At 10:42 AM 8/11/02 -0700, you wrote:

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It could just be my opinion but wasn't The Orb at it's best when they just stuck to their Ambient thing??

Depends who you ask. Alright, perhaps it doesn't. But i'm glad they haven't settled down to sordidly wallow in their own nostalgia wishing things would go back to how they were when they were popular. (I hate it when old musicians indulge in that kind of nostalgic poxfilth. Nostalgia's turned evil now that it represents a commodity base.) And even if their new music's a bit odd and not too trippy compared to the old music which we're all far more comfortable with, their liner notes have been much funnier lately.

BOB 12 is the new orb. It is as close to the 'old' Orb as we're gonna get.

The Badorb.com CD is pretty close to an Orb release: out of seventeen tracks, LX had a hand in writing eight of them and remixing three of them. That leaves six tracks he had nothing to do with (according to the supplied credits), one of which is the beloved Kyle Zeto and the others being 'Ow Much?, the two SE Berlin pieces and the Fusionic ones. Given that Autolump is Fil and LX (writers for 'Mile Long Lump Of Lard' and 'Toxygene'), Multiverse is Witchy and LX ('Thursday's Keeper'), Prayer Box is Si and LX ('I Am The Red Worm' and prolly more tracks off Cydonia), Loophead is System 7 and LX ('Supernova...', 'Back Side of the Moon', among others), Conduit is Guy Pratt and LX ('Spanish Castles in Space'), and that the Orb make an appearance by name (LX/Thomas, LX/Si) there's lots of previous Orb permutations in effect on this album even if they're not named explicitly as such. Still, what's in a name after all? Kwook www.kwookyworld.com The kwinkunx was meant to arrive at the shop today but didn't get there on time for me to pick it up because the trucks were late. "Australia is merely an island of Antarctica and of no further significance." -- Russell Guy, "What's Rangoon To You Is Grafton To Me"