From: owner-orb-digest@lists.xmission.com (orb-digest) To: orb-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: orb-digest V2 #22 Reply-To: orb-digest Sender: owner-orb-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-orb-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes orb-digest Thursday, January 8 1998 Volume 02 : Number 022 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 22:15:30 -0500 From: rtaylor@bsumail.idbsu.edu (Ryan Taylor) Subject: Re: (orb) How you got into the Orb >damn! is there anyone out there who DIDN'T hear orb for the first time on >drugs and instantly become a fan for life? :) > >...frankie g Ok..I think it's about time I spoke up(first post)... I'm am one of those people...I learned of electronic music around the fall of '92..I started w/ artists like Moby and FSOL(thanks to the Cool World Soundtrack) and 808 State(thanks to the License To Thrill soundtrack)...Anyways..I started buying comps left and right to find out what groups out there existed...Later I bought Aphex Twin's SAW 2 and began my journey into ambient music...One day I came across the "The Positivia Ambient Collection" and saw that Moby and AT was on it..So I bought it and took it home..The first track was Orb's O.O.B.E.(exclusive live version)...and ever since..I've been a fan. I'm afraid I don't have that many cd's(u.f.orb, live 93, OT, and orblivion)..but of course always looking to expand my collection. General Info: Name: Ryan Taylor Age: 23 Home: Boise, Idaho Musical Likes: Anything but country really..I won't bore the list w/ a list of what I like..If you want to know..email me privately..and I'll get it to you. Other Lists I'm on: Mobility, ZTT, Orbital, Zombies(MBM), Snuggles(Negativland), and I used to be on IDM..but I lurked a majority of the time. That's all for now..I'm glad to be here and I look forward to more posts :) Ryan =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ryan Taylor rtaylor@bsumail.idbsu.edu Homepage to come soon ICQ#: 1607223 "People suing ski areas should be shot." -Scot Schmidt "Who said tyranny can't be fun?" -Consolidated =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:23:55 -0500 From: "Andrew Cieszkowski" Subject: Re: (orb) How did you get into the Orb? I have been a huge Jean Michel Jarre fan ever since I heard Oxygene in France in 1976 when I was on holiday with my family when I was ten. As I grew older and Jarre's music evolved I grew more and more into the music. I loved to listen to it at university because it was good background music to study to, good mood music and generally very cool. About three and a half years ago I moved. When I was unpacking at the new apartment I came across a cassette I had never seen before and it had no title or band name on it just the song titles. I was intrigued (come on who wouldn't be when faced with a song called LFC or A huge...) and popped it in. I was stunned. It was like nothing I had ever heard before yet so much like what I loved about JMJ. I was hooked but had no idea who it was by until I got the brilliant idea to do an alta vista search for the words LFC at the start of last summer (I can be pretty dense sometimes, I can hunt down my long lost friend on the Internet but it took me three and a half years to figure out I could find the artists name) Anyway, the rest, as they say, is history. I am truly Orbsessed. I do not own everything they ever made but an very happy with what I do have. - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 22:54:02 -0800 From: Blaine Cook Subject: Re: (orb) How you got into the Orb At 21:53 98.01.06 EST, you wrote: > > >>i took mescaline , and heard > >damn! is there anyone out there who DIDN'T hear orb for the first time on >drugs and instantly become a fan for life? :) > That would be me.. :) But then again, all my friends tell me i don't need drugs.. ... I've never done anything more than a couple beers and coolers, but i love the orb.. o well... I have tripped out on it tho... Somewhere between plateu and Occidental on Orbus when i was 3/4 asleep and listening through headphones... It was one of the weirdest experiences of my life.. :) cL. - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 01:30:13 -0800 (PST) From: Robert-Jan Bijleveld Subject: (orb) How I got into the Orb During summer holiday in France 1992, A friend of mine had a copy of KLF's "Chill Out" (Still the best ambient album ever heard). A few months later I read in dutch dance magazine 'Bassic Groove', an article about the Orb. In it it was told that the Orb has worked with KLF on 'Chill'. A week later I found Adventures for only 25 guilders. Since then I was an all time Orb fan. Author of the article was Nico (well known I think). So with this way my Orb addiction is officially credited by Nico. RJ BTW: All the best for 1998. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 10:37:18 GMT From: Smiley Subject: (orb) Re: orb in dub ep Steve writes: > Could someone please give me a Track listing for the Orb in Dub EP Towers of Dub (ambient mix) 10.40 Perpetual Dawn (ultrabass ii) 7.10 ttfn. - -- Smiley - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 10:44:00 GMT From: Smiley Subject: (orb) the Oz tour... mornin' all - thought you'd all like to hear the official Orb response to this... > >any news on what's happening with the Oz tour...? > bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, > bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, > bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, > bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, black > grape bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, > bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, big gripe bastards, > bastards, bastards, bastards, bastards, big hype bastards, bastards, > bastards, bastards, bastards, about sums it up really... over and out. - -- Smiley - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 13:58:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Creature Feature Subject: Re: (orb) new orb album & sys7 On Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:06:05 -0000 Steve wrote: > Has anybody here listened to any of Steve Hillages albums from before > he started system7? > Ive seen some in town and would like someone's opinion. Some to try, some to not: For To Next, And Not Or - is not what I would call a good album! This is one of those transitional albums, where they really start trying too hard!!! L, green, Fish Rising, Live Herald are all quite good, Radio Dome Musick is somewhat in the Fripp/eno direction and quite kool. Just don't get For To Next, And Not Or, the rest should suffice! And if you like, then get Gong's albums, all the ones up to the departure of Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth - even though the subsequent albums have Hillage and Giraudy on them, they are mainly directed by the other musicians! Although, Paragong - a live album done just before Angels egg is quite kool and doesn't have Daevid or Gilli on it! Although I think the guys should have skipped that last Chillum (sp?) before going on stage! Ronan FitzGerald - ---------------------------- u9350276@queens-belfast.ac.uk, Belfast, N. Ireland http://members.tripod.com/AlComet --(not /alcomet) - ------------------------------------ Nothings is true, everything is permitted - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:07:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Creature Feature Subject: (orb) first got into orb When I first heard little fluffy clouds, I thought to myself: "This is shit" - so stupid sounding and childish (I was going through my early Throbbing Gristle stage). Then a bit later, I got The Young Gods album TV Sky and thought yippee - good old fashioned heavy metal, until I found out it was all done on keyboards and samplers! This was then helped on by a friend of mine who introduced me to a Throbbing Gristle album called In the Shadow of the Sun which was (I think) their last proper album (apart from Journey through a body - where not one of the four musicians talked to each other during the recording of) which was dark ambient done with tapes and effects in the late 70s. I got interested in ambient and got my hands on Orb's Ultraworld and still wasn't convinced, UFOrb was alright but a bit on the tuneful side for me, until Pomme Fritz hit my Earlobes! Then I was hooked. Listening to UFOrb again, I still wasn't that impressed, but Ultraworld took on a new character, then Orbus Terrarum came and extracted my juices! Then Orb (as the Petit Orb - Fehlmann, LX and DJ Lewis) played my university's student union (at last I got around to taking some hard drugs with Orb) and was blown away - a group of us formed a circle on the dancefloor and held hands while the music played (I think people thought we were nuts - but then again, they were probably dancing too koolly to notice the music) and we swayed and fell over and etc... etc... Now everything is Orbish and everthing I see has a soft edge to it, all the corners of my vision have been orbed! Angol Dat! Ronan FitzGerald - ---------------------------- u9350276@queens-belfast.ac.uk, Belfast, N. Ireland http://members.tripod.com/AlComet --(not /alcomet) - ------------------------------------ Nothings is true, everything is permitted - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:18:41 -0500 From: james.drysdale@utoronto.ca Subject: (orb) How I got into the Orb Would you beleive Perpetual Dawn? I first heard it on the local dance radio station way back when, and then I saw the video...naturally, I thought it was a sign that I would hear the song and see the video on the same day, so I went out and bought the Adventures.... album, and, well, the rest is history. Adventures... is still my favourite album, too. James - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:52:08 -0600 From: dan@americaneagle.com (Dan LeBoeuf) Subject: RE: (orb) How you got into the Orb I bought the UF Orb cassette because I overheard someone's description = of Orb's music and had to run over and grab it. I listened and didn't = like. I will admit though I was 15 at the time. Eventually, after = listening to it because of the common question of "Why do people like = this?", I feel in love. I would definitely say that it was with music = listening maturity that made me understand Orb's outlook on sound and = music rhythm. I will say one thing, there is nothing like it. After I = saw Deep Rave '97 with Orb... I ran out, and must have bought everything = Orb I possibly could. They were phenomenal, and I wanted to support = artists like them. I will admit that sometimes on drugs, I enjoy hearing = the music in that perspective, but since quitting the scene because it = has gotten out of hand, I can attest that Orb is good in either state of = mind. Fan for life, Dan dan@americaneagle.com - -----Original Message----- From: Frankie G [SMTP:frankie-g@juno.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 1998 8:53 PM To: orb@xmission.com Subject: Re: (orb) How you got into the Orb >i took mescaline , and heard damn! is there anyone out there who DIDN'T hear orb for the first time = on drugs and instantly become a fan for life? :) well... i'm no exception to the rule. i got the u.f.orb double disc used about 3 years ago and listened to it for the first time allll mokey. i put on towers of dub first, because i didn't know what dub was at the time, and i just loved it. i was just kinda like "damn... never heard anything like this before!" while simultaneously thinking "this is so much better than all of the other stuff i am listening to nowadays". = back then i was 12 or 13 and i was listening to some str8up garbage music, = and this turned me on to orb things bright and bootiful. the next track i listened to was blue room, and that just floored me. when all 40 minutes were up i wanted to listen to it again, but my moked out friends told me that i was out of my mind :) ..frankie g ps - 2 years later i listened to the 40 min. blue room on 4 pheonix... under the conditions where time isn't really time and all sorts of other 4th and 5th dimensinal shit. that's when orb became permanently tatooed in the depths of my subconcious. i believe that it will remain with me for the rest of my life... pps - speaking of my whole life, i remember lx talking about how he planned quitting the orb after 12 years and starting writing books or painting or something like that. i hope to god that he doesn't do that, that would be such a loss to the music world. well... not to most of the music world, but to all of us definetly :) - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here = first! - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 11:54:25 -0400 From: beRt d'Eon Subject: Re: (orb) Re : How I got into the Orb At 06:32 PM 06/01/98 -0800, you wrote: >I'm sort of dissapointed in that regard with recent releases from almost >all techno artists.. In '94 and '95, almost all releases were no less than >65 mins long, with only 6 or 7 tracks.. (except for Pomme Fritz, but even >that was refered to as "the little album" at 46:00 or something...) >Nowadays it seems 50 mins is an average length, and no-one is saying the >albums are little.. I for one miss the extended length ambience and beats >from the old orb, aphex twin, etc. albums... anyone else agree with me? > >cL. Well, I wouldn't say I'm disappointed with newer Aphex Twin stuff. RDJ is also great at making (twisted)little pop songs, unlike anything I've ever heard before, not just long SAW2 like stuff (which I also love). I do agree that Orblivion doesn't hold my interest like older Orb albums. It just seems like a bunch of totally unrelated tracks, some of which are just pretty standard "techno stuff". I think they're trying too hard not to be too "artsy/FSOL-like", and perhaps actually make some money this time around. The music has suffered because of this, though. ******************************************************* * Take a break from the 90s visit our 80s Music Stop * * http://www.ug.cs.dal.ca/~swim/80stop.html * ******************************************************* - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 11:54:41 -0400 From: beRt d'Eon Subject: Re: (orb) Disturbing At 09:36 PM 06/01/98 EST, you wrote: > >the dancing baby was done w/software called "Poser2" >in case ya cared > I actually had Character Studio for 3DStudio MAX 1.2, and the baby dancing scene came with it, so if Poser2 was involved in any way, it was just used to export the original Poser model to a format that Max can read, so that it could then be animated with Character Studio. I actually downloaded the entire animation off a web site a while ago. It was a Quicktime demo, probably part of the apple website. WW /__\ | oo | (|_()_|) beRt's repository'o'stuph \__/ http://home.klis.com/~bertrob/ /|\/|\ |||||||| |||||||| beRt - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:31:52 -0500 (EST) From: p00p Subject: Re: (orb) How you got into the Orb uhm, I think my first time was at LiquidW's house .. it was playing in the background and I thought it was phat, I've presued them ever since. On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, LiquidW wrote: > > i took mescaline , and heard - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:00:35 -0500 From: "Andrew Cieszkowski" Subject: Re: (orb) (no subject) - -----Original Message----- From: Lazlo Nibble To: Orb Date: January 6, 1998 7:17 PM Subject: (orb) (no subject) > >> Can someone please give me the album # for the 2cd u.f.orb. > >The 2CD U.F.Orb doesn't have its own catalog number. > >-- My first indication that there were in fact two catalogue numbers for these two different CD's actually came from your discography. Since then I have acquired both the single CD UfOrb and the 2CD copy. Both have different catalogue #'s. - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 08:26:05 +0100 From: Karsten Hammer Hansen Subject: Re: (orb) Disturbing LiquidW wrote: > the dancing baby was done w/software called "Poser2" > in case ya cared Uh oh.. I thought it to be Character studio for 3DS MAX atleast it came with our version, both animation data and .avi, if anybody's interested. Anybody interested? Cheers, Karsten - -- And be sure to stop by the Popular Organs HQ at: http://www.matilde.demon.co.uk/poporg/ - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:42:15 -0700 (MST) From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: Re: (orb) 2CD U.F.Orb >>> Can someone please give me the album # for the 2cd u.f.orb. >> >> The 2CD U.F.Orb doesn't have its own catalog number. > > My first indication that there were in fact two catalogue numbers for these > two different CD's actually came from your discography. Since then I have > acquired both the single CD UfOrb and the 2CD copy. Both have different > catalogue #'s. There are later pressings of the 1CD version that have a different catalog number than the 2CD version, but you can't tell the 1CD version of the original U.S. U.F.Orb from the 2CD version just by looking at the catalog number. From the discog: CD: 1992 US (Big Life/Mercury; 314 513749-2) [3 Nov 92] 12:51 O.O.B.E. 6:08 U.F.Orb 17:34 Blue Room 15:00 Towers of Dub 10:27 Close Encounters 11:06 Majestic 0:49 Sticky End CD: 1992 US (Big Life/Mercury; 314 513749-2) [3 Nov 92; ltd w/bonus CD] [CD#1: U.F.Orb] 12:51 O.O.B.E. 6:08 U.F.Orb 17:34 Blue Room 15:00 Towers of Dub 10:27 Close Encounters 11:06 Majestic 0:49 Sticky End [CD#2 (CDP 804):] 3:09 Blue Room (edit) 7:37 Blue Room (frank de wulf remix) 15:14 Assassin (oasis of rhythms mix) 40:00 Blue Room (full length) - -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:45:22 -0600 From: "Charles Kerr" Subject: Re: (orb) Disturbing From: beRt d'Eon To: orb@xmission.com Date: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 9:55 AM Subject: Re: (orb) Disturbing >I actually downloaded the entire [dancing baby] animation off a web site a >while ago. It was a Quicktime demo, probably part of the apple website. URL? - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:38:06 -0600 From: "Charles Kerr" Subject: Re: (orb) How did you get into the Orb? I stumbled into the Orb through the KLF, which I stumbled into through the JAMMs. Here's the long, winding, tedious story: A friend of mine moved off and left me a handful of records. The best of the bunch was the _Shag Times_. Most of the techno-type stuff I had at the time was Chicago style, so I thought the JAMM's sense of humor was great. (Loved the story in the liner notes about their pilgrimage to meed ABBA!:) A little later I was scanning titles at the recka stow and came across the KLF's Wax Trax WTiL single. "I don't know who these guys are, but they have the JAMM's pyramid blaster logo..." I bought it, and it didn't SOUND like the JAMMs, and it wasn't funny like them, but it still felt like something they'd do. So I mentally put them on my "check for" list. (Good luck -- the only other thing of theirs I found in the stores around here was the TVT greatest hits collection. Everything else was mailorder.) Anyway... I'd heard of the Orb through the KLF, so when when ABtUW came out domestically (the emasculated 1-CD version), I scored a copy and loved it. Most of the techno I'd been hearing was hardcore. So here was ABtUW, which felt organic; alive. I've bought just about all of their singles and albums since then. (Not their remixes. I couldn't keep up.)) What I liked then -- and still like now -- about the Orb is that organic feel. At first I equated it with ambience, but there were a *flood* of techno/ambient albums after UFOrb charted that stank, so that's not it. The runners-up change (currently Loop Guru and Porcupine Tree), but the Orb is still my favorite for that type of music. Surprise twist ending: I don't do drugs at all. Charles - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:00:50 -0600 From: "Charles Kerr" Subject: Re: (orb) new orb album & sys7 SERIOUS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >STICK WITH ANY OF THE THREE RADIO GNOME TRILOGIES(FLYING TEAPOT , ANGELS EGG , >YOU) >, >IF YOU WANT SOLO STEVE HILLAGE (SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE GONG , BUT NOT AS GOOD) , >CHECK OUT "FISH RISING" >OR IF AMBIANCE IS YOUR THING, "RAINBOW DOME MUSIK" >LET ME KNOW WHAT YA THINK (You need to trade that Vic-20 or //+ in for a computer with a shift key. ;) Anyway, to the original poster: if you're going to buy Gong then LIQUIDW is right, stick with the Radio Gnome trilogy. _You_ is prolly your safest bet. It's got a couple of Hillage tracks on there that are not to be missed. If you like that, try _Angel's Egg_. Most of Hillage's post-Gong, pre-System 7 work doesn't really work for me. LIQUIDW's got it right though -- _Fish Rising_ and _Rainbow Dome Musik_ would be the ones to check out. _Fish Rising_ was his first solo album and got critical response than later albums. It's Indian hippie progressive rock. (To me, it's what _Close to the Edge_ would have been if the members of YES had grown up in the east instead of in the UK and tripled their drug intake.) _Rainbow Dome Musik_ will be more familiar territory to Orb fans, I think. IMHO it's the first real Chill Out album. I keep it on the shelf next to _Chill Out_ and _Blue Room_... - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 10:12:09 -0800 From: "M@" Subject: (orb) re: How you got into the Orb Another tale of chemical influence... Went camping in the summer of 93 or 94, and some friends fed me my first mushrooms. So there I was trippin rather strongly on 4 grams in the middle of the woods, during a meteor shower (yes, the sky was actually criss crossed with beams of light, it wasn't just me), and someone threw on Live 93 on a portable stereo. And that was the end of my Orblessness - UFOrb soon became a staple of life, followed by Adventures and Orbus... M@ - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:02:54 -0800 (PST) From: talmon@address.net (tom talmon studio, inc) Subject: (orb) NTSC patterns and textures >Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 10:56:38 +0800 >From: Kael Driscoll >Subject: (orb) patterns and textures > >greetings orbsters > >I am most interested in getting a copy of the P and T video... >I know they are sometimes offered on the list for sale, but I really need a >PAL version rather than a NTSC version (ie Aussie and UK, rather than US and >Japan) > >Anyone in the position to sell one?? > >Cheers >Kael >p.s. boo to Black Grape for pulling out of Starbait, and denying Australia >the Orb :( actually, i'm looking for the NTSC version with the CD. if anyone wants to part with a copy, please email me privately with the informaton on price and that like. i'm looking for the copy with the CD that came with it. thanks tom - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 15:28:23 +0000 From: aargh@erols.com Subject: (orb) Re: orb-digest V2 #21 > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 14:30:58 -0000 > From: Steve > Subject: (orb) How you got into the Orb > > Hi Everyone, I thought it would be interesting to discover > how each of us first heard of the Orb or Sys7. > Personally I was looking through the Electronic Music in my > local Our Price when I came upon Ultraworld. I was taken > aback by the spacey cover and funny track names. At the > time I had been listening to LFO, Prodigy and I hate to admit > Altern8. The young lady behind the counter quickly spotted > be and was kind enough to play LFC. Three minutes into > that track and I was delving into my wallet. Music has > never been the same since. > > What about the rest of you? I wanted something new, saw a review of live93 in the paper, got intrigued, bought it, was flattened by the length of the songs, and that every single one smoked. > Has anybody here listened to any of Steve Hillages albums from before > he started system7? > Ive seen some in town and would like someone's opinion. Rainbow Dome Musick is closest to the Orb .... that seems to be the one that started the whole ambient thing. The others are very proggy, very hippie. Music your parents might like. Use discretion. Having said that, my favorite is probably "L" (Steve Hillage with Utopia including Todd Rundgren), or better yet, if you like that sort of music, pick up Angel's Egg by Gong (also featuring Hillage). That one is a gem. BTW with all this talk about bootlegs, will someone be so kind as to make me a tape or two of rarer stuff? Would appreciate it, and will reciprocate somehow. Thanks keef - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:00:22 -0400 From: beRt d'Eon Subject: Re: (orb) Disturbing At 10:45 AM 07/01/98 -0600, you wrote: >>I actually downloaded the entire [dancing baby] animation off a web site a >>while ago. It was a Quicktime demo, probably part of the apple website. > >URL? > I wish I remembered where it was, Someone on this list actually posted the URL. I'm not inclined to visitig the apple site very often (or ever). ******************************************************* * Take a break from the 90s visit our 80s Music Stop * * http://www.ug.cs.dal.ca/~swim/80stop.html * ******************************************************* - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:52:38 EST From: LiquidW Subject: Re: (orb) (no subject) ive seen the one w/out the 2nd cd , and its the same # as mine(with both) weerd - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:56:53 EST From: LiquidW Subject: Re: (orb) Re : How I got into the Orb mu-ziq is long , hes the man , fills up almost the whole