Rough trade reviewI am saddened at the comments made in the review, I gave up on the orb after I heard a copy of Orblivian. It sounded like someone had been left with a bucket full of samples and vaguely remembered how to make weird noises with some equipment and was greatly relieved when a few of his mates agreed to prop up the ORB name so as not to get in trouble with Island with whom he'd just signed. anyway, to read "sexy and minimal for the ladies" as comments about the band that dropped such luscious samples as the "there were always men, who would fight to protect there [mystical fears] [dreams]" on the first album and billions of clever stuff like that, I truly think that the orb have lost the plot. FSOL remixes on their way are they? -----Original Message----- From: orb-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:orb-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of derrien@club-internet.fr Sent: 17 January 2003 23:45 To: orb@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Orb] Rough trade review the orb kompassion 12 6.99 alex patterson and thomas fehlmann reunite with one tasty piece of static, luscious tonal float for the armchair massive, while the rest of the twelve has a stepping, dubbed-up slant on dance music. sexy and minimal for the ladies, retaining the quintessential kompakt house feel with edits and a motoring bassline. equal parts 2-step and dubwise and working here to update the orb machine JCFromParis