Orbital - Monsters Exist

Boring fact, Orbital was my second ever gig after The Sisters of Mercy. Royal Albert Hall 1996, I went with two mates one of which spent the entire gig in the corridor actually crying because his bird dumped him earlier on. I had a great time on the balcony drinking beer, looking down at the lights, lasers and ravers and looking up at those UFO looking acoustic diffusers. 

I'll be checking all this new Orbital activity asap.

I saw their original 'last gig ever' in London, 2004. Brilliant show, that.

My first ever gig was Orbital circa their Altogether tour in the early 00s, was waaaay too close to the front and ended up with ear ringing syndrome for the next couple of days. I was totally worried I had lost my hearing.

1999 Nautica Stage - Cleveland, Ohio.

So loud, so many great tunes played. They also did this cool visual of morphing “1999” to 666 during Satan.

Memories!

Underworld on now, for anyone checking the BBC or iPlayer. Absolutely bossing iT as standard.

  On 5/26/2018 at 10:25 PM, mcbpete said:

My first ever gig was Orbital circa their Altogether tour in the early 00s, was waaaay too close to the front and ended up with ear ringing syndrome for the next couple of days. I was totally worried I had lost my hearing.

damn I saw them in about this same time and I had a similar experience but just for the night and into the next day. it was stressful as fuck. only other time that happened to me was fennesz

First time I saw them was in 2001 for their Altogether tour. That blew some cobwebs out I tell you!

There's a remix of Tiny Folderble Cities out today.

*Foldable :S

How we made Orbital's Chime.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/18/how-we-made-orbitals-chime-hartnoll-rave-anthem

P.H.U.K. single next Friday.

PHUK yeah.

Yeah, on my birthday!!

P.lease H.elp U.nited K.ingdom

So pumped for this album.

Please Help UK.

Well it's about as subtle as a sledgehammer, but at least there's a bit of bite to the video, as we were discussing earlier in the thread. Certainly does a good job of highlighting just how divided the UK feels at the moment. Also spotted a friend of mine in one of the protest clips. Not sure about the vaporwave-esque CG in there though.

Track's a banger, obviously. Hoping there are a few more melancholic tracks on the album as this and TFC are absurdly upbeat. There's a touch of 'Oi' from The Altogether in the melodies on this one. 

Really excited about this album. Need to get my preorder in.

Paul talks about influences behind the track

  On 6/29/2018 at 12:17 PM, purlieu said:

Paul talks about influences behind the track

Neat article, thanks. Hoping their will be a 12” version closer to the 6+ minute one from the live sets.

The single includes the radio edit and the full 7:25 version.

That makes it longer than almost everything on the last three albums (only the two big album closers, 'Meltdown' and 'One Perfect Sunrise', coming in longer). They've mentioned that the album is more traditionally Orbital in structure, hopefully this means it's going to be the kind of nice big 75 minute job they're great at.

edit: the album version has a nice long ultra-'90s Orbital outro which I really like.

  On 6/29/2018 at 3:44 PM, purlieu said:

That makes it longer than almost everything on the last three albums (only the two big album closers, 'Meltdown' and 'One Perfect Sunrise', coming in longer). They've mentioned that the album is more traditionally Orbital in structure, hopefully this means it's going to be the kind of nice big 75 minute job they're great at.

 

edit: the album version has a nice long ultra-'90s Orbital outro which I really like.

Salivating.

Don’t forget “Where is it Going?”. The Live Style version makes for a great closer to Wonky.

  On 6/29/2018 at 4:11 PM, Extralife said:

 

Don’t forget “Where is it Going?”. The Live Style version makes for a great closer to Wonky.

 

I need to find a link to that version of "where is it going"

  On 6/29/2018 at 4:11 PM, Extralife said:

 

  On 6/29/2018 at 3:44 PM, purlieu said:

That makes it longer than almost everything on the last three albums (only the two big album closers, 'Meltdown' and 'One Perfect Sunrise', coming in longer). They've mentioned that the album is more traditionally Orbital in structure, hopefully this means it's going to be the kind of nice big 75 minute job they're great at.

 

edit: the album version has a nice long ultra-'90s Orbital outro which I really like.

Don’t forget “Where is it Going?”. The Live Style version makes for a great closer to Wonky.

 

The album version is only 5:50 though.

  On 6/29/2018 at 4:42 PM, sexagon hun said:

 

  On 6/29/2018 at 4:11 PM, Extralife said:

 

Don’t forget “Where is it Going?”. The Live Style version makes for a great closer to Wonky.

 

I need to find a link to that version of "where is it going"

 

https://open.spotify.com/album/0Br8h2gItJ1bO92AWd9JoU

edit: wait, that doesn't work. This is the problem in the digital single era, once it gets taken offline that's it, nobody can listen to it anymore. Off to Soulseek it is then.

Oh yeah, that version would have closed the album better than the version they used. That's a shame!

  On 6/29/2018 at 3:44 PM, purlieu said:

That makes it longer than almost everything on the last three albums (only the two big album closers, 'Meltdown' and 'One Perfect Sunrise', coming in longer). They've mentioned that the album is more traditionally Orbital in structure, hopefully this means it's going to be the kind of nice big 75 minute job they're great at.

 

edit: the album version has a nice long ultra-'90s Orbital outro which I really like.

Yeah, that last minute is soo good!!!

Where can it be downloaded?

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kf8qv

First song played is "The End is Nigh".

So killer. This album will be pure fire.