From: orb-owner@xmission.com To: orb-digest@xmission.com Subject: orb Digest V2 #9 Reply-To: orb@xmission.com Errors-To: orb-owner@xmission.com Precedence: orb Digest Monday, 29 July 1996 Volume 02 : Number 009 In this issue: Re: _Auntie Aubrey's..._ U.S. release Non-Orb: Richie Hawtin Orb Mixmag CD Orb news Re: _Auntie Aubrey's..._ U.S. release Zodiac Youth U.F. Orb double vinyl... Re: Orb news Re: U.F. Orb double vinyl... U.F. Orb double vinyl... Re: U.F. Orb double vinyl... Remix and mix and mix Chicago Orb Show Re: Orb news REVIEW - auntie aubrey's excursions above and beyond the call of duty. Re: REVIEW - auntie aubrey's excursions above and beyond the call of duty. Auntie Aubrey sticker Auntie...LP? Auntie Aubrey's Excursions... Re: Auntie Aubrey's Excursions... REVIEW: The Orb Remix Project See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the orb or orb-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Hauben Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:25:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: _Auntie Aubrey's..._ U.S. release Wes Hetrick wrote... >I stopped by a local Best Buy yesterday to check whether they'd received >any copies of that Orb remix collection (_Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond >the Call of Duty_) and discovered that it's slated for domestic release on >Caroline on September 3. Best Buy listed $23.98 as their price for it... >seems a bit high for a domestic considering that other 2-CD Volume releases >are often $18-19. Anyway, just FYI. I stopped in the neighborhood HMV and they had several copies imported for that price. This is the first I've seen of these here in NYC - having stopped in several techno shops earlier this week. /Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Hauben Teachers College Dept. of Communication Amateur Computerist Newsletter http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/acn/ WWW Music Index http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/music/ Netizens Netbook http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ Netizens Cyberstop ------------------------------ From: Smiley Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:31:22 GMT Subject: Non-Orb: Richie Hawtin I've got a beautiful Richie Hawtin 4 track promo 12" that I'm selling. If you're interested, mail me at 'smiley@cracl.demon.co.uk'. - -- Smiley ------------------------------ From: Smiley Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:28:01 GMT Subject: Orb Mixmag CD I've got a copy of the LX Mixmag CD that I'm getting rid of. It's the one with the 'OOBE (Pool Mix)' and 'Blue Room (Ambient Demo at Mark Angelo's)'. Mail me at 'smiley@cracl.demon.co.uk' with _serious_ offers. I'm willing to do a straight swop for the 'Serious Road Trip' CD. - -- Smiley ------------------------------ From: Smiley Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:16:35 GMT Subject: Orb news Here are some snippets of info from this weeks NME. 1. The live drummer and assorted cronies have been given the boot. The Orb is now back to 'classic duo' status of LX and Andy. 2. The 'Auntie Aubrey' set was released because LX was pissed off after going into HMV in Japan, and seeing the Ultra Rare Tracks racked out like a new Orb album, complete with it's own listening post. 'It's just bang out of order - - but this should put a stop to it once and for all.' 3. There'll be a _new_ Orb album called 'Oblivion' ou early next year. 4. The Orb have remixed Can's "Hallelujah", and Gary Numan's "Joe The Waiter". However, Primal Scream turned down their remix of the recent footie anthem - 'We did put bagpipes on it', grins Alex,'so as far as I'm concerned, they missed out big time.' 5. The Terrapins on the front cover of 'Auntie...' are cartoon versions of LX's own pets. That's it. TTFN. - -- Smiley PS. The 'Auntie Aubrey' set _still_ hasn't been released yet on vinyl yet, but it should be out next week. Still, the _excellent_ sticker all UK Orb mailing list members got last week makes up for it... ------------------------------ From: Boating11@aol.com Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:24:30 -0400 Subject: Re: _Auntie Aubrey's..._ U.S. release Would anyone post the text to the Auntie Aubrey cd booklet? I've got the disks and track listing, but not the booklet. I think it must be a history of the Orb. ------------------------------ From: Smiley Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:59:55 GMT Subject: Zodiac Youth There's a '1996' version of 'Fast Forward The Future' doing the rounds at the moment. However, as it's on Youth's Butterfly label, I doubt if there's any Orb involvement this time.... laters.. - -- Smiley ------------------------------ From: "Scott Rousseau (Volt Comp)" Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:40:27 -0700 Subject: U.F. Orb double vinyl... Does anyone know where to find the U.F. Orb double vinyl. If anyone does send me info and let me know the price. Is this the same as the double CD version. scott ------------------------------ From: