On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:15:09PM -0000, raddished wrote:
I have to agree (i dont but this time i do). Having been given the chance to put together a cd of your top choice toonz would you seriously want to play these to ppl who had come back to yours? Naaaaaah! If i churned this little lot out on a friday night saturday morning i reckon i would rightly have the plug pulled. I think its more about records that build the picture you want to promote of yourself. (see the New order BTM)
haven't heard the BTM comp yet, but LX's interview in the Metro (free London ad rag (i.e. newspaper)) certainly gave me the impression he was going to spend this year doing more promotion than has been seen from the orb recently. A high profile mix CD (even if unmixed) gets the name back in the limelight, just before a new album comes out. One interesting point in the interview (online somewhere) was that he said they made a mistake with badorb.com by releasing non-orb material first ... as it didn't sell as well as orb stuff would have done. I'm not sure about this - given the low profile of the label and the site, and the fact that many of the "hardcore" (i.e. this list, and various record shops i know) bought them anyway, I don't know that they'd have shifted many more even if they'd launched with new orb material. But what do i know.
On this occassion a wasted oppertunity to hear the music that inspired the man behind the mask :(
something like weatherall's "9 o'clock drop" you mean? not my cup of tea really, but it does meet the spec ... early tunes that inspired him. jonandonandon... -- "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein