I listened to both of these today and most definitely the Orb's Orbradio is
way better. God, on AB V some loon put a track from AB IV at the end, I'll
even note he spelled Analogue wrong, he spelled it "Analouge", I guess I'm
the only one that noticed. Well back to Orbradio, have any of you IDMers
heard this? I've got it and can put it up at someone's site if they want
it. It's a 35 minute mix of some Orb stuff and some other songs like
"Cars" by that one 80's bloke that I can't remember. It made my head bob
more than AB V which the first few songs all have the same structure,
Drums, pads, keyboards, messed up sounds. It's pretty disappointing. But
BUT BUT there are like three songs that really stand out and they seem to
save this but it still ain't good enough. I'm glad I heard it because I
put up with Aphex's crap to get to the gems but I think this is why this
wasn't released too many shear crap tracks. I think reviewers would say
this is too uneven.
Other point of Orb interest. What's this track called "Cocksville USA"? I
downloaded this 10 MB MP3 file and have fallen in love. Why is this not in
Lazlo's Orb discography?
Does anyone have the track listing for AB V or Orbradio? I know you Orb
buffs probably could figure it out by one listening.
Rusty
PS: Found a new place to buy all my IDM. It's in Normal, Illinois. It's
called "Deadpan Alley Music". I stopped in for the first time yesterday
and picked up "Lunatic Harness" and saw Skampler, and then headed over to
12" coutry and found both Envanes, two Photek releases. The guy there let
me play the 12"s. I really don't like the Photek vibe, but the guy did.
He played some Gerd stuff too, not bad, I'm still not convinced by this
Jungle/Phreak beat stuff. I managed to get him to play Luke Vibert's "Big
Soup" too. They had that on CD. I liked it, I know immediately that if I
owned it I'd skip some of the tracks, cause some are OK but others are
really good, but this is not as uneven as AB V. The guy was real helpful
and he talked about how nice Sean was from Autechre when he met him. He
really dislikes Aphex Twin stuff. He has a huge post of the RDJ album in
his window but he markered a big Pentagram on Richard's forehead on the
poster. He even drew the goat on it. I'm not a Satanist and don't really
think Richard's music or personality or scene or anything of the matter is
there but this guy at Deadpan really hates Richard. He says he's
overrated. He had an identical poster inside that had the word balloon and
it said "I am the Spice Girls' (pimp)" No pentagram though. Watch out the
shop is overrun with college types since more than 90% of the store is
Alternative music.
Respect to y' all
Rusty again....