XENOPHON Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Orb news Hey! What stickers? I'm stuck here in the US! Xenophon On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Smiley wrote: > > > > PS. The 'Auntie Aubrey' set _still_ hasn't been released yet on vinyl yet, but > it should be out next week. > > Still, the _excellent_ sticker all UK Orb mailing list members got last week > makes up for it... > ------------------------------ From: orbico@GlobalXS.nl (Nico Baars) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 00:09:33 +0200 Subject: Re: U.F. Orb double vinyl... > >Does anyone know where to find the U.F. Orb double vinyl. If anyone >does send me info and let me know the price. =20 The vinyl is VERY hard to find. Try second hand shops or record fairs Is this the same as the double CD version. Yes the music is. But it came in a sealed limited edition with some "art-work" included. Their's also a sealed limited edition with a free live album included. Try to find this one. at record fairs it goes around for about =A325.=20 > >scott > > ------------------------------ From: "Lazlo Nibble" Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 16:01:02 -0600 (MDT) Subject: U.F. Orb double vinyl... > Does anyone know where to find the U.F. Orb double vinyl. If anyone > does send me info and let me know the price. Is this the same as the > double CD version. I don't know where you can get it, but the 2LP version of "U.F.Orb" has the exact same tracks as the single-CD version. (And the 3LP version has a free copy of the Patterns And Textures live video soundtrack, not the tracks on the bonus CD in the 2CD set. There is no direct LP equivelant of the 2CD set.) - -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------ From: Wes Hetrick Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:24:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: U.F. Orb double vinyl... On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Nico Baars wrote: > > > >Does anyone know where to find the U.F. Orb double vinyl. If anyone > >does send me info and let me know the price. =20 >=20 > The vinyl is VERY hard to find. Try second hand shops or record fairs >=20 > Is this the same as the double CD version. >=20 > Yes the music is. But it came in a sealed limited edition with some > "art-work" included. Their's also a sealed limited edition with a free l= ive > album included. Try to find this one. at record fairs it goes around for > about =A325.=20 > > > >scott > > > > >=20 >=20 I don't know about these older, rare versions of the _U.F.Orb_ album on vinyl, but I expect that any versions with extra music (i.e. the promo single w. "Blue Room (Frank deWulf mix)" and "Assassin" etc., or that live 12" Nico mentioned) are triple LP's. The regular, single CD version of the album as Island prints it these days still takes up two vinyl=20 records simply 'cos of its length (74 min. or so). I saw _U.F.Orb_ and _Adventures_ on vinyl (Island), both double LP's, at a shop in Minneapolis while visiting there a couple weeks ago: Let It Be Records, 612-339-7439 I wouldn't think either of these would be rare at all, but since I don't ever buy vinyl records I could be wrong.... Hope this helps.... Neil Hetrick current email: whetrick@dgs.dgsys.com onnow: Orbital - _Times Fly_ EP ------------------------------ From: Jemma Gura Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:28:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Remix and mix and mix I got Auntie Aubrey's yesterday, and finally have a chance to listen to it now. The packaging is beautiful, with a nice thick booklet to match... with a complete pictorial discog. So here is the track listing: 1: MATERIAL- Praying mantra KILLING JOKE- Democracy (the russian tundra mix) KEIICHI SUZUKI- Satellite Serendae (trans asian express mix) ZODIAC YOUTH- Fast Forward the Future (bucket and bong mix) PRIMAL SCREAM-Higher Than the Sun (higher than the kite mix) READY MADE- Ambient State WIR-So and Slow it Grows (the orb in atlas mix) YASUAKI SHIMIZU- Secret Squirrel 2: YELLO- You gotta Say Yes To Another Excess (orb extended remix) INNERSHPERE- Out of Body (logical mix) DEPECHE MODE- Happiest Girl (orbital mix) ERASURE- Ship of Fools (orbital southsea isles of holy beats mix) SUN ELECTRIC- O'Locco (orbital therapy part 1) MAURIZIO- Ploy (battersea was an island of mud mix) TIME UNLIMITED- Men of Wadodem (orbital mix) PARADISE X- 2 Much (start and depart from paradise mix) POP WILL EAT ITSELF- Home (home sweet home orb mix) LOVE KITTENS- What Goes On (orbient mix) In reference to how I got it... is was sent by post to Area 51- my roomates store. He said MSI (the import distributer here on miami beach) doesn't even have it yet and he was able to have some copies mailed. I am not the type of person to particularly care how I got it... so I don't know who sent it. Jemma ------------------------------ From: Dave Cowen Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 12:26:46 -0500 Subject: Chicago Orb Show Bad news for those near Chicago... I just got back