Reviews (page 8 of 8)
What is it with this list and endless terrible British electronica musicians. There are maybe 3 good British electro musicaians. The rest is utterly disappointing. I have no idea how it happened to be on this list. 1.5/5.
I didn’t get it. Boring and I I don’t see why it’s on the list.
Ambient electronic music just isn't it. Play the drums for real, at least. This does not age well. I love this list for the music it introduces but I hate it all the same for the time it wastes on shit like this.
La prima , la seconda e la quinta abbastanza insignificanti. La terza ,la quarta e la sesta sono già più carine
Nee, wirklich nicht....
By the time I got halfway through, I thought I was still on track 1. Techno ambience but in a desperately dull way.
This was not for me. I listened to at least part of each song but ended up skipping through quite a bit.
Classic 90’s dance/techno/electronics sound. At first I could picture 90’s Duran Duran playing over the music. The songs here don’t seem to separate themselves from the next one. The usual “dead air” occurs between the songs so you know a new song has come on but the tempo doesn’t change. This album could be used as music for when you are on the phone and are on hold.
Ugh, the only thing worse than electronica is faux new age electronica. There were some cool guitar riffs in the first couple songs, and then I resigned myself to suffering through it as background music. But even that didn't lead to an enjoyable experience, because there was always some random sound or an odd voice to pull my focus back to it and interrupt what I was doing. Is the "Deux Ex Machina" track an actual excerpt from a video game vignette? Like, what on Earth am I listening to? No thank you. Do not want. 1 star
Not in Apple Music. Only listened to first song. Not my cup of tea.
Incredibly dull really
Robot sounds and noises that you might hear during a spooky movie scene in like a forest (63 minutes). Favorite song: Water From A Vine Leaf 2/2/24
Did not like this.
I listened to the album, "The xx", by xx. I didn't like any of the songs, nor the voices of the singers.
could i write poetry to this? n
What is this? It reminds me of Ross playing random noises on the keyboard in Friends.
Shit
Not available on streaming
Do you remember the famous cult album Strange Cargo III? Me neither.
Bit bland innit 1/5
This one isn't bad. Just really not my thing
1.5/5. Boring and unenjoyable. Listening to cars on a highway would be more interesting.
Hipster Muzak. Polished and soulless.
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: No it’s not my thing Favourite song: didn’t have one
We should take all 90s English Electronica (except Massive Attack) and burn it like Fahrenheit 451. Hunt all copies and any proof of existence, and go full pyromaniac on them. Going "AaaAaaWoooOooAaaa" in your boring instrumental electronica doesn't make it more interesting or sophisticated. "I listen to WORLD MUSIC" and then they put on crap like this. Grab a shovel man. Learn how to grow your own crops man.
Bored now.
Wasn’t on Apple Music
Why...
Fuck this album. It’s not important, it’s not good. Why is this even on the list?
This is garbage. How any can listen to this I do not know. Yes, I listened to the whole thing and apart from feeling like I need a shower I feel ok. But who knows how much look term damage this has done to my brain!?
This is not great to me. I can imagine this would be music I would enjoy making, but it does not seem significant in any musical way. It sounds like straight forward electronic music that is decently produced. I would expect to hear this in any yoga studio, but would never seek it out.
Now this list is just over reaching. It sounds like something that soundtracks a bad Steven Seagal movie. The Beth Orton appearance (on one song mind you) would ordinarily bump it up a notch, but they even screw that up by burying her in the middle of a 7 plus minute track.
Nope! Didn't like William Orbit the first time around, not into it this time either. Fuck off electronic shit.
This is just boring. It reminds me of Moby and I REALLY don’t like Moby.
