The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World!

  On 10/24/2016 at 10:21 PM, mokz said:

Listened to this now a few times out of which I've fallen asleep maybe three or four times. It's great and has some of the feel of a spatial depth that UFOrb has also but with some more modern beats, etc.

 

Yes, maybe best since Orblivion.

??? moonbuilding was much better than this

listened this weekend.

I liked it for sure. But it definitely felt like it was missing something, not sure what. I'd have to agree with those saying it was pretty without necessarily standing out in any way.

Def going to give it some more spins and listen deeper. In any case, I'm perfectly cool with having another pretty ambient record to chill my zone with.

cydonia isn't bad u guys

The more I listen to this the more I like it. Really lovely record.

  On 10/25/2016 at 4:04 PM, dr lopez said:

cydonia isn't bad u guys

wait maybe it is

The early/promo/demo 2xCD version of Cydonia is great ....

like u have that

  On 10/25/2016 at 4:21 PM, purlieu said:

The more I listen to this the more I like it. Really lovely record.

I'm liking it more today actually.

cydonia? come on d-lo

  On 10/25/2016 at 4:50 PM, dr lopez said:

like u have that

  On 10/25/2016 at 4:26 PM, mcbpete said:

The early/promo/demo 2xCD version of Cydonia is great ....

shit, didn't even know about that. Alt version of Lump of Lard is way better

Listnin' to COW for first time this aft

Yeah definitely a superior version of the album IMO - Better mixes, more space for tracks to grow, less silly-ness and more epic-ness. Weird how it changed so much in the final version

Listening to a bunch of older stuff here this afternoon, skipped through Cydonia, so bad, must check out that alt. version though - hadn't heard of it. Bikes & Trikes was an improvement, mostly pretty good. Okie Dokie is really great, though it's basically just a Fehlmann album (which is no bad thing).

Cydonia was their lowest point ever, imo. Haven't heard the alt version.

Do it - Will definitely make you rethink it (well, more likely confuse you as to why we ended up with the version we did !)

  On 10/25/2016 at 7:15 PM, mcbpete said:

Do it - Will definitely make you rethink it (well, more likely confuse you as to why we ended up with the version we did !)

do you actually own physical copy of it? discogs makes it out to be incredibly rare.

i mean im sure its on soulseek etc

  On 10/25/2016 at 6:31 PM, mcbpete said:

Yeah definitely a superior version of the album IMO - Better mixes, more space for tracks to grow, less silly-ness and more epic-ness. Weird how it changed so much in the final version

Yes totally agree with this - I heard the promo and was so stoked to buy it and then when I got the album I went..."huh?"

Anyways - still loving me some COW!

Yeah that 1999 version was almost a cross between Adventures and Terrarum, I wish it'd been released like that - although I do prefer the version of Lard on the final album. Of course most of the other stuff ended up on Orbsessions 2.

Bicycles and Tricycles is another tedious one - the UK and Japanese versions have radically different mixes and the best version is to be made by combining them. Still, always felt it lost something by scrapping the segues between tracks.

Something else I like about this album is it's really helping to recapture a sense of identity for The Orb again. For quite a few years it was incredibly confusing, especially releasing stuff like Okie Dokie next to The Dream, on which they sound like totally unrelated albums. In hindsight, it seems a lot more like you can remove the two Youth-led albums and it all makes more sense, each record seems more like a development of the previous. Bicycles & Tricycles -> Okie Dokie -> Baghdad Batteries -> Moonbuilding -> COW actually sounds like a run of albums by the same band.

  On 10/25/2016 at 7:07 PM, caze said:

Listening to a bunch of older stuff here this afternoon, skipped through Cydonia, so bad, must check out that alt. version though - hadn't heard of it. Bikes & Trikes was an improvement, mostly pretty good. Okie Dokie is really great, though it's basically just a Fehlmann album (which is no bad thing).

Just biked in to say that Fehlmann's solo albums are great (Honigpumpe is a particular favorite, lush AF)

TBH I haven't heard COW and might not get around to it for a while, there's just too much good music (and good Orb music) out there to be listening to instead.  My fwp with the Orb is that they've put out sooo much material over the years - ranging from great to meh to ugh - that why even bother with the lesser stuff.  Like when MT posted all those bootlegs/soundboards (can't remember pacifics) of early Orb shows ppl were first like "ooooh" and "(·) -> (o)" then after listening to a couple you realize they're all pretty much the same variations (or lack thereof) of the studio/album tracks, the only real difference being how autistically Alex would smash that like button [to trigger the vocal samples]

Yeah, I have all of Fehlmann's solo stuff, he's great.

so want to hear the cydonia demo version and the japanese only bicycles and tricycles...

http://www.wweek.com/music/2016/10/26/five-artists-who-may-have-been-lost-without-ambient-house-pioneers-the-orb/

lol wtf is that about

edit: oh i see its from portland the worst place in the developed world

Imagine listening to Kid A and hearing a direct lineage from Adventures.