Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Well, that wasn’t bad. But it wasn’t great. It was certainly music. That is all.
Favorite Tracks: Water From A Vine Leaf Time To Get Wize
Interesting sounds. I was able to focus on my work. No stand out songs though.
It was definitely strange, but I didn't hate it.
I will only ever willingly listen to this album once-unce-unce-unce.
Way too much dance, electronica, remix, etc on here.
Off the self generic electronic music. Nothing too offensive but nothing that interesting either.
There are far better records of electronic ambient music than this. But this was fine to read a book to as it provided no distraction.
Started out as background noise and somehow got more boring from there.
Weird choice. Generic electronic music. Never reached for a skip button, but will never put it on again.
Meh
Jesus Christ… that’s a Wish Jason Borne soundtrack. Still better than Nick Cave and Tom Waits.
Perhaps quite something when released, but feels a bit flat listening to it now.
Most of the time I listened to this I felt like I should be hacking into the server of a bank or following an enemy spy or some other action/adventure montage. The rest of the time I was bored. I literally fell asleep sitting at a red light listening to this. Twice. I see no reason for this album to be required listening for anyone outside people making spy movies. It wasn’t entirely bad, just unnecessary.
I dig ambient music but this aint for me
Forgettable background muzak
Reading the reviews, I was expecting worth. Quite possible just not Topp, 1001.
How much synth can I possible listen to in a single list. I didn't even know there were these many electronic albums around.
Not really any standout songs on this album for me.
Fine in the background when I was working but wouldn’t listen again.
Idk, like ok and? I am transported to a dentists office This feels like the soundtrack for the menu section of a DVD. One you’d wake up to blaring on repeat for the movie you’d fallen asleep to. That and/or bad hold music. No offense but why the fuck is this on here. The story of light was ok, I don’t mind water babies either. But the name makes me think this is what they want you to put on during a home water birth Did this dude wake up and think “how many I paint Hindu music white and tweak if for Berlin basements”
Interesting electronic vibes to start the album off. Early 90s chill house-y type, and some of the electronic instrumentation sounds a little dated by now, but I'm enjoying it. The album actually finished before I realised it had started. Not bad, but not great either. Probably sounds better when you're smashed on MCAT or something.
This wasn't terrible, but I really wanted it to end. Every song felt the same as the last and makes me wonder why these artists get added to this list in the first place.
Not as good as leftfield but ok.
Expected to hate this one, but I didn't, quite chill.
Good beats and fine electronica, but this is nothing more than forgettable, background music.
Not the worst electronics album I've listened to since starting this. But yeah, I'm getting pretty tired of all of the electronica albums on this list. It is one genre that really hasn't aged well. I get that some people like it, love it even... But it's really not for me. I almost want to rate this 1 star just because how fed up I am with all the electronica, but again, this is far from the worst one on the list so far. It at least did some things different. But still not good in my opinion.
Interesting background music but not what I was looking for.
2.9 -
This was an odd combo of electronic and jazz and I’m not quite sure what it’s supposed to be. It was okay, upbeat and funky but it didn’t offer much more than that. Seemed like it was trying to make jazz cool with modern sounds mixed in but all in all it was pretty meh. 4.7/10
Takie se plumkanie. Nic szczególnego, ale nie przeszkadza. 2/5
Not my style of music
This is what the future felt like in the 1990s. There would be two jobs: hacking and making techno to play at the permanent rave happening in the basement of an abandoned factory. This album serves both ends, mostly chill ambient stuff to put in your ears and hack into the mainframe with the odd harder edge dance track for the rave. It's decent at the latter and good at the former in a boring but pretty way. So it'll get put on a work playlist and listened to much more often than stuff I like more but is too engaging.
Mellow and easy-listening, but just not my cup of tea. I wouldn’t turn it off if it was playing, but I wouldn’t intentionally return. 2.5/5 ⭐️
4/10
When it’s good it’s ok, when it’s not it’s meh.
Not my thing, but I didn’t hate it.
Not a fan of this ambient kind of music. I suppose this having a classic 90s electronica flair helps it a little but meh. Also... how many of these are we going to have on this list? Like there is only so much pioneering you can do. In my opinion it would be much better to have actual dance music that was legitimately fun to listen to and less of this stuff that could be instead played at a clothing department store. 4/10.
Fine. Good study music. Nothing too special.
Less than essential. Probably was quite an early exponent of this rambling, expansive new ambient thing. I see this is a year before FSOLs Lifeforms came out. Not earth shattering but quietly influential and a stepping stone towards his later success as a producer.
