What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

^ Buffoons !!

Trance has its' place in my collection, and I'm proud of it. I have about a dozen of the Euphoria sets, and like them all.

Whatever floats your boat (or doesn't), and all that :bounce:

[Tiggi]

Have another Orb album, but was drawn to this by the presence of Dave Gilmour on guitar duties.

Ambientish Chill-Out Electronica with a restrained embellishment from Mr G.

Two-disc version includes a remix of the album in "3D60" sound, which apparently recreates a form of surround sound via stereo equipment. Supposed to work best with headphones/plugs, which I'll try soon (lent it to a work colleague). I couldn't hear any surround effect via speakers...

Think I like this more than Jerome, who's also recently mentioned it.

[Jerome]

Bought this a while ago (see above) but was not impressed. By the way that 3D60 sound they talk about is just another version of binaural recording. It can be effective depending on how the the track is mixed. It requires that all instruments are recorded with at least 2 microphones. (simulating the distance between the ears normally mounted on a dummy head) The same method was used by Zucharelli Labs when they created 'holophonics' (the sound of cars etc) on Pink Floyd's 'The Final Cut', which incidentally happens to be one of my favourite Floyd albums. It has no effect on normal stereo speakers only phones.

[Jerome]

Bought a Tangerine Dream anthology set yesterday. 'Nebulous Dawn'. The early years of TD. We have lift-off!

[Thraak]

Daughter of fantastic long-time saxophonist Jan Garbarek, her music is very different to that of her fathers. Hard to categorise (anyone?) but Id say its mostly electronica with hints of trip-hop and jazz. She sings as well and sounds quite a lot like Bjork in places. This is one of her later releases and her 'Balloon Mood' album of 1996 is much more of a trip hop sound than this one. I urge anyone who reads this to check this out as it's very unique music (hence the struggle to categorise it).

Heres what I consider to be the best track off the album after 2 listens:

'Spin The Context':
[video=youtube;o2HzTcp6mdY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2HzTcp6mdY[/video]

Full track available to stream here: http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Spin+T...ext/2JPNSK

[Tiggi]

Mark E Smith from The Fall teams up with German Electronica duo Mouse on Mars.

Smith barks his customarily enigmatic lyrics over thumping Electronic beats of varying hues.

Good album.

[Peter21]

01. Hawkwind - 10 Seconds Of Forever [United Artist]
02. Still Going - On and On [DFA]
03. Green Velvet presents Jamie Principle - LaLaLaLaLa [Cajual]
04. Cyclops - Where's Jasons K? [DFA]
05. Phuture - Rise From Your Grave (Tiefschwarz remix) [Strictly Rhythm]
06. The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing (Putcsh 79 remix) [DFA]
07. Ginger Ale - Happy House [Virgin]
08. The Juan Maclean - Happy House [DFA]
09. Marcus Worgull feat. Mr. White - Spellbound [Innervisions]
10. James Priestley and Dan Berkson - Chariots [Simple]
11. Simon Baker - Gutterlevel – [2020 Vision]
12. Marc Romboy - Sunburst [Simple]
13. John Dahlback - Hustle Up [Nero]
14. Audion - Noiser [Spectral Sound]
15. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (Ashley Beedle re-edit) [bootleg]

[Jerome]

Don't have any of these - must be getting old - except KB's 'Running Up That Hill' which I really like.

[Jerome]

Stumbled across this the other day - don't like all of it but there are some interesting pieces.
http://davidminasian.com/audiovisual.html

[Tiggi]

Trip-Hop-Trance hybrid.

Sounds amazing when played at rhino-stun volume. If you don't like Dance music, you won't like this, but it's a very sharp piece of work.

The remixes included as a bonus are good, but the remix version of Insomnia is outstanding...