global communication - help needed

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

OMG IT IS!

the proverbial cloud of titties

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.

Haven't even heard of those let alone heard! Will investigate. I'm very much an outsider to techno!

Also digging Tetsu Inuoe a ton right now.

cloud of titties indeed!

oh man, just gave this a good listen for the first time the other night and it slammed me in the face with awesomeness

i can't remember which tracks besides 14:31 were the best cause they're all silly numbers

the titles remind me of the lengths of time that might be etched into memorials or tombstones

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!

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)

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/

great stuff. really liked the atrium sun remix, especially before the drums kicked in.

theres really not another album like this is there? did they make any other stuff?

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.

Ah, this is the one I was thinking of:

http://www.discogs.com/Reload-A-Collection-Of-Short-Stories/master/17159

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.

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

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.

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