usually it works though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_y7niNEVHg
kicks like a mule, in fact
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
i <3 vahid
― geeta, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
there's a guy who made some excellent ambient mixes using a variety of global comm/mark + tom remixes posted on the reload forums. def. worth checking out. agree with the Reload - Short Stories assessment. it's very clanky and i've never been able to get into it as a whole. there are a few gems on there, but i can't play the disk start to finish.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Vahid, like I said I haven't listened to that Reload album, but if goes to Aphex territory, I don't think I would like it...
If you dig 76:14, you might like Alter Ego's self-titled debut album from 1994. It had sort of a similar sound, thought with more beats. Here's a sample tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUVZHS7Am7M
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Wait waht? GC stuff that ventures into Aphex territory? You might just be describing my dream record.
::bookmarks to explore tomorrow::
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Banco de Gaia's Maya and Last Train to Lhasa, from 1994 and 1995, also push some of the same buttons as 76:14, though with a much larger hippie/"world beat" vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDzILdU3Q70
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
The Pablo Boliva album, Motion, is similar to Global Communications. Def. worth hearing.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYikf3l9BPg
Bolivar
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVcaFrozFlk
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9nMJ4qaXsc
convinced?
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
Has anyone mentioned Tangerine Dream as there's those couple of tracks on 76.14 that are very similar to Love On A Real Train?
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
directly inspired by, i believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjPGmSqadxM
I agree with you I was 11 years old in 1983 I didnt see the movie however untill I was like 12 when it came on HBO anyway since then paticularly the music I feel is the soundtrack to my life. I often delve deep into thought when I hear this music. I was so young, innocent in heart, had my whole future in my grasp, this song takes me to that place when I still had dreams that were possible.... Then I was awaken by my own screams
allbiznessboxing 1 month ago
― ledge, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
I really like the (only?) Pulusha E.P., I picked it up on it's release but didn't listen to it for a number of years.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fi1BbYJHQ
― mmmm, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
It's Mark Pritchard and Kirsty Hawkshaw.
― mmmm, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
Found the Reload album. This is exactly hitting all of my buttons.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, synths making ambient dolphin noises with big squelchy "engines of a massive spaceship going full out burning rubber through hyperspace" beat behind it is my Aphexian idea of heaven. Or maybe even Hawkwindian.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2011/08/29/fact-mix-278-global-communication/
― koogs, Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
(apologies for multiple posts, figured the people watching this thread and the fact mix thread might not be the same people...)
― koogs, Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Not to get all Kraftwerkian here, but 76:14 and the Chapterhouse remixes have soundtracked my last three bike rides. And it's not because of any silly ambient-elecrtronic-to-pump-you-up nonsense, but it's that I fucking love these albums but I have to listen to them all the way through start to finish. I cannot bail-out midway through. Almost like a classical piece I suppose. Other examples: the Harmony Rockets album, Spacemen 3's Dreamweapon.
I was on a crazy weeks-long road trip around the US in early 1994 and I was in Providence RH on a cold March Sunday. I found Lovecraft's grave, and when I was wandering around the area by Brown I found a record store. Hey, it's Blood Music with the bonus CD. Bonus CD becomes soundtrack of heavy driving through North Dakota snowstorm. Chapterhouse eventually forgotten.
I'm well-aware I'm reinforcing the "middle-aged dude loves anything with guitars" demographic. I can't help it. I freely admit that Campfire Headphase is my favorite Boards Of Canada album. Nevertheless this area of the venn diagram is a gold mine of stuff that I like. Steven R. Smith is like the outsider music version of this type of sound.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 January 2014 09:38 (ten years ago) link
Pentamerous Metamorphosis really is something special. That headspace where the swoony end of drone/shoegaze bleeds into ambient techno, with or without guitars, will always be one of my absolute sweetest spots. (I rediscovered it and started caning it right around the time I started doing a lot of hiking in Cornwall, so it will really forever be associated with striding along bits of the coastal path towards some ruined wheal or other.)
― I'd rather be the swallow than a dick (Branwell Bell), Friday, 24 January 2014 09:44 (ten years ago) link
Just was googling Steven R Smith after Elvis Telecom's post above, he seems to have a massively varied discography, what would be the most global communicationey?
― Rotating prince game (I am using your worlds), Friday, 24 January 2014 09:53 (ten years ago) link
There's one spot that's the Pole of where all these expeditions of futurists are heading off too that's the transcendent Seven Cities Of Cibola of this. The Global Communication guys are on one longitude, Pygmalion on another, Boards Of Canada on another. SVIIB (cries), every drone/shoegaze/ambient/techno privateer who unafraid to be uncool enough to, you know, actually wanna break on through while everyone is trip-hopping.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 January 2014 10:00 (ten years ago) link
Full disclosure: I'm being typically hyperbolic - Smith isn't an electronic at all like GC, but I find a lot of similarity in the approach. Lots of good info here: Steven R. Smith S/D
One of the main appeals of this to me is that not once do you feel like the players involved taped some keys down, went out for lunch, and then stamped "Ambient Drone Album" on the cover. There's a specific and intentional start-to-finish that pulls me in. I suppose I just appreciate it when I feel like someone gives a shit about what they release. Dreamweapon is a classic example of this. 99.9% of the world falls asleep to a gang of Drugby burn-outs fucking around on tremolos while people wait to see Wings Of Desire next door. I can't fall asleep at all - this is 100% pure crystal autistic adrenaline intensity.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 January 2014 10:18 (ten years ago) link
I can't keep up I can't keep up, but I will add this to the list of things to explore once I have a paying job and access to high speed reliable interweb again.
