I heard a snippet of one of the versions of Adagio for strings last
week. And was very very dissapointed. Some of Orbit's Strage Cargo work is
what i consider the best 'poppy' techno you can find, So when i heard he was
doing a remake of the Barber tune (of which i own a multitude of different
recordings, basically i love this song) i was very intrigued. However the
mix i heard was your basic build-up 4OTF techno track [here's the strings,
here's the cello, ok now here is the bass, and ok here comes the kick drum].
Which i figured would be the case, but i was hoping for more. So much of
this type of techno relies on this monumental buildup type thing, which
barbers original also does [IMO It's the most classic example of using this
type of song structure for great emotional effect]. I figured they would be
a great fit. But the track i heard was very underwhelming.
m.
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> From: Paddy Grove[SMTP:Paddy.Grove@marconicomms.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 10:09 AM
> To: adam@sirius.com
> Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: (idm) William Orbit
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> The album version of this track is not the trancey one. It's a straight,
> slightly disappointingly-flat sounding synthy stringy verison (like the
> trance
> version before the beats come in). Having said that, I quite like the
> album as a
> whole. A good mix of tunes, some more idm-ised than others, but nothing
> that
> will frighten your granny. I was thinking the other day that some of it
> wouldn't
> sound amiss on a Bola record. Coffee table IDM?
>
> Paddy
>
> np Air: The Virgin Suicides OST.
>
> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:22:00 -0800
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> From: "adam.florin" <adam@sirius.com>
> Subject: Re: (idm) William Orbit
> Message-Id: <v04003a08b4ee5236f3f2@[207.44.229.204]>
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> i don't know, but the video for his "Barber's Adagio for Strings" was on
> AMP two weeks ago, and is very pretty. the song is in the tradition of
> taking a nice classical sample and synching it to a trance beat, but is
> quite well done, and the video is quite clever. good job, mr. orbit.
>
> .af.
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