OK, so I got into soulseek finally, and grabbed a bunch of listee's recommendations, namely that of orbgirl's. (THANKS!) This included Fires of Ork, a lil' Dub Trees, YMO and I also stumbled onto some BIll Laswell's Charged. For any of our listees I can highly recommend the newer Clouddead, Wevie Stonder's "Eat Your Own Ears" for goofy dub, M83 M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts if you haven't already gotten these. (Whats with bands and songs/albums named Dead Cities?) I do need a lil more help though. I always forget, what FSOL albums SHOULDN'T i get? I have a Brit friend whomoved to Wisconsin 3-4 years ago when like Chicane and Hybrid were her favorites. Yesterday I found out she's "Up the Stick" as you all say, and want to get some good mixes to cheer her up, since its no booze or cigarettes til X-mas. Any small recommendations would be cool (she misses London, dunno why ;). Oh, I always wanted to ask this: My Orb Peel Sessions disc, with the little starfish and such on the cover, had two booklets inside of it when I got it. Did anybody else experience this or any other odd packaging flubs? I kinda felt like Charlie and the golden ticket was gonna fall out. Spin magazine loves the orb. I swear, evertime I have to take a flight or a BM and need some mindless rag, I open spin and theres some orb reference. Not only did they name Ultraworld #82 of the top 90 albums of the 90's but last month they slipped UF.OFF in as a possible follow up to those who like Aphex's Ambient Works 85-92. Here is a quote from Perry Ferrel last year: I discovered the Orb when I went to Europe for a Janes tour. I loved groups like Cabaret Voltaire and Can, but the Orb made a huge leap. It was a completely different method of making music--the way they went about looping and sampling things. It was really special.