Orbital
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Black Box, Guru Josh, Orbital, 808 State et al: Energy, Docklands Arena, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Smash Hits, 2 May 1990
TYPICAL SO-called "raves" (i.e. those massive dance parties held in cornfields off the M2S) don't usually start 'til gone midnight. Energy, which bills itself as ...
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 7 September 1991
Techno-slaphead alert! Bow-tie-wearing aliens with enormo-ears from planet Proper Dance Music are writhing in our cornfields and masquerading as ORBITAL. Beam me up, Rotty, screams ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 7 March 1992
IT'S GRIM down south. Suicidally so on the remote escarpment of lunar terrain where the Dungeness nuclear reactor hums its menacing mantra out across beaches ...
The Shamen, the Prodigy, Basti, Orbital, N-Joi: Sound City '92, Norwich
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 9 May 1992
FRIDAY ...
Report by Simon Reynolds, Details, July 1992
Four years after its invention in a Detroit bedroom, techno is now dominating dance floors from London to L.A. Is it the next musical insurrection ...
Overview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, April 1993
TECHNO. THE name sounds at once monolithic and impersonal, the acronym of a multinational conglomerate, and toylike, as in brightly colored plastic Lego blocks. ...
Review by Stuart Maconie, Select, July 1994
CAN TECHNO ever really be about anything? Or, should we say, about anything more meaningful than fluffy clouds and getting substantially out of it. Than ...
Orbital: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, December 1994
THE WAY THAT ORBITAL wanted to make music, one of the Hartnoll brothers said last year in a rare theoretical moment, was like an idealised ...
Report by Frank Broughton, Blah Blah Blah, 1995
With the Chemicals and Underworld making waves stateside, is dance music finally reaching mainstream America? ...
Report by Andrew Smith, The Guardian, 8 May 1995
The Criminal Justice Act put the rave under House arrest. But it's out and it's phat in Oxfordshire ...
Report and Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 9 September 1995
IAN WATSON talks to the bands who are contributing to the Help album and how this project compares to pop's last major charity initiative, the ...
Orbital: De Montfort University, Leicester
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 11 May 1996
DANCE MUSIC is the most innovative genre around, but Orbital are leaving that behind. Six years on from their rave smash 'Chime', the Hartnolls' recent ...
Orbital, µ-ziq: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 25 May 1996
Well-Rounded ...
Found In Space: In the electronic universe of Orbital, the star is sound
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 5 July 1996
ROCK 'N' ROLL often has a lot to do with public image – a preening Mick Jagger, a prancing Tina Turner, a spitting Johnny Rotten, ...
Pleased To Meet You: Mike Oldfield & Orbital
Interview by David Quantick, Q, October 1996
Without "funny" Mike Oldfield ambient music as we know it might never have existed. Without ex-baldies Orbital the Royal Albert Hall might never have hosted ...
Lollapalooza: Coral Sky Amphitheater, West Palm Beach, Florida
Live Review by Will Hermes, Spin, September 1997
"DO YOU WANNA see the first band, or do you wanna see me jump to my death?" a paunchy MC bellowed from a perch atop ...
Our Electric Friends: Humanising the Highway, from ‘Autobahn’ to Orbital
Book Excerpt by Ben Thompson, 'Seven Years of Plenty', 1998
DRIVING ON THE M25 in a rusty Mini. Early evening, thick drizzle. Only one windscreen wiper works because someone has snapped the end off the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 25 April 1998
Disco biscuits, gurning, raves, sartorial bonkersness, and, um, Guru Josh! The ACID HOUSE scene brought us many things when it exploded in 1988; it also ...
Orbital: Town & Country Club, Leeds ***
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 22 March 1999
IS IT REALLY 11 years since acid house? Yup, the members of the Class Of '88 haven't reached for their pipe and slippers yet, but ...
Book Excerpt by Ben Thompson, Ways Of Hearing, 2001
IT'S A GREY weekday lunchtime in glamorous East Anglia. Cambridge town centre is brought to a resentful standstill as a series of huge pantechnicons disgorge ...
Orbital: The Altogether (ffrr) ****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 2001
ON THE techno calendar, the present era isn't so much AD as AD&B – the post-drum'n'bass era. That genre followed a curious arc – it ...
Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 24 June 2004
THE END IS NIGH. This summer, after 15 years, Orbital will cease to be, at least in the form that we have known and loved ...
Profile and Interview by John Lewis, Hotline, September 2009
Rave pioneers Orbital were the surprise hit of this summer's festivals. They tell John Lewis about finding fresh inspiration. ...
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 18 December 2018
Few bands of this vintage could get away with so much new material, but their formula is so well-honed that they can carry an audience ...
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