Orbital - Chime / Deeper

Dont mean to brag, but I first heard this when Jazzy M played it off a tape (!) on his Jacking zone pirate radio show, LWR. He then went on to release it on his own oh!Zone label (probably (definitely) oh!Zones strongest ever release). 'Deeper' really did hypnotise me and both tunes were completely groundbreaking.

Dont mean to brag a 2nd time (!) but it turned out my mate new the brothers Hartnoll and got me a demo tape they'd done. It had a different mix of Chime overlayed with an old YTS advert and a much tougher mix of satan than the namby-pamby one they ended up releasing, along with other stuff, some never released.
What I'd do for that tape now...

I remember when I first heard this, Jeff Young’s Big Beat Show (BBC Radio 1) 5th Jan 1990, I've still got the tape! Where Jeff introduced it as “On oh zone records, outta of the vinyl zone on the west side of London, a track called chime, it goes on for about 10 minutes, can we get an edit, there's some good stuff at the end, were never going to get to the end”, then rings the ‘sacred’ bell, “we like that”.
How right he was!

An essential piece of vinyl!

No need to mention the a-side - everyone knows that. But the b-side you might not be so familiar with. Orbital have always done excellent b-sides, and this is no exception. It's an acidic sizzler with excellent bleepy-bloopy noises. It has an amazing room-filling quality to it, and Orbital sampled one of their mother's relaxation tapes. The voice through tells you to "focus on my voice, and let every muscle in your body relax" - it may sound crap in writing, but it's a very trippy piece. When it finishes, you'll probably think "where am I?". Well worth tracking down, but it may come at a high price.