quoted 2 lines can someone recommend any albums of comaprisonto Global Communication 76:14.>can someone recommend any albums of comaprisonto Global Communication 76:14.
>This album is worth it's weight in gold.
It certainly is! There's not much I can compare it to. The first thing that
comes to mind it 'Pentamerous Metamorphosis,' the "retranslation" that Global
Communication did of Chapterhouse's 'Blood Music.' It's five tracks, just over
an hour long, and excellent. I haven't kept myself up to date on its release
status, but it was out of print for quite some time (it was first released in
late 1993 as a bonus disc to BM, then was released seperately the next year).
I seem to recall hearing that it'd been repressed lately - can anyone confirm?
Richard Kirk's 'Virtual State' on Warp has kind of a similar feel, in my
opinion, although it gets a bit more uptempo at times. It's still hard to
beat tracks like "Lagoon West" and "November X Ray Mexico" for ambient
merit.
Another reference point you could look into is Tangerine Dream - tracks 7
and 8 on '76 14' are a cover of TD's "Love on a Real Train." My favorite
album of theirs is the live double CD 'Poland,' although different people
have very different opinions regarding what work of theirs is best*, so it
might be best to pick up the 'Dream Sequence' compilation which covers some
of their more fruitful lineups.
* Everyone agrees they've been crap since at least 1986.
Others: The 'Apollo 2' compilation on R&S has quite a bit of good ambient
material on it, including one track from '76 14' and another rareish GC cut
(and mu-Ziq's sublime "Sick Porter (Remix)," surely one of the most beautiful
tracks ever recorded). Global Comminication's remix compilation 'Remotion'
is also worth checking out, although they have some remixes extant that are
much better than what's on it.
C.
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