Orbital - Brown Album Deluxe 4xcd with underworld mix

[iamneorev]

Originally Posted by holden

i'd rank 'em as such:
1. Brown, In Sides
2. Snivilization, The Middle Of Nowhere
3. Green, The Altogether, Blue, Wonky, Monsters Exist, Optical Delusion
Nothing bad, just preference and the later stuff is still mostly good in my mind, if a bit of retreads (Blue, Wonky), or oddball (The Altogether, Phil's contributions to Optical Delusion), or solid but pretty unsurprising (Monsters, Paul's tracks on Optical Delusion). Green is a collection of singles and sounds dated, whereas the rest feel cohesive and hold up well through time and space and loops of that nature!)

01 In Sides
02 Snivilisation
03 Wonky
04 Blue
05 Brown
06 Monsters Exist
07 Green
08 Optical Delusion
09 The Altogether
10 The Middle Of Nowhere

[purlieu]

Originally Posted by holden

I don't doubt they'll continue the trend with Snivilization...maybe even In Sides, since their first four are considered classics of the genre, and later releases get a bit more divisive.

Yeah, they announced three or four years back that they were doing a full catalogue reissue campaign. Or at least the ones owned by London (so everything up to The Altogether).

Green is a collection of singles

Really? The UK version, at least, features no singles. No 'Omen', no 'Satan', 'Chime' and 'Midnight' only appearing as live versions.





Hmm
1. Snivilisation
2. In Sides
3. Brown
4. Green
5. The Middle of Nowhere
6. Wonky
7. The Altogether
8. Monsters Exist
9. Optical Delusion
10. Blue

[negative1]

Originally Posted by holden

That said, anyone else disappointed with the live track quality? Just streamed and I appreciate that they're 30+ years old, but they sound flat, hardly any crowd and not very exciting renditions...but then I suppose it was pretty early on in their live career.

the quality is fine for what it is...

i LOVE the early years, the mixing between tracks, gives it a DJ set,
thats like underworld... it flowed incredibly well, and there wasn't
any stopping and starting between tracks, which is what bands
do nowadays. unfortunately.

seeing them live was amazing, with the flashlight headsets, and a minimal dark lighting setup.

was totally blown away, seeing and hearing them... i had no idea who they were, it was part of a techno festival...

along with 808 state, who were incredible back then also...90s techno pioneers.

later
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[purlieu]

I loved the Satan Live singles, the first time I heard most of their hits, and they were all paired up with other tracks... I taped their new years 96/97 gig off the radio too. And I remember downloading a bootleg of a Middle of Nowhere tour where Spare Parts Express morphed into the end of Impact, which led to that track being structurally backwards, which was brilliant. I know they've done some different arrangements in recent years, partly down to changing gear, but I definitely think the earlier approach was much more interesting. Similar could be said for Underworld.


That reminds me, I've been meaning to look up footage of their Green/Brown tour to hear how they've been doing things. In one interview (possibly in the Green boxset booklet?) Paul said he enjoyed revisiting the more stripped-back approach of their really early material and that might influence the next record. Much as I like some of their recent stuff, it'd be cool to hear them go back to straight-forward techno again.

[negative1]

some great live shows late 1990's:
from MTV





there are more from other festivals...

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[darmok]

Originally Posted by holden

Orbital does, in my opinion, seem to be mining the nostalgia/legacy route a lot lately, what with Green, Brown boxes, EPS (Omen, Chime, Lush, III, Midnight/Choice, Belfast), the 30Something re-edits/remix collection. I don't doubt they'll continue the trend with Snivilization...maybe even In Sides, since their first four are considered classics of the genre, and later releases get a bit more divisive.

I appreciate the reissues, and the remasters are really well done. That said, the pricing is outrageous. Of course I've got the deluxe LP and CD sets on order. Of course.

Originally Posted by holden

(i'd rank 'em as such:
1. Brown, In Sides
2. Snivilization, The Middle Of Nowhere
3. Green, The Altogether, Blue, Wonky, Monsters Exist, Optical Delusion
Nothing bad, just preference and the later stuff is still mostly good in my mind, if a bit of retreads (Blue, Wonky), or oddball (The Altogether, Phil's contributions to Optical Delusion), or solid but pretty unsurprising (Monsters, Paul's tracks on Optical Delusion). Green is a collection of singles and sounds dated, whereas the rest feel cohesive and hold up well through time and space and loops of that nature!)

We're doing this, I guess.

1. In Sides + The Box EP
2. Brown
3. Snivilisation
4. The Middle of Nowhere
5. Green

... all the rest somewhere below that. Pretty much the same as your list.