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if loving them is wrong i don't want to be right.

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well then it's a good thing you're wrong. Wr-a-oooonnnngg... wroonnnggg.... :) To me, Cinematic Orchestra is the epitome of, "why bother?" If you wanted to write jazz, learn to write jazz-- you want to sample, sample smartly. What we're left with is this awful amalgam of bland jazzscoring, done much better by real jazzers, and pointless, somewhat masochistic techno-needlepoint, done much better by the Ninja Tune and noise kids.

'course, I could be wrong too. Have you heard Flanger? They're sort of up the same alley. Blip, blop.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Actually, Mickey, CinOrch is on Ninja Tune. I like 'em-- they're not great or anything but they do what they do remarkably well. If there's a problem here it's in what they do in itself--not that it isn't "groundbreaking" (how much is?) so much as it's sort of middlebrow. Still, I played Motion a lot when it came out, and enjoyed the remix comp as well--check the Faze Action mix and you'll notice some similarities between the two artists pretty clearly.

Maybe we should do a taking sides here: Cinematic Orchestra vs. David Axelrod

― M. Matos, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

fuck groundbreaking, i like motion more than sketches of spain.

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Quite right, I'd forgotten that they were on Ninja... for some reason, I thought they were a Ubiquity/Mushroom offshoot. Speaking of those labels, Faze Action seems a lot more house-y than Cinematic Orchestra--although I was kinda disappointed by their string parts. For FA, though, I understand the reasoning for the spare and rather simple parts, but I don't get why Cinematic is like that.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i want that mushroom comp with the portishead mix of 'the time has come' on it, it was called strictly abstract shit or something.

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ooooh, I know what you're talking about... very cool remix indeedy...

― Mickey Black Eyes, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

seven years pass...

the remix TCO have done of the forthcoming Fink single, sort of revolution, is just gorgeous.
nothing too drastic has been done, but some nice extra atmospherics and strings, yet somehow it makes the song all that more romantic and special.

― mark e, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link

The Roots Manuva colab All Things to All Men is the best thing of theirs I've heard by a long chalk.

― chap, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

New album out March 15th!

https://www.cinematicorchestra.com/

― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link

https://soundcloud.com/the-cinematic-orchestra-official/sets/a-caged-bird-imitations-of

― groovypanda, Thursday, 17 January 2019 10:22 (five years ago) link

I've been listening to Everyday a fair bit recently. It captures a particular time in my life. The title track is majestic and the Roots tracks is kinda hokey but damn.

― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 17 January 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

This sounds pretty good on first listen

― groovypanda, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 11:19 (five years ago) link

I thought it sounded a bit... polite? I suppose they've been heading that way for a good while.

― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link

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