I think they do have a certain idm sensibility. Orbital always has an
interesting choice of noises and a very good sense of melody....i like it.
Ebola
np: Gridlock
quoted 27 lines From: Nub <knowles@Colorado.EDU>
>From: Nub <knowles@Colorado.EDU>
>Reply-To: idm@hyperreal.org
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: (idm) fatboy slim thread -> orbital
>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:39:30 -0700 (MST)
>
>speaking of pop/idm/commercialism:
>
>it's been mentioned before, correctly i think, that orbital are one of the
>few "mainstream" electronic acts that have maintained somewhat of an idm
>sensibility, whatever that means. any thoughts on this? does anyone
>consider orbital to be idm? whenever their name comes up, it's like you
>can hear an electronic pin drop. i for one consider, and will probably
>always consider, the brown album to be _the_ classic of electronic
>listening music, so well-constructed are those tunes. i'll take that any
>day over your typical (wait for it...) dsp fuckery.
>
>and thanks for not thrashing the newbie. considering the recent bitchiness
>around here i was expecting some kind of violent backlash.
>
>nub
>
>
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