From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Tue, Apr 28th 1998, 21:58
From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Tue, Apr 28th 1998, 21:58
As far as availability/affordability goes, you really can't go wrong with the "A Brief History of Ambient" 2CD comps on Virgin. They're up to at least Volume Three, maybe Four now (with 2CDs in each volume) but IMHO Vol. One is the best by far. I stumbled upon this when I was in high school and it opened whole new worlds for me. A lot of the folks people have been namechecking are on Vol. One - both Enos, Tangerine Dream, Froese, Hassell, Czukay, and others. So it's a good starting point for discovering your roots. More inna ambient stylee than idm, but amazing all the same. This never came out on vinyl to my knowledge. Enjoy...Brock --- as far as i know they are all out of print. which blows b/c there are tons of exclusive tracks by people like aphex, scorn, labradford, seefeel, etc etc etc. ambient 4 - isolationism is great, but i've only heard all of 3 and bits of 1 & 2 otherwise. --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto