Sean Cooper wrote:
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quoted 9 lines what i find most ironic is that the orb's earliest work (along with the klf> what i find most ironic is that the orb's earliest work (along with the klf
> and irresistible force) is generally credited with reviving ambient music
> for the club crowd, while to my ears it's only with "pomme fritz" and
> _orbvs terrarvm_ (and of course _ffwd_ before them both) that patternson
> actually begins seriously pursuing ambient as the organizational principle
> of his music (and not just some spacey, noodly electronic interlude to plop
> between his flirtations with, alternately, the dancefloor and the pop
> charts). easy to say, of course, when that process--now several years into
> it--seems to have needed to happen, anyway, but still ironic...
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I quite agree. Most people I have spoken seem to be stuck on the
ambient-house-ish Orb, but personally Orbvs Terrarvm is my current
fave. I love the structural complexity of the compositions....
Orblivion seems to be a blend of the (a)tonal melodies from P.F., and
the heavily layered dubby beat structures of Terrarvm, with even more
complexity in the drum patterns. I've only had it for a week, so I have
not yet had the opportunity to absorb enough of it to form an opinion of
the album as it stands on its own.
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