Author: Julian Dobson Date: To: What were the skies like when you were young? Subject: Re: [Orb] Orb Digest, Vol 62, Issue 5
You should also check out Tunng (available on bleep.com) a
folk/electronic band. They're not ambient, but are really fun to listen to.
Ken Erxleben wrote: >
> Well for me personally pretty much all of the music of FSOL is timeless
> which kinda makes some of the past postings moot in my book. The
> Isness??? oi....that's imo one of the best albums of all time!
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> I'm surely trapped in the 90s....and the 80s, 70s, 60s too!
> I listen to plenty of new music but didn't mention it here as i was
> thinking that more orb-like music is what was being discussed. New
> electronica, i follow all of the simon posford stuff as well as benji
> and ott on that label. System 7 just put a new album out that's superb.
> As for non-electronica.... Medeski Martin and Wood is putting out 3
> albums in the next year....i really can't say enough about them if you
> can stand a degree of jazz in your music.
>
> Anyhoo going back to FSOL there's a lot brewing over there! Tons of
> older stuff is being released and there's also new work on the horizon!
> As someone mentioned there's peppermint tree and the lost environments
> 1+2 releases and my understanding is that a full new FSOL album is in
> the works!
>
> Funny though....now that it's been said, i realize i surely listen to
> more older music than anything. The last "new album" i purchased was a
> live Zappa gig released by the family trust lol!! But think about
> it....how often does a gem really come out? If you are listening to
> *tons* of new music right now i would guess you are listening to a lot
> of rubbish (personally speaking - no offense here!) in that mix. I'm
> selective and in my heart all of the music i own is timeless. So
> trashing that music aside for the sake of feeling the need to hear new
> acts doesn't really do it for me. I don't feel "trapped" in any
> decade. I feel like it's 2008 and we have a good 42 years worth of
> music to sift through to find what connects with each of us deep
> inside. We should be so lucky! ;)
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