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God, Orbital has been a part of my life for 30 years now. So many times they've been the soundtrack to gaming, coding, chores, or just listening.

This triplet of albums will forever be my favourites: Snivilisation, In Sides, and The Middle Of Nowhere. Although the rest of their stuff is also great, those 3 are part of my personal soundtrack. The Girl With The Sun In Her Head, Kein Trink Wasser, so many great tracks.

Perhaps my favourite of the later stuff has been the Satan 30 something years later mix, because it's as the kids say, a banger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLeVJDJG2mk

Heck I adore their newer album, Optical Delusion, especially Dirty Rat, and Day One

Sorry, not much great insight to share, or point to be made, just a greybeard thankful for the experiences during their brief spark of life.

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Oh man, Orbital was one of those groups that kept coming at you over and over and over again. No matter how much I tried to find their stuff in record stores, I'd randomly hear an absolutely crushing song I'd never heard of, inquire who made it, and inevitably find out it was Orbital or a remix of an Orbital song again. They seemed to permeate the consciousness of all of the different circles and media I frequented at the time.

Snivilisation sits in my pantheon of top-5 greatest Electronic music albums of all time.

The first time I heard "that part" in their mix of Halcyon Shot Through to Heaven on Earth I thought my head was going to crack open.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUyxcKrRQ

I find it outrageous that their youtube channel only has 65k subscribers.

The Box is just one of those all time favorites. It's one of those epic tracks that puts my imagination into overdrive using it as the soundtrack to a short story.

On a trip to Sydney, I had to record the sound of the crosswalk for myself as I finally got to experience the source of the sample in Walk Now.

> Satan

The use of Bon Jovi and Belinda Carlisle sounds amazing to this day.

I remember discovering there was a 2CD version of In Sides that featured The Box with lyrics. Still gives me chills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQM12GbZHKk

Do you now feel indestructible while you whistle too?

The first time I realized there were different releases based on location I was pissed. This was in high school for me, but I found out there were ways to get imports. The easiest way with limited amounts of success was to find a Virgin Records store. On rare trips to LA, I could find stuff as well, but that was also hit or miss to what was available. Eventually, a friend and I started our own record store and then we had access to distributors/importers directly.

The great equalizer of course was Napster. There were a few ftp accounts along the way as well. So dear children, just be thankful you have the likes of YT and other places that make it oh so much easier to enjoy music.

There is no shame... I remember one period where they hit my town three times in the same year... it was gluttonous and perfect.

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