also The Dream has great basslines (imagine that) in every track
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 84 lines i think patterson is sort of the guide that has kept the orb 'brand'> i think patterson is sort of the guide that has kept the orb 'brand'
> sounding the same or at least similar enough. you can argue about how much
> he does or doesn't do, but only the orb sounds like the orb, and alex
> patterson is only in the orb, and the only one consistently in it, at that,
> so he must do SOMETHING intangible. he's like flava flav is to public
> enemy maybe? i'm kidding but he clearly has steered the thing through 25
> years of ups and downs.
> that said i really enjoy westons contributions and i'm just not going to
> say anything about him one way or another for fear i'll get an angry email
> ;)
> i actually really enjoy The Dream too, too bad they only managed to do one
> album with that lineup. same for living in a giant candle winking at god,
> great stuff if only they could have done another one.
> as for fehlmann, yeah i had heard alot of his solo stuff as just 'thomas
> fehlmann' quite awhile before he became a regular orb collaborator, i
> wouldn't ever have expected him to be the piece that alex replaced weston
> with, as the two are so completely different sounding, but his tiny loops
> and textures and sound beds really work in the new lineup.
> i saw them last year in minneapolis, fehlmann and patterson, and it was a
> great show. clearly just tweaked versions of some of their tracks with
> some special one-off discs on the cdj for patterson, nothing too fancy, and
> fehlmann had his macbook synced up and was adding beats and samples and
> whatnot. a really simple performance, where its probably really easy to
> transport all the gear, i imagine it must be 1000 times easier than their
> old mega-setups they toted around.
>
>
> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:57 AM, AV2k <a_void2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I meant to send this to the list.
>>
>> I like Thomas Fehlmann, but I like Chris Weston more. Patterson seems
>> like the type that dabbles in everything but lets the others do the actual
>> work, and this sometimes shows in their albums. Weston has a temper, sure,
>> he is an angry man, but sometimes, this type of personality creates better
>> art. This is true in painting (Pollack), music composition (Mozart) and
>> every other type of creative medium.
>>
>> Weston is still putting out some great stuff, even though he is
>> economically crippled now, and he would argue that it is everyone else's
>> fault except his, but if he would just hold back the outrage, just a
>> little, in the effort to keep the peace, perhaps people would work with him
>> a bit longer.
>>
>> ---
>> Sent from my Robot Monkey Drum Machine
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>> *From:* AV2k <a_void2000@yahoo.com>
>> *To:* Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, April 13, 2015 9:22 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: orb
>>
>> [reluctantly raises hand]
>>
>> Yep. I've got every album. I love Blue Room (39:57), but Oxbow Lakes (Psychic
>> Pals Family Wealth Plan Mix) is my favorite piece.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Sent from my Robot Monkey Drum Machine
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com>
>> *To:* IDM <idm@hyperreal.org>
>> *Sent:* Monday, April 13, 2015 8:36 PM
>> *Subject:* orb
>>
>> any obsessive mega-Orb fans on here?
>>
>> Clint Anderson
>> Systems Engineer
>>
>>
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