POSSE! YOU KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE! It's the 1990s ELECTRONIC ALBUMS poll results!

a few years back i went to chicago for a few weeks.
i happened to chance upon a cheap copy of the us edition of 'in sides' which has an extra cd of remixes etc.
when i came home i then just added it to the archive and never gave it a listen.
i had no idea the album was so loved.
i always assumed that their earlier albums were the faves !
of course following the love in this poll i have dug said cd out of the archive and given its first airing today ..
so, ta for the nudge ..

FROGBS: "I like SP but the whole "you have to be a musician" excuse doesn't hold water here, I think"

Probably not. I guess I just don't see how people could dig Confield or Drukqs and not like Go Plastic. It just seems weak minded.

mark, In Sides is one of the best albums ever recorded

I could have sworn amongst out other drunken blather that I said this to you when we went out drinking

haha ! you very probably did, as i had just bought it that day ..

that bonus disk the the 18 hour version of The Box is pretty epic!

I guess I just don't see how people could dig Confield or Drukqs and not like Go Plastic. It just seems weak minded.

― dojo, Monday, November 5, 2012 12:40 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

O_o

that bonus disk the the 18 hour version of The Box is pretty epic!

checked. my extra disc has 2 versions of satan, the saint, the sinner, and a live version of halcyon.

ooh you got the second edition

the first edition has:

1. "Times Fly (Slow)" 7:58
2. "Sad But New" 7:29
3. "Times Fly (Fast)" 7:53
4. "The Tranquilizer" 6:27
5. "The Box (full version)" (Hartnoll, Hartnoll, Grant Fulton, Peter Mauder) 28:11

humph.
didn't know there were variations !
would have preferred the full version of the box .. used to have that on cassette and its amazing ..

yeah IIRC the first edition combined The Box EP with Times Fly EP (with The Box EP glommed together into one long Frankestein track)

i wish they'd have combined both bonus discs but yeah you want the one with "Times Fly". I geeked out when I finally found a copy.

My second edition has a Live at Glastonbury version of "Impact (The Earth Is Burning)" which is one of the greatest pieces of recorded music ever.

Also "The Sinner" is pretty wicked.

Either two-disc edition is better than the most common one-CD UK edition with The Saint etc just tacked on the end right after the main In Sides tracks. In Sides is such an amazing album and then bam, The Saint starts up and totally destroys the vibe. I had the original release on tape and wanted to upgrade it to CD for years but didn't want to pay money for that edition.

(I'm not quite going to say The Saint is bad but it's definitely not on In Sides' level. OK, what is? But it's p. much my least favourite thing Orbital did during the whole of the 90s.)

I think the tracks on Dan's "first edition" were all on singles UK-side: the first 4 tracks from the Times Fly single and the 28-minute Box is probably all 4 tracks of the Box CD single put together. I've seen the Box CDS cheapish over here recently and used to see the Times Fly double-7" fairly often, so it may be easier here to get hold of the singles than specific American editions of the album.

In Sides is such an amazing album and then bam, The Saint starts up and totally destroys the vibe.

this is actually why i never bought the cd edition as it was obvious that this would be the case ..

"The Saint" really is the worst.

But srsly if you haven't heard that version of Impact you need it in your life.

"The Sinner" is great tho

Yeah, it's like an extended apology letter.

This version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhVU8RKRaTY

Actually, no, that's 1994. The one Tim is talking about starts at 40:00 here, I think.

CD says "Live at V96 Chelmsford" if that helps.

Maybe not Glastonbury, I just assumed that without checking.

Jesus, that Glastonbury vid is so damned good.

But I was… there.

I didn't really enjoy the whole set that much, but that track was definitely a highlight.

Glastonbury 94 version of Impact (The Earth Is Burning) was on

http://www.brainkiller.it/prodigy/upload02/rare12.jpg

and iirc Tom E posted it to an old YSI thraed

Bringing back the memories that cover, used to listen to that tape in the car. Photoshop swirl effect, soon to be reappropriated no doubt.

But I was… there.

I didn't really enjoy the whole set that much, but that track was definitely a highlight.

