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Topic: Orbital |
Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 05:47 PM
 
They're just the bee's knees, aren't they?
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 06:48 PM
words cannot express
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 12:21 AM
Try, Twig, try. Tell me about how you felt when you heard the
opening bars of the first track of The Middle Of Nowhere.
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 05:22 AM
it felt like ... like ....
... mother?
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 08:18 PM
Seen the bros. Hartnoll four times this year and they blew me away
every single time. Their live Doctor Who theme tune rendition is
just sublime. I'd love to see them at the Cream live event at the
Liverpool Pier Head on New Year's Eve, when they're going to play
the Millennium in with Chime, but it doesn't look like I'll be able
to now.
Um, do you think it's just me and you on this Orbital
tip?
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look!NickWaddam!
Operative |
posted December 04, 1999 01:58 PM
No, it's not.
I used to be really into orbital around the time
when they released "Chime", "Satan" and "Belfast".
'Don't know anymore.
I found "Snivilisation" pretty
annoying.
Samples were irritating and very didactic.
And that half arsed attempt at a jungle tune really pissed me
off.
"Warning! Warning! Nuclear Attack!"
My arse.
[This message has been edited by look!NickWaddam! (edited
December 04, 1999).]
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 04, 1999 07:59 PM
The 'Warning Warning.. ' was a Special's sample which I thought
fitted in with the subtle ska influence on that album. Yeah, it
wasn't one of their finest moments but they more than madeup for it
with the Insides album which followed and is, as ianjones might say,
'bostin''.
I usually refrain from posting to the Oratory because music is
too personal a subject to have a reasoned discussion about, but the
praises of Orbital really do require singing. I've got agree with
your Kula-comments though Nick, blandness is probably the worst
crime an artist can commit.
I've seen them live several times at various points through the
nineties. I last saw them around the time the last album came out
and, sorry to come over all fogeyish but, they weren't as good as
they used to be. I've got a live tape of them doing 'Chime' on New
Years Eve at Ally Pally a few years ago where they mixed Big Ben
into the intro, it was quite sublime. I love that Bon
Jovi/Halcyon/Belinda Carlisle backwards mix they pull off too. It's
gimmiky yeah, but hey, it's techno right kids.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 04, 1999 08:57 PM
I don't think I've ever experienced the sense of togetherness you
get at an Orbital gig at any other music event. Not in an elitist
sense, but in a way that every single person is going at it
completely on the same wavelength and loving every minute of
it.
I also find that Orbital stuff doesn't really date: you can
listen to stuff like Chime, Lush and The Earth is Burning alongside
the new album and you can barely see the join, although there is a
feeling of evolution.
Middle of Nowhere, with its scary sci-fi
noises and sense of urgency is the best thing they've done,
definitely my favourite album of 99, possibly even the album of the
decade for me.
I agree that Snivilisation wasn't completely
great, but with Are We Here? you probably don't even need any of the
other tracks.
On that topic, you can get a great remix album with
six takes on Are We Here?. It's on import (in the UK) and check out
the Lunasol Wet Mix for a lesson in how to make a great noise with
just beeps.
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look!NickWaddam!
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 12:33 PM
I always thought the "Warning! Warning!" sample was simply a generic
"Junglism". "Are We Here" is basicaly a Jungle tune. At the time, I
was impressed by Orbitals open mindedness: To experiment with the
breakbeat sound was daring - Jungle was, at that time, still frowned
upon by the popular music press - but something about those samples
really began to grate.....
I share your love of "Chime". Great tune.
What do you think of
"Belfast"? There was a time when I thought it was the best thing in
the world.
Oh, and "Insides" is quite good in places.
[This message has been edited by look!NickWaddam! (edited
December 05, 1999).]
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 01:47 PM
Yeah, "Belfast," fucking great. Look, maybe I shouldn't have started
this thread because all I'll be able to say is "Yeah, fucking
great."
Unless anyone says Orbital are shit and then I'll start a
fight.
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Cochese
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 01:56 PM
OK. I'll play devils advocate and state right now that I didn't
think Middle of Nowhere was all that much cop... Though Style is a
great song.
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look!NickWaddam!
Operative |
posted December 13, 1999 07:53 PM
About that "togetherness thing": Are you guys clubbers? A good event
should have that energy in spades. The most powerful experience of
togetherness I've had at an event was dancing to Future Sound of
London over an ISDN link at the essential festival in Brighton in
97. Millions of computer screens, across an enormous stage, burst
into action with an electric whine as one of the dynamic duo assured
us over the com link that "We'd all know this one"....
We'd been waiting for FSOL to play their set for an hour - we'd
had to put up with the intensely naff fiddles of Dreadzone for most
of that time - so, as the first strains of Papua New Gineau rippled
across the crowd, and the whole place erupted, you won't be
surprised that I found it a little difficult to supress a tear. It
was one of those events that was everything I believed "raving" to
be about when I was 13 and listening to those acid trax records.....
Aaaah, but then there was the time that Giles Peterson rewound
Dave Clarke's "No-one's Driving" at Barumbha..
And Squarepusher at the Big Chill............
I think I need to go out.
[This message has been edited by look!NickWaddam! (edited
December 13, 1999).]
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 13, 1999 08:35 PM
I remember Underworld at the Reading Festival... 1996? Born Slippy
was riding high in the charts and everyone was begging them NOT to
play it (call it an elitist thing, but we didn't want no chart shite
at our big night out thank you very much). But when they did play
it, the place went absolutely mental. It was one of the best things
I've ever experienced. And no-one at all shouted "lager lager
lager".
And then there was Daft Punk at Glastonbury 1997, and the
boy Oakenfold at Creamfields this year... yup, I need to go out too.
Anyone coming?
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 13, 1999 08:37 PM
Oh yeah, and Papua New Guinea. Only a heart of stone could fail to
be moved. I sort of get the same tingle from this new William Orbit
single - can't wait for the album, all reworked classical
stuff.
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[wisp]
Operative |
posted December 13, 1999 09:15 PM
Jeff Noon says that certain electronica tracks 'have ghost' in them.
Orbital has some serious ghost.
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