― I'd rather be the swallow than a dick (Branwell Bell), Friday, 24 January 2014 10:20 (ten years ago) link
(Also Dreamweapon is the one and only album I have *ever* been able to fall asleep to, and I can't sleep through music at all, ever, nothing gets me to sleep, so that isn't a diss, Mr Telecom!)
― I'd rather be the swallow than a dick (Branwell Bell), Friday, 24 January 2014 10:21 (ten years ago) link
Full disclosure (additional): the only reason I can attribute my italicizing of BoC is that I'm partying it up at home after dealing with some of the worst Real Life Problems imaginable.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 January 2014 10:27 (ten years ago) link
No diss at all Ms. Bell - we all come into this from our own directions. Ironically the one album that never fails to put me to sleep is the David Gilmour/The Orb one. You would think that it's the most obvious "you got chocolate in my peanut butter" Uranium-238 of this, but it's all so mannered and boring. I've insisted that more drone bands could be improved if they listened to both Dick Dale and Duran Duran. (at least the "Hold Back The Rain" night mix )
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 January 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link
I am so far behind I still haven't even heard that one. I feared they might bring out each others' worst noodley tendencies, rather than their best. I just bought tickets to "Jonny G-wood plays Steve Reich" which I'm hoping will be my ultimate "you got chocolate in my peanut butter!!!" but we shall see.
RL Problems suck. Hope the music is soothing you.
― I'd rather be the swallow than a dick (Branwell Bell), Friday, 24 January 2014 10:47 (ten years ago) link
Soothing, but I'm far enough along in this to be super-powered! The unacknowledged elephant in the room/Giant Ancient Spacecraft of this is the pirate crew of Astronauts Brock, Turner, Mik, Kilmister Stacia, Calvert, House, etc. They're like the Ramones of whatever this is.
One of my most favorite Pink Floyd bootlegs is a collection of different recordings of "Echoes" from early 1970 experiments to recentish Stadium Rock. It's the sonic equivalent of driving on a favorite road. You're going from A to B, but every trip is different.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 January 2014 11:03 (ten years ago) link
They have a remix album!?!
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 05:18 (nine years ago) link
Remotion. It's probably my fav. single disc of theirs. They did some amazing remixes.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 06:25 (nine years ago) link
ya it's really good
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 06:39 (nine years ago) link
First new stuff in a long while (remixes for Dusky):
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/skin-deep-remixes-single/id1032631089?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
― groovypanda, Friday, 4 September 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
Great preview. I wonder if it kicks in or floats on.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 5 September 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
Basically I'll buy it if it kicks :)
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, 5 September 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
This is just Tom Middleton though, don't think Prichard is involved
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 5 September 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
I didn't realize that 76:14 was relevant to my interests until I put it on today for the first time. like I know in 1994 we were all down with gregorian chant monk albums but this is true heaven here, like if Indy had been able to open the ark with a pure heart, and instead of angels of death melting faces, found a rainbow of fruit flavors, but all those fruits were made of diamonds and when you looked into them, you could see the other end of the cosmos, and yes moby was there making love to david gilmour before some holy sequencer, "boys of summer" indeed.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 18 May 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
I somehow ended up with 3 copies of the Music On Vinyl reissue. Have 2 still sealed. This may not be official but it's damn good sound quality / pressing. I have the original as well and this one sounds as good (to me better because my OG has some wear).
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 18 May 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
really wish the Remotion remix album was on streaming sites
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 18 May 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
Remotion is a lost classic.
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 18 May 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
I didn't realise the guys were unhappy about the MoV reissue of 76:14, but it seems like it was licensed from Sony so maybe 'unauthorised' but still legal. MoV are also reissuing Pentamerous Metamorphosis next month apparently.
But really I came here to say The Groove, it is good!
― Noel Emits, Friday, 29 May 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
https://bleep.com/release/191605-global-communication-transmissions?fbclid=IwAR1ONhlFBOXQUgfM7tK9rnUCzZOhwbcljnXnJlOUpLk3cWx3Tahb7o1BoFk
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Argh, I'd love this but I can't justify buying it for the two tracks I don't already own. It's also a missed opportunity to include all the tracks from the OOP Remotion remix compilation.
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
I guess the 'bonus' tracks aren't going to satisfy everyone unless it's everything. Perhaps stranger that The Groove isn't included, especially as I just bigged it up. There might be cost or.rights issues with some remixes, and the Reload track would properly belong on a reissue of A Collection Of Short Stories, along with the Black Dog remix and the remix of The Biosphere.
Cool though. I wonder if they've remastered 76:14 again, the 2005 CD sounds very good I think. I guess for vinyl.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
"Meticulously remastered from the original DAT tapes. Every detail has been painstakingly overseen by Mark and I." - from Tom's IG post today.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
If that's in reply to my question it doesn't necessarily indicate if it was remastered again.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link
I see a few people on WATMM a bit annoyed at the shipping cost for 7LPs to the US - big postage price increases for mail to the US (henceforth known as World Zone 3) from July probably have something to do with it.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
whoa this looks so cool, 76:14 is prob my favoritest ambient album next to The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
might pick up the CD version, although I doubt the remasters are that much better than the original CD versions, which sound great
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
This inspired me to listen to the first Jedi Knights record and holy SHIT is this good
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 12 June 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link