anyone else out there picked up amster sessions 1 by up, bustle, and out from the ninjatune clan? i'm really grooving on it. really nice afro-cuban style. anyone who's a fan of the buena vista social club soundtrack should check this cd out, as well. clifford gilberto is fun, as well, but i REALLY like the up,bustle, and out cd. dj vadim ussr reconstruction is nice, too. remix by oval!?!?! too weird to believe - oval reinterpretting a vadim song.
also, anyone have a good recommendation for something to get by john cage or steve reich? i'm reading a book of my girlfriend's about john cage from a college class, i think. she doesn't have any cage and has only one disc of reich's, which i really liked(forget the name, though). anyway, i'd really appreciate it, and i'd recommend the book, too, to anyone who doesn't fully appreciate the influence of past composers on the wild idm-ers of today. it's called john cage (ex)plain(ed) by richard kostelanetz. really good read so far, although i am only 40 or so pages in so far.
lastly, anyone out there seen the orb/juno reactor tour? i don't really care about seeing juno reactor, but i'd love to see alex paterson in action. my girlfriend's best friend saw orb a while back and says not to miss seeing orb live. my ? is, is it an orb show or just alex helping out juno reactor? i thought i heard rumors here earlier that it was just alex helping out and not really an orb tour. any cydonia stuff from anyone who's gone? i hope so!
later - nikolaus