still orbing
http://clashmusic.com/news/go-behind-the-scenes-with-the-orb
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
"Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Justin Rickles <jrick@jrick.com> wrote:
quoted 126 lines I received the new Orb CD and listened to it all weekend. love it. I’m
> I received the new Orb CD and listened to it all weekend. love it. I’m
> going to play it loud over a funktion one system today while at work. tho
> one of my favorite artists, I would’ve missed the release if you didn’t
> mention it Clint. LA is not a very Orb familiar town, where techno seems
> to have started with post-Homework Daft Punk. Many thanks dude.
>
> In 1995 I was given a cassette tape with The Orb on side A and FSOL on
> side B, changed my life. I still have the tape! I went over to Chicago’s
> Michigan Avenue Virgin Records in 2002 to catch Alex Patterson do an
> in-store show, which was a short 30 minute set of playing vinyl, then
> afterwords spoke to him, gave him a Heavy Petting CD, my music group the
> time, and he reached into his bag grabbed an Orb vinyl signed it and handed
> it over as a really thoughtful exchange.
>
> There’s my story of The Orb. And if you are big into deep zone-out
> listening to full albums, as The Orb’s style usually entails anyways, I
> still consider Orbvs Terrarium one of my favorite albums to take me to
> another world. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000V6ONJW
>
> all the best y’all ,
>
> Justin
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2016, at 7:12 AM, Mark Schieldrop <mark@schieldrop.us> wrote:
>
> I have noticed this! I’m very image-sound oriented. While listening to the
> new album, I kept getting sudden bursts of memories and pictures from my
> life. The associations from those samples dredged up times and places I
> originally heard them. This album really is swell.
>
> *From:* Clint Anderson [mailto:clinta@gmail.com <clinta@gmail.com>]
> *Sent:* Friday, October 21, 2016 7:39 PM
> *To:* Jeff Davis <jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com>
> *Cc:* Justin Rickles <jrick@jrick.com>; IDM <idm@hyperreal.org>
> *Subject:* Re: orby orbness orbing
>
> i dont know if you have noticed this but there are a lot of 'classic'
> samples from the orb back catalog that are hidden throughout the album like
> little easter eggs :)
>
>
> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
>
> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Jeff Davis <jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com>
> wrote:
>
> I agree Clint that this album seems to have never missed a beat from
> the top of their game while pushing the art forward.
>
> I imagine myself eyes closed eating dried pineapples on a bean bag
> chair in a chillout room at a 1992 MW-RAVES event as i listen to this.
> thanks,
>
> Jeffrey J Davis
>
> jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com
>
> www.jeffreyjdavis.com
>
> 218.833.2847
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
> > been listening to this with a really critical ear i guess ive been
> waiting
> > for orb to do something shitty or half assed ever since it thinned down
> to
> > just the two alx and thomas
> > like how could these two guys do what used to take like 5-10 ppl per
> album
> > to churn out
> >
> > but this is a great great album, totally orb yet totally exploring new
> > territory, or old territory in a new way
> > really amazing stuff how they took that classic orb sound and took it in
> > such a bold new direction without skipping a beat-- i think this is
> > definitely going to be another cult classic album of theirs
> > its like ambient done right making you say "yeah this is what i want
> ambient
> > music to be like" and you wonder why the fuck nobody else can seem to
> pin it
> > down like alx when it just seems to fucking natural and simple for them.
> > i was thinking alot about that, the guy really has an amazing gift to
> simply
> > not be in a hurry when he's composing, and yet knowing exactly how much
> > extra content to add to keep things interesting, and where to stop adding
> > things. i think he can take just about anything and spread it out
> across
> > 10 minutes and just make it amazing, i've only the vaguest notion of how
> he
> > does it.
> >
> >
> > Clint Anderson
> > Systems Engineer
> > "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Justin Rickles <jrick@jrick.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> awesome, thanks for the link!
> >>
> >> Justin
> >>
> >> On Oct 11, 2016, at 6:08 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/the-orb-
> new-album-cow-chill-world-stream/
> >>
> >>
> >> Clint Anderson
> >> Systems Engineer
> >> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
> >>
> >>
> >
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