"The trancy 'Adagio for Strings' on Radio 1" is the Ferry Corsten Remix, take that in note. The video also featured this remix, not the original Orbit creation.
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From: "ISDS" <isds@robertsyork.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [idm] William Orbit
quoted 36 lines I was sent a Czech newspaper article about this... Vladimír Vla?ak warbled> I was sent a Czech newspaper article about this... Vladimír Vla?ak warbled
> on about Orbit's antecedents for a couple of paragraphs (Rick Wakeman!),
> then this:
>
> 'Orbit, real name William Wainright, didn't want to take classical pieces
> apart, destroy them with unnatural sounds or turn them into some kind of
> avant garde creations. On the album Pieces in a Modern Style, Orbit's
> approach is in fact very conservative and delicate - especially in view of
> the possibilities open to him through modern technology ... Orbit used
> classical strings for the 10 minute Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber,
> which was issued as a single at the end of last year to fit with the
> Christmas mood and as a trailer for the album. The music engenders the
> feeling of a space filled with an elevating and all-embracing mood which
> strengthens progressively into a sense almost of longing, which could almost
> be kitsch-like, but is kept from sentimentality by Orbit's skilful
> handling.'
>
> Rubbish. I heard the trancy 'Adagio for Strings' on Radio 1... Barber is
> rotating in his grave fast enough to power a generator. It was extremely
> competent trance, yes, but bombastically inappropriate to the original. The
> contrast between energetic synths and elegiac strings is just too much, and
> worryingly populist at that. Now, a minimal version in the same vein as
> SAWII CD2 track2... that would be good. Anyone want to do one?
>
> Actually, I admit I haven't heard the album, so this might be unfair; but if
> this is what he chooses as his example...
>
> James Roberts
> www.listen.to/isds
> 'Like a toaster each month we hand him over'
>
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