From Graham H Freeman Sent Thu, Jun 24th 1999, 16:21
From Graham H Freeman Sent Thu, Jun 24th 1999, 16:21
.: idm-digest, 23 Jun 99, 21:00 :.
> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:45:48 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Aaron S Michelson <asm2+@andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: (idm) orbital's new one
>
> Just listening to it right now.... after a desperate plea from their
> publicist to give it another try... (after my first listen I dismissed the
> disc as dull wankery). Well, I'm on my fourth listen now.... it's still
> really dull, quite wanky... but at least I spotted really nice use of a
> Bladerunner sample on track 3. It's a shame the track itself is kinda
> lame, but the opening three minutes are really nice.
You too, eh? I didn't mind the first track, Way Out, but most of it
isn't grabbing me like _In Sides_ did. I dunno. It sounds like bad
Mike Oldfield to me. It's lining up for the dubious honour of being
the first really boring record I've bought since Curve's _Come
Clean_.
(Incidentally, Oldfield's _Tubular Bells 3_ is really quite good, a
lot better than the first two, once you get over the shock of the
"Moonlight Shadow" clone. I know, I know, but at least he doesn't put
great long post-modernist self-analysis rambles over his tunes. Well,
perhaps except for Amarok, which had that lady going on about
"endings being just beginnings". Maybe Mike Oldfield was taking the
piss out of DJ Shadow five years in advance. Hmm. I should stop now.)
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