from my local TicketMaster retailer who informed me that the Orb have cancelled and _will not_ be playing with Meat Beat Manifesto on August 11th at the Metro. Why do they have to keep doing this to us?! esch@fische.com (Eschatfische.) --------------------------------- http://www.fische.com ------------------------------ From: fuzzbox@world.std.com (Thunderboomer) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 19:17:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Orb news > 3. There'll be a _new_ Orb album called 'Oblivion' ou early next year. Shouldn't that have been "Orblivion"? ;-) - -- Jason Bilsky- fuzzbox@world.std.com "Ten long years in a straight line, they fall like water Yes, I guess I fucked up again." -Everclear http://world.std.com/~fuzzbox/fuzzbox.html ------------------------------ From: zerozero@juno.com (Frank T Giarratani) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 21:26:34 PST Subject: REVIEW - auntie aubrey's excursions above and beyond the call of duty. hi... this is zerozero and i am gonna give you a rundown on the new orb remix project.. here goes: I bought it in boston @ newbury comics while on vacation for $28 *well worth it! The packaging is beautiful... almost all blue and white with about 25-30 LX paterson quotes and a choppy orb story. It also has a COMPLETE AS HELL discography and mixography... DISC 1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Material - Praying Mantra --- very indian (as in india -- not native american) drum beats and quite a bit of sampling (talking). just another great orb song. it mixes into the next song... Killing Joke - Democracy --- also has quite a bit of vocal sampling but still very listenable. ambient... but with a beat it sort of reminds me of OT. Keiichi Suzuki - Satellite Serenade --- THIS IS SONG IS THE BOMB! it starts off with a guy talkin and it is really ambient.. then a REALLY NICE guitar part comes in and eventually it fades into regular orb intelligent dance music! it mixes into the next song... Zodiac Youth - Fast Forward the Future --- THIS SONG IS INSANELY GREAT (the best on the album imho). it has got what has rumored to be fox moulder (xfiles) talking through it. it is fast and A+! Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun --- This song has got the primal scream guy doing vocals that blend really nice with the music, which is ambient first, but later on goes housey. it fades to... Ready Made - Ambient State --- about a minute of ambience... it fades to... Wir - So And Slow It Grows --- another really nice song. the drumbeat on the song and just about every song on this disc is great. Yasuaki Shimizu - Secret Squirrel --- ambience.. nice ambience... DISC 2 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Yello - You Gotta Say Yes... --- starts out really ambient and somehow pastes itself together into a phat song with a beat and a really phat sample. Innersphere - Out of Body --- the song hits in the same vein with earth (gaia), but it has some guy on drugs sayin cool stuff on it. Depeche Mode - Happiest Girl --- really nice sorta off key thang goin on throughout the song... the beat is nice, too... the vocals at first bug the hell out of you, but dont worry.. it will grow on you! Erasure - Ship of Fools --- imho - this is the worst song on the album... but it is a good song anyways-the beats are beats from rap songs with an orb twist, but the vocal dont agree w/ me. Sun Electric - O'Locco --- really sweet song! nice beat with a heavy snare sound and a PHAT bassline! Maurizio - Ploy --- nice ambient song the sorta reminds me of montagne d'or... mixes with... Time Unlimited - Men of Wadodem --- WOWEE!!!!! the kind of orb song that makes you happy to be alive! non stop crazyness and fun! the song is 4:20 long... (hmmmmm.... i wonder if that was intentional :) fades out to.... Paradise X - 2 Much --- starts out with "calling the meek and the humble..." and has some crazy starwars type shit! nice and ambient (with some lovely piano and whistleblowin) and towards the end... drumming!... and after that... accordian! breaks into the super fun... HIDDEN TRACK (WELLL NOT TOO HIDDEN) --- .. this track is in the space between 8 and 9 and it is some guy talking about HI FIDELITY (it is WEIRD!) P.W.E.I. - Home --- If you like slug dub - you WILL LOOOOVVVE this track... it is a dub and it is crazy as hell.. the vocals are all cut up and remind me of the old kix commercial (ii lovelove berryberry kixkix... :) LOVE KITTENS - What Goes On --- decide for yourself.. this is TOO weird :) that's it.. i hope you don't all hate me for wasting bandwidth, but i know that if i didn't have this album yet, that I would appreciate this kinda shit. - -zerozero- going to the ENIT festival!!!!! ------------------------------ From: mr@nit.be (Marc Resibois) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 96 09:21:31 +0200 Subject: Re: REVIEW - auntie aubrey's excursions above and beyond the call of duty. | HIDDEN TRACK (WELLL NOT TOO HIDDEN) --- .. this track is in the space | between 8 and 