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That last question was the result of a combination of too much coffee and pop music today.
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How about a Gescom vocal album? Lisa Gerrard, Liz Fraser and Gza. Be great. Get Nicola Roberts in for the single.
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A couple more while you're thinking up some to questions for us... Amber is your only sleeve with seemingly untreated photography, is this something you would consider going back to, or do you think abstract/generated art is the bet visual interpretation of your music? Any thoughts on the midlands? North and south England seem to have strong identities, but us midlanders seem to get forgotten about. Also, been stuck in a creative rut lately, but all yr talk of enjoying jamming tracks has really inspired me into doing stuff like that and I'm pretty happy with all, definitely needed to stop thinking about the result and just get lost in the moment. So thanks for that!
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I always thought the numbers were percentages of the disc, so if they're on a disc with other tracks they don't really work. edit - Garbage, that is.
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Yeah, that's it - kind of vast/epic but contained at the same time. Taking in stuff as it comes along rather than all at once.
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Cool, I respect that. I think this approach probably ensures quality control a lot better, as it allows a certain amount of time to go back over stuff months after it was made. Cheers for the answers!
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Almost everything I wanted to ask has been asked by others, but a few things: - In the past few years, I've come across quite a few artists who've said they're going to give up 'albums' and just focus on songs or EPs (then two years later they announce a new album and it all gets forgotten), and there are a lot of artists, particularly in the tape scene, who seem to put out a tape with a couple of long jams on every couple of months rather than compiling for a new album. Obviously there will be certain contractual and budgetry limits working with a label like Warp, but does the idea of moving away from albums into something less rigid/structured appeal to you? Like the way earlier in the thread you described Exai as effectively being four EPs in a box as much as an actual album (this also means I am now going to have to follow Exai with L-Event every time). (For the record, I've tried it and went back to albums again myself. There's definitely a conservative side to my musical mind) - Ever hear a track for the first time and it seems instantly familiar? For me, the second half of Piezo seems to have been in my head since I was a kid, despite only first hearing it about ten years ago. Makes me think of being on a motorway in the middle of the night, distant city lights on the horizon - vaguely in the future. - You asked for classical recommendations, I'm going to put this one forward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USYvaseTOXo - Sean, you said you keep up with FSOL's latest releases. Do you get news from my (badly designed) website? :D http://secondthought.co.uk/fsol - Be sad to see this thread end, any chance of giving up the music and doing this as a living instead? - As everyone's doing it, can you name my Stylophone?
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Alex Patterson acknowledges subpar second half of career.
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Now come on, Chicane's first album was at least 60,000 times better than anything BT (and fucking Cascada) ever did. The Antikythera Mechanism is awful. This is the best thing from This Binary Universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNvFpWCUlxQ
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The first and last tracks and 'See You on the Other Side' on This Binary Universe are incredible, the rest of it's quite poor. As a kid I really liked the singles from ESCM. Flaming June is still lovely, in a 90s commercial trance kind of way. Everything else I've heard of his is terrible.
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Hey hey Holsty baby Probably the first ever fade out, there. This is beautiful too: As is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpBpgVgEywU Then there's this, which is just about perfect, from my number 2, Vaughan Williams. And a beautiful piece by Gorecki
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Hells no. I never listened to any of the more ambient-ish tracks from the album (Cuerpo Celeste and Oort) before I removed all the annoying bits and pieces. ?!? Some people.
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I tend to prefer the slightly less droney, more structured end of ambient. FSOL - Lifeforms, Environments series Global Communication - 76 14 Aphex - Selected Ambient Works Biosphere - Substrata The Orb - UFOrb Matthew Florianz, Erik T'Sas, Joris De Man - Electronic Forest Apollyon - Veror Aesik Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit
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Er? Orbsessions 1 and 2 were comprised of older/archived material. And Okie Dokie, a 'full Orb release', is more of a colder/minimal/techno release than anything else they've done, surely?
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Cydonia has grown on me over time, I do like the kind of otherwordly mood to it, I probably like it as much as Orblivion. Bicycles & Tricycles is forgettable gash other than the last two tracks. Their worst release by far, at least The Dream has the last five or six songs which are excellent. I don't really get why Baghdad Batteries is an Orbsessions album considering it's all new material.
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They've had two since Okie Dokie! The Dream is pretty poor I think, Alex taking his reggae/ragga/dub influences and just running with them, lots of vocals and pop songs. A few nice ambient bits towards the end. Last year's Baghdad Batteries is marvellous, though, like a cross between Okie Dokie's minimal techno/house tones and the layered ambience of Terrarum. My favourite Orb record since Terrarum in fact, I think.
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My favourite is Zauberberg. Creepy and atmospheric and marvellous. The samples are confusing, as they give you an idea of exactly what each track sounds like, but without having chance to let the music bleed into you.
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My mate used to tell me how when he was feeling shitty, he'd get onto a bus and play Confield as loud as he could through massive headphones and cheer himself up seeing other people's reactions. I remember when I got the album myself, actually. A friend at high school bought it me for Christmas. Her favourite band was Westlife. I particularly enjoyed the conversation that started "Er, that CD I bought you. I listened to it when it arrived..."
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Still gets played around these parts, yeah! Such a shame H/S doesn't put stuff out these days, it was a brilliantly consistent label. (You might also want to check my thread in the WATMMixers forum ;) )
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Hey man, I remember having this conversation with you a while back trying to convince you that it wasn't shit, glad you've come the right side of thinking again I don't remember this. (This doesn't surprise me)
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God, that 40 minute Blue Room is marvellous. Why weren't more singles like that? FSOL did a bunch and Orbital's The Box single was good too. Fuck remixes and b-sides, I want long morphing 40 minute soundscapes for singles.
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Haven't heard either of them yet. Or Pommez Fritz, somehow. One day I shall. ONE DAY SOON. No, I don't have a fucking job.
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It's really annoying that when I listen to later Orb albums I can't enjoy them as they're just not Adventures/UFOrb/Orbus. Terrarum is such a ridiculously deep album, a couple of slightly FSOL-ish moments in the middle aside I can't compare it to anything else I've heard. I'm never sure whether I prefer this or Adventures, both very different albums I suppose. Plateau and Valley, what a way to open an album. Alex, please do long interesting tracks again please.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqKyix86elc
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