Orbital - Classic or Dud?

Get a Bandcamp, Orbital!

Not only was the set ace, it's astounding how clear & sharp the sound was, for a 30-year-old tape played through a TV. Wonder if it was a straight stereo output, or they recorded multitrack and Paul was able to polish it up a bit for this stream.

DAT I imagine. Chime famously recorded on cassette though.

Sure, but I mean what they were feeding to the DAT.

rad!

this is me, in sides stan numero uno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCyxLCe8dKc

(it's not me)

someone sign him up

More lockdown fun from Paul, back in May: an hour-long live session at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj6PmQ_0ft0

00:00 - Impact
08:05 - P.H.U.K
14:51 - One Day
19:50 - Untitled (Unreleased)
24:42 - Hoo Hoo Ha Ha
29:00 - Halcyon
36:41 - Vision onE
42:18 - Belfast
47:24 - Chime
52:42 - Where Is It Going?

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

can't get into Orbital but I liked this Against the Clock Paul did using samples of Tories.

Also politicalish, an NHS-benefitting shops-are-open-in-Britain single by him with poet Murray Lachlan-Young: https://hartnollandyoung.bandcamp.com/releases

Video on Orbital's youtube channel.

This soundboard recording of the first-ever Orbital gig is a must-listen, imo. Half an hour including commentary bookends from Paul.

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

discussed a little at the top of this revive fyi :)

that was like, hundreds of pixels away. impossible for me to have seen that.

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— Orbital (@orbitalband) August 19, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avO75HITKTE

awesome! wish they'd demoed some of that stuff but still, fascinating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_v43wbJWGQ

^ live in their studio in July, standing in for what would have been their set at the Bluedot festival

<3

Still on the web from 1992: a long listserv account from an enthusiastic Salt Lake City fan who realised the Communion tour would have to drive through his town to get from gigs in Boulder on a Monday night to San Francisco on the Wednesday. In lieu of his previous plan of spending $300 to drive to SF to see them, he phoned around the country until he found someone he could pitch on offering $3000 for Orbital, Meat Beat Manifesto and Ultramarine to stop and play a show on the way through.

When the opening DJ agreed, all this dude had to do was figure out how to book a venue, hire lighting and sound gear, cater, tech, promote and run a night of an international tour. In five days.

i've been listening to orbital all week

has there been an orbital tracks poll and why not

there's a new Hartnoll & Young single out tomorrow too :

New Single "HOME SCHOOLING" is out tomorrow. Pre-save and follow our Spotify page. https://t.co/QtRLrbiSBb#HomeSchooling #HartnollandYoung #HomeSchoolers #HomeSchoolLife #HomeSchool #LearningThroughPlay #LearningAtHome @orbitalband @paulhartnoll858 @MurrayLYoung pic.twitter.com/jnqbL6uXPT

— Hartnoll & Young (@Hartnoll_Young) May 13, 2021

an Orbital poll would be fun but I don't think anything particularly interesting is gonna come out of it, their big tracks & hidden gems are pretty well defined and they don't have a real expansive back catalogue the way Underworld does

We did a Blur tracks poll, I think that means anyone is fair game

I'd be well up for a poll, 9 studio albums plus other stuff is a big enough discography, plus the rave orbital vs. prog orbital, fite! opportunities.

halcyon's gonna win but it would just be a very fun poll

idk what my #1 would be but I am pretty sure I'd have to settle on "Out There Somewhere", such an unparalleled piece of work

yes! to track poll
could include side projects and remixes too to make it more interesting and have a halcyon vs bon jovi/belinda halcyon fight

There's a poll vacancy right now if Brad wants to leap in

listen, running a poll, not my style

suggesting one, hoping it appears out of thin air, way moreso

i can't ever decide between "Somewhere" and "Halcyon", the former is a chemically enhanced memory which makes it harder to be lol objective but still

bent violin noises kicking in during part 2 of Somewhere one of the best sounds ever

was just thinking the synth wobble in "girl with the sun in her head" is one of the best sounds in music

that too

i don't have the knowledge to describe this stuff but the wobbly pitch bendy(?) stuff on that record is so emotive

the opening track on the Bluedot show sic posted is a recent classic! (There Will Come A Time feat. Brian Cox, We Will Die mix)

was just thinking the synth wobble in "girl with the sun in her head" is one of the best sounds in music

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, May 13, 2021 4:19 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao I literally posted abt this song on the Slack a few hours ago: Orbital's "The Girl With The Sun In Her Head" just came on (via Spotify's stellar "Sci-Fi Scapes" playlist) and I feel like I could truly listen to this song on repeat for the rest of my life and never get bored

I do agree that this poll would likely be more predictable than the Underworld poll, though note that I would lobby super-hard for the best tracks from Middle of Nowhere (in particular "Know Where To Run" and "Nothing Left").

way out -> too!

I'm not even sure Halcyon would crack the top 5 if live/studio votes aren't consolidated

It's def not my favorite Orbital track either. I want this ballot poll too. Listening to Belfast right now and it's so great

Would love an Orbital poll

I’d probably vote for the Radiccio Halcyon, the Jovi/Carlisle Halcyon, and for the Opus III version of Its A Fine Day in my top 5

didn’t realize the opus III version was a cover! and the same year they released their version there was a guy called gerald remix of the original

Halcyon was the same year, too!

and a Cantonese version!

anyone into that vibe may wanna check this out from my buddy George Clanton. he basically remixed one of his own tunes into Opus III with some version of the Halycon bass line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb4QFKqUKVs

here's the 50-80 year old members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop joining Orbital live to play the Dr Who theme in 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqlK-bK8P2M

i would do a poll

The thing I always dug about Orbital's sound is that it was the next step in many ways of what the Germans were doing in the 70s with all that arpeggiation and weaving it in and out. Not to get all Geir, but Orbital really does have a good touch on melody and a big reason their music has hung on.

Hop onto the “next poll” thread and plant yr flag forks! Open voting tomorrow, the momentum is there

halcyon and poll and poll

I meant i would vote! I just moved but I'd be happy to pick this up when things get quiet.
Never understood the ILM poll queue, my inclination would be to just start one.

The queue is so that only one major ballot poll is running at once, it’s just that nobody in the queue is leaping to start one atm (or generally these days.)