I thought that would be a remix of the B-side "Beezlebub" that somehow didn't make it on The Altogether
― frogbs, Friday, 16 March 2012 13:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
btw it sucks that this is only going to be like 50 minutes long
― frogbs, Friday, 16 March 2012 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh I'm quite happy with that idea.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 March 2012 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
short and sweet beats long and noodly
― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 March 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
#ilxpostsoutofcontext
I dunno, just hoping it's not like the new Underworld album where it sounds like they made a conscious decision to keep things short and wound up neglecting a lot of what really made them great in the past, which bothered me because the material itself was really very good
― frogbs, Friday, 16 March 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm guessing they'll vary in length a bit?
If the Maida Vale set is anything to go by they've started playing 'Sad But True' live again. <3
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i never did hear that new underworld...
― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 March 2012 16:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's pretty good, better than anything else since Beaucoup Fish, but it falls down because by and large it's not very like them, there are too many other producers getting in the way, so it feels a bit like a remix compilation. Which clearly won't be the case with the Wonky, no matter whether it's any cop or not.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Always interesting to check out although "In Sides" was the last time they were top notch.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Friday, 16 March 2012 19:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Loads of new stuff in here, at least four tracks... sounds amazing.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also the dubstep Satan turns into a really awesome hardcore Satan about midway through.
http://pitchfork.com/news/45774-video-orbital-and-zola-jesus-new-france/
I missed this
btw I love it
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Monday, 26 March 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Matt I'm just getting to that set you posted upthread, holy shit
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jesus you guys weren't kidding about that Maida Vale set.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 12:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://open.soundrop.fm/s/orbital Ahead of the release of their 8th studio album "Wonky", Orbital are hosting a very special live webchat event on Spotify.Join the Orbital Soundrop room on Spotify on Thursday 29th March at 4pm to chat with the band live - and get your chance to ask them about their experiences from the last 25 Years at the heart of British dance music, and their triumphant return to the studio after an 8 year hiatus.We'll also be hosting a truly democratic Orbital playback - where you can listen along and vote for your favourite Orbital tracks - creating the ultimate Orbital playlist - voted for by the fans, for the fans.Soundrop is an app on Spotify to share, discover and experience music together with friends. Soundrop takes the original concept of the jukebox and brings it to the web in a social and democratic way. Find it in Spotify’s App Finder.
Join the Orbital Soundrop room on Spotify on Thursday 29th March at 4pm to chat with the band live - and get your chance to ask them about their experiences from the last 25 Years at the heart of British dance music, and their triumphant return to the studio after an 8 year hiatus.
We'll also be hosting a truly democratic Orbital playback - where you can listen along and vote for your favourite Orbital tracks - creating the ultimate Orbital playlist - voted for by the fans, for the fans.
Soundrop is an app on Spotify to share, discover and experience music together with friends. Soundrop takes the original concept of the jukebox and brings it to the web in a social and democratic way. Find it in Spotify’s App Finder.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe I will be sick Thursday
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
mmmm.
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
djp will just ask them about dr who.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
"what's he REALLY like"
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
then Aldo will join and say how much nu-who sucks
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
OMG.
Now that's how to do a fucking build.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Saturday, 31 March 2012 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
This has leaked by the way and 'Stringy Acid' is sending me in paroxysms of 90s throwback techno joy. It would be a standout on the Brown album, it's that good.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Saturday, 31 March 2012 10:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
STOP TALKING ABOUT IT! I am embargoing it until I can buy it in a record shop on Monday.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 31 March 2012 11:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nick it's hardly my fault you refuse to live in the modern world!
I felt the same as Matt DC but this is an amazing record - their best since In Sides. The title's a red herring because there's very little goofy humour and lots of what they're best at without being too self-referential. I'd be interested to see what younger listeners make of it because it doesn't sound nostalgic at all.
Cosign this entire post really. My copy arrived in the post this morning actually. I've listened to it twice and it is astonishingly good, definitely best since InSides. It's merely very good for the first four tracks or so and then really takes off from Distractions onwards.
There's a bit of almost everything they're good at actually - extreme prettiness (Never), aching Adnan's-style sadness (Distractions), widescreen rave (Stringy Acid) and proper hands-in-the-air anthems - I want at least 10 minutes more of the last track, Where's It Going? which is kinda like the first half of Impact with the cinematic swoop of Out There Somewhere pt. 2.
Also, Stringy Acid aside, I'm surprised how contemporary it sounds, partly because most of the elements of their sound are vogueish again, in M83-style indie electronica when not in dance music itself. And the nods to current music (wobbly dubstep on Beelzebub, Azealia Banks style electro on the title track) work because they maintain the personality of the rest of the album.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Saturday, 31 March 2012 12:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
You're torturing me.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
i really love this
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean i guess this should've been obvious because this is an orbital record but listening to the disconnected youtubes kind of misses out on the incredible weaving they do between tracks
for instance before now it was hard to tell how similar the outro of "straight sun" and the intro of "never" were
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Excited.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is the first album they've done that actually flows like an album in absolutely ages. I would have given it a colour name if I were them. A colour that's patently not as good as green or brown.
Orange maybe.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's a bit of almost everything they're good at actually
^^ this. i only listened to it once, so i still don't know if i prefer it over 'middle of nowhere'. i could do without 'belzedub', tbh. 'stringy acid' is all i could hope for a rave throwback - and even better that what such "statement" could imply.
― rusty_allen, Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
*even better than
― rusty_allen, Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn, still waiting for my copy...so this is better than The Altogether I take it? :D
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Saturday, 31 March 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
another one hour thing:
― StanM, Saturday, 31 March 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
listened to the album yesterday. fucking love it.
― caulk the wagon and float it, Saturday, 31 March 2012 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Absolutely fantastic.
