Re: (idm) recommendations?

From Dave Segal
Sent Mon, Jul 12th 1999, 22:23

>From: Simon Paul <xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xx>
>To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
>Subject: (idm) recommendations?
>Date: Mon, Jul 12, 1999, 1:35 PM
>

>I'm trying to find music in the vein of the orbs remix of "praying
>mantra" by Material.
>loop based,middle-eastern/indian etc samples with a hefty dub influence,
>bottom heavy etc...etc...oh, um on cd.
>
>any ideas?
>thanks,
>sp
>ps.ae ep7 is incredible, isn't it the 8th ep though?and long enough to
>be lp6......but I digress....


Simon--
If you don't own it already, check out "Planet Of
The Shapes" [I think that's the title] from Orbital's
second album [the brown one]. It's my favorite track
by them; it features a sampled sitar [from a Suns Of
Arqa song, Phil Hartnoll once told me--though he wouldn't reveal
which one, the sneaky bastard] and a spoken-word sample
of the hippy from the film Withnail & I ["Even a stopped
clock tells the right time twice a day."]. It's not very dubby,
but it's as trancey and middle-easternly psychedelic as anything
I can think of in techno.
Also, Transglobal Underground's first 3 albums have moments
of the like you describe above. They're titled Dream Of 100 Nations,
International Times and Psychic Karaoke.
Probably most fruitfully, try just about anything on the WordSound
label: Slotek, Spectre, Ebn E Sync, Equations Of Eternity (feat.
Laswell and Mick Harris), etc.

Dave Segal
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