July 2002 - Orb - mailman.xmission.com

RE: [Orb] 'Show room dummies'
by John Goelzer 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

> very cheeky and funny, while at the same time being > quite true to the form of Latin music. Good stuff I'll second this recommendation. There was something in the liner notes about how re-arranging these tracks to latin rhythms revealed the original beauty of the Kraftwerk melodies; I'd tend to agree with that. Kraftwerk get ample props for being "electronic pioneers," but not nearly enough for their great hooks and general songwriting. There's a single, too, with a non-album "Expo 2000" cover as the b-side (I think it might be "Tour de France," not sure). > it's the work of Uwe Schmidt from German group Atom Heart I knew that Senor Coconut had something to do with Atom Heart; isn't he somehow part of Flanger, too...? JG

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RE: [Orb] Bless You - CD2
by John Goelzer 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

> You *can* play the CD on some Windows computers; > it may have to do with having AIN turned off, > but I haven't bothered to make sure. I managed to get both the audio and the data to play on my PeeCee at work. It wasn't pretty, and had a lot to do with what apps were running (and "sniffing" the CD-ROM for audio or data) and the AIN settings, as you mentioned (the latest Windholes Media Player keeps turning audio CD AIN back on without asking me). > They did screw up in mastering CD2; par for the course. When I had these troubles, though, my inclination wasn't to blame the BadOrb mastering folks but Microsoft. I'm sticking with that. JG

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oh blimme whats happnin
by john bennett 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

sorry guys n gals ive posted about 5 emails n none are comin back at me via the list thingy so if your getting these soz! john

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Bless You - CD2
by Chris Dawson 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

The five tracks listed on the back if the jewel case, are they cd audio? I know the label indicates that there is interactive portion but my first impression was that the five tracks are cd audio as well as there being an interactive portion. Maybe they are buried in the cd? I can't find them. All I do find is a copy of their website. As for the cd cover, mine is *not* the cover that Rachel listed. Mine has the badorb.com color logo. And I really liked rachel's scan. Perhaps buy.com has their own cover...not happy but I like the music a lot. "Shinbone Alley 4001 mean" anything? Catalogue number perhaps? Sad but true, dcdawson

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BOB 12 finally!
by Jason Hicks 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

Hey kids, Well my BOB 12 vinyl finally showed up today, with a Badorb sticker. Still no sign of the BOB 12 CDs and TOG 12 I ordered. Has anyone received it on CD from Badorb yet, how long will we have to wait? Cool Harbor sounds pretty phat right about now, and I don't care what anyone says Red Worm is a nice track, even if does sound like an early Aphex Twin ambient track. Cheers. Jason Oh yeah, I was at Amoeba in SF yesterday and that had many copies of BOBs 10-12, all with certificates of Orbcenticity. Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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Elvis? Battersea
by Alan Evil 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

Elvis? I've only heard a taste of this track and would like to hear what you got off the soundtrack. I'm having trouble getting into your ftp, though. Is it Elvis/Elvis or elvis/elvis? Battersea In America we would just tear the old power station down and build a shopping mall... No, wait. We'd still have it running at 100% capacity burning the most sulpher heavy coal on earth because it is "grandfathered" out of the emmissions laws and the kind of people that own such dirty, nasty things have usurped control of our government in a bloodless coup. But I digress... I'm just curious as to when the weather is clear enough there to give at least a marginal chance of success. The idea of the people from Cirque de Soleil being involved in the production of a show would be really cool. I've played a lot of shows during Mardi Gras in New Orleans and having a lot of people in bright costumes doing wild things makes for a very good time. I once saw four or five people leap onto a stage at the beginning of a song (they were just in the audience), one was a tall, beautiful woman with a wrap around tatoo who dropped her coat to reveal nothing but a leather harness, one was breathing fire, one (or two) was juggling, and another was on a unicycle. They danced and performed for the whole song (the woman did some pretty wild things with a beer bottle) and when it ended they hopped down and left. The singer from the band (a girl dressed like a bad Catholic school girl) stood there dazed for a few seconds and then said, "Wow. That was neat!" At one of my shows (performing with a samba school) we were rolling along playing a traditional samba and a Klezmer band marched in on us with about two hundred more people. I got them up on stage, dropped a microphone into the tuba and started playing my guitar. It was awesome. The Cirque de Soleil people might also have the money to get the ball rolling so we won't have to have expensive admission to pay for it. Not to mention that they probably can arrange this kind of thing without even trying. There's no reason not to be ambitious about the final form of the festival. Let's just try to make it free for us list people ;). Maybe we could just line up dj's with the requirement that they work some Orb into their sets. This would make it easy for those of us that spin cds, heh heh. Institute for Psychic Reform Change your Mind www.ifpr.homestead.com

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RE: [Orb] orb fan cd
by Chris Dawson 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

