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RE: [Orb] What you listening to? is it any good?
by P J Kane 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

NEW things i have been listening to lately: "Version Soul" by Spaceways Inc. a Ken Vandermark and Hamid Drake project -- great Chicago jazz with dubby bass lines. "Imperial" by Robin Guthrie. his first solo album, which is really minimal and, in all honesty, not as exciting as it could have been. "Three-Four" by Shipping News. double vinyl of Kentucky math rock. yeah! i just got this and have only had one listen, but it's pretty cool... old stuff i have been listening to this week: "My Favorite Things" by John Coltrane "Cloudead" by Cloudead "Chairs Missing" by Wire "Bliss Out Volume 2: Antarctica" by Windy and Carl hmmm. none of that is "this listy" music. is there any GOOD electronica stuff that is not glitch-core coming out these days? i hear a lot of shite, but the last electronic album i really liked was Pub's _Single_, and that was over a year ago, right? PJK please don't hate me because i can't type..... --- All the cool kids are doing it: HTTP://www.EvilSponge.org

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Re: What you listening to? is it any good?
by Adam J Weitzman 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

> > >From: "arrogant avatar [OT]" <thrash(a)btclick.com> > >I would like to know what people on the list >Are listening to other than the orb >Whats like underground , happening and what the kids like.. >You know interesting things like not paul mcartney >Things I have noticed lately... rapoon/savath&savalas/curdduca >And that james brown live gig is fat man > > Here are a few recent CD's that I'm enjoying immensely. Not necessarily Orbish in style, but all have little mindblowing moments in their own way: Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers - Heroin Sort of a cross between Oval and... something more melodic/ambient. Second disc has remixes from the likes of Kit Clayton and Fennesz. Very pretty, very detailed, very warm. I think someone who likes Rapoon would definitely enjoy this. Sigur RÃ³s - () Not underground, but a truly stunning recording nonetheless. Don't miss these guys in concert if they come to your town. Audio Active - Spaced Dolls This is actually a couple of years old, but I just got it a couple of months ago. Former On-U Sound act, heavy electronic dub. The Stereonerds - HD Endless Yet another Atom(tm) guise. Kraftwerk is reborn! Loads of fun. DJ /rupture - Minesweeper Suite Terrific mix-CD, many different styles of things (electronic, dancehall, drum'n'bass, rap, etc.), very well done. V/A - Blue Skied An' Clear 2CD compilation from Morr Music. First disc is Morr artists covering Slowdive, second disc is same artists' original material. Gorgeous electronic pop songs. V/A - (sic) Compilation from Broklyn Beats. The best ways to describe it might be "off-kilter" and "all over the map." Admittedly not for everyone, a couple of tracks are rather amateurish, but it's worth a listen if you can find a way to do so. Xerophonics - Copying Machine Music Exactly what the title says it is. Much better listen than it has any right to be. Downloadable from emusic if you are so inclined. -- Adam J Weitzman - voxpop arbitrageur

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Bicycles & Tricycles
by -> rachel 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

so i was wishfully surfing HMV Japan, which is now listing 28 May as the release date, and noticed they have a piccie of the artwork, which looks terrific!! http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail.asp?sku=26825 woo hoo! =) rachel ------------------------------------ Rachel's Orb Discography http://www.migoto.com/orb

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latest listens
by Lucas Strauss 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

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Re: OT: RE: [Orb] Sober Orb Listerners!
by NYCnoises＠aol.com 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

Chris here in NYC ..Clean and sober for 17 years ( and gay ). I first heard the orb in 1991 and bought the double import CD. When in NYC, come visit the Sober Miracles group at 9:30 Saturday night at 208 west 13th street. - -- ---- - - - - ------- Chris in NYC - -- -- - -- - -- - -

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RE: [Orb] What you listening to? is it any good?
by John Goelzer 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