I think this sort of thing launched a million chill out albums from the late 90s to the early 00s. Still confused as to why Leftfield isn't in this book because it's better. As is The Orb, Little Fluffy Clouds this isn't. First track reminded me strongly of another track that has the same effect but it never launched into it, so that was frustrated. I've just placed it. It was a different version but off Northern Exposure by Sasha + Digweed, my trusty chill out/spaced out trance of choice during those years. The Story of Light sounds exactly like the Happy Mondays did several years earlier. The tracks at the end are kind of just... nothing. But not interesting nothing. Music with space to breathe can be awesome, see The Necks and the like. This does nothing with that space. Last track was ok. Feels very dated generally, extremely dated production, I don't have the nostalgia for these tracks to carry me over that bump. Also they aren't that interesting. I did like stuff like this back in the day quite a lot and occasionally go back to it but these tracks severely do not grab me. So this isn't for me, now. I'm not really sure other than maybe 2 tracks it was for me then either. Hazy Shade of Random, Water from a vine leaf (Spooky's Xylem Flow mix)
at first, i thought this would just be yet another weird electronic album i couldn't get into. but oh no, the album cover is racist as hell! i guess asian cultures are considered strange, because the world is euro-centric due to some ignorant brit making music in the UK? not to mention, calling it strange and then pointedly using asian instruments in your music isn't a great way to go, my guy. i try include something positive about an album: i do find enjoyment in asian music in general, and i did enjoy the usage of various asian instruments. but william orbit can fuck right off, because you know this wasn't done respectfully. i don't agree with this album's place on this list at all.
I couldn't get through this album... it was just too boring
We’re far enough into 1001 Albums, and I’m hooked enough, that having a mediocre album feels like a genuine bummer. This album was just really boring! There was nothing about it that I really connected with. A while back, I got really deep into early 90s sample CD’s… when sampling had escaped the hardware, and now there were hundreds (!!) of loops available for use on the computer. And boy, it’s some great stuff, but it all sounds so, *so* impossibly 90s. Like, every sound in those early sample CDs made it into every CSI episode, every late night thriller b-movie, ever 90s techno or dance track. This album is nothing but those CDs! I can barely hear anything else, past the super dated sounds and loops. I like those sounds, in a kind of fun endearing nostalgic way, but the compositions here just left me super bored. The ending of the album had a tiny bit more for me to like in it, but everything else is just hard to listen to for very long. And I’m not a listener who hears the lyrics first, by any stretch, but you get the sense that William Orbit actually does not care what lyrics his singers are saying. Hoping for something spicier tomorrow… 1/5
I suppose it was some pioneer work to do such an album in the early 90ies. But it didn’t take me.
2/10 boooooring
Trance music is one of the main genres I listen to, but I'm just not a fan of Orbit's mixing, at least on this album. It could also be because it's an early entry into the genre and just doesn't know what it wants to be yet.
This didn't do much for me. Not bad as background music, but not really memorable either.
Just straight boring
Nope
I'm sure these are excellent beeps and books but I was just bored
plinky, pseudy, sub-ambient
I suspect this album will not be included in future editions of this list. Super-bland 90s background music. Reverb-drenched synth pads, dub bass lines, people mumbling about stuff. Instantly forgettable. This is the soundtrack to the part of the film where the protagonist and the love interest go to a house party, accidently get high and sit on the roof talking about their feelings.
I really don't dig it
Interesting
This was very much a product of it's time. A lot of albums on this list sound timeless, but this sounds like someone in 1993 making an album of what it's like to make an album in 1993. It might have been revolutionary or mind blowing at the time, but now it sounds VERY dated.
Are you serious?
Snoozefest
Low volume, as background noise, and I'd fall asleep to this.
I was out 34 seconds into this album. What the fuck was that
Wow, what a turd
Ho he intentat però no he aconseguit entrar-hi. Aquest rollo ambient-electrònic no em fa el pes.
Sinceramente, no me ha interesado nada. Música electrónica cercana a la pista de baile pero que al final no es ni una cosa ni la otra. Ha envejecido mal para mi gusto totalmente prescindible.
Did not enjoy
I'm not sure why this album is on this listen. This album mixed a lot of different sounds together.
William Orbit? More like William Orshit.
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