― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:20 (6 years ago) Permalink
as for hillage - apart from 'rainbow dome musick', 'green' and 'live herald' were always my faves though i haven't played them in eons.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:11 (6 years ago) Permalink
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 25 August 2006 22:31 (6 years ago) Permalink
never really dug Gong. heard a few albums and it was always too silly/wanky. and never heard Hillage. besides Rainbow, which album should i start with or stay away from? i have easy access to Green, L, And Not Or and some BBC 1977 thing.
Is there much jan hammer love on the beardo threads?
bumrocks recently posted a David Earle Johnson track that i'm so head over heals in love with i plopped down some cash on his Time is Free album. it's just him and Hammer and it's pretty amazing. some amazing electronics, percussion workouts and a bit of the progfusion
let's also discuss the inexplicable lack of devadip carlos santana / mahavishnu john mclaughlin / xenusian brother #1 chick corea love on the beardo threads.
what have they done that's remotely disco-y/danceable?
― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:12 (6 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:14 (6 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:18 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 03:42 (6 years ago) Permalink
I like "Rainbow Dome Musick" better than "E2-E4", but "Inventions for Electric Guitar" I like a lot better than either.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 07:00 (6 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:55 (6 years ago) Permalink
― rio natsume, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:47 (6 years ago) Permalink
― lfam, Monday, 19 March 2007 20:27 (6 years ago) Permalink
i just noticed that steve hillage produced sister feeling call and sons & fascination by simple minds!
i guess the melchior connection must be due to system 7 and hillage's work with the orb
― r1o natsume, Monday, 10 September 2007 19:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
re: santana, mclaughlin and corea
-- jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:12
here's a man what never seen crustafarians "breakdancing" at tortoise shows
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 September 2007 20:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
so much hate for the second half of e2-e4 ;__;
― haitch, Friday, 11 July 2008 05:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
u mad
― jaxon, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
sorry, i meant WHY so much hate for second half, i really dig it!
― haitch, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
i reckon nu-balearica's penchant for noodly guitar will have won over a fair amount of hatas
i personally love it (though hillage is a better guitarist!)
― r1o natsume, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
on the topic of hillage, would anyone care to defend this?
― r1o natsume, Friday, 11 July 2008 17:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
CONTROVERSIAL CHALLOP:
Dreams & Desire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> e2-e4
also: my bro's e2-e4 socks:
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 11 July 2008 17:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
i actually like Rainbow Dome Musick more than E2-E4 and only slightly more than A New Age on Earth. the guitar solo on side 1 of RDM is a work of genius, it somehow seems as otherwordly and sublime as the rest of the music despite being fairly conventional in style. whereas the soloing on E2-E4, as great as it is, somehow always takes me out of the vibe slightly, it detracts from the very gradual corroding of the synths
after listening to RDM over 30 times in the last fortnight (just an estimation, i'm not actually like counting or anything) i've come to the conclusion that it's the greatest ambient record i've ever heard. the only negative thing about it is the moog-style whining in the first half of side two, but it's only minor and i've learnt to accept it. so much great 70s music ruined by the godawful sound
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Friday, 28 August 2009 17:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh yeah and just to bring it up to date, system 7 released a rather boring minimal techno record with derrick may this year. 3 years too late :(
http://www.discogs.com/System7-Derrick-May-I-Travel-EP/release/1817101
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Friday, 28 August 2009 17:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh, this is interesting. I just downloaded RDM recently and really like it. Somehow I've never got around to Gottsching yet.
Anyone into Khan? I actually became interested in Hillage when I heard a Khan song on the radio. I enjoyed his playing on it. I see that they generally got poor reviews compared to Gong though. Is the album actually worth finding?
― Sundar, Friday, 28 August 2009 18:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
I would take Rainbow Dome Musick over E2-E4 most days of the week, but "Sunrain" off New Age Of Earth puts them both in the shade
this is otm. i wish sunrain was 20 minutes long.
― mizzell, Friday, 28 August 2009 18:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
master builder is fuckin terrible
― am0n, Friday, 28 August 2009 19:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
rainbow dome musick. "four ever rainbow" is good enough for harmonia's deluxe
― kamerad, Thursday, 31 December 2009 03:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
I like the LP, though it took a while. Nothing really grabbed me at first, and it seemed kind of a lounge-prog style to me. But it does creep back into my mind now and then. I like all the Gong I have better, I will say.
― nickn, Thursday, 31 December 2009 03:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
hard to hate an album called space shanties
― kamerad, Thursday, 31 December 2009 04:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
E2-E4 sending me into inner space atm. That is all.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 20 March 2010 05:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
rainbow dome musick, still
― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
inventions for electric guitar is the heaviest dope
― hobbes, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
― mizzell, Friday, August 28, 2009 1:53 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark
wish it was 20 days long
― all my parks got feathers and wood, in my hood we call them ducks (m bison), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 00:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
rainbow dome
― cutty, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 00:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
private tapes
― am0n, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 15:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm thinking göttsching
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 15:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
srsly private tapes 1-6
― am0n, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 15:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
eh too much wankery on private tapes; some good shit though
― hobbes, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 22:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh wait i'm thinking of the deluxe correlations n/m
hillage's guitar playing on rainbow dome musick is just ridiculous
― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Saturday, 8 May 2010 05:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
gottsching's "dream+desire" pwns anything on this thread.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 8 May 2010 05:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
ok first opening laser tones of bois de la lune >>> pretty much everything else
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 13:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
― hobbes, Monday, May 3, 2010 4:10 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark
Been listening to this a lot lately. It's really up there. I want to listen to those private tapes as well. They're kind of hard to find though.