9 and it is some guy talking about HI FIDELITY (it is | WEIRD!) I do not believe it is a hidden track. It was already at the beginning of the Home remix of PWEI... Marc. ------------------------------ From: Smiley Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:30:10 GMT Subject: Auntie Aubrey sticker For those interested, UK Orb postal list members received a 12cm by 12cm sticker of the front cover of the 'Auntie Aubrey..' album. The back list all track info - artist/title/time, etc as well as all formats and catalogue numbers for the album. Top line on the back states; 'I am a sticker - peel me' TTFN. - -- Smiley ------------------------------ From: Christopher William Niemitz Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Auntie...LP? I spotted the LP in the store & noted that it was on green/blue vinyl, but wasn't able to play it... Anyone determine whether it's unmixed or whether it's identitical to the CD? Anything interesting in the discography/liner notes that hasn't been rehashed on this list or in Lazlo's discography? ------------------------------ From: Michael Hauben Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 16:35:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Auntie Aubrey's Excursions... listening to this finally! :) my one question so far is - WHY put the remix of the material song praying mantra as the first track? i love both the original and the remix to bits, BUT I have so many copies of both on different albums and compilations that I run into the track too often. Oh well... from first few listens I think I prefer the second cd to the first... /\/\ichael -- sentinel --------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Hauben@columbia.edu Teachers College Dept. of Communication Netizens Netbook http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ WWW Music Index http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/music/ ------------------------------ From: Christopher William Niemitz Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Auntie Aubrey's Excursions... On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Michael Hauben wrote: > my one question so far is - WHY put the remix of the material > song praying mantra as the first track? ...but at least they added extra samples & production to make it slightly different than the original remix... which is more than they did for the remix of "Democracy" (which already had samples & was recently released & still readily available). ------------------------------ From: "Lazlo Nibble" Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 15:03:50 -0600 (MDT) Subject: REVIEW: The Orb Remix Project [Forwarded with permission from the ambient list... -laz] > From: "Eddie O'Hanlon, Ambient Mathematician" > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 16:50:42 +0000 (GMT) > Subject: REVIEW: The Orb Remix Project > To: AMBIENT@hyperreal.com Firstly, I'd like to say that although this is a remix compilation, we are talking about the Orb here - any similarity with original versions is purely coincidental. Well, that's not 100% true. There are a few exceptions, but this is very much Dr. Alex and Thrash territory. The grass is greener on the orbient side. If you like any Orb stuff; in particular Ultraworld (and the remixes), UFOrb and Live 93, then you'll like this. Liking any of the original tracks here is not necessary, with one or two possible exceptions (read below). If you are new to The Orb, then liking Banco De Gaia, Leftfield, Pink Floyd or FSOL may be a good sign for liking this album. Then again, it may not. (This is all IMHO by the way) TITLE: AUNTIE AUBREY'S EXCURSIONS BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY - THE ORB REMIX PROJECT RELEASED BY: DEVIANT RECORDS (e-mail deviant@volume.demon.co.uk) CAT NO: DVNT12CD (for the CD) TRACK LIST: CD1 Material - Praying Mantra 17.05 Killing Zoe - Democracy (The Russian Tundra Mix) 17.52 Keiichi Suzuki - Satellite Serenade (Trans Asian Express Mix) 13.10 Zodiac Youth - Fast Forward The Future (Bucket and Bong Mix) 7.18 Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun (Higher Than the Kite Mix) 8.46 Ready Made - Ambient State 0.49 Wir - So And Slow It Grows (The Orb in Atlas Mix) 6.57 Yasuaki Shimizu - Secret Squirrel 7.47 CD2 Yello - You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess (Orb Extended Remix) 12.58 Innersphere - Out of Body (Logical Mix) 4.25 Depeche Mode - Happiest Girl (Orbital Mix) 7.38 Erasure - Ship of Fools (Orbital Southsea Isles of Holy Beats Mix) 8.52 Sun Electric - O'Locco (Orbital Therapy Part 1) 6.05 Maurizio - Ploy (Battersea Was An Island Of Mud Mix) 12.38 Time Unlimited - Men Of Wadodem (Orbital Mix) 4.20 Paradise X - 2 Much (Start And Depart From Paradise Mix) 6.35 Pop Will Eat Itself - Home (Home Sweet Home Orb Remix) 11.13 Love Kittens - What Goes On (Orbient Mix) 5.15 With this album comes a small booklet. Within, this booklet is a glossy layout. There are the usual logos, quotes, discography and promo article. Reading through it, I find a rather cynical