global communication - help needed

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.

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?

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