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quoted 6 lines i'd also consider his lesser-known _Io_ album/soundtrack (on Rising High UK)

>i'd also consider his lesser-known _Io_ album/soundtrack (on Rising High UK) >an >essential purchase, especially if you enjoy fragile beatless ambience like >Global Communications' Sensorama remix. even airier than MLO's _01:01:01_... >it >has to be one of the most supernaturally subtle albums ever released.

Emphatic agreement on that one. _Io_ is probably the most frequently played ambient CD in my collection. Really warm, rich, soothing, and time-suspending.

quoted 2 lines P.S. Eat Static was cool, but they look half dead. Better living through

>P.S. Eat Static was cool, but they look half dead. Better living through >pharmaceuticals, I guess.

Yeah ... I don't know what they themselves were doing, if anything, but their music was so incredibly good that I couldn't bring myself to give a damn. I thought their alien critter was damn cool as well. They made Moby and the rest of 'em look like fools. I sure hope their new album sounds like that! ... much harder and more intense than their releases so far.

quoted 3 lines System 7 rawked, but only played for about 40

>System 7 rawked, but only played for about 40 >minutes. They definitely need their own tour. The rest was negligable, >except for Moby, who just plain sucked.

I thought Banco was the other gem. Nothing much in terms of spectacle, but the music was gorgeous and they really played well as a band. Good mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation ... tight and clean. The only thing that nobody mentioned about System 7 was how hilariously cute Steve Hillage was. Whenever the track they were playing started to get particularly good, he'd peer out at the crowd, grimace, tentatively make a fist, and slowly raise it kind of off to the side, elbow still half-cocked ... giving an impression reminiscent of Arthur Dent (or how I imagine him, anyway) ... and the crowd would cry "Yay! Go Steve!" I snooped around the main mixing board and noticed a channel labeled "Moby - minidisc". I now await everyone's shocked exclamations of surprise and indignation. On that note, Jim Bernard observed that there's no excuse for doing a tracked show. While in principle I agree, I must observe that getting paid a hundred or two makes excuses rapidly spring to mind. The promoters get what they pay for, and the audience unfortunately suffers the consequences. I've even heard of promoters specifically asking for tracked shows. --Seofon