At 11:20 AM 3/7/94 +0000, u91clw@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Charles Wildig) wrote:
quoted 18 lines I just got William Orbit's "Strange Cargo III" CD. I have been listening>
>>I just got William Orbit's "Strange Cargo III" CD. I have been listening
>>to it nonstop since I got it. It is absolutlely *amazing*. It takes the
>>best elements of some of my favorite groups and puts it together into
>>something that it should be, much like rave DJs as creators of musical
>>fabric. What he has attained is a worthy goal of musicians and DJs.
>
> Whooah, do we detect an interest in ambience. Surely there are many
>millions of recording groups and artists dedicated to exactly this sound,
>especially on this side of the atlantic. Ambience is pure and plentiful and
>beginning to take a real hold. This kind of music has surely been recorded
>ever since the seventies, and whilst it has only recently become DJ material
>it has none the less produced some of the finest moments in the history of
>recording.
> ...
> Anyway this is IDM but without the D, so I won't annoy the SysOp
>by posting a list of my favourites (ie I can't think of enough off-hand, to
>justify it!) ;)
I'd hardly call Orbit's new record ambient, nor would I classify any of his
previous releases that way. The first Orbit material I have is Bassomatic,
which is purely dance music, and all of the other Strange Cargo records
have been dance-oriented.
Having yesterday been dancing around to "Strange Cargo III" while I did my
housecleaning (10 minutes of dancing to each 5 minutes of cleaning:) and
also being a fairly dedicated ambient collector, I'd say that you've pegged
this record wrong. Especially with this release, Orbit makes what I
consider very intelligent dance music, absolutely with the D.
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