September 2003 - Orb - mailman.xmission.com

Isan
by cynIcam 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

1 0

Re: [Orb] this evenings sound
by JASON HICKS 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

How about Fourtet's latest album "Rounds"? Methinks it's quite good. Jason >From: ëyë ëyë <oohfoxgloves(a)yahoo.co.uk> >Reply-To: What were the skies like when you were >young?<orb(a)mailman.xmission.com> >To: Orb(a)mailman.xmission.com >Subject: [Orb] this evenings sound >Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:09:40 +0100 (BST) > >well thats certainly an evenings worth to get on with isn't it..... > >my feeling for the evening is dark, damp and melancholy.....you can smell >autumn in the air > >squarepusher ...bit too much for the ears right now > >boards of canada - too indifferent and bit empty if you know what i mean > > > > > >--------------------------------- >Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE >Yahoo!Messenger >_______________________________________________ >Orb mailing list >Orb(a)mailman.xmission.com >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/orb _________________________________________________________________ Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

2 1

Re: [Orb] WEEN 2nd attempt
by JASON HICKS 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

> Does anyone else on the list like Naked City at all? Of course. The album with the dead guy on the cover is genius. Torture Garden ain't bad either. The Japanese guy shouting on both of those album's is Yamasuka Eye, and his band The Boredoms is definitely worth checking out. Vision Creation New Sun is their masterpiece, damn here I am recommending an album I don't even own, man I'm a wanker! Just to complete the loop Zorn produced the first Mr. Bungle album and Patton contributes some shrieks to Naked City's L'eng Cheng, although that record is fairly unlistenable. > Another band I love (and didn't the Orb remix them?) is Material. >Somehow > their deep mixes and integration of spoken word into their songs seems >very > related to whatever genre of music the Orb et. al. makes. I know there >are > some other Laswell fans on the list. Anything actually new from those >guys? Nothing new from Material per se (and yes The Orb did the nice 17 minute remix of Praying Mantra which is on Aunite Aubrey Vol. 1). But Laswell recently put out that terrible Axiom Reconstructions CD that had collaborations with Carl Craig and others. However the Tabla Beat Science CDs (and new DVD) Laswell's collaboration with traditional Indian musicians, are pretty good. Yeah I remember vinyl, wait a minute I spend half of my paycheck on vinyl every week, d'oh! Jason _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos without swamping your Inbox. Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

1 0

more music
by Alan 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Ministry. God those guys fucking rock. Most amazing fucking show. "Jesus Built My Hotrod" Oh My God! Well, actually Butthole Surfers was more awesome. But the Beastie Boys concert would've been a lot better with better opening acts. Those opening guys sucked. By the way, that Tubes album, Outside Inside the Tubes, is a piece of crap. There are three good songs on it. There are moments of weirdness that is very impressive for their Zappa-esque twists but there's a lot of trype there as well. No wonder the cheap cover (there is artwork on the cover but it's still cheap). Those three songs made it worth the $6 back in tha day, though. I miss lps. Albums came in two, short halves. You had to constantly interact with your turntable to listen to lps. A changer could play a bunch of sides so albums were split up into two sets basically. That required a kind of discipline that has been lost. Well, it could be said that a lot of "electronic" music counts as album sides in each song. But there is still that interaction with the turntable. You played one side of an album and then you had to dance over to the turntable and decide whether to flip the album or stick it in its sleeve and pull another one out. Well, that's what I've been doing tonight and it's very different from lining up a playlist and clicking on play. I'm a bit drunk so this is mostly blathering. www.psychicreform.com Change your mind. "I'm the commander--see, I don't need to explain--I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." -- George Bush

2 1

music
by Alan 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I'm listening to an lp of Thomas Dolby's Flat Earth album. Does anyone else think this album is genius? Then again, I thought his first album was just amazing. "Europa and the Pirate Twins" is one of the best songs ever. Also "Screen Kiss" from Flat Earth ranks in the top songs ever recorded in my opinion. There were several albums like that at that time. Does anyone remember the "band" Was, Not Was and that album with the one hit and a bunch of weird shit (I remember something about a tornado and a party...)? Or that totally fucked up album by the Tubes? It only came in a white sleeve with a big sticker on it because of the hit song (something about an amusement park?). Crap. I hate it when I start playing old records. I'll be up all night trying to find these albums... www.psychicreform.com Change your mind. "I'm the commander--see, I don't need to explain--I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." -- George Bush

