Orbital - Brown Album Deluxe 4xcd with underworld mix
 

yes, the brown album is being reissued
(along with the EPS), will probably have the
full underworld mix, and not the edit.

not much new on this, if you have it already..

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Orbital?s self-titled second album, known as ?The Brown Album?, is being reissued across a number of formats, in May.

Released in 1993, it features tracks such as ?Halcyon + On + On?, ?Impact (The Earth Is Burning)? and ?Lush 3-1? and ?Lush 3-2?.

Two box sets are available: a 4LP vinyl package and a 4CD box, both large format. They come with a 60-page hardcover book (which features notes by Andrew Harrison), two A6 flyers and a sticker. The vinyl is cut at half speed, although it?s not clear if that extends to the two bonus LPs in the box (which additionally comes with a slipmat for your turntable). The CD box offers 22 bonus tracks, the 4LP set, delivers 11 bonus tracks (see full tracklistings, below).

An album-only 2LP set is available on black vinyl and coloured variants and there?s also a 2CD set and a cassette available. The 2CD version is simply the first two discs from the 4CD box.

The Brown Album is reissued on 23 May via London Records. The official shop is offering signed prints with either of the box set editions.

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I remember picking up the Diversions EP back in the mid-90's just to get my hands on UW mix. Enjoyed the whole EP quite a bit back then, made me hope for more collisions between Mk2 and the Hartnoll brothers. Mixed the UW track into several b-sides tapes for friends at the time, fit in pretty well with the Dark & Long and Pearl's Girl EPs.

Cool to see them including most of the Diversions tracks with the set, with the only exception being the Walk About Peel Session track that was mixed together with Lush Euro Tunnel Disaster. Might be tacked on there though in the same track, like it was on Diversions. Didn't see track times listed on any of the pre-order pages.

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Walk About is on CD3, the whole Peel disc is:
Lush (Euro-Tunnel Disaster ’94)
Walk About
Semi Detached
Attached
Impact USA (The Earth Is Burning: Diversion)

Apparently the reason there's no exclusive material is that... none exists. Which I can't get my head around, being a fan of Underworld, FSOL and Aphex, all of whom have given us generous peeks into their archives. Orbital not having a single unused track, demo or alt mix blows my mind.

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And it looks like the expanded digital release contains a few extra tracks labeled as Disc 5 on Qobuz...

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all three of those groups seem like they have a different approach to making music, they're constantly recording and remixing and jamming, putting out albums when they have to more or less. Orbital strikes me as being more like Kraftwerk, they approach things from a more conceptual angle. KW don't have a lot of B-sides either. in fact they have almost none

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I don't know - Orbital has extra B-sides and mixes for several of their later albums (really like their deluxe versions and just picked up the Optical Delusion one this week that I had missed a couple years ago around the release, three really good B-sides, a couple mixes from them and a great Plaid remix).

Do think, as mentioned, that they don't produce a ton of extra material like the other groups though, and are a lot more focused in production. May be more a case of the later albums having more time between for them to generate more tracks, and also their early days using up any available tracks across all the singles and EPs then (there were a lot of those happening). They also produce plenty of single tracks in between albums, so seem to work regularly, if not as intensely.

Still a lot more (thankfully) than many traditional pop/rock artists, some of whom only write in the studio during album sessions (which always seemed wild from a budget standpoint). :)

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And on the original topic: I won't be getting this brown album deluxe set, though. Much as I love this album, I also already have everything here (especially the Underworld mix) and they didn't even remaster it any (as the engineer apparently told them it was perfect, nothing to improve when they tried, at least according to the press release info).

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i'm pretty much just getting it for the book, and vinyl.

but it is nice to have everything in one place.

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i believe that.

Re: Orbital - Brown Album Deluxe 4xcd with underworld mix
 

so the release is out,

along with the digital version with the extra tracks..

sounds good.
enjoying the live tracks.


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