New Orb Album free to Stream on SoundCloud!!!!

AndyPlankton

@MonzoPro said:

@moodscaper said:

@MonzoPro said:
I'm sure they're using Moodscaper on one of the tracks, makes me want to buy it now

If you keep spreading that rumour, I should probably send you a promo code! I'm having a listen now, and so far, I hear some similar sounds, but suspect it's not the app. Having said that, you could so something very similar in terms of background soundscapes as that's really what it was designed to do

Thanks for the offer, but I bought it last night - great app! To be honest I'd rather pay for it anyway so it helps support development

I read an interview a little while ago about how they work, and it seems Alex works out a few ideas on an iPad at home, and brings these along with a bunch of records to the studio for Thomas to sample and build up the tracks in Ableton. So it could be in there - you never know!

@AndyPlankton said:

@MonzoPro said:

I haven't seen them play as much as I'd like, but the best time was at Glastonbury in...erm...the early 90's I think. We were standing in the middle by a speaker stack that seemed to be used mainly for effect samples, so every now and again we'd be startled by the sound of a cow, crashing spitfire, sheep etc. at ear splitting volume right behind us. Good gig though - Hillage and Wobble were guesting, along with the original crew.

I saw them at Glastonbury at around the same sort of time, '93 ? Gonna be listening to this for the rest of the day now

Just checked and I think it was 92 when I saw them, I was there in 93 as well though so must have missed them that time!

I went in '93 and '94, that is the best place on earth, or was back then anyway.

AudioGus

@moodscaper said:

@MonzoPro said:
I'm sure they're using Moodscaper on one of the tracks, makes me want to buy it now

If you keep spreading that rumour, I should probably send you a promo code! I'm having a listen now, and so far, I hear some similar sounds, but suspect it's not the app. Having said that, you could so something very similar in terms of background soundscapes as that's really what it was designed to do

Sweet! Orb uses Moodscaper!

moodscaper

Uh oh.. I'm expecting a call from their legal department any day now...

Will

@MonzoPro said:
Ive already done my Vince Clarke/Alison Moyet/Depeche Mode encounters elsewhere on here so won't bore you with those.

Spill it. When I was in high school, I lied to the annual photo taking company and said my name was Vince Clarke so that I'd get a school ID with his name on it. Name didn't get past the yearbook committee but I was awfully proud of my ID.

Come to think of it, Erasure was my first show at the 9:30.

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@syrupcore said:

@MonzoPro said:
Ive already done my Vince Clarke/Alison Moyet/Depeche Mode encounters elsewhere on here so won't bore you with those.

Spill it. When I was in high school, I lied to the annual photo taking company and said my name was Vince Clarke so that I'd get a school ID with his name on it. Name didn't get past the yearbook committee but I was awfully proud of my ID.

Come to think of it, Erasure was my first show at the 9:30.

Here you go, apologies to anyone who's seen all this before:

Well, I grew up just outside Basildon in the 70's/80's, so used to see them around all the time when we were teenagers. Alison Moyet used to hang around the same park, and I'd see her down the pub. I used to do battle with Vince every Saturday morning when we'd both rush to be first at Kelly's Records import section to see what was new in. Me and some friends had an electronic band, and passed on a gig to DM (Crocs). When things hotted up I'd spot them getting off the London train (as I was putting my GF on it) with synths under their arms back from gigs and recording sessions. Also once caught them falling out of a car with their first hit single blaring out, piling into a house for a celebratory party. Also on the bit in the Synthesizer Brittanica where VC holds up a Boss R Rhythm ( and says this is where it all started), I think that might be the one our band sold, and if so that lived at my house for six months.

Didn't really know them, though some of my mates were in the same class at school as them, but on Krautrock nodding terms with VC. Just wish we'd kept that drum machine...

Will

Best. Thread. Ever.

nrgb

The Orb have done the latest Dummy Mix.

Dummy Mix 458 The Orb

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Dummy Mix 458 tracklist:

Adrian Younge Black Noise Interlude
Ryuichi Sakamoto Dawn Comica
Chris Coco Albatross (Orb Ambient Mix) [Unreleased]
The Orb 4am Exhale
Leandro Fresco Sonido Español
Prins Thomas H_Orbient Mix
Cloudhead Dead Dogs Two
Barry Gray Century 21 Sting
The Orb 9 Elms Over River Eno (Channel 9 Mix) [Taken from COW]
Teebs Burner
Daniel Lanios Carla
Thore Pfeiffer Allzh Nah
Brian Eno An Ending (Ascent)
Third World 1895 (96 Degrees In The Shade)
The Orb The Orbots Surround The Trojan Horse
Lee “Scratch” Perry Black Shadow '

ExAsperis99

Preordered the record, which just arrived. It's fantastic. I've been looking for a kind of companion piece to the KLF's "Chill Out," and this comes pretty close, all the way down the lap steel!

ExAsperis99

OK, so I'm listening to the Dummy Mix, and they're riffing off of Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross" — which happens to be one of the two or three foundational tracks of KLF's "Chill Out"!!!

I CAN SEE THE MATRIX!

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@ExAsperis99 said:
Preordered the record, which just arrived. It's fantastic. I've been looking for a kind of companion piece to the KLF's "Chill Out," and this comes pretty close, all the way down the lap steel!

Have you got 'Space'? That's usually bundled with Chill.