Strange Cargo Hinterland William Orbit

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent- Unique, and Very Creative !
By gork57
I picked up “III” on recomendation of a friend,having never heard of William Orbit before. One listen, and I was hooked- it was a new experience for me. Orbit combines real foot- tapping beat with creativity, the result being music that seems to just flow right through one’s ears. Orbit’s songs show his mastery of electronic instruments, but also integrate acoustic/electric guitar, real drums, and authenti percussion! He mixes all this together to construct music that has feeling- not similar to the souless, synthetic sounds of numerous techno-pop bands. Some influences are obvious, in my opinion. It seems each one of Orbit’s CD’s holds sectionalizations of pure ambient music much like Brian Eno’s (though these seem to have decreased with each new release- and I do have them all); he intertwines sequenced rhythms to get started a good deal of songs (Water On A Vine Leaf)like Kraftwerk, but in the end it all sounds very original. The fact that Madonna’s “Ray of Light” has injected new life into her career is no coincidence; most of it bears Williams Orbit’s stamp- production and songwriting. Listen to “Frozen”- it’s Orbit, with her voice. All in all, this a terrific CD, primary and hypnotic!

6 of 6 persons found the following review helpful.
Billy Bubbles at the top of his game
By Emlyn Addison
I picked up this CD over ten years ago when I was still in college and I still regularly listen to it today. Moody electronica with numerous in truth fine drum work and WO’s distinguishable synthesizer palette.

His follow-up “Strange Cargo 4: Hinterland” is likewise excellent. All this before he got snapped up by Madonna…

For WO fans, do not forget this line? “You have came across a lot of things, but the shortcut through the labyrinth is not amongst them.”

I in the end figured out what this sampled interlude was (I think it’s at the beginning of “Best Friend, Paranoia”?); it’s a line spoken by the old monk in the movie “The Name of the Rose”.

7 of 8 humans found the following review helpful.
The best of the electronic master
By David L. Thompson
What James Brown is to soul and Bob Dylan is to folk, William Orbit is to the electronic genre. I have found no one to match his melodic, liquid style of new age, with the energy and beat of a dance mix. No two tracks sound the same, and Strange Cargo III is the best of all his albums. Maybe that’s why Madonna insisted that he manufacture her most successful album ever. And what a divergence it made.

Orbit has taken the roots laid down by Tangerine Dream and has refined them to a point where he is both ethereal and melodic, hypnotic and awake, comforting and dance-inducing. What a talent.

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