> I would like to know what people on the list > Are listening to other than the orb > Whats like underground, happening and what the kids like.. Kids 'round these parts seem to be really into the whole Adult. / Ersatz Audio electro-punk thing at the moment. Some of the less obvious (?) stuff I've been into lately includes Dabrye, Jeff Leopard, France Copland, The Free Association, Dexter, Innerstance.Beatbox, Metro Area, Edan, and Paul B. Davis. Also, *anything* produced by the DFA or on DFA Records, including LCD Soundsystem, Radio 4, The Rapture, and The Juan MacLean. I've yet to go wrong with anything they touch (their remixes are great, too). Disclaimer: none of the artists mentioned above sound much of anything like the Orb. Just what's been catching my ear of late. Your mileage may vary. JG

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MP3 Project
by diane 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

hi mark i'm very intrested in the mp3s.Please email with your details and how much p+p.I'm a huge orb fan and can't wait to hear that stuff.Look forward to your reply, thanks scott. p.s hope portsmouth do well next season apart from when thay play the blues (birmingham).

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OT:README
by sun e 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History > by Thom Hartmann > >The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world. > > It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.) > > But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones. > > Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference. > > "You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion - "a sign from God," he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion. > > Two weeks later, the first detention center for terrorists was built in Oranianberg to hold the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the leader's flag was everywhere, even printed large in newspapers suitable for window display. > > Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation's now-popular leader had pushed through legislation - in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it - that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people's homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism. > > To get his patriotic "Decree on the Protection of People and State" passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained. Legislators would later say they hadn't had time to read the bill before voting on it. > > Immediately after passage of the anti-terrorism act, his federal police agencies stepped up their program of arresting suspicious persons and holding them without access to lawyers or courts. In the first year only a few hundred were interred, and those who objected were largely ignored by the mainstream press, which was afraid to offend and thus lose access to a leader with such high popularity ratings. Citizens who protested the leader in public - and there were many - quickly found themselves confronting the newly empowered police's batons, gas, and jail cells, or fenced off in protest zones safely out of earshot of the leader's public speeches. (In the meantime, he was taking almost daily lessons in public speaking, learning to control his tonality, gestures, and facial expressions. He became a very competent orator.) > > Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. He wanted to stir a "racial pride" among his countrymen, so, instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as "The Homeland," a phrase publicly promoted in the introduction to a 1934 speech recorded in Leni Riefenstahl's famous propaganda movie "Triumph Of The Will." As hoped, people's hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was "the" homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands. We are the "true people," he suggested, the only ones worthy of our nation's concern; if bombs fall on others, or human rights are violated in other nations and it makes our lives better, it's of little concern to us. > > Playing on this new nationalism, and exploiting a disagreement with the French over his increasing militarism, he argued that any international body that didn't act first and foremost in the best interest of his own nation was neither relevant nor useful. He thus withdrew his country from the League Of Nations in October, 1933, and then negotiated a separate naval armaments agreement with Anthony Eden of The United Kingdom to create a worldwide military ruling elite. > >His propaganda minister orchestrated a campaign to ensure the people that he was a deeply religious man and that his motivations were rooted in Christianity. He even proclaimed the need for a revival of the Christian faith across his nation, what he called a "New Christianity." Every man in his rapidly growing army wore a belt buckle that declared "Gott Mit Uns" - God Is With Us - and most of them fervently believed it was true. > > Within a year of the terrorist attack, the nation's leader determined that the various local police and federal agencies around the nation were lacking the clear communication and overall coordinated administration necessary to deal with the terrorist threat facing the nation, particularly those citizens who were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably terrorist and communist sympathizers, and various troublesome "intellectuals" and "liberals." He proposed a single new national agency to protect the security of the homeland, consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent police, border, and investigative agencies under a single leader. > > He appointed one of his most trusted associates to be leader of this new agency, the Central Security Office for the homeland, and gave it a role in the government equal to the other major departments. > > His assistant who dealt with the press noted that, since the terrorist attack, "Radio and press are at out disposal." Those voices questioning the legitimacy of their nation's leader, or raising questions about his checkered past, had by now faded from the public's recollection as his central security office began advertising a program encouraging people to phone in tips about suspicious neighbors. This program was so successful that the names of some of the people "denounced" were soon being broadcast on radio stations. Those denounced often included opposition politicians and celebrities who dared speak out - a favorite target of his regime and the media he now controlled through intimidation and ownership by corporate allies. > > To consolidate his power, he concluded that government alone wasn't enough. He reached out to industry and forged an alliance, bringing former executives of the nation's largest corporations into high government positions. A flood of government money poured into corporate coffers to fight the war against the Middle Eastern ancestry terrorists lurking within the homeland, and to prepare for wars overseas. He encouraged large corporations friendly to him to acquire media outlets and other industrial concerns across the nation, particularly those previously owned by suspicious people of Middle Eastern ancestry. He built powerful alliances with industry; one corporate ally got the lucrative contract worth millions to build the first large-scale detention center for enemies of the state. Soon more would follow. Industry flourished. > > But after an interval of peace following the terrorist attack, voices of dissent again arose within and without the government. Students had