so there *are* other people on this list besides me & jon! :)
jon said, regarding william orbit,
quoted 4 lines true, he tends to work in the pop music area, but he's made some> true, he tends to work in the pop music area, but he's made some
> really excellent remixes - batman (turned a dreadful song into
> something pretty cool), s'express (the orbit mix of hey music lover is
> insane)... i'm sure there are others.
the first time i heard mr. orbit was in january 1989 when i was taping
a top 40 hot mix show on the radio.. they played his remix of "now
you're in heaven" by julian lennon and it blew me away. once i figured
out you could buy these "hot mixes" on records it was one of the first
ones i picked up. then i got another.. and another.. :)
other mixes by him that i can think of off the top of my head are:
madonna - justify my love, 1 or 2 other more recent singles
seal - the beginning
erasure - supernature
depeche mode - walking in my shoes
and all kinds of stuff on his guerilla records label. there is a
disc called guerilla grooves which is all produced by/played by/ or
mixed by him. all of this stuff, though good, does have some annoyingly
repetitive gimmicks which define this trademark "guerilla sound".. once
you've heard one of his remixes you can pick out new ones right away.
the bassomatic stuff that i've heard is in this genre.
on the other hand, the strange cargo album, with the exception of one
song, sounds very different from his usual material. some of the
tracks are funky and upbeat, others are totally moody and ambient.
does anyone have strange cargo 2? how does it compare?
also - there is an old william orbit discography at cs.uwp.edu
ObIntelligence: William Orbit, even in 1988-89, was using some really
neat tricks (like the loop-point-variation jon described) with sound,
as well as putting out some mixes that were way ahead of their time in
some respects.
Mike Brown
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