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From:
Brian Behlendorf
To:
Belinda L. Bowen
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Date:
Tue, 19 Jul 1994 18:41:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:
Re: ambient to billboard
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On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Belinda L. Bowen wrote:
quoted 12 lines John Drukman wrote:> John Drukman wrote: > > Finally, on a totally surreal note, I quote from the Dance Trax column: > > "The members of guitar-driven modern rock outfit LOVE & ROCKETS have bravely > > reinvented themselves as moody, ambient groovemeisters for their American > > recording debut, "Hot Trip To Heaven". The set owes a tip of the > > inspirational hat to ORBITAL in many places, though the band succeeds in > > mining interesting new ground on cuts like the single-worth "Body & Soul". > > Good chill-out fare..." > > > > Color me terrified. > > Surreal? Hell, I'm going into hiding at the thought of that one!
Why? Am I the only IDMer who loves his Tones on Tail discs too? And if you take the L&R track "Bike" and "Bikedance" and replace the guitars with well-sequenced synth riffs, it'd sound a LOT like Orbital (though Orbital's power is in the richness of their sounds, so I guess that's not saying much :) Brian "The Bubblemen are coming...."