started an active program opposing him (later known as the White Rose Society), and leaders of nearby nations were speaking out against his bellicose rhetoric. He needed a diversion, something to direct people away from the corporate cronyism being exposed in his own government, questions of his possibly illegitimate rise to power, and the oft-voiced concerns of civil libertarians about the people being held in detention without due process or access to attorneys or family. > > With his number two man - a master at manipulating the media - he began a campaign to convince the people of the nation that a small, limited war was necessary. Another nation was harboring many of the suspicious Middle Eastern people, and even though its connection with the terrorist who had set afire the nation's most important building was tenuous at best, it held resources their nation badly needed if they were to have room to live and maintain their prosperity. He called a press conference and publicly delivered an ultimatum to the leader of the other nation, provoking an international uproar. He claimed the right to strike preemptively in self-defense, and nations across Europe - at first - denounced him for it, pointing out that it was a doctrine only claimed in the past by nations seeking worldwide empire, like Caesar's Rome or Alexander's Greece. > > It took a few months, and intense international debate and lobbying with European nations, but, after he personally met with the leader of the United Kingdom, finally a deal was struck. After the military action began, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the nervous British people that giving in to this leader's new first-strike doctrine would bring "peace for our time." Thus Hitler annexed Austria in a lightning move, riding a wave of popular support as leaders so often do in times of war. The Austrian government was unseated and replaced by a new leadership friendly to Germany, and German corporations began to take over Austrian resources. > > In a speech responding to critics of the invasion, Hitler said, "Certain foreign newspapers have said that we fell on Austria with brutal methods. I can only say; even in death they cannot stop lying. I have in the course of my political struggle won much love from my people, but when I crossed the former frontier [into Austria] there met me such a stream of love as I have never experienced. Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators." > > To deal with those who dissented from his policies, at the advice of his politically savvy advisors, he and his handmaidens in the press began a campaign to equate him and his policies with patriotism and the nation itself. National unity was essential, they said, to ensure that the terrorists or their sponsors didn't think they'd succeeded in splitting the nation or weakening its will. In times of war, they said, there could be only "one people, one nation, and one commander-in-chief" ("Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer"), and so his advocates in the media began a nationwide campaign charging that critics of his policies were attacking the nation itself. Those questioning him were labeled "anti-German" or "not good Germans," and it was suggested they were aiding the enemies of the state by failing in the patriotic necessity of supporting the nation's valiant men in uniform. It was one of his most effective ways to stifle dissent and pit wage-earning people (from whom most of the army came) against the "intellectuals and liberals" who were critical of his policies. > > Nonetheless, once the "small war" annexation of Austria was successfully and quickly completed, and peace returned, voices of opposition were again raised in the Homeland. The almost-daily release of news bulletins about the dangers of terrorist communist cells wasn't enough to rouse the populace and totally suppress dissent. A full-out war was necessary to divert public attention from the growing rumbles within the country about disappearing dissidents; violence against liberals, Jews, and union leaders; and the epidemic of crony capitalism that was producing empires of wealth in the corporate sector but threatening the middle class's way of life. > > A year later, to the week, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia; the nation was now fully at war, and all internal dissent was suppressed in the name of national security. It was the end of Germany's first experiment with democracy. > > As we conclude this review of history, there are a few milestones worth remembering. > > February 27, 2003, was the 70th anniversary of Dutch terrorist Marinus van der Lubbe's successful firebombing of the German Parliament (Reichstag) building, the terrorist act that catapulted Hitler to legitimacy and reshaped the German constitution. By the time of his successful and brief action to seize Austria, in which almost no German blood was shed, Hitler was the most beloved and popular leader in the history of his nation. Hailed around the world, he was later Time magazine's "Man Of The Year." > > Most Americans remember his office for the security of the homeland, known as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and its SchutzStaffel, simply by its most famous agency's initials: the SS. > >We also remember that the Germans developed a new form of highly violent warfare they named "lightning war" or blitzkrieg, which, while generating devastating civilian losses, also produced a highly desirable "shock and awe" among the nation's leadership according to the authors of the 1996 book "Shock And Awe" published by the National Defense University Press. > > Reflecting on that time, The American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983) left us this definition of the form of government the German democracy had become through Hitler's close alliance with the largest German corporations and his policy of using war as a tool to keep power: "fas-cism (fbsh'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." > > Today, as we face financial and political crises, it's useful to remember that the ravages of the Great Depression hit Germany and the United States alike. Through the 1930s, however, Hitler and Roosevelt chose very different courses to bring their nations back to power and prosperity. > > Germany's response was to use government to empower corporations and reward the society's richest individuals, privatize much of the commons, stifle dissent, strip people of constitutional rights, and create an illusion of prosperity through continual and ever-expanding war. America passed minimum wage laws to raise the middle class, enforced anti-trust laws to diminish the power of corporations, increased taxes on corporations and the wealthiest individuals, created Social Security, and became the employer of last resort through programs to build national infrastructure, promote the arts, and replant forests. > > To the extent that our Constitution is still intact, the choice is again ours. > > Thom Hartmann lived and worked in Germany during the 1980s, and is the author of over a dozen books, including "Unequal Protection" and "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight." This article is copyright by Thom Hartmann, but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so long as this credit is attached. > > ### > > > > > FAIR USE NOTICE > This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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dsotm
by Levering, Steve 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