Just received "spherical" and reviewing now. Now I get to see how crappy my tributes are, me and my keyboard + acid music. always room to grow. kr, dcdawson -----Original Message----- From: Simon Bennett [mailto:womble@it.net.au] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:02 AM To: orb(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Orb] orb fan cd At 02:38 PM 7/17/02 -0400, you wrote: >Anyone here make music inspired by the orb? Or make any covers of orb songs? >Thinking it might be kind cool to have a cd of orb inspired music / covers >made by fans. I do. :) I found the Spherical tribute thingy as MP3s on Soulseek and had a listen. I honestly thought it had all been written by one person... Kwook www.kwookyworld.com The kwinkunx is imminent, but where's the bass? _______________________________________________ Orb mailing list Orb(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/orb

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shame, shmame
by John Goelzer 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

> does it matter if they arrive late? First of all, yes, it does matter. Secondly, late arrival is the least (and *hardly* the full extent) of the problems I and others have had with BadOrb fulfillment. Having said that, my subscription problems, which were the source of most of my (old) complaints, were finally sorted out, and since then I'm pretty much a happy camper. It seems that there might have been a glitch with two separate orders I placed for BOB12, but I'm still waiting to see if another package arrives before I release the hounds. > I don't mean to be too harsh, but... > ...if you are planning a... > ...DJ set based on an unreleased record you haven't heard yet... > ...you are counting your chickens before they're hatched. Don't worry: not harsh. Fallacious (I *have* heard it), but not harsh. > I've got 13 of them in my hands (well, at home anyway) > How many do you want before you discuss them? > 13 seems like plenty to me As one of the lucky few who've gotten all 13 without a hitch, where's *your* discussion? > "I don't think BOB(x) is as good as all the others" > (IMHO x=13 btw) Oh, I guess that was it. (I'm actually taking the piss: I remember you posting that you too liked Conduit after I did, and maybe a recent post about Creature...?) I'll take a stab at something a little more meaningful. Here's my (arbitrary, off-the-cuff) ranking of the BOBs thus far: 1. BOB4 - Creature 2. BOB12 - Orb 3. BOB1 - SE Berlin 4. BOB14 - Takayuki 5. BOB8 - Fusionic 6. BOB10 - Conduit 7. BOB7 - Prayer Box 8. BOB5 - Multiverse 9. BOB6 - Electric Chairs 10. BOB2 - Ayumi 11. BOB3 - Autolump 12. BOB4.5 - Unknown 13. BOB11 - Creature remixes 14. BOB9 - Loophead 15. BOB13 - Cod Head Separate from that, the ones I've probably played out most often are Ayumi (mixes well with Blue Room), Conduit, Creature, Fusionic and SE Berlin. I've played all but a few during sets, but still have something of a guilt complex about not playing my BOBs more often, both because the tracks are so good and because of the money I've sunk into them. Gotta work on that... Also, having gotten all of them, I wear my TOGs constantly: to work, out to shows, etc. They're becoming something of a "uniform" for me. They're great conversation pieces, too: yesterday someone asked me if my TOG3 was from a coffee shop. I didn't realize until I got my Mughz that the little animal/satellite fellas had names. Gotta get a copy of "Bless You" to find out the rest, I reckon (didn't someone say they were listed in there?). What the heck, here's my ranking of the characters: 1. TOG2 - Cat 2. TOG6 - Swan (duck?) 3. TOG3 - Cow 4. Toucan soccer dude from the badorb.com catalog page 5. TOG14 - Squid (?) 6. TOG12 - Human (?) 7. Deer (?) from live shows and badorb.com events page 8. TOG7 - Snake 9. TOG8 - Rooster 10. TOG9 - Rat (?) 11. TOG13 - Lion 12. TOG1 - Elk (?) 13. TOG10 - Ram (?) 14. TOG4 - Moose 15. TOG5 - Gorilla JG

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OT - DVD Question
by Basscadet＠webtv.net 20 Jul '02

20 Jul '02

Sorry if this has been covered before, but I can think of no one whose tastes I trust more than the people of the list. I was in Tower this afternoon picking up Bless You when I noticed 4 DVD's put out by Moonshine. One of them was called Transambient, CGI videos and ambient tunes, the other was Spaced Out, NASA footage with similar. I read a couple of reviews on Amazon and they seem unconvinced. Anyone have these? Are they worth it? Tower had 'em on sale for $15? I don't recall any mention of 5.1. Also, while I'm at it, Autechre are releasing their first DVD as a CD/DVD double pack. Only 3 tracks on the DVD. It's out on August 5th. later martin

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orb fan cd
by Chris Dawson 20 Jul '02

20 Jul '02

Anyone here make music inspired by the orb? Or make any covers of orb songs? Thinking it might be kind cool to have a cd of orb inspired music / covers made by fans. Just a mad random thought... kr, dcdawson

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