global communication - help needed

This album is supposed to be a pinnacle of the early 90's ambient techno/early IDM sound. The one track I heard from it, i don't remember the name because its all stupid numbers, was very nice.

I'd recommend instead Reload's "A Collection of Short Stories," which is a GC side project. Darker and more thoroughly techno.

I really disagree with the ambient house comparison. Granted, it is not the floatly super-abstract wash of sound that is usually considered ambient, but it does not have a 4/4 kick or any of the other signifiers that are usually associated with ambient house.

I also would not recommend A Collection Of Short Stories, although it is considered an ambient/idm classic by a lot of people, I never found it to be as good as the other Global Communication material.

I was lucky enough to meet these guys a couple times when they came through Detroit on a DJ tour about 4-5 years ago. Very nice, down to earth fellows. They had absolutely stunning sets, not great mixers but mind blowing track selection.

Definitely do make it a point to get ahold of this. If it comes down to it, I can burn you a copy if you have a very hard time getting ahold of it.

As for Boards of Canada, I think they have taken their child-like approach to music too far, so it feels more like an gimmick than the real thing. Haven't heard their latest LP, though. As for Autechre, I haven't heard "Amber", but their latest records sound very boring. They seem to be knob-twiddlers par excellence, just abstract sounds with no feeling or mood whatsoever.

My favorite ambient record is probably Si Begg's "Commuter World". Although it has beats and grooves, they are used to convey certain moods, and the album as a whole works as an ambient experience (it is one of the few theme records which actually works as intended). I also kinda like Biosphere's "Substrata", although some of the tracks do fall into the "new age/meditational" category. As for older stuff, I think few ambient records today can beat Miles Davis' "In a Silent Way" and Herbie Hancock's "Crossings".

and i guess we all know where tom middleton is at these days, but what of mark pritchard?

i seem to recall the reload remix of slowdive being quite astonishing. what was it with global comm and shoegazers?

i was just listening to "funk in the fridge" - horrific title - global comm at their most ultramarine, it's a dead ringer for something off of "every man and woman is a star". was always well impressed that jason reynolds from summershine released "76:14" in australia with an extra disc of b-sides/remixes. sure made a nice change from velvet crush offshoot records (um, i liked those btw.)

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if i've still got their remix of The Grid's 'Rollercoaster' i'll YSI it because it's marv albeit derived from the general 76:14 'schtick'.

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but one of these is actually x:37 where x = 8 +/- 1

A Chapterhouse sidetrack got me to fish out Pentamerous Metamorphosis tonight. So so great.

76:14 is an album of true beauty.

omg it is!!!!!

can someone tell me about more moments in music like the moment 10:02 into 14:31, that might be the most sonorous moment i've heard in all my ambient listenings

that track has healing properties for real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVcaFrozFlk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9nMJ4qaXsc

convinced?

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?

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

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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

It's Mark Pritchard and Kirsty Hawkshaw.

Found the Reload album. This is exactly hitting all of my buttons.

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.

http://www.factmag.com/2011/08/29/fact-mix-278-global-communication/

(apologies for multiple posts, figured the people watching this thread and the fact mix thread might not be the same people...)

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.

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.)

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

(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!)

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.

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 )

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.

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.

They have a remix album!?!

Remotion. It's probably my fav. single disc of theirs. They did some amazing remixes.

ya it's really good

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

Great preview. I wonder if it kicks in or floats on.

Basically I'll buy it if it kicks :)

This is just Tom Middleton though, don't think Prichard is involved

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.

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).

really wish the Remotion remix album was on streaming sites

Remotion is a lost classic.

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!

https://bleep.com/release/191605-global-communication-transmissions?fbclid=IwAR1ONhlFBOXQUgfM7tK9rnUCzZOhwbcljnXnJlOUpLk3cWx3Tahb7o1BoFk

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 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.

"Meticulously remastered from the original DAT tapes. Every detail has been painstakingly overseen by Mark and I." - from Tom's IG post today.

If that's in reply to my question it doesn't necessarily indicate if it was remastered again.

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.

whoa this looks so cool, 76:14 is prob my favoritest ambient album next to The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

might pick up the CD version, although I doubt the remasters are that much better than the original CD versions, which sound great

This inspired me to listen to the first Jedi Knights record and holy SHIT is this good

Lovely album. Can't believe it's 26 years old.

I still remember Andrew Smith's ecstatic review of it in Melody Maker.

New album from Tom under the GCOM moniker coming next month. (Preview track is very drum n bass)

https://bleep.com/release/244094-gcom-e2-xo

sick!

https://k7records.bandcamp.com/album/e2-xo

okay what's with the 2nd track on this? It's super glitchy and totally out of place (even the mastering sounds different). Am I the only one thinking someone copied the wrong file?

okay what's with the 2nd track on this?

Not sure when it was added (pretty sure it wasn't there a few months ago) but Pentamerous Metamorphosis is now on Spotify (and, I assume, other streaming services)

Was it recently added? I only learned about its existence a month ago, it's awesome

Meant to say I listened to it on Spotify not knowing it was a recent add