From Che Sent Tue, Apr 28th 1998, 21:59
From Che Sent Tue, Apr 28th 1998, 21:59
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Britton-James wrote: > 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. Funny, I had the opposite prob. The 1st 3 read like they were excerpted from my rekkid collection, though I had to buy the 3rd for the brilliant Darshan remix, I skipped the 4th, finally picked up again w/ the Macro Dub Infection comp, which is brilliant. I like the comps in the series I've heard, don't know why they threw in some individual artists. Che