What are you listening to?

[mcbpete]

The second disc to The Altogether seems so odd to me, because it has some of the chunkiest, most '90s sounding material from the Middle of Nowhere sessions on it, which is so different to The Altogether.

There's a second disc of The Altogether ?! Wait, was this a reissue - or was I conned with a 1CD version ?

[Dennis]

It´s this one: http://www.discogs.com/Orbital-The-Alto ... ease/38836
It has a second disc with b-sides from Middle Of Nowhere-singles.
Grabbed this one few weeks ago, there´s some good stuff on there, I love that 'monorail'-track esp., but also some rather mediocre stuff - not sure about tracks like 'bagpipe style'...tho it´s fun.

[Ross]

It was the US release. All the b-sides and Orbital's own remixes from TMoN & Funny Break. Monorail is sort of exclusive, the only other place it turned up was as a hidden track on the DVD edition of The Altogether (the only version of the album I own.)

[mcbpete]

the only other place it turned up was as a hidden track on the DVD edition of The Altogether (the only version of the album I own.)

Funnily enough me to, gave Joe the CD version when I bought the DVD. Worth it for the 22min version of Meltdown -

[Ross]

Yes, indeed. Not my favourite track on it (if the drums sounded like In Sides/TMoN drums it'd be a killer, but they do sound a bit like plastic buckets with paper over the top) but it works so much better in its unedited form. The downside is the radio edit of Funny Break, which lacks that lovely 808 clap roll after the bridge.

[Pandemonium]

I always kinda liked 'Bagpipe Style'

[Ross]

I bet they're regretting calling it Bigpipe Style now.

[seedy]

lol you're pretty much the reason ross
i just had an impression early on that you loved the two of them and they were simply two big names that i had never given a proper chance. they just got lumped together as i blindly viewed them as similar. before actually diving in i also had the impression that they would both end up cheesy pop sounding music with too much vocals.
since i've yet to really explore underworld......i still hold that impression for them haha!


biosphere i'm going relatively chronological so i've heard:

n-plants
Shenzhou
Man with a movie camera
Substrata
Polar Sequences
Patashnik
Microgravity

up next will be Birmingham Frequencies

[seedy]

ok yes.....i only had to look at the underworld discography to know that i haven't heard wonky yet.....it was BARKING that i heard a month or so ago and didn't enjoy too much

others surely agreed lol

[RazorJack]

Barking is pretty good in its own way, but when we have albums like Dubnobasswithmyheadman and Second Toughest In The Infants, it pales in comparison.

np: some classical Indian percussion stuff.

[Ross]

before actually diving in i also had the impression that they would both end up cheesy pop sounding music with too much vocals.
since i've yet to really explore underworld......i still hold that impression for them haha!

Oh you're just saying this to wind me up now, haha. Underworld are far less poppy than any of their commercially successful 'dance' peers - with the exception of Barking, their albums are almost 50/50 ambient/experimental/downtempo and dance/house/techno. As for the vocals, just a matter of taste I suppose. They're a huge part of what makes Underworld so individual, so they might not be up your street.

[seedy]

yeah we'll see
i'll be giving them more time some day in the future

personally i just struggle with vocals to begin with
i have for a long time now

[epitome]

Anyone here listen to South Central? Kinda dancey stuff but with rock and other genres integrated into the sound a bit, from what I heard last night.

I only checked them out because Gary Numan sings on one of their songs on their second album... then I ordered their first album. I did the exact same thing with Rico as well, although his is a totally different style of music.

[Ross]

Pyramids of Space - Pyramids of Space

[RazorJack]

The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing blablabla

Album version.
On repeat while doing some really, really boring work..