From the listen I have had so far, I think its a very rounded and beautiful sounding album, which i think will have real longevity unlike cydonia and bikes, and nothing is more cheddery that once more. John Goelzer wrote:
Speaking for myself, the new album would be much better as a whole if they eliminated pretty much all of the vocals, both the ones by the Coroner or whatever he's called and the various female vocals. There are a handful of tracks that start out sounding great but quickly degenerate into cheese territory when the vocals kick in.
Who asked for vocals? I never even liked the "perpetual dawn, infinite sunrise" vocals on the Perpetual Dawn remixes let alone these.
Having said that, the basslines on the new album are fantastic, perhaps the best they've been since U.F.Orb. Is that Youth's input?
JG
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From: orb-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:orb-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Ramon Vink Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:22 AM To: What were the skies like when you were young? Subject: RE: [Orb] The Orb Live at Roubaix, la condition publique Saturday22, 2007
True. I still like some traks of the new Orb material, but i used to love *all* of them at the period ~1990-1996. OKay, music evolves, bands evolve. So never mind.. :-) It is better for a band to evolve and change their style than that they keep on repeating themselves over and over again and become sellouts (we all know the examples). We just have to appreciate the fact they actually continue to release stuff, dont we?
Ramon
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:29:03 -0400 From: bytesizenun@gmail.com To: orb@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Orb] The Orb Live at Roubaix, la condition publique Saturday 22, 2007
I think they are just different people 15 years later with a different view on things (or maybe it's just Lx at the hub with his view on things). The output reflects that. Of all artists, I imagine The Orb would have less hassles sampling legitimately. There's probably a certain street cred that goes with having them sample you. Who knows. Either way - it's a new style, love it or hate it. (In my case - I'm leaning towards the latter, though I still feel this need to continue buying the releases. Hmmmm.)
On 9/24/07, Stephen Wright <steve@donsolaris.com> wrote:
Thats what the Q&A was for I will try and get this added.
Steve
Ramon Vink wrote: > I am convinced the sound has changed mainly because the samples used > in the early days were so difficult to use (copyright) that they don't > want to hassle with it anymore in modern Orb tracks. Somebody more > insight on this? > > > gr, R > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:49:21 -0400 > From: bytesizenun@gmail.com > To: orb@mailman.xmission.com > Subject: Re: [Orb] The Orb Live at Roubaix, la condition publique > Saturday 22, 2007 > > JC - you're right. For the most part the magic is gone. The Orb's > sound has evolved into something else. Although I would be so > happy to hear new material follow in line with their earlier > music, it appears that era is well over. We still seem to get > sprinkles of it here and there but it's tailoring to a different > ear now. I can't put my finger on who's ear it's for though.
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