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thanks for info. i guess no one knows about who4; that one's my favorite. i just checked and i'm at roughly 300 albums in my bandcamp collection. i'd gladly add who4 and multiple others by the artist if i could... (edit, to be clear, i bring up the 300 to try to give evidence that i'd really put my money where my words are, if i could. probably most people here consider this collection small.)

anyone know if (a) the identities are known, (b) if there's any plan for digital releases? i still listen to these fondly, but have not purchased them, as i have no vinyl player. i would gladly buy them in digital form, AND buy further (digital) releases from the artists if i knew their identities. this situation is pretty awful

absolutely ecstatic for this release.. that warm bliss of the wagon christ vibe. and the track that's up on bandcamp is glorious! regarding "cordialotron", vibert seems to love music and love listening to music, and is often sticking our favorite 90s tracks in his mixes. he also uses analogue bubblebath 1 and lfo to great effect in his mixes...

I insta-bought since I insta-bought the previous two, but am heavily underwhelmed*; it seems to be mostly filler, though the track which was available pre-purchase on bandcamp is indeed excellent. more and more i've found this with brooks: his albums have maybe 1-2 good tracks (which are available pre-purchase), and the stuff he hides behind the paywall is filler. this is very sad for me, since years back when i first discovered him, i was blown away by his variety and consistent quality. but multiple releases now are dominated by filler (annoyingly hidden behind paywall), and i've also seen enthusiasm for him hear on watmm decline... oh well

sounds pretty good, looking forward to it my favorite d'arcangelo is this "80s mix". it was on one of the rephlex braindance compilations (and also on a full album)

same comment as everyone else: phenomenal music, but ridiculous that they are still withholding digital release ultimately, in these situations, people without a vinyl player (and who refuse to get vinyl players for various reasons) just pirate. this exculsivity makes no sense, i can't imagine it helps artists. indeed it causes their art to be locked away... it's even more offensive when the website has short digital samples; clearly they've digitized it already...

hmm, i still can't download whities 11 from bandcamp... but i can get it from bleep finally so frustrating whities hides most of their back catalogue!

thanks for the pointer! album is also up on bandcamp: https://l-a-n-a-r-k.bandcamp.com/releases on the other hand, if he gives bleep more sales, perhaps warp/bleep put more effort into promoting him? hard to say which purchase benefits lanark artefax the most...

YES god-level bump; thank you, internet man BONUS trivia: the image on that track is taken from glorious cover art for (one edition of) joe haldeman's "forever war", a classic "military scifi" book.

sweet are we bumping cn-nu ? i'm up in this ... what a glorious album ... never ceases to amaze; with every listen; year after year after year ... it's just so special.... can't find that sound anywhere else...

Wow !! nice find.

The late Jake Stephenson had more aliases, though Wolfers still has a lot of time to overtake him... http://www.discogs.com/artist/328407-Jake-Stephenson

nice! having this as a google doc is very convenient, thanks! I'd had no idea so many of the releases on strange life are actually by him ....

fucking MICRO-ZINE?! I missed that.. thanks for the pointer.........................

This latest release, "Swan Song Of The Skunkape Original Soundtrack", is now on bandcamp https://legowelt.bandcamp.com/album/swan-song-of-the-skunkape-original-soundtrack I'm glad he didn't go vinyl-only with this one!

Danny Wolfers still has a ways to go.... http://www.discogs.com/artist/328407-Jake-Stephenson

so many posts and no one mentions OXBOW LAKES?! So much good music coming out in the early 90s... analog was a refined artform, digital was the new kid on the block, an exciting time...

My first Legowelt album, bought through clone on CDr when it was just released :) still one my my faves of him! You can find quite a bit of the back catalogue of Strange Life (Legowelt's former label, which is almost all him under different names) on bandcamp: http://shop.hott.mx/music There's a lot of other stuff on that page, Viewlexx, Bunker Records, etc. All stuff from the Hague basically. But Amiga Railroad Adventures is in there too: http://shop.hott.mx/album/strange-life-records-slr032-amiga-railroad-adventures Thanks so much! I just purchased it, it's downloading now. It's amazing how much good stuff you dig up; thanks again.

ah, nice find! I hadn't heard of this release either! unfortunately, I can't find it up as a digital release anywhere; I had to acquire it through, uh, other means. Here's another great track from it:

It could just be some random string synthing, but ..... at around 10:00 in "Moon Scapes", is that the string synth at the start of Pet Shop Boys' "West End Girls"? There's so much tweaking and other layers that it could be many things, even just a basic string synth, but ...

I see what you mean and of course, as a long time fan of The Orb and Fehlman, it's easy to tell that Fehlman has taken over the sound of The Orb at some point. This happens in most "bands" out there tho: there is one or two guy(s) composing mostly everything and the others will do their parts according to his/their vision. Nothing shocking here. That's how music is being made. You need a leader with a vision, you need a prime time composer. But what if Alex is sitting in the studio and commenting on what Thomas did? What if he is saying: Nah, I don't like how this part sounds, can you do this or that to it so that it sounds like that? Or nah, let's take this out and bring this back in. Etc. This is already collaboration. On a basic level, sure, but you would be surprised how many of the "big" names of music do just that. But I can't believe Alex is NEVER in the studio with Thomas when they're recording a new album. This whole discussion against Alex Patterson reminds me of how some people were saying to Steve Jobs that he can't code, that he's not an engineer. Who cares? That wasn't his job at Apple and yet, without him, there would have been no iPod, no iPhone, no iPad. In other words, without Alex, whatever he is doing in the studio, there would have been no The Orb albums. And the guy (ex-member) who is saying that Alex stole everything from him, never made another good album in his entire life. Weird. Yeah, that's true. I don't think the relationship is quite as straight forward as I said in an earlier post. Problem is, I just don't hear much of the Orb in their past few albums. But maybe that's more complicated too. I'm guessing it's probably something like this too. Moreover, it's additionally possible that fehlmann is somewhat resilient to bad personalities; maybe he doesn't care much overall about not just credit and egos, but also division of labor, so long as shit gets done. In my own line of work I've encountered people who push other's away due to fame- and credit- seeking, but then there are people that work with them and (a) don't get perturbed by the silly stuff, and (b) occasionally gain in the way described above (some useful feedback/criticisms). All this said, this album sounds much more orb-y than "okie dokie", which to my ears was purely fehlmann's berlin techno interests (though admittedly I haven't listened to it much and an commenting out of my depth; please correct me...)

Okay, I love legowelt, and these samples sound great. I must say though, it has become a pet peeve of mine when a site to purchase music offers digital samples and digital streaming, but only physical purchase options. Ah well, I understand that markets, distributors, labels, and artists all have complex feelings on many things... hopefully I will be able to purchase this music soon.

agreed. also, awesome album art, legit stravinsky+croissants. ALSO. my "how things are" link above. CAN NOT STOP LOOPING.

Not sure where to post about old releases... I finally grabbed a copy of "north sea spectrum" thanks to https://signalsmmx.bandcamp.com/album/legowelt-north-sea-spectrum-ep The track "how things are" is truly godly, a top legowelt track.. whole EP is really good though; really impressed.

REMINDER: FORK RAVE EXISTS https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/fork-rave I will say though that for the longest time, floating-infinity was my favorite