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OT: ambient tip: Sketch!
by Chain Reaction 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Dear Music Friends, I really had to share this with you. It's Norwegian, it's deep, and reminded me somewhat of pre-Orblivion Orb (especially Orbvs Terrarvm!). And no one seems to know them! Try it, and you won't be disappointed! Good ambient is sooo rare these days... :-/ . What follows is a review I found of their latest studio album, called Zincanode. Doesn't sound too bad, methinx... "Zincanode is music for dark evenings, to be played loud and to be listened to. Feel the music, sense its atmosphere. It floats, submerges for then to rise to hover high above only to dive again. Sometimes it feels mysterious, spooky, yes even threatening. But it's also playful and filled with good vibes. Everything's of course instrumental, and most of it is on the abstract side of regular music. Even though this isn't usually my bag of music, I must admit to be stunned by their creativity, though the seven rather long tracks should be consumed well portioned. The track that is king is called Kaiser. Other tracks have got catchy titles as Fog Tanger, Ying and Marine. Take a dip and go deep with Sketch if you dare to. Ambient scuba-diving to the bottom." You'll find additional info on the band, all other releases and compilation appearances via the link below: http://www.racingjunior.com/sketch/english/default.htm If you tried Sketch, let me know if it left something of an impression... Just a little Orb related.. ;-p Steph.. "Life films us exactly" - Vladislav Delay -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Meet Singles http://corp.mail.com/lavalife

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Albums similar to "Voayge in Paradise"
by marcolphus 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

"Dr Alex Paterson's Voyage into Paradise" is very good album in my opinion. I also got "Liquid Dub. Volume Seven" which is also very good and also from Liquid Sound Design Records. So, can you point me to the albums similar to these records?? It should cointain long, dub and ambient tracks... -- == gry dodawane do czasopism ================ http://www.markolf.fr.pl == == http://members.tripod.com/markolf ======= marcolphus' discographies ==

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Skippy?!? Analogue v Digital and other crap only marginally Orb related
by Alan 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

Ok, so who the hell is Skippy and how the hell am I supposed to ask him (her or it) anything? Kris, your answers are always as clear as mud. Fucking lunatic. Because of you I'm going to re-open the analogue v. digital debate. Just so you know when it's time to take the blame! So you recorded Track 3 digitally. Some of the sources were analogue. Like the voices. Right? It wasn't completely generated inside the computer. Parts of it were recorded digitally from an analogue source, am I right? Despite the fact you weren't mixing it "on the fly," manually twisting nobs as the recording played back it's still analogue sound. Now we can get into the nuance end of it and you may be right. I'll agree, if you take a master of a song, put it on a DAT, play the DAT through two channels of Nieve set flat, and record the output to another DAT the second DAT will sound better than the first. It's subtle but true. But I don't think that's what you're talking about here. You're inferring that somehow it's inferior to have charted out the volume changes and pans, etc. on a computer instead of twisting the nobs in real time. I've been there, watching the clock waiting to bump up channels 15 and 16 by three db at 4:24 for the tenth pass to master. But if you understand what the computer is doing, what is the difference between programming it into software as opposed to making the movement with your fingers? Other than that it will be exactly the way you want it to be with every pass and that with every pass you can add more changes on top? I hate to straddle the fence on this issue but I can't help it. There is something really special about the sound quality of a good lp or a really hi-fidelity tape recording. No matter how slowly you move the source there is a perfect feed. With digital even at incredibly high resolution (which won't be replicated in a cd anyway) you cannot get that ultra smooth pitch change hardly at all, much less down near to zero hz. And then there's the analogue signal path going through the eq's volume pots, etc. that is so orgasmically sweet with high-end stuff and so noisey and awful with the cheap crap. But sometimes that awful noiseyness is perfect and digital can't replicate it. As a complete aside, at one point I had been in the studio for almost a year with two projects. One was my work with a long-time partner, Jugdish in work under the moniker Beefcake and the second was us with the Reverend Goat Carson. We had the opportunity to go into Kingsway studio in New Orleans one night to copy our master DAT. The board in the studio was originally in Electric Ladyland. The monitor speakers are the originals from Abbey Road. Believe me, you could hear the difference. But with digital you get this raw purity that analogue cannot reproduce. Analogue processing introduces noise at every point so that from the relatively quiet master tape (if you've got a really good recorder) to the end you've piled on a bunch of hiss and other distortion. With digital you can fuck with a sound forever and still have the same s/n ratio as the original. The cost ration cannot be ignored in this equation. My home recording studio has run me around $10,000. Twenty years ago I could not have approached the recording capabilities I have in my house without spending a million dollars and using ten times the space. Ten years ago it would've cost $100,000. The analogue side of my set-up will not get any less expensive but I don't need a half a million dollar recording console, a $100,000 set of multi-track tape machines, and thousands of dollars worth of tape. I can store on one cd-r the equivalent of one 15 minute 2 inch tape... they cost around $150 and break down unless stored under perfect conditions. Don't knock yourself for the organic-ness of the "Track" recordings, Kris. Take the G4 over to Abbey Road and run it through their Neive channels. Then claim you did it all using vinyl. It's all tools. Use them until they break. I can't play an lp in my car but I can play the mp3 I made of the lp. I would like to point out that I'm a big fan of analogue synths and even have one in my rig. http://www.ifpr.homestead.com/s_studioequip.html Ok, my breathren. Your favorite neighborhood windbag, Alan Evil

