The Orbital Appreciation Thread

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Originally Posted by 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!

Bad desicion! Man, I have such an affinity for Kraftwerk, and that live disc is just amazing. I remember hearing the Green album and thinking that Belfast sounded just like Franz Schubert.


Anyways, the thing I've always said about Orbital is that they had this superhuman gift for techno hooks. It's incredible. Like, the Green album was good on the hooks alone, and the Brown album was incredible because of it (Impact alone had like, more great techno hooks than most techno albums do). But when they decided to mix their gift with interesting songwriting and atmosphere, they really turned into something special. Snivilisation is my second favorite techno album ever (dubnobass is first) because of just how interesting and unmatched it is. In Sides, their foray into symphonic electronic music sure is interesting, I love the fact that the majority of it could be replicated into a small MIDI file yet it manages to be so resonant. Middle of Nowhere...still a fan of it for the first three tracks alone, but it sort of loses something over time. As for Altogether and Blue Album...well, the former has at least five or so great tracks, and the Blue Album at least has a very nice string of music (tracks 1-5), and a strong finish, but I wish some of the promo and UK only tracks didn't get cut out.