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A while ago, someone pleaded to know what was on the lim-ed live Lp that came with Maya. I've lost their address, so you're all going to fing out that the track listing is... 1) Gamelah - Oscillate, Birmingham 7.1.94 2) Shanti - a field in Oxford 5.9.93 3) Darkside - Oscillate as above 4) Data Inadequate - Megadog at Brixton Academy 31.12.93 Pretty good stuff, too. That's all for now, Geoff X.

quoted 5 lines Could you tell me a little about Banco De Gaia? I have heard great

>Could you tell me a little about Banco De Gaia? I have heard great >things from friends and am looking into purchasing a release of their's. >However, I am a little more interested in Trance and Acid then towards >Mellow Ambient... if you could fill me in... currently I was looking >towards the Desert Wind EP. Any info would be appreciated.

quoted 1 line Morgan.

>Morgan.

The Maya CD is excellent. I wouldn't call it ambient really. Most of it is sort of futuristic dance music with lots of samples of non-Western music and some excellent bass lines. Unlike some other stuff I've heard that relies on non-Western samples BdG tends to go for a more dense, almost funky sound. (In fact, track 2 on Maya uses a Sly Stone sample in an otherwise arabic sounding environment to extremely good effect) In some ways the sound reminds me of some moments on Sven Vath's _Accident in Paradise_ except that where Sven Vath tends towards more atmospheric or electronic sounding stuff, BdG is generally more quick to get back into a groove. In general BdG seems to avoid the pitfalls of using non-Western music just to add a feeling of the exotic to their music, and seems more interested in what the samples can add in terms of rhythms and different melodic possibilities. I've gone on at great length so that anyone else who reads this and can recommend other similar work will have a fairly clear idea of what I like about BdG. David _________________________________________________________________________ |dbdodd@midway.uchicago.edu | |"Dear God I'm full of it! But I'm going to let it go." -Firesign Theatre | |_________________________________________________________________________|

On Thu, 25 Aug 1994, David Brooks Dodd wrote:

quoted 6 lines Could you tell me a little about Banco De Gaia? I have heard great

> >Could you tell me a little about Banco De Gaia? I have heard great > >things from friends and am looking into purchasing a release of their's. > >However, I am a little more interested in Trance and Acid then towards > >Mellow Ambient... if you could fill me in... currently I was looking > >towards the Desert Wind EP. Any info would be appreciated. >

WHOA! i was just goin to post about Banco De Gaia! ive heard maya, and there are some things that annoyed me on there some of the sounds were just so AARRGGGHHH!!! they never changed but when the did it was a relief! if you listen to it and dont like it on a first listenning try track 6. Sheesha, i thought it was an exceptional track. if your lookin for something more trancy and acidy try Eat Static's Implant...IMO theres not a bad track on there. its good and groovin too. 1/3 induction wes

Just to inject an alternative opinion... I got to know Banco de Gaia through his tracks on the "Ambient Dub 1-3" comps, and thought they were truly excellent. And they are. However, I feel that his album does not come close to living up to those songs. My advice: get hold of "Desert Wind", "Soufie", "Shanti (Original mix!)", maybe "Heliopolis" and "Sheesha" off the album, maybe "Qurna" off _Feed_Your_ _Head_, and press your own Banco de Gaia CD. --Jeff

Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 17:46:19 -0400 (EDT) From: dj Lovegrove <lovegrov@clark.net> Subject: Re: Banco de Gaia Question cool news on the planet dog front.... mammoth records (out of north carolina) is licensing planet dog material, starting with a brilliant 2 cd sampler (banco, eat static, timeshard, and children of the bong-- about 4 tracks from each). there will also be a planet dog megadog tour this summer.... banco and eat static plus some fave uk djs coming to the states!!! lg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETINA fanzine sonic soul productions baltimore, md 410.628.0241 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

While on the subject of Banco de Gaia, anyone else got the new Long Player yet? "Last train to Lhasa" , a tribute to the people of Tibet (though the content of some of the tracks doesn't exactly reflect this.) Spread over 3 Cds, approx 62+60+43 minutes, starts off with train noises, but the first CD is mostly sold trancey stuff, which doesn't really cut it too well with me, but the more ambient numbers on the 2nd and 3rd disks, while no massively innovative, are really mellow and groovy. At the price of a standard single long play CD, good value. later, J ^ James Skilton aka Steady J - steady-j@firefox.co.uk

James Skilton wrote:

quoted 8 lines While on the subject of Banco de Gaia, anyone else got the new Long

>While on the subject of Banco de Gaia, anyone else got the new Long >Player yet? "Last train to Lhasa" , a tribute to the people of Tibet >(though the content of some of the tracks doesn't exactly reflect >this.) Spread over 3 Cds, approx 62+60+43 minutes, starts off with >train noises, but the first CD is mostly sold trancey stuff, which >doesn't really cut it too well with me, but the more ambient numbers on >the 2nd and 3rd disks, while no massively innovative, are really mellow >and groovy. At the price of a standard single long play CD, good value.

Just got this yesterday. My first taste of Banco de Gaia. Quadruple vinyl! Certainly pleasant enough. I didn't really know what to expect. I can see myself mellowing to it quite happily but it didn't make me sit up and think "Wow, this is great". Definitely good value though, £10 for 4 discs, can't be bad. Lots of love Tim One of the least common things in the world today is: common sense.

I just bought "Last Train to Lhasa" by Banco de Gaia and I must now say, Lookout kiddies, this will be big. This is no shabby 2-cd set. I'm not good at describing music, so I'll kindly bow out of that matter, but as far as effort and dedication put into these 2 disks by the artist (which is admittedly a tough concept to estimate), I'd put this right up there with FSOL's Lifeforms. With all the recent raving about the Planet Dog comp, I doubt few people haven't heard Banco de Gaia, but if you haven't heard them, go get this. No synth washes, no slow crescendos of building harmonics; this is more upbeat than that...(damn, just as I say it, this song...Kincajou (duck! asteroid), starts to sound ambient). ANYWAY, I had a point here somewhere. Oh. This is a huge album. In one word, Landmark. ok, enough babbling...back to your regularly scheduled mail. --Brian