1 0

Q & A
by bobby dig 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I made the 2nd trip in as many years to Let It Be Records in Minneapolis. http://www.letitbe.com/staffpicks/ don't encroach But I have ALOT of questions, many of wich revolve around the discoveries i made yesterday i will split them up though, 1st is about the Black Dog remix album w/Jim "KLF" Cauty on it. Is it any good, and what name does he remix under? bOB ps how about other black dog albums they had, i have peel sessions only, sounds like Plaid _________________________________________________________________ Frustrated with dial-up? Get high-speed for as low as $29.95/month (depending on the local service providers in your area). https://broadband.msn.com

4 3

laaaaaaaaaaag
by kicked off orb list four years ago for cuss 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

ouchies, this lag today? is it my server? some1 email bamb it? i like the sound of my voice _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos without swamping your Inbox. Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

2 2

apologies
by kicked off orb list four years ago for cuss 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

i was kicked off orb.xmission for like 4 years and came back, all for doing stuff like kwissy, i swear one reason i was kicked was a "my dick hurts" email i sent thanks for desensetizing them buddy _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos without swamping your Inbox. Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

1 0

RE: [Orb] Q & A
by bobby dig 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

BULLOCKS! would it kill you to use an occasional surname, not all of us are failed, aging, not to mention washed up relics from the Britains Peace Love and E movement. I luv ya aunty I got that Plaid forest green album yesterday, the one w/Bjork and female vocals and stuff. Now that is a fucking record. almost as good as Secret Cheifs doing "I saw mommie kissing santa claus" bOB >Black dog was what ed and andy were in with ken >Before they got rid of ken and formed plaid.. > >-- > > )) > (( > c[_] bLiP > > www.justablip.co.uk >(don't bother going there) > > >_______________________________________________ >Orb mailing list >Orb(a)mailman.xmission.com >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/orb _________________________________________________________________ Frustrated with dial-up? Get high-speed for as low as $29.95/month (depending on the local service providers in your area). https://broadband.msn.com

1 0

WEEN 2nd attempt
by Alan 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Can you believe I broke the 3kb limit?!?! Me neither! PUSH THE LITTLE DAISIES AND WATCH THEM COME UP!!! That song still makes me want to grab their heads and knock them together. My last drummer/musical partner was a huge Ween fan. I like them ok. I haven't heard anything from them that was consistently excellent all the way through except maybe that C&W album. They always seem to need to be seriously annoying smart asses at some point on their records. That wouldn't be bad if the smart ass songs weren't often really pretty stupid. Does anyone else on the list like Naked City at all? Zorn's non-dark ambient stuff is just hilarious to me. The fact that it's a live band playing it moves it to that next level of unbelievability. Another band I love (and didn't the Orb remix them?) is Material. Somehow their deep mixes and integration of spoken word into their songs seems very related to whatever genre of music the Orb et. al. makes. I know there are some other Laswell fans on the list. Anything actually new from those guys? It seems as though they've spent the last few years remixing the sessions they did with Burroughs. An aside (you studio rats will like this): I was talking with the drummer from Oingo Boingo in the mid 90's and he was in the studio while they were mastering Hallucination Engine. He said those recordings were years old and poorly preserved so they had to stop and clean the tape heads after every pass because so much oxide was flaking off. Ah, the impermanence of all things musical. And this dodges me back on topic, oddly enough. Hey, Kris, what medium were you guys using when you recorded the first album? Was it two inch tape on a couple of synched Studers or half inch tape on a fostex 8-track? Adats were still a dream at that point, weren't they? I don't remember seeing any HD recording system until 92 or 93 (do they still make Paris?). Was all the actual mixing done by hand on a console or was some of it automated? Are there any parts of that original studio set-up that you covet today? Were all sounds recorded to tape or were you using midi-synch to drive some samplers and sequencers? I'm curious as to what type of console, monitors, outboard gear, etc. you were using. What type of monitors are you using now? I'm thinking about going with the big Mackies as my next purchase but I really like the classic sound of JBL. www.psychicreform.com Change your mind. "I'm the commander--see, I don't need to explain--I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." -- George Bush

1 0