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RE: [Orb] I Need Music Recommendations.
by Rob_King 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

>Is there anything out there that will satisfy my needs? >Yer Pal, >Gel-Sol Hi Gel-Sol, Alan Evil brought up something that I think applies, but you know already ;) ... The em:t catalogue (and IMHO, Woob's first, 1194, and the first mix, 0094) is right up there with albums that will BAM! BAM! BAM! you away. The Woob album is best listened to as a whole, not as individual tracks. What a trip! I also revisited the Orb's first album (2xCD version) in it's entirety the other night (first time in over 5 years), and I would have to agree that that's up there too. Surprisingly, still holds up quite well after 13+ years... I'm re-adding it to my list of top 10 faves - better late than never. As for other stuff... yikes, it is difficult to point out a 'stellar' album that's along the lines of Dark Side of the Moon or Revolver. Both are completely different albums, take you in different directions, but excellent in their own rights... I personally really enjoy Yello's 80-85 New Mix in One Go, great mixing on that one in some spots, but not everyone likes every one of the tracks on it... But I consider it to be a great little 'trip' album on it's own... Air's 10,000 Hz Legend was quite good too, seems more of a concept album too. Hey, did you check out some of Tangerine Dream's early early stuff, like Rubycon? (sp?) Supposed to be quite up there for ambient listeners... I liked it, but I think it's effect would have been 500% more had I listened to it in the mid-70s when it first came out. There's one other TD album from around the same time that is quite good, can't recall the name. I'm not a TD fan by any means (stuff from the 80s and later tend to be cheese - no, make that 'fromage'). But those two are fantastic albums - the only two by TD I'd ever listen to, period. Someone on the ambient list posted a document a couple years ago of top-30 or so albums that were groundbreaking for Ambient/Chillout. I believe it was a magazine that offered this list, but for the life of me, can't recall. You really should dig this out, it had some top notch recommendations on it. Finally, a lot of 'trip' type albums can be found via the older prog rock stuff... Not necessarily electronic music, but there's a lot of them out there. One of my faves is a record by Mountain... Oh yeah, one that's similar to DSOTM is Hawkwind's "In Search of Space"... Very good album, from start to finish, has some nice synth work in it, and an awesome bassline in "Master Of The Universe". I dunno about the rest of the stuff they put out - I listened to Levitation before, and I didn't find it very inspired. Hope this helps. Robbo

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earlies
by Alan Evil 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Anyone got any idea where to get the Quicktime codex needed to listen to the site? While you're at it could someone explain to me why you would post shit that can't be played by the stock player? I get an error saying the plug-in needed isn't available from the Quicktime server. ____________________ www.psychicreform.com ____________________ "Climate change is altering our economy, environment, and way of life." -- Union of Concerned Scientists 12-2004 "Global warming is not happening..." -- Rush Limbaugh 11-2004

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o/t: Tino Corp Live in SAN FRAN
by Gavin Miller 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

According to IndustrialnatioN http://www.industrialnation.com/index2.html Tino Corp: Jack Dangers and Ben Stokes will be doing a live set on February 25th @ Elbo Room in San Francisco. I wish they were playing in chicago too... Gavin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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FA eBay
by theREALmxyzptlk 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

If anyone's interested, I have Sun Electric's "Red Summer" up on eBay (on ZTT) - it features a fairly early Orb remix which has a KLF feel to it. http://tinyurl.com/64fj5 OR http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&include=0&since=-1&rd… seller id = *jpklein*

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RIP John Peel
by ORBscureDDJ 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

dear old john peel has passed away today of heart attack in peru at the age of 65.... IMHO the peel sessions is amongst the best orb material recorded irreplaceable and a deep loss... OÂ®BsÂ©uÂ®eDDJ http://www.orbscureddj.btinternet.co.uk/orbscureddj.html ++ live and direct via soulseek in room #the orb ++ ++ class of 89-93 - big up the tooting massive ++

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Non event + thrash means business
by b broo 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

1) Your ..>>Nick's Dragonfly Party Invite...Elephant & Castle, London....Youth, etc,....>> post, reminded me of the "Orb Reunion party" a while back. No one ever posted a review of the event, is that because it was awful or was it that no listee attended? 2) Lock up your daughters and prize open those handbags and wallets everyone: >>"im back and this time i mean business NOT FAMILY FRIENDLY err.. contains strong language http://www.justablip.co.uk __ Kristian Weston )) (( c[_] ">> P.S. thanks for all the trippy music suggestions by the way P.P.S. You don't need a synth to create a toon: http://www.geocities.com/clownstaples/swf/winnoise.html P.P.P.S. bi11i sorry for delay - computer problems/back from sunsanderborb in a week

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re: porcupine tree
by Alan Evil 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Holy crap. I didn't think anyone else had ever heard of Porcupine Tree. ____________________ www.psychicreform.com ____________________ Washington Post: Why do you think Osama Bin Laden has not been caught? George W Bush: Because he's hiding.

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Nick's Dragonfly Party Invite
by RMStringer 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

I thought that some of you Europeans might like this, it does me no good living here in the states. RMStringer ========================================== Seek not every quality in one individual: *Confucius* _____ You are getting a Dragonfly invite to come & celebrate various Dragonfly birthdays and have an excuse to have a party in the top of The Coronet, Elephant & Castle, London, on Saturday 19th February. Top two rooms only, not the main room. - £3'ish minimum donations being taken..... Youth Pogo Humphrey Nick Aaron Bobby Naptik (fresh out of retirement!) Tripswitch (New album coming soon on LSD - Circuit Breaker) Laurence (Kuba) - New album 'Inside Out' coming soon on LSD Gaudi - Live Dubby manipulation (playing new tracks for his new album out on Interchill recs.) Nick Interchill plus a few other musicians to be confirmed. Lovely EV sound systems, chai stalls and other bits and pieces..... WOULD BE GOOD TO HAVE YOUR NAMES IF YOU ARE GOING TO COME AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A 'PRIVATE' PARTY AS THERE WILL BE A LIST OF NAMES ON THE DOOR TO CHECK OFF. Please e-mail me at nick(a)dragonflyrecords.com asap today. Please pass on to anyone you feel might be interested in coming as all welcome. ___________________________________________________

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re: Orbital 20min ambient
by Alan Evil 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

>From: "Steve(a)Donsolaris.com" <mrloosescrew(a)aol.com> >Still searching for the 20min ambient version of Halcyon by Orbital. What was it on? That's a huge classic. I want it. ____________________ www.psychicreform.com ____________________ Washington Post: Why do you think Osama Bin Laden has not been caught? George W Bush: Because he's hiding.

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Re: [Orb] OFF TOPIC Wots on your stereo this week....
by P J Kane 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

<< Wots everyone listing to at the moment: >> at this moment, Cocteau Twins live in Glasgow in 1990. gotta get prepped for them playing at the Coachella Festival this year. (http://www.coachella.com) in general Project Skyward -- cool electronic shoegaze outfit out of New York. they do the same sort of thing Slowdive were doing on the In Mind EP.... Grimble Grumble -- debut album by cool Chicago psychedelic drone act M83 -- the Dead Cities one. i wanted to go get the new one this weekend, but we had a bad icestorm so i wan't going out in that mess to do record shopping.... PJK please don't hate me because i can't type..... --- All the cool kids are doing it: HTTP://www.EvilSponge.org

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