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AudioBabble · Post by **AudioBabble** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:12 pm

Double Tap wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:54 am
I'm so glad that SoS have their archive online going so far back.

My favourite bit:

The forthcoming album resolutely remains an analogue recording made on the Otari MK80 24‑track. Ed is something of a traditionalist, avoiding the temptation of going digital with the advent of popular mediums like the Alesis ADAT and Tascam DA88: "They're only 8‑track, and I use 12 tracks for recording the drums alone! I know they can be chained, but I'm still a little suspicious of this. I often do things like splicing and editing tape which you can't do on these digital machines. I suppose you could with something like Digidesign's Pro Tools, but then you're talking about loads more money, and it turns into a situation where you have to have a computer screen in the studio, which does my head in!"

Yes, that made me chuckle too! I read a quote from Ed elsewhere ages ago where he said he refused to have a screen in the room as it "sucked the life out"... how times have changed!!

Although... in general I tend to agree.... but it's unavoidable really these days. Without a screen to stare at you tend to "see with your ears" more.

mountainmaster · Post by **mountainmaster** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:51 pm

vurt wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:57 pm Screenshot_2022-02-13-14-55-54-107~2.jpg
apologies for the blurry shot, i think my phone is a potato.

One box? I can outdo that.

The original release and the 2013 remaster. I probably should get the 2021 remaster as well. I love that early Ozrics period with Ed, Roly, Joie and Tig's funky drumming.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:02 pm

mountainmaster wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:51 pm
vurt wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:57 pm Screenshot_2022-02-13-14-55-54-107~2.jpg
apologies for the blurry shot, i think my phone is a potato.
One box? I can outdo that.

The original release and the 2013 remaster. I probably should get the 2021 remaster as well. I love that early Ozrics period with Ed, Roly, Joie and Tig's funky drumming.

nice!

mountainmaster · Post by **mountainmaster** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:28 pm

My November 2019 submission for the Music Cafe contest was heavily Ozrics inspired.

Sei Fong Shan

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:50 pm

I’ve never heard of them, so I threw on The High Pass. Sounds like a lame version of Future Sound Of London to me. Like a preset demo track for a preset set for people who want to sound like FSOL.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:53 pm

zerocrossing wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:50 pm I’ve never heard of them, so I threw on The High Pass. Sounds like a lame version of Future Sound Of London to me. Like a preset demo track for a preset set for people who want to sound like FSOL.

try kick muck, ayurvedic, pteranodon, sploosh...

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:13 pm

vurt wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:53 pm
zerocrossing wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:50 pm I’ve never heard of them, so I threw on The High Pass. Sounds like a lame version of Future Sound Of London to me. Like a preset demo track for a preset set for people who want to sound like FSOL.
try kick muck, ayurvedic, pteranodon, sploosh...

Ah, I see. Prog-rock.

I’ll add FSOL again, and a side project called FFWD with Robert Fripp.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1_SKazu6Xo

Radiohead Amnesiac/Kid A

Thom Yorke/Atoms For Peace

King Crimson (80s-90s)

Adrian Belew

Trey Gun

Bill Laswell/Axiom Records

That’s all I can think of at the moment.

mountainmaster · Post by **mountainmaster** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:16 pm

The High Pass is a bit of a filler track on a double album Technicians of the Sacred, which should have been a single CD with the better tunes.
I prefer their rock side over the ambient stuff. Such as this 1993 Vita Voom clip on MTV which was my first encounter with Ozric Tentacles.

btw, Ozric Tentacles pre-date FSOL. So who is trying to sound like who?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:18 pm

yup there are elements of all of those, but overall they are very singular.

AudioBabble · Post by **AudioBabble** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:42 pm

mountainmaster wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:28 pm My November 2019 submission for the Music Cafe contest was heavily Ozrics inspired.

Sei Fong Shan

Good stuff, thanks for sharing, really enjoyed it

AudioBabble · Post by **AudioBabble** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:51 pm

mountainmaster wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:16 pm

btw, Ozric Tentacles pre-date FSOL. So who is trying to sound like who?

That digital Pongmaster is decidedly freaky!!

As for FSOL... everything I've heard by them is decidedly ambient... (admittedly not heard a great deal)... I remember 1st hearing them on Radio 1 in 90s... when the DJ said "that was the future sound of London..." I thought it was a comment on the kind of music we'd be hearing more of from the BBC... how wrong I was!!

AudioBabble · Post by **AudioBabble** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:57 pm

zerocrossing wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:13 pm

Ah, I see. Prog-rock.

I think that's definitely a big element of OT's sound, but ultimately they went beyond Prog Rock really.

Paul Eye · Post by **Paul Eye** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:27 pm

Well, this thread was a nice reminder to listen to some Ozrics again

I still find myself preferring the Curious Corn and Waterfall Cities albums over their other ones. I have no idea what they've been up to since The Yumyum Tree (the last album of theirs that I own, and that was released in 2009...). I last saw them live in Finland in 2014, and AFAIK all the times they've played in here in roughly the decade before that, and a few times abroad too.
The Ozrics are so in their own league that it's a bit diffucult to recommend something even close to what they sound like.
Hidria Spacefolk was already mentioned (I've seen them live numerous times during the past 2 decades and of the gigs I've seen only one was really half-assed).
Maybe check out Dream Machine and Pyramids On Mars for a few bands with ex-ozrics members. Nodens Ictus was also aready mentioned and I can certainly recommend them for some more ambient-ish material. And of course for a more modern downtempo approach with the obvious Ozrics connection you can't really go wrong with Silas Neptune.
Quantum Fantay is also very much worth mentioning.

Funny how FSOL was metioned, their track "My Kingdom" actually features a guitar riff from the Ozrics 1989 album "Pungent Effulgent"

Ozric Tentacles: Phalarn Dawn

Paul Eye · Post by **Paul Eye** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:42 pm

And it's not really much of a secret that the Ozrics had at least mostly indirectly an influence on early goa/psytrance and downtempo. Directly of course via Eat Static (Merv Pepler being quite high on my list of artists I respect). Simon Posford of Hallucinogen/Shpongle fame actually did nick some Ozrics melodies into some of his 1990s tracks, and actually this remix of Pteranodon still is one of his finest work if you ask me. I've always likes Simon's drum programming which is especially evident in this track.

AudioBabble · Post by **AudioBabble** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:51 pm

gaf_thit wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:04 am

I love this album. First met them at a double concert with them and ÖST. Some overlap in crew between those two.
It was a real trip of a concert in a too little space. Concrete cellar with a half-tube form. A surreal ambience chamber. Had a blast of a time.

2nd listen of this now... seriously good shit, very 70s vibe to it, definitely be checking out more of this band

Does anyone else make music like Ozric Tentacles?