I bumped my watch and my phone started playing this album without me realizing it. I thought it was someone’s ringtone going off….thats about all you need to know.
Better than I thought it was going to be, but really only works as background music for me.
Not my jam.
ah, det er sgu for kedeligt i længden. endnu et "hvad laver den på listen"-album til bunken
Aldrig hørt om det her før (William Orbit er mest kendt for at producere Madonna plader, right?). Synes egentlig det var fed nok, men det måtte gerne have været enten mere club-agtigt eller mere rent ambient. For lang
Synes at den her plade lyder som et soundtrack til mange film i 90erne.
I just really never want to have to think about this album ever again. 2/5
E kje så glad i sånn musikk
Another teaser album. Moments when my ears perked up and my booty got a little sway to it but nothing set it off. One sone almost made it yet, nope.
Disappointing.
Not nearly as bad as I expected, but this could have been made by anyone with some music software.
Ambient atmospheric kinda forgot it was on. Blended into the background. Better than Mody though.
C- Water from a Vine Leaf 3 Into the Paradise 2 Time to get Wize 3 Harry Flowers 2 A Touch of the Night 2 The Story of Light 3 Gringatcho Demento 2 A Hazy Shade of Random 2 Best Friend, Paranoia 2 The Monkey King 1 Deus Ex Machina 1 Water Babies 1 When someone asks, "What would an album of random noise in a barren warehouse sound like?" you don't have to answer.
Just wasn't my type of album
I would categorize this as ambient electronic music, you can't really dance to it. It's sit back and chill music, zone out, ignore everything else music. You could put it on in the background and go about your day. It doesn't stand out, it's just there. I didn't feel it was particularly groundbreaking, or revolutionary, just a continuation of ambient music made by previous artists like Brian Eno.
So very 90's
I was enjoying it at the beginning, but then I ended up getting bored with it.
It was okay
Bit boring
I can’t see myself liking an ambiance album
Fine for background listening, but there's much more interesting Triphop out there
I made it to the fifth track, and it is boring. I'm out.
Hmmm of its time. Not for me ta
Music for bougie day spas
A hazy shade of random is a good way to describe the entire album. Yoga background music. 🧘🧘
Just ok. It's over-long and sorta boring for me. This style died out in the 90s for good reason, imo (or maybe it didn't, and I just don't know much about this style). Anyways, 2/5
The electronic selections on this list are so weird cuz so many classics (Discovery, Richard D. James Album, Tri Repetae, Untrue, Ape of Naples and Cosmogramma are a bunch of influential ones in different electronic styles) arent there but then they do put shit like this on there and Im just there like 'Why?'
Fairly generic 90's club music to me, with a few small interesting points. Not much of note though.
Another decent instrumental album bogged down by weird vocals and spoken word.
E kje så glad i sånn musikk
Generic and overlong downtempo music. I get that he migth have worked with Madonna and whatever but his résumé doesn't make that album any better.
Does anyone really feels the need to listen to this? I really doubt it.
Ambient sound scapes to listen to while working - wouldn't recommend listening on its own.
Very cool electro stuff here. Wild panning between the headphones but I gotta be in the mood for it
Kind of a snooze fest but kinda good ?
Kind of boring and generic
This reminds me of Shoreditch bars in the early 90's. I don't really miss Shoreditch bars in the early 90's. Weak, slightly trippy but no meat on the bone. Bring back my Summer of Blues.
Goes nowhere
I'm glad I learned the story of light. That was, ahem, enlightening. Did I mention this is a fourth studio album? Yep! It is!. Now that was revealing!
Why are these techno records so long? Like every one is over an hour. And it's all just a repeating snoozefest. There is nothing here worth listening to.
This album was like one of my teachers described me - dull yet somehow annoying. I don’t get the hype I’m afraid, there was nothing standout about this album. Perhaps in context it would have had more input but honestly it was quite unforgettable.
Feel like I could find stuff similar to this just searching for a 1 hour study playlist on YouTube. It wasn’t bad, just not unique really.
Pish background music, more of a producer showing his skills than a coherent album. Not offensively bad, just dull and emotionless. Probably shouldn't be on the list; perhaps wouldn't be if Billy Circle hadn't gone on to have the career (as a producer) that he did.
Nice background music, didn't really grab me or anything.
snore. Some decent stuff sprinkled in
Electro Bourne Tech-NO.FOR ME.
Ambient 8bit type beep boop album. Neat to listen to but not sure it ranks on albums you must listen to before you die.
Sounded like a ps1 game soundtrack and serves a similar focus, atmospheric background music. Not offensive but not something you really pay attention to
This album was unlistenable. Not because it's a bad album, but because it's incredibly quiet. Listening to it through headphones made me feel like I was hearing someone else listen to it in the next room. In the car, I had to crank the volume all the way up. As a bonus, the tracks start or end (or both!) with 10-20 seconds of silence, which is just long enough to make me see if the album has stopped itself every time.
Sometimes interesting but definitely not my thing
These are not the genres I am into, and this is the first time I ever listened to an electronic, techno album. I can't say I hated it but I didn't love it either. Even choosing a favourite track is hard for me to do here, because of my lack of exposure to this kind of music but I'll leave a safe bet. Favourite track of the album Water From a Vine Leaf.
Matig, vage trip-dance
What even
Tot i no ser un aficionat a l'electrònica, ni específicament a l'ambient, cal reconèixer aquest treball com força sòlid i escoltable. Llarg, però suficientment variat i amb els hooks adequats per mantenir l'escolta. No hi tornaré sovint, però com a referència d'un génere i un moment als '90s, mereix el seu lloc
Water From A Vine Leaf, Into the Paradise, A Touch of the Night. First half is better. I don’t have anything to say.
unoffensive background music. If I was on a bipolar mood stabilizer, this would be a 5. I didn't need to listen to this. water from a vine leaf.
The opening song is good, 2nd song is okay. Then it slowly gets worse and worse as it becomes less and less music and more ambient noise. Could have been 40 minutes shorter. FS: Water from a Vine
There is nothing noteworthy about the album. It is electronic music and not good. I tolerated it and didn't skip any songs. I will round up.
Its alright, i don't hate it for being some ambient music
I prefer Enigma who were similarly experimental. This was tedious but then again it’s not for serious listening - mainly wallpaper.
Sem bakgrunnstónlist er þetta ágætt. Alls ekki það besta sem herra Orbit hefur gert.
Not for me. Good for a 90s action drama but not much else.
An album that I'm sure was groundbreaking in 93, but really just a wet dream for audiophiles looking to show you how good their speakers are.
Interesting here and there, but caught in a 90s time capsule, sounding dated.
S’alright innit?
Needs Lucy
It was ambient electronic music
I feel like I'm going to get every 90s electronica album before I'm even halfway through this list, but at least this one was standable. Extremely boring, but standable, dare I say alright at certain points. Again, though, nothing notable, and I just keep getting confirmation that the 90s is the worst era of music.
As far as electronic music goes this is not bad. Maybe Dimery shoving a million electronic albums down my throat is opening me up to them. Or maybe it's the hip hop aspect that gives it more favor to my ears. Still don't really love it though.
Not keen
Ik had William in mijn Orbit toen ik aan het werk was en dat was op precies het juiste moment.
Hier ga ik echt geen uur naar luisteren, tenzij ik zwaar onder de dope zit. Maar dat doe ik dus niet.
Mwa....
nothing really happens, just lounging
Too boring.
Starts reasonable but becomes more and more dull.
A series of rather boring electronica songs that vary between songs that make you feel like they’re trying to brainwash you into a cult and songs that sound like the background music when you get a massage at a spa. I love a spa trip but the music is not 1001 albums to listen to before you die material!
I actually typically like ambient electronic new age-y music like this. The 90s wave of new age that was heavily influenced by Asian soundscapes (as this album is) is certainly a guilty pleasure. I'm sure that many of these Western new age bands have created with a somewhat intangible lack of respect for the Eastern source cultures that they are pulling from. But here's the thing. I was pretty turned off by the idea of this band using Asian iconography and then dubbing the album something like "Strange Cargo". It's benefitting from the use of Eastern cultures while also labeling said culture as "strange". And to me, that IS a tangible lack of respect. Regarding the music, I thought "Water From A Vine Leaf" and "Into the Paradise" were excellent beginners. I was hoping that the remainder of the album would have as strong of a sound. But as it turned out, the rest of the album seemed pretty anemic in comparison; there were brief moments of intrigue, but it just never quite piqued. Ultimately, I'm just not quite sure what this album's significance is. Again, if we are talking about the "ambient new age" wave of the 90s, then there were much better, more iconic representatives of this movement.
Enjoyable electronic 2.5
Meh
Does not seem especially interesting. Not a fan of older electronic like this.
Stuff like this is hard to review. Its good for what it is, background music. It's nothing offensive to the ears but it doesn't make me want to listen to it on my own.
Esta buena la vibra pero por momentos muy cuelgue para mí.
Esta bueno, se vuelve como mas "oscuro" a medida que pasan las canciones y para mi ahi es cuando decae un poco. Bueno para estudiar/trabajar
Doesn't rise above the "background music for when one is actually concentrating on something completely different" level. Nothing to die for here, move along.
I liked it more than most house music, but mostly I was just waiting for it to end. I genuinely enjoyed "Harry Flowers," that song has a great vibe.
Strange definitely sums it up. Not really my cup of tea
Decent ambient background music. I mean, if the authors wanted a 90s musical album to deem a 'MUST LISTEN', instead of choosing an unknown (once again) British based artist who's 'MUST LISTEN' album is such a 'MUST LISTEN' that it barely has any clicks on the services that actually have it - they could've chosen Enya or Kenny G or even that Chant album done by monks. 2.5 / 5.
i didn’t dislike any of it but it’s not something i would choose to listen to. good album to zone out to tho
Ambient electronica, mesmerizing, afslappende
Not for me
Some interesting ideas here and there but nothing that pushes this album beyond background noise – if an album is going to floor me (and be worthy of being on this list), I would hope it at least does enough to grab my attention
Not actually unpleasant. Just absolutely unremarkable background music. Come to think of it, I can't actually remember what it sounds like, even though I'm still listening to it...
I really don’t know quite what to make of all this techno. This is fine to listen to as background music, but there’s really just not much interesting going on here. I try to judge this stuff on its own terms, and I did like this better than David Gray (and also Fatboy Slim, and some of the other similar on the other thread), but nowhere near as much as some of the other non-techno records I’m giving threes to.
Meh
Strange Cargo indeed in a very 90s rave culturally appropriating way… it shows signs of interesting beers but it feels very dated and it’s not remarkable enough to ignore that fact.
The video version of this promises to be relatively interesting. It almost fell apart in a compelling way, but finished off with inoffensive-enough material to make the record a pretty simple mood piece. I enjoyed the experience, but I'm puzzled about the three-ness, the long-ness, the list-ness.
2.6 - Pretty unremarkable - the kind of background music you’d hear on a quiet weekday afternoon at an Amsterdam coffee shop. Your primary goal is to cop a gram of that White Widow so the music is whatever. Robert Dimery needs to seriously reevaluate his esteem for these electro-lounge entries (see also Leftfield).
Nice enough without being very interesting. Listened a few times but didn't really click for me
this was a stranger album? i didn’t hate it… it was weird and i honestly don’t know what to rate it. i feel like i am so unfamiliar with this type of sound and i usually have a negative point of view towards it so it doesn’t help but i was open to listening to it again.
More than adequate as background music I'm sure, but I listened as foreground music and found myself checking how long was left to go from very early on...
Strange something. It's just ok for me. Kind of flat and boring, but in a nice way - I guess. It isn't horrible, just don't really see why it is a "must listen".
The songs were monotonous-- one or two notes with an electronic beat. Some of echoey vocals were kind of cool, but that's about all I liked about it.
Beats 'n' bloops 'n' bleeps
It was ok. I’ve heard a lot worse, but it sounds a bit dated now.
Was ok for while I was focusing on work but also kind of annoying and kind of sleep inducing. 4/10
It works well as ambient. The second side gets progressively quieter and emptier. It all sounded a bit generic, but I did enjoy the constant change in styles. Tracks blend in well. Somewhat sounds like a PS2 scifi soundtrack. Best track is "Water from a Vine Leaf" which sets an expectation for what the rest of the album should live up to. I wouldn't listen to any of the tracks against besides the first, and I don't see myself replaying unless I want to visit a familiar house ambient record.
This was ridiculously boring, too incessant to be truly ambient but never fully transports you anywhere as it doesn't have anywhere to go. Feels like being stuck in a 90s dance bar for eternity.
Wishy washy synths
2/5 strange indeed
Why do all these groups doing this electro/ trance / ambient dreck all have similar names and sound the same, William Orbit, The Orb, Orbital? Not very original IMO. Its also hard to distinguish them from each other because not only do they have similar names but they all seem to play the same cheezy dated electro music that you typically hear at a posh hotel bar or poolside.
It was a….vibe. Not my vibe, but it had its moments.
didn't seem to hold up to modern listening in the electronic music category, but wasn't too painful
Meh. Could have keeping the Indian style throughout the album why not.
