I've been listening to The Assassin Outtakes by The Orb, which seems to be never ending, but has some interesting alternative versions - seems to get more ambient and zoned out towards the end.
I'll be giving the Intelligent Communication EPs a listen after that and then will revisit Blackhill Transmitter EPs 1-3 in one go, now I have them all on one device together.
I'm really hoping for a physical release of Blackhill Transmitter in the future, it's such a good set of EPs, and I'm likely to listen to it a lot more if I have it on disc. Listening to them now, in fact...
Yeah, I am a big fan of these EPs, I was quite surprised at how well they fit together when played sequentially. I thought the 2nd one was going to stick out as being very different because of Loko Motive but it didn't really. Probably the best latter day alter-ego of them in my opinion, though in some ways it's not a million miles from the Yage album.
The Principles of Motion EP sounds fantastic sound quality wise in this incarnation. I'm loving the Drive EP as well, that 2007 version is really surprising. I hope some of the other early EPs creep out in a similar vein. I know a lot of it ended up on Earthbeat, but there's a lot of remixes and b-sides that are hard to get hold of. Fuzzy Logic for example with at least Theme from Hot Burst as a bonus from Earthbeat.
Today I was playing Brendan Pollard's expansion on the way in and am now listening to Bob Marley's Songs of Freedom.
I dunno Dell, we should make a poll for the next re-release
Yage - Fuzzy Logic (with some bonus Yage tracks from the early days) and Twitch - Bacteria From a Baboons Stomach are some of the obvious choices
I also wouldn't mind seeing a whole album/compilation of Mental Cube: Chile of The Bass Generation + So This Is Love + Q + bonuses... - they were released on Debut though, so I don't know about the copyrights.
(Passion Music is parent label to both Debut and Jumpin' & Pumpin' so it probably wouldn't be a problem...)
Yeah, there is a lot of Mental Cube stuff from way back when - 3 singles, a track on Pulse Four, plus of course that remixes EP that came out a couple of years ago. The original stuff was pretty high quality and reasonably successful. I guess only they know what bonus stuff they have sitting around, or possibly they don't of course, it might get Brian digging though boxes anyway.
Mind you, if only about 10 of us on here buy the Intelligent Communication stuff, us suggesting these things might be short lived!
Ultimately, it would be nice to have all of these early singles rereleased in some form on fsoldigital, and any bonuses would be a, er, bonus...
I guess it's all down to licensing, as is the occasionally mentioned remixes compilation.
It'd be great to have their entire back catalogue available through FSOLDigital at some point - even just a digital compilation of all the early tracks that aren't on Pulse EPs, Accelerator or By Any Other Name would be fine. Would like to have some high quality, clean copies of some of those tracks.
np Neotropic - Mr. Brubaker's Strawberry Alarm Clock
Not at all a breaks fan, but Riz's two '90s albums are superb.
Been getting into The Cramps (been meaning to do so for ages), listening to new Swervedriver some, a guy called Ethernet (he's on Kranky), The Cartel Remixes and Thrill Kill Kult.
The new Swervedriver is making some impact, nice to see.. it's not a classic or anything mind blowing IMO but still pretty listenable. Yen Pox (dark ambient gods) just announced a new album, can't wait for that..
