Word: orbe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this manipulating of multimedia can really chew up one's hard drive, and, not surprisingly, plenty of companies are offering ever more capacious, ever cheaper ways to store your digital masterpieces. I was particularly impressed with the new Orb drive, which holds 2.2-gigabyte disks ($29). In January, Castlewood Systems Inc. will start shipping the first external Orb drives ($199). According to Syed Iftikar, the company's president, by this time next year, 5-gigabyte disks will be available. No word yet on a shoe-size supercomputer...
...extra one was created, say the researchers, it must have been pulled into Earth after drifting too close. But perhaps the most intriguing result was the time frame in which the moon formed ? about one year from impact to finished product. Not bad for such an awe-inspiring orb...
Others have tried and failed. The ambient electronic group the Orb's newest CD, Orblivion, has sold only 65,000 copies in the U.S.; recent releases by such vaunted acts as the Future Sound of London and Underworld have moved fewer than 60,000--the Spice Girls sold more than that last week. Even the Chemical Brothers, after a media push that would make Madonna blush, has failed to crack Billboard's Top 10. And what's worse, these CDs have been creatively wanting--the Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks) features a few songs that energetically blend rock...
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...
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...