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quoted 2 lines Has anyone heard of an album called Ambient Groove? I'm fairly

>Has anyone heard of an album called Ambient Groove? I'm fairly >sure its a compilation, but I don't know anything more than

that...

quoted 3 lines Robyn

> >Robyn >

I think you might mean Journey Into Ambient Groove, which is a series of CD's put out by Quango records. There are three volumes so far, as well as 12' samplers of tracks taken from the compilations. There will probably be more volumes in this series since I read somewhere that Quango plans to release over 40 compilations in the next year. Quango is run through Island records by LA DJ's Jason Bentley and Bruno Gez and have been releasing some great stuff (Kruder & Dorfmeister, Bomb the Bass, Taste of Pork) domestically.... /""'' /"'RESH Live and Direct from the G-Spot Orange County, California, USA

quoted 1 line Has anyone heard of an album called Ambient Groove?

> Has anyone heard of an album called Ambient Groove?

Do you mean _A Journey Into Ambient Groove_? What a fantastic series. There are at least three that I know of. The first 'phase' was released this time last year by Planet Earth. I'm not sure if the selected tracks had anything to do with the Pork label. The tracks off of the first Ambient Groove are what I think of when the phrase 'ambient dub' is mentioned to me. Very dark, dubby, sometimes minimalistic stuff. But most of it is very "organic" sounding. This recording is a favorite of mine. The next two in the series were released by Jason Bentley's Quango label. I've yet to purhcase phase three, but number 2 is also an impressive work. There's less of a dub influence and more of a jazz influence to this album. Highlights for me include the two Fila Brazilla tracks and stunning piece from Heights of Abraham. There's also a keen sampler, _A Taste of Pork_, released along the same time Phase Two was. I think it's a good taste of where the Quango label is heading with their music. .grant.h.horne .http://delta.is.tcu.edu/~ghhorne/

quoted 2 lines There's also a keen sampler, _A Taste of Pork_, released along the same

> There's also a keen sampler, _A Taste of Pork_, released along the same >time Phase Two was. I think it's a good taste of where the Quango label is

^^^^^ Jesus, did I just say that? No pun intended, folks. It's way too late... .grant.h.horne .http://delta.is.tcu.edu/~ghhorne/ .bronchusevenmx24.autechre [and loving every second of it]

On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Robyn Albrecht wrote:

quoted 7 lines Has anyone heard of an album called Ambient Groove? I'm fairly

> > Has anyone heard of an album called Ambient Groove? I'm fairly > sure its a compilation, but I don't know anything more than that... > > Robyn > >

I think its on some sublabel of Island Records...

At 01:33 AM 4/29/96 -0500, summun wrote:

quoted 1 line Has anyone heard of an album called Ambient Groove?

>> Has anyone heard of an album called Ambient Groove?

Must...not...forget... ESP compilation v3 "The Ambient Groove" with a few tuff Ishii cuts and some (nice) solo Phil Western, who worked with Mike Kandel on that "Captain Mindfuck..." thing on Exist Dance awhile back. eric