Off to Ohio for the weekend. Need to fill my brain with great electronic music if I want to keep sane, or at the very least - gleefully insane. The Orb Aftermath (Bus Mix) From A Distance (Hybrid Mix) Once More... (Mark's Slide Mix) Little Fluffy Clouds (Danny Tenaglia's Detour Mix) The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Underworld turned 20 last year. Feel old, ravers? I have a lot of 123 singles by The [...]
Echotape , a band that came together under a shared disillusionment that the vast majority of artists that presented themselves as "alternative" were, in fact, devoid of any discernible purpose or ambition beyond commercial or egotistic self-nourishment, have a four track EP scheduled for release later this year. Their first released track is called "Came Into My Blood" and it combines dream-like melodies, an upbeat rhythm similar to the Horrors , and passionate vocals. For their debut album, they have worked with legendary producer Youth (of Killing [...]
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Tweet Something a little different on LBYB today: a feature about jaguars! No, obviously not. That said, I do probably know more about jaguars than I do about the actual subject of the post, Jagwar Ma . Like Martyn of Pinemarten , the gentleman behind it prefers to remain largely anonymous. What I can tell you is that his real name is Jono Ma; that he spends his time between Berlin and Australia; and that you probably [...]
Underworld doing the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Almost made my 4.20am start yesterday worth it. And who'd have thought when I saw them at Burgess Park in the early 90s that it would come to this. Mind you, given a choice, I'd have preferred Orbital - imagine the Olypmics closing to Wasted/Belfast. Alternatively, The Orb would have been ok. From Underworld newsletter: ... something we've all been sworn to secrecy about for what seems like an age now (they made us sign contracts and everything). We'll let our new friends at the London Organising Committee of the [...]
Unless you're getting excited about the X-Factor winner's inevitable Christmas release, or happy to step on the band-wagoning, anti-Cowell, counter-single, usually of something equally as pointless, then you can consider December something of graveyard when it comes to discovering new music. Now that the BBC Sound Of 2011 Poll has been announced, most record labels, PR firms, or self-promoting artists are now going to wait until the new year before pushing any serious, new contenders our way. It's understandable, as Christmas retail is for the mass market and the various commentators on music also need holidays too. It's [...]
I'm sure I'm not the only out there who has, due to a combination of homework and shitty weather, been lately unable to to fully appreciate the joy of being in nature. And so, to make you feel either better, or just jealous, here's a nice little dub tribute to the wonders of nature, from 20042s A New Chapter In Dub Vol. 2 - The Secret Language Of Ordinary Objects : The Orb: Apple Tree in My Backyard Filed under: Dance , [...]
The Orb DJ Tribute : 1990-2010 by Funky_Jeff Tags: Ambient Dub Electronic Paterson A Orb THE ORB DJ TRIBUTE : 1990-2010 1) Woody Allen : Orb quote from Sleeper (1973) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00 70707 2) FFWD : Hidden (1994) 3) FFWD : Lucky [...]
The Orb's 1992 classic Towers of Dub from the album U.F.Orb gets a light fiddling by Lazy. This takes the already meandering dub of the original and extends it a bit further into space territory. The Orb vz Lazy - Towers of Dub (Ambient Mix) http://www.box.net/shared/hxeo 72hlp2uv84gxcmqy Buy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/UFOrb- Orb/dp/B00000E5F7
With just a couple of days to go we give you a run down on what to expect at what has become the best street music festival in Scotland, The Electric Frog . Its hard to believe that this is the third Electric Frog this year and the previous events have delivered many quality artists from the field of electronic music. The September Weekender is no different with a DJ based Saturday that includes Frankie Knuckles , Joe Clausell and Levon Vincent just for starters. Oh did I mention Jeff Mills [...]
I will stop posting combinations of Orb/William Orbit/Orbital when I stop finding Orb/William Orbit/Orbital singles. The Orb Blue Room Blue Room (Radio 7) Blue Room (Excerpt 605) Towers of Dub (Mad Professor Remix) That first version of "Blue Room" is indeed the full uncut version. For those of you who may not know, that means it's 39 minutes and 58 seconds long. The Orb made a 39 minute and 58 second long song because that was the longest [...]
