Right Herbert

On the road & revving up the Herbert post-o-meter: playful...organic...intricacy...Dogme-type rules...compositional mastery...witty...glitchy...micro-house...sampletronica. 

Well, it may not be the LHC, but this thing more or less works - though perhaps it doesn't quite express the warmth & sheer joy of early Herb (& the intense satisfyingness of it).

Anyway, try Back to the Start & Freeze - both giveaways with some kind of connection to last year's extras-festooned rerelease of the landmark 100 lbs (or via k7.com), though I don't see the latter in any track listing... 

Orchestra for the new century

It's as old as the hills (well, 1996, anyway...) & very, very well known. But this Innerzone Orchestra classic still sounds indisputably, absolutely modern - check out Carl Craig's vision of cosmic techno jazz for the new century: Bug in the Bass Bin (monstrous 11-minute version from Sessions [also here]; also around in a less expansive version on the fairly legendary - & certainly fiendishly hard-to-find - Programmed).



A less well known, & even jazzier, outing from the same album: Basic Math.

Live Orchestra:



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