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...Berkeley campus has funded for a period of time...compliance with the NAGPRA," said Fritz Stern, NAGPRA coordinator at the University of California at Berkeley. "Between the spring of 1993 and June 30, 1996 Berkeley will have spent $300,000 per year for the three years...
...acknowledged masters of trance, recently released their first album since 1992's U.f.orb. It is really a mini-album, a sort of appetizer to Orb's new follow-up full-length album. Orb really takes on the metaphor of appetizer, calling the album Pomme Fritz, and naming some of the tracks after English pub food--"Pomme Fritz (Meat 'n Veg)," "More Gills Less Fishcakes," and "Bang 'er 'n Chips...
...Pomme Fritz, recorded in London and Berlin, certainly reflects its AngloGermanic origins. The CD cover shows a diagram of what looks like strangely beautiful 19th century machinery. This idea of the mechanical as beautiful is developed in the music, which is much more industrial-sounding than Orb's previous work. U.f.orb was remarkable for its blend of technology and natural sounds--running water, gurgling Russian voices and an Arabic muezzin--but Pomme Fritz focuses more on the technology of the music. Some of Orb's trademark water sounds remain, but Pomme Fritz has a more metallic and apocalyptic flavor...
There are some very witty touches, such as a sampled British voice proclaiming over and over, "Don't worry; all your childhood traumas have been erased, along with most of your personality." "His Immortal Logness," Pomme Fritz's last and shortest track, is in many ways the best, combining the sound of a German accordion playing what sounds like a distended techno polka with a richly layered sonic fabric. It is ironic, irreverent and immensely enjoyable...
...Pomme Fritz, like pommes frites, is not a full meal, but it certainly possesses a great deal of flavor and whets the appetite for Orb's next album...