[Stephen]

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.