Drift 13

Thanks to everyone who came and shared a really pretty morning walk through De Wallen. Despite (or maybe because of) the rain, this one was quite special.

This Drift concludes this year’s season! Thanks to all who came out and shared these weirdo times.

After today’s Drift, a few of us started talking about maybe doing an indoor winter edition, perhaps at the Rijksmuseum. Will post when that one happens.

I’m also thinking of putting a paper zine together to commemorate the first three seasons of Drifts, with photos, route maps, and playlists, with a pseudo-philosophical justification of this whole project written by me as the introduction. 🙂 I’ll post with more details on that soon, too.

🖤✌🏻

2019-30-Sep

Drift 12

The return of summer! A time to enjoy the sun, Oosterpark, and a hazy, summer, experimental/new age/ambient Drift Club mix.

We’ll meet at the giant chessboard in front of the Tropenmuseum entrance and then wander around Oosterpark before spreading blankets, lying in the sun, and having a collective space out.

Remember to bring:
– a fully charged phone
– earbuds or headphones
– a small picnic blanket or something to lie on
– anything you’d like for a sunny picnic after (keep it light as you’ll be carrying it)

The mix for today’s Drift has been uploaded to Mixcloud. You can get the Mixcloud app free on the Android and iOS app stores. Here’s the link:

Alternatively, the mix is available for download via my Dropbox here, if you’d like it locally on your device: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8vk1jwalh8tsbzr/drift-12.mp3?dl=0

See you soon! 🖤✌🏻😘

2019-25-Aug

Drift 11

Today’s Drift starts at the Buiksloterweg ferry dock, behind Amsterdam Centraal Station at 15:00.

– SoundCloud streaming
– Direct download link (143MB)
– The route

We depart from CS and cross the Ij river to Overhoeksplein, now a tourist attraction, then a gallows for the city’s criminals, castaways, and unwanted.

We pass the former gallows and walk through Tolhuistuin, a park set up behind the former Shell Oil canteen, before following the Buiksloterkanaal and surveying all the new construction across the canal.

Next, we stay close to the canal as we enter the Van Der Pekt area. This residential area was built as worker housing during and after WWI, in particular housing workers from the shipyard at NDSM but also housing workers in the emerging airplane manufacturing company in Noord — Fokkers.

During the occupation during WWII, Nazis took over the Fokkers airplane factory, adjacent to where De Ceuvel is today, and appropriated it for the Nazi war effort.

In July 1943, Allied planes attempted to bomb the Fokkers airplane factory, and instead rained bombs down throughout the neighborhood we’ll be walking in.

Keep an eye out for the non-brick, white buildings in the midst of all the brick buildings near the playground. This is where the deadliest of the friendly fire bombings took place.

Next we’ll walk along the canal through Disteldorp, another socialist worker housing block built just after WWI. We’ll then walk around a former hospital that’s now a hotel, before giving way to the remnants of the neighborhood’s gentrification project — the last remaining light industrial businesses and workshops that line the street on the way to De Ceuvel.

2019-21-Jul