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:
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> 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
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> [reluctantly raises hand]
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> 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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> Sent from my Robot Monkey Drum Machine
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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
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