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i just listened to Orbital 2 ("brown") again, in its entirety...every time i hear it, i think, "could this be the best electronic album ever made?" :D i said it before, and i'll say it again. Still impressive 12 years on...

So, i was over at the Loopz board and saw that a new unofficial Orbital compilation is coming out (is out?), but its a pretty shoddy affair.

http://www.streetsonline.co.uk/commo...l?pid=50471951

Nothing new, and quite random tracklist (very Green-heavy). Weird.

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yeah, that looks... ahem.. not as though it's a bona fide release.

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yea - I saw it at a Tower Records, which is odd... as they usually don't sell boots (save for the 2Many Dj's mixes)

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Oh, it's not a bootleg. Warner released it. The band haven't sanctioned the release, but it's all legal and shit.
Unfortunately the tracklist is so bad it'd be easy to think someone was taking the piss when they made it.

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Don't know what sparked it but over the last week I've dug all my Orbital CDs out and given them a good listening to. I've even bought a second hand The Altogether off eBay to complete my collection.

I know The Altogether gets a right bashing around these parts (Tootled must have been a career low for the boys) but if you haven't heard it I advise you to pick-up/download the track Beelzebeat, which appeared on the bonus disc with the US release. I like it a lot. Also, for any UK dirts who didn't know, the US release of the Blue Album had an extra 5 tracks on. 5 extra tracks! If you own the UK version, go and download the extra tracks now. It's pretty much your right as a consumer.

Also, The Sinner is probably how their version of The Saint theme should have sounded. Sounds like it belongs alongside Brown and the Peel Session tracks. It gets a big fat TICK.

Oh yeah, if you haven't heard Beached from The Beach soundtrack, that's a very lovely piece, evoking an almost identical atmosphere to 8 Ball.

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i agree with everything you said. "The Altogether" isn't as bad as many say, it's just that prior releases were so good and flowing, and here comes a bunch of weird separate tracks...still lots of cool sounds. Bonus disc is a must-have.

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yes! thread revival!

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Amen.

Although I can only listen to two or three tracks from the Altogether. And I get different feelings from "Beached" and " 8-Ball", still both brilliant in their own right.

I've always looked at Orbital's art/output as very calculated abstract. Damn, I sound like a hippie.

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i'm patiently waiting for Orbital to compile the pre-green 12"s and b-sides along with some of their early remixes.

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Copied from a post i made on the old Loopz forum:

"here are the final tracklistings for both CD1 and CD2 of my Green Album Special Edition, coming to a cd player near me (or you, if you like).

01 - The Moebius (7:01)
02 - Speed Freak (Moby Mutation) (5:41)
03 - Oolaa (6:21)
04 - Fahrenheit 3D3 (7:05)
05 - Satan (Fade Out) (6:11)
06 - Steel Cube Idolatry (6:34)
07 - High Rise (8:22)
08 - Chime (Son Of Chime) (6:00)
09 - Midnight (5:06)
10 - Belfast (Wasted vocal mix) (7:03)
11 - Choice (Original Version) (5:33)
12 - Untitled (from Green tape) (8:48 )

Running Time: 79mins 50secs

Note: Son Of Chime needed the crowd noise snipping from the end of the track in order to get under the 80mins barrier, and Satan required the 1991 "fade out" version to be used instead of the 1995 reissue.

01 - LC1 (5:07)
02 - Deeper (6:57 version)
03 - Omen (6:59)
04 - Choice (Eye And I Mix) (9:18 )
05 - Satan (The Rhyme & Reason Vocal Mix) (6:49)
06 - Open Mind (5:28 )
07 - Desert Storm (12:05)
08 - Analogue Test Feb '90 (7:01)
09 - LC2 (Outer Limits Mix) (5:53)
10 - 2 Deep (6:27)
11 - Macrohead (6:47)
12 - I Think Its Disgusting (0:51)

Running Time: 79mins 43secs

Analysis:

Overall I'm very satisfied with the result. I think CD1 reflects a much stronger version of the original album without changing the running order radically as other Green album reworkings have suggested. With approximately 27secs left to spare over 2 CDs I think I've done well to squeeze as much on as possible. 24 tracks on 2CDs aint bad.

Having listened to the Moby version of Speed Freak and the normal release version after each other there's not much of a difference except a dancey beat behind the Moby version. And in this case, its not such a bad thing (some of the Mutations tracks are "pumped up" in a much worse way). Moby's version is also shorter and means I can fit all the tracks onto one CD. :) To fit what I wanted on the CD I had to make compromises. :( Not too tough compromises I dont think. No 7" edits under 5 mins for example.

I would have loved to fit on the full version of Deeper and Satan, but I don't think the end result suffers from not having this, as they are represented. As for Chime, its already over-represented in many places and I thought the Son Of Chime version really does bring a radically different sound to the song compared to the remixes that are available (JZJ, Ray Kieth, Joey Beltram) and only Chime Crime might have been a worthwhile addition."