At 04:26 AM 8/27/02 -0400, you wrote:
why is everyone so down on mickey mars?? is it the sorta-cheezy indian chants (as if orb never used cheezy vocal samples b4..ha!) ??
Frankly, I think the 7" edit is one of the most interesting pieces of drum n' bass i've heard (that would be the ding changa-din-jang-ga rhythm)...
Yeah, i like that rhythm. Wicked little strut, that; gets the old head nodding. :)
maybe you're all just house-heads with no space for hardstep in your musical cache =P
I don't like the four-on-the-floor beat too much these days myself. I've been going back to old Krautrock to look for interesting beats myself. There's really not a lot to the song though; it's a bit characterless and fidgety like a lot of the songs the Orb were putting out when Andy Hughes was writing, tumbling through variations on a theme and restating samples mechanically without being particularly interesting to listen to. But it's a great rhythm tying it all together, that much i'd be a twat not to concede.
....man, you probably don't like the ganja kru remix of "toxygene" either (which is brilliant)
I used to like it. Not so hot on it now, must be a growing old thing. :)
i think one of many tracks off "Cydonia" are a bit closer to their "musical nadir" if you're gonna use that term...
Alright, i'm giving it another listen and perhaps it's not as bad as the Orb's ever been.. :) But i'm not a big fan of the Orblivion period when Andy Hughes was actually writing music with them. Just doesn't grab me at all does that era. This thread started with mention of a 14 minute version of Mickey Mars, though. That's what Matt said was shit. Kwook www.kwookyworld.com The kwinkunx is imminent. "Australia is merely an island of Antarctica and of no further significance." -- Russell Guy, "What's Rangoon To You Is Grafton To Me"