― Chewshabadoo

According to the comments someone was shot during Bjork's performance the night before. Weird vibes all round?

Nah, not really. It was pre-mobile-phone for anyone other than a small minority (In fact the last time I went in 2001 it was still almost impossible to get a text message through to anyone else) so you only heard the odd rumour, and even then there were at least 100,000 people there, maybe more because it was so easy to sneak in. And in a town or city that big, someone dying is a tragedy for sure, but it's not something you think affects you. Add in to that everyone in general at Glastonbury then was friendly and having a great time, vibes are great.

For me, there were much better dance music experiences wandering around finding the people who had set up their own soundsystems, or even the market stalls in general playing tapes or much more interesting music with random people just deciding they were liking what they were hearing and dancing areas starting up organically.

Damn, I used to love that festival. Can't ever imagine going back, there's no way with all the tickets being sold a year in advance that it can be anywhere near as good a spontaneous experience.

Nice one - jealous of anyone who made it in the early to mid-90's.

I was a bit spoilt to be honest, my first festival experience ever was Glastonbury '92 as a 16 year old. I didn't find a festival experience which matched it iuntil going to my first Freerotation a few years back which is really just a very large house party with a few hundred people. I can't ever imagine being somewhere with tens of thousands of people just loving life. Rose-tinted, perhaps, but I'd like to know if there's something as good on such a large scale happening now. Glastonbury even by about '97 was already full of knob'eads shouting "bollocks".

I've done Labyrinth in Japan a few times. Very well curated, intimate, great location in the mountains and although the music has changed over the years it still retains some of its 'trance party' roots. Not comparable to any of the big festivals. Luckily.

Jealous of that, been wanting to go for 5 years, but not happened yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLaBPq-Krlk

This is the mix that live version was based on. The build in the second half is just amazing, destroys the album track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irGobeC0Qkg

And here's the glorious live version that was included on a bonus disc with some editions of In Sides. Everything from 5:20 onward is the best thing ever.

IIRC the V96 version of Impact was on the 3 CD-single release of a live version of Satan:
http://www.discogs.com/Orbital-Satan-Live/release/874

I still have all 3 CDs kicking around somehwhere, in combination they form a fantastic live album.

Damn that could be at least ten minutes longer.

Anyone know where (if anywhere) the "cry for survival" thing is lifted from?

Righto, we're ready for the Tracks Results, yeah?

IIRC the V96 version of Impact was on the 3 CD-single release of a live version of Satan:

Yeah, I had this - first Orbital CD I ever bought, felt slightly let down by the astudio version of 'Impact' when I got around to buying the brown album.

^^^ my experience too

IMO every version of "Impact" is amazing

yeah i had those three cds, and yeah they were my first orbital. wish i still had them. i love it when you hear that one jock-y guy in the crowd going "BRING ON THE FUCKIN' BON JOVI!"

the recording of "Lush 3" on the 2nd "Satan Live" disc was recorded at the first Orbital concert I saw ^_^

xp dog latin, I'll try and dig them out then webmail you with a link. Will post here again if successful, in case anyone else is interested.

Obviously I now want to redo my tracks ballot with Impact live. What a colossal tune.

Thanks Neil!

i heard this album was recorded in less time than it lasts.

― jed_ (jed), 26. elokuuta 2006 3:51

this is one of my new favorite quotes

I was lucky enough to go to every Glastonbury from 1990 to 97 (think there were two gap years in that time).

Orbital's 1994 appearance put dance music firmly on the Glastonbury map, so much so that the Dance tent made its debut the year after.

Was also fortunate to catch Underworld's Experimental Sound Field in 92 which was mind blowing to someone just getting into dance music (and had no idea who Underworld were at the time).

And pre mobiles meant it was a different world. Remember hearing rumours of a shooting but not finding out someone had died until we got home.

No mobiles also meant one year we didn't meet up with some mates until the Saturday night as they'd missed the pre-arranged meet on the Thursday. It was only pure coincidence we bumped into them 2 days later.

But as mentioned above, the best moments were stumbling across some stall with a DJ pumping out Union Jack's 'Two Full Moons...' and a large crowd of people all dancing and hugging each other right next to it.