Orbital 30

Can't believe just how long this is taking to come out. I remember the "30th anniversary album next year, then a new album straight after!" enthusiasm in 2018. Four years later and we're yet to get either.

Fingers crossed those reissues are going to be good. Paul talks about vinyl a lot in there (and, judging on a Twitter conversation I had with him a few years ago, seems to be of the incredibly inaccurate opinion that nobody buys CDs anymore), but I'd really love some nice 2CD versions with all the b-sides and some unreleased pieces. Orbital albums flow so brilliantly that they just seem to make more sense on CD than vinyl.

Preorder up now for 4xLP and 2xCD versions... Out July 15

https://orbital.tmstor.es/?lf=d56d834f2c92669e69ed0cfd1375cc14

CD1
1. Smiley
2. Acid Horse
3. Where Is It Going? (feat. Stephen Hawking)
4. Impact (30 Years Later And The Earth Is Still Burning Mix)
5. Satan (30 Something Years Later Mix)
6. Chime (30 Something Years Later Mix)
7. Halcyon (30 Something Years Later Mix)
8. Belfast (30 Something Years Later Mix)
9. The Box (30 Something Years Later Mix)
10. Are We Here? (Dusky Remix)
11. The Girl with the Sun in Her Head (Floex Remix)
12. Halcyon & On (Logic 1000 Mix)

CD2
1. Belfast (ANNA Techno Remix)
2. Impact (John Tejada Remix)
3. Chime (Octave One Remix)
4. Halcyon & On (Jon Hopkins Remix)
5. Are We Here? (Shanti Celeste Remix)
6. Belfast (Yotto Remix)
7. The Box (Joris Voorn Remix)
8. The Girl with the Sun in Her Head (Lone Remix)
9. Impact - Rich NxT Remix (Edit)
10. Chime (Eli Brown Remix)
11. Belfast (David Holmes Remix)

A1. Smiley
A2. Satan (30 Something Years Later Mix)

B1. Where Is It Going (feat. Stephen Hawking)
B2. Impact (30 Years Later And The Earth Is Still Burning Mix)

C1. Chime (30 Something Years Later Mix)
C2. Halcyon (30 Something Years Later Mix)

D1. The Box (30 Something Years Later Mix)
D2. Belfast (30 Something Years Later Mix)

E1. The Girl with the Sun in Her Head (Floex Remix)
E2. Belfast (David Holmes Remix)

F1. Halcyon & On (Jon Hopkins Remix)
F2. Chime (Eli Brown Remix)

G1. Impact (John Tejada Remix)
G2. Are We Here? (Dusky Remix)

H1. Belfast (ANNA Techno Remix)
H2. The Box (Joris Voorn Remix)
H3. Are We Here? (Shanti Celeste Remix)

Nice. I'm gonna sit it out and wait for the digitals though

  On 12/25/2018 at 7:51 PM, Pirtek said:

Orbital 30

remixes

 

Utah Saints

Bicep

Aphex Twin

Chemical Brothers

Underworld

Leftfield

Prodigy

David Holmes

Vince Clarke

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Looks like only one of these actually happened then.

Will be picking this up, but still more excited for the deluxe reissues and new album that are in the pipeline.

Yeah, me too! Can't wait for the deluxe reissues, especially Snivilisation and In Sides!!

And the new album.

  On 4/24/2022 at 5:03 PM, purlieu said:

Looks like only one of these actually happened then.

Will be picking this up, but still more excited for the deluxe reissues and new album that are in the pipeline.

Where is there news about deluxe reissues and a new album? Must have missed that.

Orbital were my gateway drug to electronic music, way back in ‘96. Still get huge enjoyment listening to those albums up through The Altogether.

  On 4/24/2022 at 9:08 PM, Extralife said:

Where is there news about deluxe reissues and a new album? Must have missed that.

Orbital were my gateway drug to electronic music, way back in ‘96. Still get huge enjoyment listening to those albums up through The Altogether.

https://orbital.tmstor.es/product/95019

  On 4/24/2022 at 9:08 PM, Extralife said:

Where is there news about deluxe reissues and a new album? Must have missed that.

 

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/orbital-tell-sde-of-archival-reissue-plans/

Looking forward to the Floex remix!

And it's fun hearing Orbitals own reimaginings of their old tracks (even though they're pretty cheesy).

I was about to splurge on the new box set + CD, but the Orbital shop's shipping costs were about 70 € on top of 100 € for the item itself. Too brutal, have to skip.

wondering if the digital tracklist will have more goodies on it, or same as the 2xCD...

Hopefully, something extra!

Seeing this coming out has piqued my interest in updating all my old Orbital playlists into flac and picking up on any one-off's I may have missed over the years - including all their remixes.  When's the last time you all listened to the remixes they were putting out in '92-'93? My playlist of remixes from that era basically sounds like a Brown album II - basically all golden-era techno/trance. I'll admit - there is a few I left off due to cheese factor, but the majority of these are still killer.

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Like the sound of this!

https://youtu.be/RIdtsVi7O6M

  On 5/5/2022 at 2:22 PM, Pirtek said:

Like the sound of this!

https://youtu.be/RIdtsVi7O6M

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sounds real nice to me.  Picking up some In Sides vibes here.  Really curious to hear the whole soundtrack now.

God I'm really happy to hear them using a looser drum sound again. 

Guilty pleasure Orbital:

  On 5/6/2022 at 1:39 AM, Extralife said:

Guilty pleasure Orbital:

 

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To me, this one always felt like the bros doing their take on a bad, late-era Prodigy track.

This one is my guilty pleasure Orbital

  On 5/6/2022 at 10:38 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

This one is my guilty pleasure Orbital

 

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Seconded, love this track!

my guilty pleasure Orbital is Wonky

  On 5/6/2022 at 10:38 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

This one is my guilty pleasure Orbital

 

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Also love this one. I know this album isn't usually a favorite but there are some gems on here.

The first half of Blue has some great tunes, but the production always makes it sound really cheap to me. Compare 'You Lot' with something like 'Way Out' or 'Crash and Carry' and it sounds like it's being played through a phone speaker in comparison. 'Transient' is a career highlight, mind.

One of my favorite electronic tracks ever. Slow burn remix by a Rabbit in the Moon alias. Maybe even hear some proto-BoC sounds in here. Simple, yet profound to me.

Nice to be talking about Orbital again!

  On 5/7/2022 at 10:32 PM, purlieu said:

The first half of Blue has some great tunes, but the production always makes it sound really cheap to me. Compare 'You Lot' with something like 'Way Out' or 'Crash and Carry' and it sounds like it's being played through a phone speaker in comparison. 'Transient' is a career highlight, mind.

The best one on The Blue album was the Japanese bonus track, Initiation (Remix)