At 02:07 PM 7/12/2003 -0400, you wrote:
I personally love the new album. I'm sick of old orb. Frankly, classic orb sounds terribly dated. We're clinging to a memory of the early 90s, comparing new to then isn't worth the effort. If U.F.Orb came out today we'd talk about the lack of sample density and criticize it's long bouts with repetitiousness. I still love the album because it defined a time for me. That time has long passed.
I completely missed out on the Orb the first time around and didn't catch up with them until 1995, when OT came out. 1991-1995 Orb blows me away just in terms of sheer depth sound design alone; how the hell did they manage to write that much music without having any of it repeat around in a perfect loop for so long? These weren't just songs, they were carefully constructed little worlds. That whole production ethic fell pretty much to one side with Orblivion and was all but gone by Cydonia (except that the songs on Cydonia were actually not half bad, at least fun to listen to, and you could sing along to some of them if you tried). Saying that the Orb's old music is dated for being part of the early 1990s soundscape is as crap that tulips are a bit Dutch because they remind you of Holland. Dated or not it's still interesting and listenable music.
Everything before [Orbus Terrarum], to me, smacks of the days before electronica was common and those of us who like eletronica could still be captivated by generic tones and unmodified rambling samples.
No comment. (No point.) uncaptivated, Kurrel