[gambit]

Man, I was humbly enjoying Kraftwerk's Minimum Maximum when I entered this thread, and then I had to switch over to Orbital (In Sides, for now). Huff!

Anyway, I think it was the summer of 02 for me when I discovered Orbital. I remember borrowing my friend's huge CD case so I could burn a bunch of stuff, and I had just bought AMG's Guide to Electronica book not too long ago, so I was skimming through his collection for the good stuff. I found the brown album (Orbital 2), Snivilisation, and the Altogether (along with Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman and Beaucoup Fish), and burned them all. The first album I listened to was the brown album, and it blew my mind. I literally thought to myself, "I didn't know music could do that." It was so energetic, so beautiful, so precise in everything. Loved it, and that probably was the first great album (electronic or otherwise) I ever heard, and I knew I couldn't turn back to the mediocre shit on the radio. The brown album, while it has cooled off for me lately, is still my top album of all time. It was that influential for me.