Presented in chronological order. Lollapalooza 2008 - Octopus Project Far right side with the towel on my head. I was rocking out with a fever at the time and didn't know it, this was the year Lollapalooza almost killed me. Lollapalooza 2010 - Foxy Shazam About one second in, with the stupid looking red bandanna on (hey, it beats a sunburned scalp). Blink and you'll miss me. [...]
Take a journey to the center of your mind with Cut Copy.
This is without doubt my all time favourite album to chill out to. The 1990 ambient concept album by The KLF tells the story of a journey along the gulf cost of the USA. Its one continuous piece of music and contains samples from the likes of Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Acker Bilk and Tuvan throat singers. Made with a limited amount of equipment and rumored to be done with the help of Alex Patterson of The Orb , it appears in many lists for one of the greatest ambient works ever made. [...]
What a bomb week came and went. It's worth streaming the new Bon Iver, new Fucked Up, and some twisty remixes from masters The Orb and Krusha. And, what the hell, respect to Easy Star All Star. Calgary - Bon Iver Polynomial C (The Orb remix) - Aphex Twin Morning Thought - Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Belonging - Joshua Redman World Looking In - Morcheeba We Used To Wait (Krusha Remix) - Arcade Fire A Little Death - Fucked [...]
We initially reviewed the first disc of this 2cd set way back in 2007 and proclaimed it "absolutely one of our favorite new records, a practically perfect fade-out-drift-off-drone-dream -disc", and lest we forget, Relapse has printed that right on the front of this reissue, which takes that record, and bundles it with a super limited cassette release from 2010 called Forbidden Planet, available on
Back almost 20 years for today's track. Electrotete was Ben Watkins, Stephane Holweck, Nick Burton. Ben would be better-known for his work as Juno Reactor. 1992 single I Love You given a remix by The Orb. This was released on R&S ambient offshoot Apollo. However, The Orb's remix was not on the original single. It appeared on an Apollo compilation issued in 1993. The "I love you" sample is probably from Twin Peaks, which was huge then. What does it sound like? It sounds like early Orb remix should but with slightly more beats [...]
One of those why-oh-why-oh-why posts. Why-oh-why did The Orb remix inexplicably popular Irish rock band The Cranberries' big 1994 single Zombie? Really. Why? Anyone? The only saving grace is that the remix bears little, if any, musical relation to the original. This goes from strident rock song to mellowed dub thing in the Orb's hands. But they did leave bits of Delores' singing, which is too much for me. Never fails to irritate, this remix. Cranberries - Zombie (A Camel's Hump Remix) Buy
Aksak Maboul's late seventies recordings were massively ahead of their time. Touching on elements of ambient way before Alex Paterson had even handing in his doctorate forms. This is from their first LP Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine.... which in English translates as something like 11 Dances To Fight Headaches. 2 guys from Belgium making incredibly loose, light, textured soundscapes. Some of their later stuff is far more chaotic but this just ambles by....... layer upon layer of analog melodies appearing, disappearing, and reappearing, eventually waking itself up, and then stumbling into the next [...]
My favourite producer of all times, Brian Eno, is one of the innovators of electronic music and the Yoda of ambient soundscapes. He has put out more than 40 solo albums, and are one of the most productive musicians/producers on this planet. Brian Eno has produced major acts like David Bowie, Grace Jones, U2, Coldplay, [...] Mr B's Sunday Chill Session. is a post from: FAT BERRI'S | Electronic Music Blog
Here at MOKB, we are, at the core, rabid music fans. So, one of the coolest things about this gig is the occasional opportunity to speak with an artist whose music you hold in particularly high esteem. For me, few active artists have a body of work that can hold a candle to that of Greg Dulli , whether it be solo, or in guise as an Afghan Whig, Twilight Singer or Gutter Twin. On February 15th, The Twilight Singers and Sub Pop will release Dynamite Steps , [...]
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