― Bjorn Cyborg (van smack), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
e2-e4 is so unbelievable. it never ever gets old and every time i put it on i have to listen to it all.
trying rainbow dome musick now. have a lot of the other stuff and second the love for "sunrain", but any other more obscure recomemndations?
also e2-e4 is the greatest running music ever.
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
blackouts is my favorite, even more than golden age of earth
― the late great, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
have you heard the two fripp + eno albums?
― the late great, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
the two from the 70s, i mean
enjoying rainbow dome musick a bit now... this is the sort of monged out shit i listen to at night. also think it could work for running though.
x-post no...
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks for the tip on blackouts too, amazing, really diff from the other records, so much more jazzy.
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn, missed this debate. e2-e4 is great, but I way prefer Gottsching's other material. rainbow dome music turns my whole apartment into this glorious multi-colored jeweled room ... it's like inhabiting the same emotional realm the Neverending Story exists in or some late 70s-80s new agey fantasy realm. OK, I can't describe it properly, but it's pretty good.
― Spectrum, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
― hobbes, Monday, May 3, 2010 4:10 PM (2 years ago)
so i finally grabbed a reissue of this and on first listen i'd say hobbes otm, it's also i think a more apt comparison to "rainbow dome musick". it reminds me of fripp and eno in that it sits in the middle ground between smacked out ambient ("new age of earth") prog ("blackouts") and purist german electronic vibes ("e2-e4").
i think the analogous fripp records would be "heavenly music corporation", "evening star" and "an index of metals"
not sure if we can map gong onto this scheme, hillage didn't seem to make deep inroads into this territorry
i was thinking of what musicians i'd add to this thread for discussion
― the late great, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 06:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
― am0n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 06:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
jamz for the living
― Lamp, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 06:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
― am0n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 06:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
i accidentally rainbow domed your son
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 06:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
late great/am0n have you guys heard the loren nerell record that forced nostalgia put out? its p rad and reminds me a bit of 'rainbow dome', the way it develops/envelopes idk, good sounds great vibes
― Lamp, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 06:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
Yeah straight from the top of my rainbow dome
― owenf, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 08:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
love e2e4 & rdm. didn't know sunrain though but its on infinite repeat right now. will second local garda's question up there, any other lesser known recs ?
― Jibe, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 09:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
not really "lesser known" but "fucking brilliant"
― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 09:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
as i said, "inventions for electric guitar" took my head off
― the late great, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 11:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
checking that one out now
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 11:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
late great/am0n have you guys heard the loren nerell record that forced nostalgia put out? its p rad and reminds me a bit of 'rainbow dome', the way it develops/envelopes idk, good sounds great vibes― Lamp, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:59 AM
don't know him, ill check it out. also wanna hear the one he did with steve roach
― am0n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
― am0n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
ultramarine is kind of a facemelter
― am0n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
A lot of mark mcguire's solo stuff has "inventions for electric guitar" vibes but he adds this high frequency distortion which I don't really like.
― windjammer voyage (blank), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
hi frequency post rock oscillations
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
this stuff pisses on mcguire the way sun ra pisses on yo la tengo
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
― am0n, Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:31 AM
― am0n, Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:48 AM
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 04:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
get that and you'll never need any emeralds/mcguire again ; )
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 04:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
^basically
― windjammer voyage (blank), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 04:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
fell asleep last night working and listening to hillage albums
― akm, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 05:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'd never listened to this Hillage album before. It's great but E2-E4 is in a whole other category of awesome.
― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 20:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
The 1975 Franco Falsini "Cold Nose" reissue that came out on Spectrum Spools this year totally has the Rainbow Dome Musick/Inventions vibe.
― van smack, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
Where can you find those Private Tapes anymore?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 July 2012 03:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
Will the Private Tapes 6 CD set be released again in some form?No, this was considered a strictly limited edition. But Manuel is thinking of some Private Tapes 7-12, which will surely be released one sunny day....
No, this was considered a strictly limited edition. But Manuel is thinking of some Private Tapes 7-12, which will surely be released one sunny day....
― the late great, Thursday, 19 July 2012 07:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:46 PM
no idea
― am0n, Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
― the late great, Thursday, 19 July 2012 15:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
― the late great, Thursday, 19 July 2012 15:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
― am0n, Thursday, 19 July 2012 15:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
― the late great, Thursday, 19 July 2012 16:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol i was just wondering if they were available anywhere at all, google was just showing me lots of old, dead links
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
late great are u requesting a le0nardo. i might be able to do that
― am0n, Thursday, 19 July 2012 23:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
― the late great, Thursday, 19 July 2012 23:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
;) ;) ;)
― Misc. Carnivora (Matt P), Thursday, 19 July 2012 23:29 (10 months ago) Permalink