This is Orbital doing what they do best - making good music and overall an essential classic album. A great variety in sound, style, and original and creative musical ideas make most of this album simply outstanding. A couple tracks here and there could be better, and it starts out pretty uninterestingly, but by the end you'll be satisfied with this album. I especially like the more ambient tracks, such as Dwr Budr, because of their unique atmospheric quality.

The 2nd disc is great, I was not expecting to find it in a record shop but found it used. If you like "The Box", the 28 minute version of the track is for you, there are four versions of The Box and the best is saved for last. It is the Vocal version of the song and its worth the digging and purchase of the 2 disc set. Overall, a very well balanced set of tracks and you even get some break beats from Orbital, weird.

I can only describe my life in two half's the one before I ran into "In-sides" and the half after it. For lack of a better praise this album is an absolute masterpiece! If ever a starting point to start from its this album. "The girl with the sun in her head" and "out there somewhere?" will put you to tears. The bonus CD is just as good as the first one. This album will change your life, guaranteed or your life back!

From the opening sounds to the 26 minute epic of 'Out There Somewhere' this album is bloody genius.

There is something indescribably gorgeous about this album. I've tried to de-construct and analyse it for years. But now every time I listen to it I simply lay back, relax and let my mind tingle with joy at the sounds it has to offer.

This album achieves the holy grail of electronic music by simultaneously sounding diverse but united.

Dwr budr has the perfect melodic transition from a sort of sad, melodic tune into a slightly more angry, spooky, trance. Petrol was my first love of techno from the wipeout xl soundtrack. The girl with the sun in her head is maybe my current fav, despite its length. The box part 2 was actually the first one I heard and thought was cool. It was on an MTV amp compilation, among other things. Part 1 is actually a drag to listen to, but it enhances part 2. The whole album does not have a flaw. Sad but new, and the flying times are also very entertaining. I think the artwork is the least favorable of the entire package, but thats about the only criticism I could give here.

Arguably the best Orbital album perhaps because it is the most musical and most complex. While this album relies and the standard "loops and layers" approach employed by Orbital on all of their albums, this one is not weighed down by the addition of unnecessary vocalists like their later albums - the music is left to stand on it's own. The 2 part compositions "The Box" and "Out There Somewhere?" are the standouts for me. Like other reviewers, I'd have to agree that of all my electronica CD's, this one gets the most play.

This might actually be the album in my record collection I have played the most in my life! When this was released, it absolutely blew me away. From the day I heard this, there was absolutely no way back from electronic music. I remember the first time I heard it was in a car, driving high in some Norwegian mountains in spring. An album that gives me more nostalgic memories than any other record I own. An absolute masterpiece from beginning to end. When I first time heard "The Girl With The Sun In Her Head" live with the Hartnoll brothers on stage, it gave me tears of happiness... An album I will continue listen to until I pass away... Recommended!

Absolute masterpiece, I know at least five people who stopped buying guitar music and changed to electronics after hearing this record.
"Out There Somewhere" -especially the second part- is not only my fave Orbital song, I always list it at no.1 in my all-time top 10. Hearing is believing !

The use of the Welsh phrase for "dirty water" as a track title provides a thematic link back to their previous album "Snivilisation" where one of the tracks was titled "Kein Trink Wasser" - German for "non-drinking water".

Yeah, the title of the fifth track means "dirty water" in Welsh. It's a reference to a major oil spill off the south-west coast of Wales - a tanker called the Sea Empress was wrecked there in 1996.