global communication - help needed

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.

Must have!

damn, son! CDRs must be expensive in the UK

CDr has 'Clone Records Rotterdam' logo.

i am sure that tuomas appreciates this about reload, but even on that early set they push too far into aphex territory for me

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

usually it works though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_y7niNEVHg

kicks like a mule, in fact

i <3 vahid

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.

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

Wait waht? GC stuff that ventures into Aphex territory? You might just be describing my dream record.

::bookmarks to explore tomorrow::

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

The Pablo Boliva album, Motion, is similar to Global Communications. Def. worth hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYikf3l9BPg

Bolivar

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