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After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their forthcoming LP the “Blue Album” will be their last. Following the album’s release on 21st of June, Orbital will play Brixton Academy on 25th of June followed by their last ever English live show, closing the second stage on Sunday June 27th at Glastonbury. “I think we feel that Orbital has run it’s course,” says Paul Hartnoll. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we’ve been sat, as brothers, in the same room for 15 years now–and studios are always confined spaces–I think it’s time for a change.” Since their first single, ‘Chime’ entered the top 20 in April 1990 Orbital have released six albums and developed a live show that evolved, by common consent into one of the landmark performance shows of the last decade. They have helped to shape and develop both the character and credibility of electronic music far beyond the disposable anonymity of the first white labels and the acid house scene that they came from. In 1989–when Chime was recorded onto their dad’s cassette player–no–one expected things to come this far, least of all the band themselves. The brothers extra–mural interests have all informed the character of The Blue Album, the bands seventh, which evolved gradually over the course of 2003 with the band free from record company expectations and schedules for the first time since their career began. “If anything,” says Paul “It’s closer in character to our first album than our later ones, if only because we made it in our own time and for ourselves.” Fans will recognise the trademark Orbital sound when they hear it. Familiar themes from previous albums, such as religion, are also present. “There’s a couple of references to that,” says Paul. One of my favourite tracks, “You Lot” has got this speech from Christopher Eccleston from this fantastic drama called The Second Coming. I just really loved that programme and that speech is quite typically orbital, like our other track Forever |
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that’s got a speech halfway through and I really love the sentiment behind that. That whole programme was about the second coming, obviously, and God.” “We’ve got another track [One Perfect Sunrise] we did with Lisa Gerrard who was in Dead Can Dance, singing on it. That’s a spin off from something we wrote for a Sunrise scene, in another film …that’s turned out well.” Noted for their collaborations, Orbital’s last album is no exception featuring work from fellow sibling legends, Sparks. “We were wanting some vocals on the track Pants, something fairly odd, and thought Sparks would be perfect,” says Paul. “It turned out they’re quite up for a bit of collaboration and said yes when we approached them. After we’d asked them I set about listening to some of their recent work and was pleasantly surprised to find it was even more bonkers than their original stuff. It was all done across the Atlantic, via file sharing and CD’s, and when we heard it we realised it was really a track in it’s own right so we remixed it and it’s ended up here as Acid Pants, it’s own thing.” Another audible influence on the album is that of legendary transsexual composer Walter/Wendy Carlos. “Absolutely,” says Paul, “I tried to do something with a sort of Clockwork Orange feel, and that became ‘Bath Time’ . It started off by being hummed in the bath on tour before I was about to go and meet everyone for a pint in San Francisco. Got out of the bath and scribbled it down on my laptop and finished it over last summer, adding little bits in buses and vans while I was travelling. And it went on from there. It became like Clockwork Orange and Kraftwerk combined. Electronic music for electronic musics sake, dodging all real instrument sounds. Wheras ‘Easy Serve’ is weird supermarket muzak, almost like hospital muzak. Maybe it’s a supermarket where they only sell hospital items. Here’s the lip section…Either way, it’s not going to be a coffee table album. But then we’ve never done one of them. Maybe a coffee table album at three in the |
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they would rather be lovers, than make music ? |
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morning, when everyone is blind drunk and no one can remember anything anyway.” With the album complete the band are turning their attention to their final show at Glastonbury. An appropriate venue for a farewell as it was here, exactly ten years before that Orbital delivered a live show that Q magazine listed as one of the fifty greatest live show of all time. “It’s nice to know that we’re finishing, it’s not many bands that do that. They tend to just fade away. And it’s nice to have our last gig at Glastonbury. It’s gonna be a party set, a best of Orbital. We’re not gonna sit there and try and promote the new album. I think if we’re gonna do a last gig we should do distilled set of all the best stuff we’ve done. And that’s what we’re gonna do, play all the stuff that’s stuck around for all this time because they are the favourite ones. This will definitely be our last ever live shows,” confirms Paul, “Although I’m sure Status Quo keep telling themselves the same thing.” |
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maybe they should swing a little with sean and rob... |
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who would have thought :/ bummer |
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i don't know much Orbital stuff, i've only heard limited tracks, but i think it's a shame - i know how much they've added to the electronica culture but i'd rather someone bowed out when they thought they couldn't carry it on anymore, unlike some people (Michael Jackson) who just carry on spouting out the same old sounding stuff |
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dk/dc |
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the new album is pretty good. chime is fantastic.. que sera sera. |
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Oh man thats poop ,good job ive got me glasto ticket so i can be there for the farewell :*( : ) Fav album : in sides. Fav track : dwr budr. |
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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEVER GOT TO SEE THEM LIVE!!! |
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Me neither..... and it looks as though we never will |
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I booked my tickets for Brixton as soon as I found out it was to be their penultimate show. It's... well, The Box was the first CD I ever bought, but I've never seen them live. So I simply HAD to, no question about it. |
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the two male duo is a conspiciously ubiquitous phenomenon in electronic music.. i'm sure there's a thread on this somewhere, i guess... who do we have? orbital ae mike + rich two lone swordsmen plaid i'm sure i'm forgetting lots |
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Good, they're shit! |
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also mouse on mars isan |
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Future Sound Of London, Pan Sonic, (new) Underworld, Basement Jaxx, Chemical Brothers, KLF, (early) LFO... all two male members. |
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i'm sure darren emerson would appreciate you not counting him! |
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That's why I said (new) Underworld. :P |
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I doubt they can beat the brown album. It's too perfect. The 'Lush' tracks transforming into 'Impact' and finally finishing off with Halcyon+on+on is just too perfect. "..a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop." |
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oh man! i agree so much! that is their best bit of their best album. don't forget "remind"! |
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Boc!!!! |
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The Aphex Twins. ...sorry |
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:'( |
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u'd better say old since darren emerson was just this 1 album only thing.. although he did the job quite well. |
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"It's a cry! It's a cry for survival!" |
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they just want the attention like KISS |
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Oh man!!! I have been a massive fan since i was 11 years old and i am probably never going to see them!!! ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!! Oh man... Fav track: The girl with the sun in her head Fav album: the brown album |
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more two male dude electronic acts off the top of my head - matmos funkstorung telefon tel aviv gridlock |
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funckarma ..also brothers OOOOH!! .. I just remembered, quite suddenly, that I've seen Orbital live. they closed a festival where I was at when I was 16. |
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tentative list: matmos funkstorung telefon tel aviv gridlock funckarma boards of canada mouse on mars isan orbital ae mike + rich two lone swordsmen plaid fsol pan sonic underworld (newer) basement jaxx chemical brothers klf lfo (older) dust brothers kruder & dorfmeister crystal method |
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orbital are great! its normal that they split after so many years though... the music will be there forever |
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