Re: (idm) 76:14 and 'difficult' music

From mono
Sent Thu, Apr 2nd 1998, 21:08

just wanted to point out that the orb's live93 album is quite good as
well, a good mixture of orbus terrum/ultraworld/uforb..live .rmx's,
ambience, noise, groovy.....

aaron...........

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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Random Junk wrote:

> Simon Paul wrote this:
> > Andregurov wrote:
> > > I have to agree with what you have discovered of "difficult" music.  Orbus
> > > Terrarum took me literally dozens of listens to grasp its beauty.
> > 
> > That's strange , when I first heard this album I thought it was(and still is) the
> > best thing the orb has ever done album-wise.I didn't find it difficult listening
> > at all.
> 
> interesting.  i had the same experience as andregurov...  didn't like
> it at all at first, then it just CLICKED and wow... i still think
> those first 3 tracks on "terrarum" are some of the best music ever.
> the rest of the album doesn't really hold up to that high standard.
> oddly enough, i had the same reaction to "orblivion" - first three
> tracks, genius...
> 
> > Classics I usually think of I like right away and can stand listening to over a
> > couple years at least and constantly find something new in it.
> 
> it's rare that i find something i don't like a lot at first but grows
> on me.  i think the orb situation was that i was expecting the logical 
> next step after their first two LPs, but "terrarum" came out of left
> field.
> 
> on the other hand, my all time fave albums (storm the studio, fear of
> a black planet, tired eyes slowly burning) all just whacked me on my
> ass the minute i heard them.
> 
> > I think so. music discussion end up being pretty circular and unresolvable due to
> > the fact everyone has different tastes, and usually don't know why something
> > "clicks" with them.
> 
> i know exactly why things click with me.  i just can't figure out why
> they don't click with everybody else.  :)
> 
> -- 
> Jon Drukman                                            xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
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