On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Britton-James wrote:
quoted 9 lines These are good comps. There were only three of them before Virgin took a> These are good comps. There were only three of them before Virgin took a
> turn with the series and ruined it, to my mind. The fourth volume was
> the well known "Isolationism" double, which I never got hold of, but it
> is all contemporary, and therefore misses the point of the original
> idea. After that they began to bury the "History of Ambient" title and
> feature other contemporary stuff. I don't know where it's at now, but
> the David Toop comps might be a part of the series, and if so, signal a
> return to the "history" aspect of the series. You can still find them
> around, even at Best Buy or Barnes and Noble.
Funny, I had the opposite prob. The 1st 3 read like they were excerpted
from my rekkid collection, though I had to buy the 3rd for the brilliant
Darshan remix, I skipped the 4th, finally picked up again w/ the Macro Dub
Infection comp, which is brilliant. I like the comps in the series I've
heard, don't know why they threw in some individual artists.
Che