Oh man, I forgot how much I loved UK techno pioneers Orbital. Their album In-Sides is seriously one of the best electronic albums of all time. And still sounds fresh over a decade later. The Box is this 30 min monstrosity of a single, but on the album they chop it up into two manageable six min chunks. Granted you don’t get the cool Goldfrapp vocals at the end, but you still get all the moody soundtracky rolling piano creepy sounds-amazing-on-headphones-with-the-lights-off goodness.
I’ve never given In-Sides a spin.
But I picked up a copy of Orbital 2 several years back after reading AMG’s 5 Star album review of it. Pretty great album.
June 19, 2009 at 10:36 amOrbital 1 and 2 are must haves for sure, but I think In Sides is their best – sort of elevated them to a whole new level.
June 19, 2009 at 12:54 pmnice pick Cale… Honestly, if someone told me that an Orbital tune was going to be chosen for this I’d have assumed it would be “Halcyon”… the full Box EP was a fucking monster tune… and In Sides is easily my favorite album from their career…
July 23, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Agreed, In-Sides is a top ten classic from the golden age of electronic music.
June 19, 2009 at 9:23 am