Just okay background noise
2.5 | No tengo mucho que decir sobre este álbum aparte de que es agradable. En realidad, es una música agradable con la que trabajar sin ser brillante. Creo que también he tenido esa experiencia con otra música ambiental en la lista lo cual comienza a quitarle puntos por el desgaste. La mitad de los discos instrumentales en la lista siento proponen cosas interesantes y la otra mitad son como este... "agradables". Quizá el único punto donde este es diferente es que los ritmos son un poco más estimulantes, poquito menos repetitivos y con cierta fluidez en cambios que otra música ambiental. Mi cabeza me dice que es un disco que no tiene que hacer en la lista aunque pudiera quizá ver la influencia que tendría en la música electrónica a medida que avanzaban los 90. No estoy seguro de que tanta influencia tuvo realmente pero posiblemente eso lo justificaría.
El tipo que compuso los discos modernos de Madonna… Ya con eso. Y luego también de Blur, U2, Britney y hasta No Doubt. Difícil imaginar para donde va su estilo. Pero este disco en particular me sonó como a epítome de los 90, con algo de pretensión de música mundial, pero con mame de cafetería y beats. No me funciona. El disco se pasó rápido. Tres veces. De eso que no notas que hay música sonando porque igual se va tan al fondo que quizá mi cabeza estaba cantando otra cosa.
Come on 1001 album random generator, give me something GOOD! This album suffers a little bit from being the latest in a line of albums that range from terrible to just meh. There is just nothing to get excited about here.
Unmemorable, tedious background music.
not too interesting
Definitely can sense the influence on vaporwave and minimal electronic music. Some songs reminded me of dvd main menu music for a sci Fi flick
It was surprisingly okay.
not my style, an album that I think you need to be in a specific mode to enjoy, most of the music was relaxing and good to work with but the last couple of songs were scary.
Yawn
Random hodgepodge of electronica. Some decent stuff but too noodley. Makes The Orb sound structured
Expected to be heard at a funky health spa. Almost tribal dance.
Quite pleasant background music. Reminds me of Tim Snell.
4
I wasn't sure whether to rate this 2 or 3 stars. It wasn't too bad to listen to but I gave it 2 stars in the end because I know it is music that I will not return to.
Really not for me
Not my type of music.
Lol. Trip hop/ambient nonsense.. idk I’m in a crappy mood because I’ve been sitting at the dealership all morning. Also straight up skipped the Motörhead live album from yesterday.
Tällaisellekin on varmasti aikansa ja paikkansa, mutta tänään ei toiminut.
Electric Instrumental. Not my thing but good to read by.
Very 90's
Generic, dated and rather dull. Like leaving a PS1 game menu playing for an hour.
If you’re looking Halloween background music, go with The Monkey King.
No
People who listen to this must have very boring lives.
I hated the stupid sexualized female vocals on nearly every track. Why does music like this always have women doing that breathy moaning thing with their singing. Fuck that.
Erneut einfach pure Langeweile!
Pas grand interêt pour moi. Mais surement que pour les plus aguerris du genre, ça peut être interessant.
More of the same boring EDM. I kept feeling moments of engagement, but it was very fleeting as a majority of the runtime is just not interesting. I wanted to like it much more than I did
overall: 2/10 just white noise lol
I’d never heard of William Orbit before. It’s a shame he died a couple of weeks ago, but his recent death doesn’t change my opinion of this album. It was boring and sounded like the soundtrack to a bad movie.
wiedermol en fall vo: ok interessant wieso isch das do? harry flowers isch jo huere nervig. es isch echt amel afoch en beat. ich check wies chan meditativ sii aber BRUDI WISO. hazy shade of random beschribt das album recht guet. Es gti mir so oft meeega moodmusik. so komisch. er het mega viel so electronica shit produziert fürd beth orton und madonna und so aber ich wür lieber songs lose als die komische sphärische zemeschnitt do.
s albumcover isch schomal hard, nach wikipedia chönnts jz aber seeehr in beidi richtige gah, aber ich lehn mich mal usem feister und behaupte, s album wird z lang sii oke 3 lieder glost und ich finds sooo unglaublich langwilig sogar als hindergrundmusig isches eifach langwilig leider joo es tutmer fast echli leid aber oof kei spass gha.
horrible album cover
Notable Textzeile: Nothing more You surround me Break on through Release me Ich denke wirklich selten von Anfang an „was für ein Scheiß“, aber hier ist es so. Das konnte ich wirklich nur leise im Hintergrund und mit einigen Pausen hören. Uff. Why? Da hab ich nicht mal Lust auseinander zulegen, warum das furchtbar ist. Ist es einfach. Faithless bei Schrotthändler bestellt. 0 Sterne wenn es ginge.
