quoted 5 lines All this chat about major labels avoiding ambient like the plague sounds like>>All this chat about major labels avoiding ambient like the plague sounds like
>>unfounded rumormongering to me. The current issue of Billboard Magazine has a
>>huge article on "Ambient" which starts on the front page with pics of Brian Eno
>>and Aphex Twin. (Ironic, given Eno's comments about James in the Eno
>>Instrumental Box Set ...)quoted 4 lines As a fan of both, I fail to understand why some people claim "Oh, Richard>As a fan of both, I fail to understand why some people claim "Oh, Richard
>just regurgitates what Eno and Tangerine Dream used to do". Hogwash.
>Something like "Discreet Music" is *much* quieter than "Selected Ambient Works
>Vol. II".
That is true, 'hogwash.' Every ambient artist creates his own
'dreamscape.' I don't think it possible to 'regurgitate' what other ambient
artists do. It may sound a lot like something that came before, but every
ambient project is a trip in its own right.
stan