>people on /mu/ think they're patrician >Don't

orbital > the orb > fsol

Seldom has a group's "we're cutting edge and you're not" arrogance been so groundless and unwarranted. Typical middlebrow pseudo-progressives, they have merely transferred the prog-rock notion of ostentatious virtuosity to sample-based music; their great bugbear is "obviousness" in sampling. And so every last drop of "vibe" and "aura" is addled out of their sources by their onanistic knob-twiddling; their music sounds as disgustingly denatured and plasma-morphic as those godawful videos and Buggy G. Riphead cover images. As sampladelic auteurs, 4 Hero (whose studio, funnily enough, is next door to FSOL's in Dollis Hill) piss on Cobain & Dougans from extreme height. It blows my mind that back in '93, darkcore EP's like "Journey From the Light" and "Golden Age"/"Golden Age Remixes" were universally ignored, while dreck like "Lifeforms" was hailed to the heavens. Amazinglyly, FSOL are still getting rave reviews.

Lifeforms is better

never understood the hype for this album or lifeforms

they're just fine, but i forget everything about them by the time they're over

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>>71942262
>being so autistic that you can't listen to fucking bleeps and bloops without sperging out like this

was this Scaruffi?

I don't get the hype I've seen two people who were absolutely convinced this was the best album ever and it just sounds... okay.

>>71942238
why does everybody have such an issue remembering what "let alone" means

>>71942264
tru but it's close

I HAD KILLED A MAN
A MAN WHO LOOKED LIKE ME
WHOOOOOOOOMMM
WHUUUUUUUUUMMM
WHU WHOOM WUUUUUUUUUUM

>>71942262

4hero's parallel universe is a masterpiece but it's nothing like FSOL at all. 4hero is more like acid jazz/techno while FSOL is experimental/ambient electronic, more closely related to braindance but not exactly like Aphex Twin or anything like that.

Dead Cities and Lifeforms are masterpieces that touch on several genres but form their own sound.

>>71942262
t. Simon Reynolds

>>71942255
almost correct.
Orbital > FSOL > the ORb

>>71944070
dis

Link?

>>71942810
well 4hero are breaks and FSOL techno at core, different genres completely.

>>71942255
I saw The Orb live in North Carolina in October. They're still owning it.

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>>71942238
Lifeforms [Astralwerks, 1994] Neither

Dead Cities [Astralwerks, 1996]
"We Have Explosive" Choice Cuts

>>71944070
You got it exactly backwards.