Eine der längsten Stunden meines Lebens. SCHERZ! Habe nach Song 1 nur noch durchgeskippt und reingehört. Das ist doch kein Zustand. Und das kann doch nicht der Ernst sein. 1001 Alben die man gehört haben muss um davon zu sterben.
This is like if a robot was asked to make the soundtrack of dine using water elements-simply not my taste at all
bullshit
It's the wrong side of EDM for me I'm afraid. Not into this 90s bleepy bloopy singy stuff.
mm rarísimo, no me gustó.
Electronic music by and large is just seemingly not my thing. I just find it boring for the most part with few exceptions.
No way
Weird
nah
Border restrictions stop me listening to this. So I’ll assume it gives me an STD, voted for Trump and is a complete note for note cover of the Gary Glitter Our gang album. Get rid of border limitations and I’ll give it another listen.
Cornflakes. Plain white shirts. Water. These things have their place in life. Doesn't make them interesting.
Heismusikk, for de som liker å kjøre heis en time i strekk....
Snooze. DNF
Did anyone listen to this without falling asleep?
The Good: We are warned about the cargo being strange… The Bad: We aren’t sure if the III means there are three cargos, or if this is the third cargo, or if III is code for something… The Ugly: Realizing that III stands for It Is Idiotic! EDM… why why why are we getting one too many obscure British EDM, or electronica, or whatnot, thrown at us? And if they aren’t British, then we find out they are French… So, thanks William for putting a frown on my face this morning, as I had hoped this was something avant-garde… but then, the frown just turned into sobbing and tears and anguish and such…
the production is extraordinary, but it sounds like music from a porn theater. there are hundreds of albums that sound similar.
Day810 - strange indeed and not in a good way
William Orbit’s "Strange Cargo III" is meticulously produced, but it lacks a certain something. The sonic landscape is the equivalent of a fluffy cloud - soft, ethereal, and pleasant - but the music simply drifts past without ever truly grabbing the listener. Consequently, the album feels aimless. The repetitive nature of its ambient-dub structures makes it difficult to sustain interest over its 63-minute duration. By the fifth track, the compositions fail to demand attention, and nothing following that point manages to recapture it. The result is a listening experience that is entirely dull. 1. "Water from a Vine Leaf" (vocals: Beth Orton) – 7:05 (3/5) 2. "Into the Paradise" (vocals: Baby B) – 5:41 (2/5) 3. "Time to get Wize" (vocals: Divine Bashim) – 4:10 (1/5) 4. "Harry Flowers" – 4:31 (1/5) 5. "A Touch of the Night" (vocals: Cleo Torres) – 5:03 (1/5) 6. "The Story of Light" (vocals: Baby B) – 6:21 (1/5) 7. "Gringatcho Demento" (vocals: Cleo Torres) – 6:38 (1/5) 8. "A Hazy Shade of Random" – 5:09 (1/5) 9. "Best Friend, Paranoia" (vocals: Cleo Torres) – 4:35 (1/5) 10. "The Monkey King" (vocals: Laurie Mayer) – 5:16 (1/5) 11. "Deus Ex Machina" – 5:40 (1/5) 12. "Water Babies" – 3:42 (1/5) Total - 15 Average - 1.25 284/1001 152/284 albums reviewed were new to me
Nope
I refuse to be the music bro that tries to find the bright side in this. It’s boring ambience music that you’d hear on some $20 dollar bin game in 2006 for the PS2. To make matters worse, there’s a Strange Cargo II that I accidentally listened to the first couple songs of as well. #StopTheCount
It’s interesting cause this is easy listening and I do like time to get wize but good grief this is not iconic or influential this is ps2 ratchet and clank music which is fine but it’s not anything I would ever revisit but it’s just strange to have it here. All the songs blend together and yeah. Next
I'm deeply offended by this type of crap. -1 please...
Noa vibe
Could not get into this at all. Sounds like a soundtrack to a dated 90s banking drama
Ends up being just background music, really. Not worthy of a spot on this list.
I like electronic music. I like ambient electronic music. But every time I see a 90s electronic album I've not heard of on this list my heart sinks because it's almost certainly going to be absolute rubbish. This one continues that trend.
Why do people listen to this music? It’s like reading a novel made by AI.
No va
Odei
1.5
Feels like it should be playing during the planning montage of a heist flick.
