From Britton James Sent Tue, Apr 28th 1998, 23:20
From Britton James Sent Tue, Apr 28th 1998, 23:20
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 > > as far as i know they are all out of print. which blows b/c there are These are good comps. There were only three of them before Virgin took a turn with the series and ruined it, to my mind. The fourth volume was the well known "Isolationism" double, which I never got hold of, but it is all contemporary, and therefore misses the point of the original idea. After that they began to bury the "History of Ambient" title and feature other contemporary stuff. I don't know where it's at now, but the David Toop comps might be a part of the series, and if so, signal a return to the "history" aspect of the series. You can still find them around, even at Best Buy or Barnes and Noble. Charlie James