Re: (idm) Sun Electric Q

From Che
Sent Fri, Nov 13th 1998, 02:23

At 08:28 PM 11/10/98 GMT, Mark Stevens wrote:

>Was it an orignal CD, or a CD-R he'd made? I went through my copies of
>Kitchen and Present, some R&S compilations, a couple of EPs and even
>some Orb stuff, but couldn't find anything similar (although the new
>'Mickey Mars' track on 'U.F.Off' is full of ethnic vocal samples and
>lush drum & bass progressive percussion -- no pianos though. Oh, and a
>few tracks off 'Orbus Terrarum' may qualify). My copy of Via Nostra is
>still on order, so I can't check that -- and there's a couple of other
>SE bits & pieces I haven't got.

Sorry, I should have been clearer.  It came off a compilation whose name
I've forgotten.

In the absence further data, I decided to use CDDB to try to get a list of
likely suspects.  Here are the non-album SE entries (a lot more than I
guessed):

In Order To Dance 5/Disc 3 - Alzir
Berlin Unwrapped -Flat And Andless
Highway & Landscape - Quaila
Tresor 3/New Directions In Global Techno  - Monolith 
Lost In Infinity/Experiment One - The Return Of Zindato
Cafe del Mar  - Sundance 
Ibiza Afterhours - Sundance 
Trance Europe Express 3 - Whoshe
Volume 8 - Love 2 Love 
Dimensions in Ambience 2 - love 2 love 

Never Mind the Distortion II - Nav Katze/Borderless #2 (Sun Electric mix) 
Big Hard Disc  - Yello/Do It (blessed and beaten mix) 
Tresor 2 - 3MB/Illuminism (Sun Electric Edit)  

I know it's not a remix, and I know it's not Love 2 Love or Whoshe. 

Note that the Yello remix is different from the "spinout & mellow mix" on
the CDS.

>However, it's possible it might be a track from their 'Turn-on' EP,
>which I believe was only ever issued as a limited (500 copies) promo
>on ZTT Records in 1991. I've just played my copy and there's quite a
>few tracks with rain-forest/bird samples, have "straightahead beats"
>and housey piano. Not really tribal vocals though -- some male singer,
>although there are snatches of female vocals. *VERY* different from
>the ambient/techno style SE we've come to know and love -- their old
>style was more club-orientated techno, a little bit similar to what
>808 State were doing at the same time.

Would any of the above track names match anything from Turn-on?

While we're in SE mode, does anyone know if the following is just tracks
from Kitchen: "Sun Electric" (1993); 2 x 12" clear vinyl on R & S/Apollo
Records - limited edition???

Thanks in advance
Che
 
PS Does anyone have In Order To Dance 5/Disc 3 & a CDR burner?  If so, I'd
like to trade!