Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
Well, it`s a fun project, but "the bells" is hardly an orchestral track.
Timpany for the kick, cymbals for the hats, maybe a sax for the housey noise, and then some idiot on tubular bells.
I mean, I`m all up for a bit of pretentious artiness, but converting some very simple 909 based tunes into orchestral score? it`s almost a joke.
Writing music for an orchestra is another thing altogether.
He`ll be doing some Jeff Mills and Garth Brooks country and western techno next.
The Bells, western style "yeeeeehaaaaaa ding ding ding ding, boom tish boom tish"
Alright, I've seen a overview of this dvd and I can speak of it. First, the ochestra version seems terrific (Amazon is a masterpiece). Then Jeff and Thomas Roussel (classical music composer) have told that it's not an orchestra version of the tracks because some of the selected tracks don't fit the classical stuff. So Thomas has recomposed more some tracks, and then with Jeff they have re-arranged them to keep the same emotional message that Jeff wanted to expose more than keeping the sound. As a result some tracks are hardly recognizable.