I can understand why you don’t get into Cydonia, somehow it’s not a coherent album, but it has some great tracks on it (A Mile Long Lump Of Lard, Terminus!). If you can get the 1999 first versions recordings, you’ll find some great versions as well!
Screen is a side project of LX with Chester and Gaudi, highly dub influenced as you might expect.
HFB stands for High Frequency Bandwidth, another side project of LX with Dom Beken. One physical albums, a few digital ones as well as digital singles.
Do you know Transit Kings? Another side project with Guy Pratt and even Jimi Cauty playing along on a few tracks. ‘Living In A Giant Candle Winking At God’ is worth a listen too (although it suffers the same jazziness as HFB from time to time, but it certainly has its great moments).
Van: Clint Anderson [mailto:clinta@gmail.com]
Verzonden: woensdag 15 april 2015 16:37
Aan: polar-sequence
CC: AV2k; Idm List
Onderwerp: Re: Fw: orb
heh actually the only orb release i don't like is Cydonia, and i have tried and tried to make myself 'get' it but, i just dont like it
can't put my finger on what it is i don't like about it, just actively annoys me when i listen to it, heh
i didnt know about the Screen stuff, going to have to check that out asap
i did listen to the one re-release of all the wau! mr modo stuff and its not at all bad but it did not age well, in my opinion... its a bunch of tracks that first off, dont really sound at all like the orb, which of course makes sense because -- they arent, and were clearly never intended to sound like the orb, and i can imagine, listening to them, that in 1995 i would have thought they were all fantastic but not so much in 2015
apparently i am a terrible fan for also not having heard until now of the HFB material so... ill have to look at that
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:09 AM, polar-sequence <polar-sequence@home.nl> wrote:
Yes, totally Orb minded here as well. Clint, you put the words right: with LX as a constant member, contributers largely influence the outcome of particular tracks. I like this idea: you will know what to expect from them, but then again anything could happen as well! Great dub sounds with Lee Perry or the Screen album (with Gaudi and Chester), minimal techno (Thomas Fehlmann), full-sample loaded heavy bass-lined tracks with Youth et cetera, great aural explorations with Kris Weston, Steve Hillage and so forth. The only output that I’m not too keen on is HFB, too jazzy for my ears. But hey: you can’t please them all…
There is supposed to be a new album on Kompakt later this year, I’m still waiting for the DVD’s on the accompanying ‘Adventures Beyond Dark Matter’ release on Abbey Road and there is speaking of a 3rd History Of The Future (focused on the releases with Andy Hughes). The future looks bright J
Regards,
Johan
Van: Clint Anderson [mailto:clinta@gmail.com]
Verzonden: woensdag 15 april 2015 1:49
Aan: AV2k
CC: Idm List
Onderwerp: Re: Fw: orb
also The Dream has great basslines (imagine that) in every track
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
i think patterson is sort of the guide that has kept the orb 'brand' sounding the same or at least similar enough. you can argue about how much he does or doesn't do, but only the orb sounds like the orb, and alex patterson is only in the orb, and the only one consistently in it, at that, so he must do SOMETHING intangible. he's like flava flav is to public enemy maybe? i'm kidding but he clearly has steered the thing through 25 years of ups and downs.
that said i really enjoy westons contributions and i'm just not going to say anything about him one way or another for fear i'll get an angry email ;)
i actually really enjoy The Dream too, too bad they only managed to do one album with that lineup. same for living in a giant candle winking at god, great stuff if only they could have done another one.
as for fehlmann, yeah i had heard alot of his solo stuff as just 'thomas fehlmann' quite awhile before he became a regular orb collaborator, i wouldn't ever have expected him to be the piece that alex replaced weston with, as the two are so completely different sounding, but his tiny loops and textures and sound beds really work in the new lineup.
i saw them last year in minneapolis, fehlmann and patterson, and it was a great show. clearly just tweaked versions of some of their tracks with some special one-off discs on the cdj for patterson, nothing too fancy, and fehlmann had his macbook synced up and was adding beats and samples and whatnot. a really simple performance, where its probably really easy to transport all the gear, i imagine it must be 1000 times easier than their old mega-setups they toted around.
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:57 AM, AV2k <a_void2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
I meant to send this to the list.
I like Thomas Fehlmann, but I like Chris Weston more. Patterson seems like the type that dabbles in everything but lets the others do the actual work, and this sometimes shows in their albums. Weston has a temper, sure, he is an angry man, but sometimes, this type of personality creates better art. This is true in painting (Pollack), music composition (Mozart) and every other type of creative medium.
Weston is still putting out some great stuff, even though he is economically crippled now, and he would argue that it is everyone else's fault except his, but if he would just hold back the outrage, just a little, in the effort to keep the peace, perhaps people would work with him a bit longer.
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From: AV2k <a_void2000@yahoo.com>
To: Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: orb
[reluctantly raises hand]
Yep. I've got every album. I love Blue Room (39:57), but Oxbow Lakes (Psychic Pals Family Wealth Plan Mix) is my favorite piece.
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From: Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com>
To: IDM <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 8:36 PM
Subject: orb
any obsessive mega-Orb fans on here?
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer