Orbital – Orbital

Release date: 19/04/2024

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Orbital

Orbital

Orbital are to reissue their seminal self-titled 1991 debut album, known to fans as ‘The Green Album’. All tracks have been fully remastered by Phil and Paul Hartnoll for the very first time.

Originally released on September 30, 1991, ‘The Green Album’ contains landmark Orbital tracks including their breakthrough 1990 single ‘Chime’, and the evergreen comedown classic ‘Belfast’. The comprehensive reissue package also includes early Orbital favourites like ‘Satan’ plus previously unavailable tracks, making it a must have for fans of the pioneering electronic music duo.

FORMATS

2CD, 2LP, 2LP (Limited Edition Green/Red Vinyl), 4CD Box Set (Limited Edition Deluxe), 4LP Box Set (Limited Edition Deluxe)

GENRE

Dance
Release date: 19/04/2024
SKU: LMS1725116 Category: Tag:

Orbital are to reissue their seminal self-titled 1991 debut album, known to fans as ‘The Green Album’. All tracks have been fully remastered by Phil and Paul Hartnoll for the very first time.

Originally released on September 30, 1991, ‘The Green Album’ contains landmark Orbital tracks including their breakthrough 1990 single ‘Chime’, and the evergreen comedown classic ‘Belfast’. The comprehensive reissue package also includes early Orbital favourites like ‘Satan’ plus previously unavailable tracks, making it a must have for fans of the pioneering electronic music duo.

Additionally, Orbital will also be revisiting their pre-Green Album EPs with a series of ‘Orbital LED’s’ (Limited Edition Drops). Again, these will be fully remastered versions of the duo’s original 12” EP series, with brand new artwork. Fans will be alerted to these extremely limited releases on the day of release.

Following the success of ‘Chime’, Pete Tong signed Orbital to London/ffrr Records, and Tong allowed the Hartnolls the freedom to record the album they wanted to make. Where their contemporaries on the rave circuit would knock out ten formulaic 4/4 piano bangers with guest vocalists and call it an album, for their debut Orbital wanted to explore wider textures, different rhythms, stranger mind spaces. “Our heroes were always Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, the Severed Heads – people who made proper, satisfying, full albums,” explains Paul, “and we were like, yeah, that’s what we want to do.”

It was this ambition that led to Orbital becoming giants of electronic music. The Hartnoll brothers would go on to redefine what dance music could do and the place it took within popular culture itself. Their music has influenced and inspired artists from Björk to Bicep and they have collaborated with minds as diverse as Madonna, Kraftwerk and Professor Brian Cox.

Following The Green Album their second self-titled album – aka The Brown Album – cemented Orbital’s position as musical visionaries. A career of creative leaps quite unlike those usually seen in the fast turnover world of dance music followed, including creating soundtracks for Hollywood films including 1997’s Event Horizon, and most recently for Mike Myers Netflix series The Pentaverate.

Alongside their boundary-pushing work in the recording studio, Orbital earned a reputation as one of the best live acts on the planet. This year marks the 30th anniversary of their legendary 1994 Glastonbury performance, often cited as converting the festival to dance music.

33 years after its initial release, and over 10 years since last pressed on vinyl, the remastered Green Album arrives ahead of the recently updated ‘The Green + Brown Album Tour’, which will see the legendary electronic music duo revisit and reinterpret both albums in their entirety, including performing several of the tracks live for the very first time. The tour will start in New York in March and Orbital will appear at Coachella Festival in California on April 13th and 20th before returning for the UK leg.

Format – 2CD, Limited Edition Deluxe 4CD Box Set (Includes 60 page book), 2LP, Limited Edition Green/Red Coloured Vinyl 2LP & Limited Edition Deluxe 4LP Box Set (Includes 60 page hardback book, Slipmat and flyers)

2 for £25

TRACKLISTING (IF AVAILABLE)

2CD
CD1
1. The Moebius
2. Speed Freak
3. Oolaa
4. Desert Storm
5. Fahrenheit 303
6. Steel Cube Idolatry
7. High Rise
8. Chime (Live)
9. Midnight (Live)
10. Belfast
11. I Think Its Disgusting

CD2
1. Torpedo Town
2. Macro Head
3. Satan
4. L.C.1
5. Belfast / Wasted (Wasted Vocal Mix)
6. Crime
7. Fahrenheit 3D3
8. Open Mind Jam*
9. The Other One*
10. Satan (Rhyme and Reason Vocal Mix)
11. Midnight (Sasha Remix)

*previously unreleased

—– LIMITED 4CD BOX SET —–
CD1
1. The Moebius
2. Speed Freak
3. Oolaa
4. Desert Storm
5. Fahrenheit 303
6. Steel Cube Idolatry
7. High Rise
8. Chime (Live)
9. Midnight (Live)
10. Belfast
11. I Think Its Disgusting

CD2
1 Torpedo town (PKA untitled)
2 Macrohead
3 Satan
4 L.C.1
5 Belfast / Wasted (Wasted Vocal Mix)
6 Crime
7 Fahrenheit 3D3
8 Open Mind Jam*
9 The Other One*
10 Satan (Rhyme and Reason Vocal Mix)
11 Midnight (Sasha Remix)

CD3
1. Chime 12″
2. Deeper 12″
3. Omen – The Fool
4. Omen – The Tower
5. 2 Deep
6. Open Mind
7. Midnight
8. Choice
9. Analogue Test Feb ’90
10. Choice (Eye and I Mix)

CD4
1 Synergy (Live):
1.1 Satan
1.2 LC1
1.3 Chime
1.4 Son of Chime

2 Mystery Gig 1991 (Live):
2.1 Choice
2.2 Fahrenheit 303
2.3 Chime / Crime
2.4 BIT
2.5 Oolaa
2.6 Speed Freak

—– 2LP —–
SIDE A
1. The Moebius
2. Speed Freak
3. Macrohead

SIDE B
1. Oolaa
2. Desert Storm

SIDE C
1. Fahrenheit 303
2. Steel Cube Idolatry
3. High Rise

SIDE D
1. Chime (Live)
2. Midnight (Live)
3. Belfast

—– LIMITED 4LP BOX SET (ORIGINAL ALBUM / REMIXES AND RARITIES) —–
SIDE A
1. The Moebius
2. Speed Freak
3. Macrohead

SIDE B
1. Oolaa
2. Desert Storm

SIDE C
1. Fahrenheit 303
2. Steel Cube Idolatry
3. High Rise

SIDE D
1. Chime (Live)
2. Midnight (Live)
3. Belfast

SIDE E
1. Torpedo town (PKA untitled)
2. Satan

SIDE F
1. L.C.1
2. Belfast / Wasted (Wasted Vocal Mix)
3. Crime

SIDE G
1. Fahrenheit 3D3
2. Open Mind Jam*
3. The Other One*

SIDE H
1. Satan (Rhyme and Reason Vocal Mix)
2. Midnight (Sasha Remix)

*previously unreleased

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