cd spank it... - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 17:05:36 -0800 (PST) From: Gregor Menasian Subject: Re: (orb) Rare Orb/KLF CDs for sale/trade Sorry about the huge delay in getting back to everyone who replied to my first posting - the day after I posted it I unexpectedly got extra stuff to work on at work and it's only just settling now... I will get individual replies out to all of you by sometime this weekend, but here are some general updates and answers to common inquiries: Additional items for trade: Orb: Little Fluffy Clouds (UK CD5, original issue with 3 tracks) FSOL: ISDN (original limited edition CD ONLY without the black package) Description clarifications of items previously posted: Assassin - UK 2CD set *includes BOTH CDs in the digipack, but no sticker* Assassin - UK CD loose in jewel box *It's just the CD (BLRDB 81) with no inserts* Thanks, - -Gregor Menasian - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 19:32:42 -0800 From: Blaine Cook Subject: Re: (orb) Re : How I got into the Orb At 11:54 98.01.07 -0400, you wrote: > >Well, I wouldn't say I'm disappointed with newer Aphex Twin stuff. RDJ is >also great at making (twisted)little pop songs, unlike anything I've ever >heard before, not just long SAW2 like stuff (which I also love). >I do agree that Orblivion doesn't hold my interest like older Orb albums. >It just seems like a bunch of totally unrelated tracks, some of which are >just pretty standard "techno stuff". I agree for the most part about orblivion, tho it is pretty good, nonetheless.. RDJ Album is cool, but i think it's too short, and i'm sorta getting annoyed with all the IDM fast beat things... They're good to some extent, but nothing really creative has been done with them yet... >I think they're trying too hard not to be too "artsy/FSOL-like", and >perhaps actually make some money this time around. The music has suffered >because of this, though. I think Orbus is the orb's best, and they were pretty 'artsy' with that one.. but i don't know if i'd call FSOL artsy? maybe.. I think Lifeforms and to some extent ISDN is artsy, but i think Dead Cities was a bit 'glossy,' like orblivion.. o well.. i suppose it's time for something new, 'a new generation' if you will cL. - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:19:34 +1100 From: "Ormond" Subject: (orb) How did I get into The Orb? Well... Back around '92, a friend of mine bought a compilation called 'Logic Trance 2' it was fantastic! (Still one of our all time favourites) The second track after FSOL's Papua New Guinea was LFC. I loved it....I couldn't get enough enough of it. A few years later, I was walking through a music shop and saw this odd looking vinyl pack looking up at me. It was Orbvs Terrarvm, and it was only $25 so I grabbed it. Expecting it to sound like LFC I got a bit of a surprise......but I loved it anyway. Then early last year I was watching a documentary on the history of rock'n'roll. Towards the end of the final episode they interviewed this bloke by the name of Alex Paterson and he was from....The Orb...! Then I learned the full story behind them and loved them even more (That's where I got my first taste of Blue Room, and then came to you people for help....and got it :-) Since then I bought Orbvs Terrarvm(CD), Orblivion, Ultraworld, UFOrb and I got Live'93 for christmas. It's pretty hard to get anything even slightly rare out here....I only saw Asylum as a single yesterday for the first time.....ever! I still listen to Orbvs Terrarvm the most.....at least 4 times a week. I've never found the the need to take drugs and I probably never will.....when you have musc like this, you don't need anything else ;-) thanks for listening, see ya round like an 'Orb' Orbmond - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:10:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Creature Feature Subject: Re: (orb) How did I get into The Orb? Well... On Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:19:34 +1100 Ormond wrote: > I still listen to Orbvs Terrarvm the most.....at least 4 times a week. I've > never found the the need to take drugs and I probably never will.....when > you have musc like this, you don't need anything else ;-) Or Bus is probably the best, but I still have yet to find anything as amazing as real good LSD and Orbus Terrarvm at the same time! Beats the shit out of anything, E and Dead Cities is close but not quite in the same league! Or Cannabis and Tom Waits (or Yes - actually anything and Yes or nothing and Yes - They're the best! :) Blather no more myself! Ronan FitzGerald - ---------------------------- u9350276@queens-belfast.ac.uk, Belfast, N. Ireland http://members.tripod.com/AlComet --(not /alcomet) - ------------------------------------ Nothings is true, everything is permitted - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info orb" in the message. # Postings must go to orb@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Latest Orb info: http://www.theorb.com/orbulletins.html -- look here first! ------------------------------ End of orb-digest V2 #22 ************************