― Tim F, Sunday, 1 April 2012 10:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
The build on One Big Moment is just masterful, I love how they keep adding more and more layers an then suddenly there's one chiming synth line over the top that changes the melodic complexion of the track altogether. I wish they'd taken a bit more time with it actually, if there's one mild criticism I might have of this record it's they could have been a bit more patient with the pacing of some of the tracks, Where's It Going? in particular could have a much slower build and a longer outro.
But this is already above Middle of Nowhere for me, which sagged quite badly in the middle with I Don't Know You People and Otono.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
True but the highs ("Spare Parts Express", "Know Where To Run", "Nothing Left") on Middle of Nowhere probably were higher for the reason you cite - the build on those tracks is at once astonishing and yet totally inevitable sounding. There's a slight "radio edit" quality to the tunes here.
― Tim F, Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Though it's not really a bad thing that with nearly every track I'm thinking "oh, that ended too soon."
― Tim F, Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
At the same time I'm not sure many of them actually need to be much longer - its only really the first and last tracks that would benefit from it really.
Conversely Beelzedub feels longer than it actually is and not in a bad way particularly, because there are so many sections to it and all of them feel exactly the right length. Also I love that you're sitting listening to the drill and bass bit and wondering if it could get any more gleefully ridiculous and then they throw the Kirk Hammett guitars in there as well.
Also, Distractions is a really astonishing piece of music.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Flood probably had a hand in tightening the structures and keeping the song short.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 1 April 2012 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Duh @ StanM reposting that Maida Vale thing and not even noticing until now. Wtf, dude.
― StanM, Sunday, 1 April 2012 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
glad i listened to this, i doubt i'd have bothered without the leshurr hook. i think it sounds pretty dated in places and "beelzedub" got serious side-eye from me, but "straight sun" is amazing and the leshurr track is easily the best - that build!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 1 April 2012 19:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is pretty good! It does feel a bit like it's missing that final mysterious ingredient to take it to "really great", but In Sides didn't click for me until I had it on the Walkman (lol 90s) for a coach journey through brilliant sunshine and scenery, and this one sounds like it's going to go well with summertime walks, so I'm hoping it'll really hit me then.
Though I do kind of prefer my Orbital with no hints of the 21st century, so I'll admit I prefer it if I skip Beelzedub (second half with the breaks is ok tho) and the Lady Leshurr track. I am aware this says more about me being a corny indie fuck than about the album.
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 1 April 2012 19:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
you guys are getting me hella psyched here!title cut sounds great.
― 1 week to "Charles Dingus" (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
ne-v-er
― moullet, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like how this album is a bit of a parental rebuke of Scuba.
"Straight Sun" is amazing, yes.
― Tim F, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
― StanM, Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:35 (Yesterday)
this is a DJ set btw not a live session
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 2 April 2012 03:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
3 hours till I get to buy this.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 2 April 2012 11:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone heard the second disc of the 2CD version? (Five live tracks). I'm currently debating which edition to order.
― Jeff W, Monday, 2 April 2012 13:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wasn't it C4 rather than BBC? I'll investigate though, perhaps watch it at the weekend.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 06:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
ah sorry
http://paralympics.channel4.com/video/index.html
― itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Thursday, 30 August 2012 06:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
They did Where's It Going with Stephen Hawking in front of them wearing Orbital glasses and speaking over the top of it, then manipulated his voice so it sounded like he was singing. Except the whole thing had a disabled band playing Spasticus Autisticus by Ian Dury sandwiched in the middle. The whole segment was insanely great.
Would love to know who suggested putting the glasses on Professor Hawking and how that actually happened.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 August 2012 08:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
Wow.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 08:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
OK, calling one of your songs "Stringy Acid" is something that was too obvious even for Analords.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 30 August 2012 08:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
That might be one of my biggest bugbears in music, and something a lot of my favourite acts are guilty of (I'm looking at you, Blur). VCMG did this: 'Bendy Bass', 'Single Blip'. It's like a track spoiler and very annoying.
― Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Thursday, 30 August 2012 08:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol @ the idea of a track spoiler
― ledge, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
I don't mind if it's a track spoiler, it's just lazy. And Orbital are one of those artists who are often quite clever with their titles. They could have done better.
The album's alright. It is an Orbital album, no more, no less. Beezledub is a bit embarrassing, like a dad rifling through their kids' record collection but apart from that it's solid.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
Lazy, yes. Like they had a working title and never changed it. It winds me up and actually affects my enjoyment of the music because it makes me think they just thought "well this track's good enough, let's call it "Good Song".
― Click here to read in HD (dog latin), Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
(opening ceremony repeated on freeview channel "4seven" this afternoon, 4pm i think. might need to rescan your freeview channels though as 4seven is relatively new)
― koogs, Thursday, 30 August 2012 10:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
Didn't see the ceremony last nught. Happily an HD quality rip is available on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Kd4FgGSY5BY#t=12282s
Orbital comes in around 3hr 25. Now excuse me for a minute, I've got some dust in my eye. Again.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 30 August 2012 11:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
Just the Orbital:
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
thanks!
― Click here to read in HD (dog latin), Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'm actually really digging Beezledub, in general I dislike that style but they really did it right, in my eyes
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, it's actually one of my favourites. Helps if you think of it as a mutant version of Satan.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
well... it IS a mutant version of "Satan", so
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
Exactement.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 August 2012 05:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
btw "Where Is It Going?" pwns
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 20:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
Wish they'd used the 'Live style' mix on the album.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
should i go see orbital or go to a national convention re: my chosen profession
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
see orbital, c'mon son
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
otm
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 23:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
ok, i will
― (♥___♥) (roxymuzak), Sunday, 30 September 2012 23:47 (7 months ago) Permalink