Orbital - 20

Orbital 20

After unveiling headline performances at this summer’s hottest dance festivals, as well as a UK headline tour, dance pioneers Orbital announce the release of their most well known tracks plus some new mixes.

Simply titled ‘ORBITAL 20’ the compilation celebrates 20 years of ground-breaking electronica, reworked and remixed onto 2 CD’s of generation-defining dance music, to be released on June 8th via Rhino Records.

“This compilation is the most definitive summary of our work since ‘Chime’ came out in 1989″, says Paul Hartnoll on the release of their definitive collection, “It’s a great introduction, or indeed a reminder, of the story so far…”

I know that the brothers gonna work it out, to quote The Chemical Brothers. I don’t think this compilation is the last we see and hear from the Hartnoll brother.
No, they love what they do so much and when they release their next album it will be “The Techno Bomb” mark my words.

Listening to 20 is like drinking that expensive vintage vine that you spent some extra buck on, you don’t regret it because you know were that extra money went! In this case into your ears out your heart. boom boom boom… 909, 303, 808 and Oberheim Matrix-1000 you just got to love the Hartnoll brothers.

Tracklist:
CD 1
1. Chime (Live Style Mix)
2. Belfast
3. Satan
4. Halcyon (Tom Middleton Re-Model)
5. Lush 3
6. Impact (Live From Royal Albert Hall)
7. Are We Here (Who Are They?)
8. The Box
9. Nothing Left (Much Ado About Nothing Left)
10. One Perfect Sunrise (Radio Edit)
11. Chime

CD 2
1. Omen
2. Choice
3. The Naked and The Dead
4. Sad But True
5. Style
6. Funny Break (One Is Enough)
7. The Girl With The Sun In Her Head
8. Remind (Live From New York)
9. Lush (Herve’s ‘Tree and Leaf’ Remix)
10. Impact (The Earth IsBurning)

…All this talk of Aliens and suddenly we are in the realm of Tong The Merciless, “Larger than Endor and more dangerous than the Deathstar!

With their critically acclaimed debut album behind them and a string of high profile remixes for the likes of Daft Punk and Underworld having left scorch marks on dance floors world wide, Glasgow’s premiere techno twosome are back with a vengeance.

Alien Radio offers up nine tracks of sweeping and twisted dance music, some of which is collaborative, with the likes of Dot Allison, James Lavelle and jazz drummer Paddy Flaherty adding their skills which are all bound together by Slam’s expertise on the mixing desk. Occasionally minimal and sometimes thumping, this album is born out of a history of mash ups that took place in Chicago, Detroit, Paris as well as the UK and is the perfect showcase for the philosophies of Slam and their label, Soma.

‘Positive Education’ makes a welcome return although this mix doesn’t surpass the original glassy, tech-funk monster that has stayed in so many record boxes since its release all those years ago. All this talk of Aliens and suddenly we are in the realm of Tong The Merciless…”Larger than Endor and more dangerous than the Deathstar!” Great stuff.

Artist: Slam
Album: Alien Radio
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/216125
Label: 541
Catalog#: 541416 500615
Released: 2001-06-18
Style: Techno / Deep House

Tracklist:
1 This Is
2 Lifetimes
3 Alien Radio
4 Narco Tourists
5 Visions
6 Eyes Of Your Soul
7 Positive Education
8 Bass Addiction
9 Virtuoso