One of the most pointless hour-long albums you'll ever hear. It's either a similar groove or electronic sound effects that hardly register as music at all
Strange Cargo III is one of those albums that really makes you scratch your head as to why it is included on the 1001 albums to hear before you die list as William Orbit has had a pretty unremarkable musical career with his own outputs but has done some pretty amazing work for other people. Strange Cargo 3 brings absolutely nothing new to the table in terms of Downtempo or Ambient Dub music, even at a time when both genres were just starting to find their roots after the UK indie scenes helped put a face to the sounds. This project feels like a bunch of tinkering but no actual quality work coming from it. I liked Water From A Vine Leaf but everything afterwards just felt so flat and dull. As much as I'd love to praise William Orbit for his work, this album makes it really hard to give any love to the guy and honestly makes me think he just got lucky working with some actually competent artists.
sorry, i need lyrics
Not a fan
Pas du tout aimé
Probably my least favorite type of music.
Not it 1.5
Un embole total. Música de iglesia. No veía la hora de que termine.
I don’t like electronic music I guess
I don't understand ambiant music. It just Is not for me. 2/10
forgettable background music in a low-budget spy thriller. the hacker is IN. i was forgetting this in real time. i'm half convinced that this album included repeats because i earnestly could not tell you a single notable thing about any of these tracks. i don't even know what to make of the weirdly orientalist vibe from the cover or how it shifted from vaguely techno scifi to an indiana jones temp score pillaging an ancient temple. if there's one thing you'd hope from ambient music, it's a good vibe, but the vibe here is simply terrible.
Okay I can't complain about the English bias every time it comes up so... Let me complain about the weird electronic music bias that I'm sure is not due to the average age of the reviewers happening to grow up listening to this music. This sounds like music from one of those cheap movie studios that create knock offs of major franchises for a spy themed film. They'd call it something like "mission: unlikely" and it'd air on the syfy network for some reason. It's not good but it is absolutely inoffensive which means a lot after yesterday. I know there's good albums on this list and I really could use one about now.
Neither strange nor particularly weighty like cargo, this is zone-out-w/-ya-sack-out-music: it's for the gamer w/o even a desire to beat the level. The main effect of this record is the hapless feeling that you're stuck, and stuck for good, not in a loop, which can be pleasurable, but literally in one dumb spot forever. It makes me want to do bad things and then confess my sins to a fucker w/o god's warrant to redeem. It's not big like The Chemical Bros or trippy like Massive Attack and Portishead - the best it has to offer is not a good time, or an interesting one, but something that borders on solace but is far too bland for that: makes me think that those of us who want uplift & spirit need some added chaos. +, I hate Orbit's pseudo-eastern gestures.
Ugh. Did not work as ambient for me
Didn't finish cause its not quite my vibe. I like songs with some lyrics I can follow
From the outset you can hear foreshadowing of the production that would work so well on Madonna’s mid/late- nineties albums. However i’m not a big fan of electronic music and this ambient nonsense does little to change me that with its whispery vocals and bleeps. Overall I toggled between bored and irritated by this album. It is very much of its era with bits reminding me of acts like the propellerheads at times, but without the same impact they had.
Listening to this was such a slog. I listened to the first 5 tracks, then jumped ship and had to pick up the rest the next day. I just don't get the attraction in this type of music, especially outside of a club setting. It feels utterly bizarre to me that, even if this type of thing is what you're into, you'd put this record on while doing the ironing. For my tastes, this had no redeeming features at all. 1/5
Mir persönlich zu 90er. Ich sehe aber warum das Album als hörenswert empfunden wird. Viele Psychedelische aber nicht zu drüber klänge.
Not a house fan. Sounded like no royalty music they play on YouTube videos.
Second album skip after two songs. No way I’m listening to an hour of this.
Forgot it was playing, didn't even hear it at points, it was so quiet.
Never heard of this guy * Water from a vine leaf - is this gonna be like chill electronica? Ok, some spoken word…interesting. * Into the Paradise - boring and repetitive. I’ve got a bad feeling about the rest of this album * Well, I will comment if a song actually catches my ear. * Just so boring. First album I have bailed on I think.
Let’s get a few things straight. I owned a reasonable synthesizer and sequencer when I was in college. I made better music than this and I really had no clue what I was doing. Albums like this make me want to quit this entire project. WTF.
What was this? Whatever it was i don't like it.
I really don't want to hear Strange Cargo I or II either
add it to the list
Feels very dated to the early 90s.
Meh
Spa day?
Couldn’t pretend to care about William Orbit (as a musician).
Elektrische Musik, na und?
nah
I hate it when an album like this comes up. Not enjoyable at all.