It's the 30th anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon. http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=1575 I'm really enjoying Dub Side of the Moon. The music is good, and there's just enough humor in it to keep it fun, while still having respect for the original material... I've been playing it a lot over the last couple of weeks. Pink Floyd connection: I bought Adventures because of the Battersea Station on the cover... I'd heard a snippet of Fluffy Clouds, but mainly bought it because I figured there'd be a connection somewhere in the music... And to me, the Orb is a continuation of where the good Floyd music left off... steve -----Original Message----- From: raddished [mailto:raddished@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Wed 4/23/2003 2:45 AM To: What were the skies like when you were young? Cc: Subject: Re: [Orb] orb mp3 cd tree >Yah you can add my name to that list... I can set up an FTP site at home if >someone wants to upload em. But basically I would give my left nut for these >cds. ;) I would prefer a snail mail list on the same lines of a distro, where hopefull ppl can add disks to the list as they feel (last person on the distro sends the first the correct amount of cdr blanks) or is all this getting too much? Heard on the radio today (again) that pink floyds dark side of the moon is having some sort of aniversary (14 years in usa charts?) and that the dub side of the moon album has been released to mark the event. anyone out there still have the Orb / pink floyd remixes? ttfn bill At least this "war on terrorism" will be just as quick and successful as the "war on drugs" so we'll know... that... oh, wait. --==themode2k==-- _______________________________________________ Orb mailing list Orb(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/orb

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Re: [Orb] OT Burning Man - DJ Blue
by Bbbrooo＠aol.com 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

Did anyone ever hear if rev DJ blue (chromotest) survived? He headed for Burning Man and has never been heard of since! Pity, cos he did some nice mixes before he left...

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