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Youth vs Rita Mitsouko
by derrien＠club-internet.fr 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

I just picked up an album from Rita Mitsouko : Cool Frenesie (2000, Delabel). What a surprise, the last 2 tracks are co-written and co-played with Youth. Alors, c'est quoi 3.41 Jam 6.37 JCFromParis

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last day @ ebay
by costan＠interlog.com 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

Orb remix Another Fine Day 12 vinyl only http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=928186751 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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emu ORBit
by john bennett 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

what ever you do dont buy an orbit - i bought one ,within a week i was bored of the sounds. if this purchase is to be your only sound source for your music. I'd buy sumthing else like a halion sampler for cubase but if you want an orbit mines for sale! sort of orb related

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RE: [Orb] FW: (amb) VA: Pop Ambient 2003
by John Goerner 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

For what its worth, when LX was DJ'ing in Chicago a month or so ago, he mixed in a couple of tracks from Pop Ambient 2002 (which ones I dont know, but they were nice). John Goerner "Better Living Through Gravity" johng(a)usgravitics.com

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thursday teatime info stuff
by Audiopimp . 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hello ya'all The sample of the Land of Green Ginger was used a while ago on a thursday teatime (it's the one with the aladdan story one) Kinda surreal with ghostdancing in the background... also the other new track comin out (can't think of it's name... the one on the Kompact label) is also featured on thursday teatime... it's the track where alex is playing it and then he's like "Have you ever heard a drum solo on groovetech.com? ---- well this isn't the song". Umm one of the newer ones, and it has a tracklisting (one of the few) off to homework --- btw, has anyone been able to "sucessfully" record a groovetech session since the servers went all grinchy? Please tell me what to do for as soon as I graduate from college I can go encode some for you all. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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Reformat
by Alan 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Well. That was no fun. I put in Dead Cities to rip so I could listen at work. After a few seconds the computer froze, the sound card shut down (that's never happened before), and after a minute or two I hit reboot. Long story short, I had to do a complete reformat. Though I've backed up my e-mail I can't get it to work. I also can't get my address book to work. PLEASE PITY ME YOU FUCKING BASTARDS!!! Anyway, Kris, I love the new stuff. The Track 01,02, & 03 just sound unfinished, y'know? But promise I won't mess with them til you say go. And I don't do P2P services because with my little HD it's not worth it for the other people. Even if I did I wouldn't put an incomplete collaboration up. Here's a question I've been meaning to ask: On the first couple of records, is the main synth engine a Proteus? I've been thinking about getting one of the Orbit units because I LOVE their sounds. ok, bye! www.psychicreform.com

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Thursday Teatime Setlists
by Chris Dawson 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Does anyone have the set list for the November 14, 2002 show? Hot loving like a water buffalo, Dawson

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