking Route / 7.2km / 90 minutes

Google Maps

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About this Drift

When this part of Amsterdam Noord is mentioned in the media, what is referred to usually is either its post-industrial brownfields and purportedly lifeless past, or its sustainable design magazine cover-destined emerging future.

But this is not just a place waiting to become, it is a real place that has existed continually between these temporal poles, with its own history. It has been a neighborhood of discount mattress stores and back room immigrant community churches. Gun clubs and auto mechanic shops. Kringloopwinkels and halfway houses for 'asocials'. Experimental music venues and dance studios. The sort of places that are only allowed to exist where the rent is low.

As the gleaming new residential towers continue to replace these spuugmooi places, the transition is nearly complete, with several more large sections of buildings scheduled for demolition at the start of the year.

I've lived in this part of Amsterdam Noord for years and have seen this transformation firsthand. I'm not intending to criticize the urban renewal and infrastructural investment taking place here. Amsterdam has a housing shortage. Capital is deployed and things change. It is worth understanding, though, that this new neighborhood is not being built on nothing.

In this first installment of Drift Club's return, I wanted to share and honor the remaining vestiges of Amsterdam Noord's post-industrial, pre-Dwell Magazine cover, abandoned discount mattress store streets with you.

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Photos from Drift Club 15

Thanks to all the fellow Drifters who braved the 2°c rainy weather, it was a great Drift! The weather was awful, but spirits were high.

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