the 0rb was just a fad ladies and gents but a pretty darn legendary one but thats the way it go with pioneers feel free to hate me cos i cant type hate is good and very grown up ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mick Szucs" <mick@onramp.ca> To: "What were the skies like when you were young?" <orb@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Orb] B&T
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:14, Alan wrote:
I think I like about half of this album. Unfortunately it's not half the songs. It's a big chunk of each song. There are some great elements in play here and some really amazingly deep bass (someone tell me how they get it to sound like that, please) but there are no full songs that grab me like what I expect.
Had a chance over the weekend to re-listen to the album at half-decent volume and in the, erm, "right" frame of mind, and I concur with this review.
The over-all atmosphere of most of the tracks is pretty neat. Some nice, thick ambiance. Some of the rhythms are neat to dance to. But once the initial make-up of the track is introduced, there's so little going on that I just want to fast forward to the next track.
Maybe I just listen to too much Goa, or suffer from ADHD or something, but I really can't handle the monotonous repetition of most of the stuff in here.
When I get a copy on CD I'm going to see about scratching the sectors that hold "From a Distance" so that it's never accidentally played. And the beginning of Prime Evil sounds like someone trying to play keyboard one-handed, with a broken finger or two.
Still hoping that the subtlety that used to mark Orb music will appear in the bassline once I have a copy with the high and low ends intact.
Peace.
Mick
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