1. uuater - 1 2. paradize -1.5 3. time - 1.5 4. Flowers - 1.5 5. Night -1 6. Light - 1 7. Demento - 2 8. Hazy - 1.5 9. Friend -1 10. Monkey - 1.5 11. Machina -1.5 12. Babies -1
Major flaw of this album is that I can't find any movement in it. It just goes on and goes on. If I want' ambient background I could make much better choices and if I want upbeat electronic I still could find better options. I don't know what purpose this album would serve on my music likings.
Na mog I goar ned
Ambient, fattar inte poängen
This album is boring as fuck, dude.
Nej, gud vad tråkigt. Som nån skrev, låter bitvis som musiken i en 90-talsfilm när de hackar sig in i en databas. Låter som demo-musik mest.
this was so bloody shit, minus 10 stars
Des de el principio no me ha acabado de gustar, simplemente no es mi estilo, pero tampoco esta mal. 1/10
Mid asf
I’d heard of William Orbit before because he wrote/produced a ton of hit songs. He did not write himself any hits. This was terrible. So boring. It was mostly instrumental. I was tuning it out because it was so quiet and boring.
Boring low effort back ground music.
Not for me.
Lyssnade inte färdigt, inte min grej. 1
I wish this didn’t exist. I don’t understand the appeal at all
Not my thing
Very meh
1/2
Just background music.
Generic electronica. Contains only the thinnest of ideas, all needlessly stretched into 5-7 minute tracks. Best thing that can be said of it that the production is pristine.
Boring
Seriously? This is on the list? WTF! 1,001 albums that are pure garbage. The author of the book must be doing some kind of psychological experiment to see how much crap we will put up with.
I almost fell asleep
Bit boring isn't it
Plus j'écoute de l'électro pré-Daft-Punk ou The Prodigy, plus je comprends pourquoi ces groupes ont marqué l'histoire : les trucs d'avant étaient giga nuls.
Zzzzz😴 WTF is this? Mall or elevator music.
Well that was an hour and three minutes I’ll never get back. This is why this list is a challenge. It exposes you to albums you wouldn’t be caught dead listening to. While I am no stranger to some well known electronica and ambient music, this album is nothing but boring to sit through. Some songs do make small impressions (the opener was promising) but today was not the day for this downtempo slug. Here’s to better music tomorrow. 2/10 (now a 3/10, but still 1/5 on this scale)
Bij het eerste nummer dacht ik: cool, klinkt best vet door mijn koptelefoon. Maar na vier nummers had ik het precies toch wel gehad. Zou wel echt sicke liftmuziek zijn. Ik zie opportuniteiten. 1.4
I think this list is pretty clueless on electronic music. This is dreary.
90s muzak
Electronic music will never click with me. It’s interesting as a tech demo, but it is just painful to actually listen to. I can’t fathom anyone sitting down and putting this on and having a good time.
It's just one very long song.
All the reviews saying this is 90s spy/heist movie background music are pretty accurate. Like a lot of 90s electronic music, it’s very repetitive and rather boring in a sit at home/work and listen environment. I’ve never enjoyed this type of stuff and this is no exception.
So I guess a substantial chunk of the 1001 list is just the editor reliving his beloved British rave days in the 90s? Is that what he's doing to us?
Interesting.
I don’t care for this trippy dippy electronica genre at all. And to the extent this was even close to garnering a 2, -1 for not being available on mainstream platforms. That by itself tells you all you need to know about it.
This crawled so that Moby could slowly stumble.
No loschtigi space scifi musig. Tönt halt leider nochemne bellige Actionfelm. Es wederholt sech gfühlt au emmer weder. Ned so mis
I'm no fan of electronic music, and this is above average for that set. I almost got to 2 stars for this album, but then the end of the album drove me up a wall. Basically room tone noises with some bleeps and bloops then dialogue from a movie. Somebody should teach electronic musicians how to end songs / albums.
2/10
p722. 1993. 1 star. "You are in a queue and your call will be handled shortly". Cue William Orbit. Tedious call centre music from a Moby wannabee without the talent or samples. "Your call is important to us. Please remain on the line."
Yuck. I hate 90s techno
Meh.
I was gonna give it some props for sounding ahead of its time. But then I realised I misread the year and it's 1993 not 1983. So... I didn't really have anything positive to say....it's very easy to ignore?
Two straight days of boring ambient garbage
Nope
altijd hetzelfde... van begin tot einde... dan doet ac/dc dat trucje een stuk beter
*Tony Soprano voice* I HATE THIS FUCKING SHIT