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1996-04-26 06:12Ren8sance@aol.comListening to this EP in the car today, I was thinking the same thing that I thought about

From:: <Ren8sance@aol.com>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 02:12:20 -0400
Subject:: (idm) more on Orbital's Box

Listening to this EP in the car today, I was thinking the same thing that I thought about when I first stuck it in my CD player...This EP is so incredibly great!!! Only now, my feelings about it are magnified by about 10. Not enough people on idm have stepped forward to say how these songs (minus the last track) easily rank with Orbital's best in terms of melody, sounds, and grooves. In fact, I think it may be my favorite Orbital so far. As I was listening today, I had this daydream fantasy of riding in a time machine to the late 1700's and playing track two to Mozart and a bunch of Austrian aristocrats and just watching the looks on their faces. ("What have they done with my precious harpsichord!!!!") : ) Then I thought about playing AFX's Entrance to Exit... : D Andrew

1996-04-26 14:58Erkki RautioAfter reading some people's not-so-favourable feedback on "The Box", I have to admit I was

From:: Erkki Rautio <trerra@uta.fi>
To:: <Ren8sance@aol.com>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:58:55 +0300 (EET DST)
Subject:: Re: (idm) more on Orbital's Box
Reply to:: (idm) more on Orbital's Box

After reading some people's not-so-favourable feedback on "The Box", I have to admit I was a bit suspicious, when I finally got this EP and spinned it for the first time. To my surprise, it wasn't as bad as I had feared; damn, I even liked it better than their previous, "Times Fly", which seemed to have lost the idea - not to talk about the song itself - somewhere in the trendy t**p-h*p/jungle wilderness. IMHO, of course. Though I don't quite know what to make of this latest 30 minute-long IDM singles fad (remember The Face article I posted last year about techno as the 90's prog rock...?) - first DJ Shadow's oh-we-are-so-arty- and-deep-now "What Does Your Soul Look Like", and now Orbital's Ennio Morricone goes Portishead goes cheesy 60's sci-fi soundtrack epic.. And how about those harpsichords in the second part - Rick Wakeman during "The Wives of Henry VIII", or what? (Just don't ask me how I got to hear that one ;) Well, after all said, I think I quite *like* this, though it's obvious that Orbital is not going back to their cherished Brown Album days - but times change and people change, and we just have to live with it... I heard the album version of "The Box" should be even better, so I'm curious to hear what "In Sides" will have to give - though I think I'd better not hold my breath too much... ;) oNNow: Octagon Man - Rimm (J. Saul is Messiah! :) ERkki TampHexster, pHinland trerra@uta.fi Sahko? -> http://www.uta.fi/~trerra/finn.html

(idm) more on Orbital's Box