I remember the 93 set at Glastonbury. Huge set. If only
someone could get that back. ;-) I don’t even want to consider the cost
of that one.
The Cydonia tour gig at The Astoria in London was also very
good. Not on the same scale, but very good aurally and visually.
Now the Koko gig just wasn’t the same. A few pre-recorded
video tracks etc. As I said at the time, what happened to the show? Maybe LX should
get Hexstatic involved to do the visuals.
Chris
From:
orb-bounces+interax=hotmail.com@mailman.xmission.com
[mailto:orb-bounces+interax=hotmail.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Ramon Vink
Sent: 11 June 2007 15:02
To: What were the skies like when
you were young?
Subject: RE: [Orb] RE: New Orb
album
Well, ofcourse i cannot blame
artists for shifting their musical ability over time, i recognise that
because i make music myself too. I can expect you get fed up with the thingyou
have been doing for 10 years over and over. That said, i think that the music
they used to make was ahaid of its time. It sounds realy blah blah, but look at
it, in 89, 90, 91 they were the ones with NEW music, never heard before. Now
they repeat what someone else allready published years before. Don't get me
wrong, i now how bloody hard it is to come up with some new styles..
As for the live part, i believe the old live stuff was amazing. In those
day's there was the inclusion of live bass, drums AND percussion. That was a
huge difference. Offcourse they allways rely on there trusty multitrack player
and mixing desk (and LX on the wheels) but live players do give that extra feel
to it.
I think they don't do that anymore for budget reasons..
R
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:44:16 +0100
From: mariuschan@btopenworld.com
To: orb@mailman.xmission.com
Subject: RE: [Orb] RE: New Orb album
it's nice that were having a meaningful conversation for a change! For me the
essence of the Orb was always intelligent, defined - one might always say
articulate - rhythms: eg. delta mk II, valley, plataeu, or like Molten Love,
which is like a soukous track in space (actually, I think the Orb are best when
there is that kind of African feel to the music)...the first five tracks on
orblivion each give you something completely new...delta mk II subtle use of
d'n'b, the wonky melodies and drill'n'bass of ubiquity, the poly-rythms of
Asylum with that magic bass and clinical digitial sounds, Bedouin's kind of
West African, irregular, shifting, bassline...all those tracks are
completely unique stylistically...its clear that they haven't approached any
project since with the same intensity, and I think the albums since
have suffered from being bitty and facile, bikes/trikes being the dismall lowpoint...also
I find all these orbmissions stuff a bit pointless, although i haven't heard 2
yet...i don't even mind the whole kompakt/berlin thing that much, even
though okie sounds like it was thrown together in 2 weeks...another thing, does
anyone else agree that they used to be much better live? amazing to
think they used to be brave enough to play things like spanish catsles in
space, where as now everything seems to just be 4/4 techno crap, with alex
playing 2 hours of ibiza style dance music at the Koko gig last
year...only high point of that evening, a magic version of Alles ist schon
from Fritz which just shows what lx could produce if he really understood
what is special about the orb
Tim C
<timc_orb@comcast.net> wrote:
>I seem to remember a lot of people slagging Orblivion
when it
>was new. It's not bad, but the songs are just two short. It
>should have been a double with the same songs, just longer.
>
Forgot to mention - Orbscure Trax has several improved versions; would have
been nice if the album had been more like that.
>LX also told me that Youth "wants to make a "real" Orb
album".
Listen to "Apple Tree In My Backyard" and I think this is not a
surprise!
So another notch on the "big hope for the next album" scale!
T
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