feeling on the `chill out' scene. But it is very thoughtful and interesting. The discography is very descriptive. The quotes are amusing. And the article is informative. Normally I'm put off by little booklets and other silly novelties coming with albums. The Trance Europe Express compilations had one or two good books about the artists, but by Volume 4 they degraded into fashionable teenage bollox. The X-Mix compilations had a set of DJ cards for Volume 5, and a techno quiz for part 6. Bubble gum and stickers next, I'm sure. The little Orb book is nice. Don't be put off by it. The tracks are mixed together with a little extra production by the Orb. This makes it a good solid piece of work, so, although it is a compilation, it retains a certain homogeneity. The first CD offers a great deal of pleasure. The Material track is quite lively; it's very FSOL towards the beginning. Many smooth samples and whispy sounds. It progresses nicely becoming a little tribal (Air 2 style). Democracy is very spacey and quirky, a bit like Daniel Pemberton meets Orbus Terrarum. By the time Satellite Serenade begins, the listener(s) is well chilled. This track is just beautiful. Suddenly, one is reminded of the days of Ultraworld. I'm also reminded of FSOL's track Ill-Flower on Lifeforms. Yes, yes, the Orb are still number one! A lovely beat kicks in later on. Very Ultraworld. Fast Forward The Future is even better. Fuck me, how I've missed this stuff. This one is like Magestic on UFOrb. Higher Than The Sun is very effective. Very Leftfield. The Orb do a magnificant job remixing this one. Lovely track, lovely track. So psycadelic. So help me, the vocals are even good (they play a small part, anyway). The synth and rhythm work is juicy. Ambient State is a short and sweet interlude - a smooth 808-State (Pacific State) type synth, complete with Dolphins and birds. The Wir track is very nice. This is another rock/indie track that is completely Ultraworld-ized. Secret Squirrel is a complete wind down, just the thing to cap off the tracks before. Very chilled and smooth. What a great disc CD1 is. From Satellite Serenade onwards is the best part of the album. The second CD start off with a Yello remix. Bits and pieces of conversation, coupled with animal sounds and other whispy noises, open this track. This is a typical interlude - waiting to build to something. Slowly but surely it does form into a rhythmic trip. Fairly slick and energetic. A bit varied from the previous disc. Out Of Body is weird and abstract, like Pomme Fritz, and smooth, like Obus Terrarum. Happiest Girl is quite fruity at first, but liking Depeche Mode vocals may be an advantage. Yet another rock/pop track is orbified. It has a nice Orb-techno feel. Ship Of Fools starts off with a slick techno sound. The Erasure vocals crop up later on. Nice tribal-ish, Ultraworld rhythm. O'Locco is very clubby. A slow trancey track, with a dubby feel. Ploy is chillier. Nice feel to this track. This is reminisent of Plateau or Valley on Orbus Terrarum. There are fast soft beats later on, though. Men Of Wadodem is another orbified rock outing. Not very spacey, more bassy. 2 Much is chilled out. Birds and seashore sounds. A jazzy piano jams away. Vocals from the original track are messed with. Nice rhythm accompanies the piano. Good track! Home is a reggae track - like a toned down off-beat version of Perpetual Dawn. What Goes On is rock/guitar type of crap - the Orb do enough to signal their presence. It's a little spacey in parts. Not great though. That ends the album off. The album is varied; it has Orb techno, astract musaks, smooth ambience. Only in the second disc does the listener feel less spaced out, and more down to Earth. The whole album is very nice, and is just brilliant in places - i.e. the first disc. Once or twice, though, a track may not be interesting enough. This is only due to the original input of the tracks. Having said that, this is very much an Orb creation. It should be in your Orb collection right beside their original stuff. These guys can take a track, suck it right into their little world, chew it up, and spit it back out at you. In the little booklet, one gets the impression that Dr. Alex is bemused by the `ultraworld' chill out scene that he feels has come and gone. He feels it's time to come back down to Earth (cue Orbus Terrarum) and explore new avenues. In that respect, this album is a taste of paradise lost. Out of Ten: 8.5 (CD1 - 9 out of 10, CD2 - 8 out of 10) eddY p.s. Air 3 review soon. ------------------------------ End of orb Digest V2 #9 *********************** To subscribe to orb Digest, send the command: subscribe orb-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@xmission.com". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-orb": subscribe orb-digest local-orb@your.domain.net A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "orb-digest" in the commands above with "orb". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from ftp.xmission.com, in pub/lists/orb/archive. These are organized by date.