omg it is!!!!!
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Friday, 11 December 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― dyao know what i mean (acoleuthic), Saturday, 19 December 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
that track has healing properties for real
― jabba hands, Saturday, 19 December 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG IT IS!
― crazy shituations (cutty), Saturday, 19 December 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the proverbial cloud of titties
― dyao know what i mean (acoleuthic), Saturday, 19 December 2009 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I assume you have Pentamorous Metamorphasis and the Remotion remix comp? If not, start there. Then buy John Beltran -Ten Days of Blue. Also very healing but more rhythmic.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 19 December 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't even heard of those let alone heard! Will investigate. I'm very much an outsider to techno!
― dyao know what i mean (acoleuthic), Saturday, 19 December 2009 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Also digging Tetsu Inuoe a ton right now.
― The conflicts, the craziness, and the sound of credenzas falling (Stevie D), Saturday, 19 December 2009 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
cloud of titties indeed!
― crazy shituations (cutty), Saturday, 19 December 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man, just gave this a good listen for the first time the other night and it slammed me in the face with awesomeness
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't remember which tracks besides 14:31 were the best cause they're all silly numbers
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
the titles remind me of the lengths of time that might be etched into memorials or tombstones
― bi(g_n)arbbran, Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
How expensive is a plane ticket to London these days?
From http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/outof/events/event121915.html
The British Library celebrates Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it with a unique music event featuring rare live performances by Global Communication and The Radio Science Orchestra plus exceptional DJs Rob da Bank and Jon Hopkins.The retro-space sound of the Radio Science Orchestra featuring theremin and other futuristic instruments is the brainchild of Bruce Woolley, the phenomenally talented writer and producer of everything from Video Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles) to Slave To The Rhythm (Grace Jones) and A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (The Orb). Tonight’s special show is entitled Return To Mars and features the visionary SF musings of writer Ken Hollings. Closing the night will be Global Communication, Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard’s legendary act conducting a live recreation of the contents of one of the electronica standards of the 1990s, their classic album 76:14. - an ambient masterpiece on The Guardian’s list of 1,000 albums that everyone should listen to before they die. A very special reunion, this will be their first live show in 15 years, and is eagerly awaited!
The retro-space sound of the Radio Science Orchestra featuring theremin and other futuristic instruments is the brainchild of Bruce Woolley, the phenomenally talented writer and producer of everything from Video Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles) to Slave To The Rhythm (Grace Jones) and A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (The Orb). Tonight’s special show is entitled Return To Mars and features the visionary SF musings of writer Ken Hollings.
Closing the night will be Global Communication, Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard’s legendary act conducting a live recreation of the contents of one of the electronica standards of the 1990s, their classic album 76:14. - an ambient masterpiece on The Guardian’s list of 1,000 albums that everyone should listen to before they die. A very special reunion, this will be their first live show in 15 years, and is eagerly awaited!
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 13 June 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
laid up sick in bed, this is all the help i need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO1Q8SlWRo
(bottle of lucozade wouldn't go amiss tho)
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 09:10 (twelve years ago) link
Recent ambientish mix I did that features more stuff like this (including Delta Phase from Pentamerous Metamorphasis):
Download: http://www.bmbx.org/2011/08/solar-wind/
Stream: http://www.mixcloud.com/groovypanda/solar-wind/
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
great stuff. really liked the atrium sun remix, especially before the drums kicked in.
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
theres really not another album like this is there? did they make any other stuff?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Global Communication? Sure, they released a bunch of records under various aliases, though the stuff I remember hearing was either electro or drum'n'bass. IIRC they did release one ambient album before 76:14, possibly under a different name? Never heard that one though.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, this is the one I was thinking of:
http://www.discogs.com/Reload-A-Collection-Of-Short-Stories/master/17159
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
That's a lot harder than GC stuff. But aside from 76:14 there's also Pentamerous Metamorphosis, their Chapterhouse remixes, and Remotion, another remix album that includes a couple of the Chapterhouse tracks, and the Rollercoaster remix that I revived the thread with.
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
This thread is inspiring me to listen to this again - right away the slowed down tick-tock and descending aircraft noises are really doing something weird to me
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
been listening to theory of evolution as well as a jedi's night out lately, really enjoying both
i have the reload album that tuomas linked upthread but it's a bit ... grim? there's a lot of very serious clanking industrial drum noise on it.
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
Must have!
damn, son! CDRs must be expensive in the UK
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
CDr has 'Clone Records Rotterdam' logo.
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
i am sure that tuomas appreciates this about reload, but even on that early set they push too far into aphex territory for me
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
i guess when it works it reaches the same area of the brain as the more sublime parts of LFO's advance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2fGQE9Kh44
dolphin noises!
when it fails it sounds like "public energy" era speedy j
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
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
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)
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 19:13 (three months ago) link
Was it recently added? I only learned about its existence a month ago, it's awesome
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 20:26 (three months ago) link
Meant to say I listened to it on Spotify not knowing it was a recent add
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 20:28 (three months ago) link