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first let me apologize for making this last three whole posts. :) from the sept 17th MM: The tracklisting for "Ambient Auras: Diverse Dimensions in Ambient Dub" has been confirmed this week. The album compiled by orbit's Ben Turner for Rumour rEcords, features: Higher Intelligence Agency: "Alpha 1999"(Pentatonik remix), Biosphere: "Baby", Aphex Twin: "On", Alter Ego:"Undersea Girl", State Of Flux:"The News", Neuro Project: "Lovechile", Centuras:"Tokyo", Taucher & Koma:"happiness(Dr.Atmo remix)", Centry Meets The Music FAmily: "release the chains", The Dust Brothers:"If You Kling To Me, I'll Klong To You" and Bandulu:"Run Run". the album is "anyting but meandering and self-indlugent", states Ben Turner. "ambient music has bred into a new cluture of passive clubbing, where young people are choosing to sit in their bedrooms with silent records, somehow believeing that they are changing the future of young britain. bollocks. This is as ambient as music should be. Every record on here is as dancefloor friendly as it is bedroom friendly." the album is released on October 3. mikebee if you like this info, please say so. :) :::mikebee@freenet.fsu.edu::: --everybody's kung fu fighting-- ///////Kicks more flava than Mister Rogers' got neighbors////////

quoted 1 line if you like this info, please say so. :)

> if you like this info, please say so. :)

Yep, keep up the good work. I don't tend to read the music press particularly regularly, so titbits like these are always useful.... -cosmic

On Tue, 20 Sep 1994, Dan Nicholson wrote:

quoted 13 lines Michel Battaglia <mikebee@freenet.scri.fsu.edu> writes:

> Michel Battaglia <mikebee@freenet.scri.fsu.edu> writes: > > > the album is "anyting but meandering and self-indlugent", states Ben > > Turner. "ambient music has bred into a new cluture of passive clubbing, > > where young people are choosing to sit in their bedrooms with silent > > records, somehow believeing that they are changing the future of young > > britain. bollocks. This is as ambient as music should be. Every record on > > here is as dancefloor friendly as it is bedroom friendly." > > wait, wait, wait! so is this guy saying that by dancing around on a > dancefloor to ""ambient"" music these young people are going to really do > any more to change the future? give me a break! and since when does all > music have to have significant world-molding value?

i don't think this is what he is saying. i think that he is scoffing at the multitudes of 'silent records' out there, the tons of 'ambient' crap. that's just an analog synth on wax. i don't think he's adding profound weight to the latter 'dancefloor friendly' ambient. I liked what he had to say as far as that's concerned and agree with it..i don't agree with 'this is as ambient as music should be'. but as far as calling something 'dance music' then some 'ambient' music could and should defintely be de-categorized. (now, don't go and give me the old schtick about labeling music and such..i'm not trying to tell you what to listen to. :)

quoted 3 lines i consider trance groups like New London School of Electronics to be

> i consider trance groups like New London School of Electronics to be > ambient dance-music if that makes any sense. where does this guy get off > being so elitist as to tell us what ambient music SHOULD be?

again, i don't think he's saying that. (although i just did. :) i think the main point was that there's alot 'ambient' music ou there that's crap. and he's trying to put together a compilation of music that is as 'dancefloor friendly as it is bedroom friendly'. oh well, i've dug myself into a hole once again. flame away. :) in response to everyone who's thanked me for posting the melody maker stuff, i will continue to do so on a weekly basis, when i get the papers. :) mike