I agree with Jan. It is more song oriented, kind of like W.
Orbit with lyrics and a hook. Ether is definately the one
to check out. The Stone, well, I found it to be one of the
less impressive Babble recordings (and there are only 2 to
my knowledge).
T
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997 09:17:00 +0000 Jan Hanford
<jan@shelby.com> wrote:
quoted 33 lines From: Danny Freer <freerdj@jmu.edu>
> >>>
> From: Danny Freer <freerdj@jmu.edu>
> early 90's calling themselves Babble doing "tribal, trance-ambient"
> music. Does anyone know anything about this? Is it any good?
> >>>
>
> Good? yes. Tribal, trance? no.
>
> Both Babble cd's sound like 90's versions of the Thompson Twins. If
> you liked them, you'll like this. She sings more than she did on
> their old records and he sounds exactly the same. Updated drum
> loops, backwards guitars, ethnic-ish synth melodies... I really love
> it, especially the most recent "Ether." The earlier one "The Stone"
> is a little more early 90's retro but still mostly good.
>
> >>>
> From: Rusty Householter <aphex@mtco.com>
> Babble sounds like really new age shite to me, it's really bad, don't
> spend your cash on it, if you
> >>>
>
> New age? =:-0 There's nothing I would call "new age" about it.
> It's pop. I'd put it in the same bin as The Beloved only I prefer
> Babble.
>
> Plur,
>
> Jan
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