Orbital - The Altogether


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Label: FFRR
Catalog#: 8573 87782 2
Format: CD, Album
Country:UK & Europe
Released:30 Apr 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Techno, Electro
Credits: Artwork By - Farrow Design
Mastered By - Kevin Metcalfe
Mixed By - Dave Pemberton
Mixed By [Assistant] - Chris Gardiner
Photography [Digital Imaging] - Mark Bullen
Producer [Additional] - Mickey Mann
Written-By, Producer - P & P Hartnoll* (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 11)
Notes:Recorded and mixed at The Strongroom (London, UK).
Mastered at The Soundmasters (London, UK).

[P] 2001 London Records 90 Ltd.
[C] 2001 London Records 90 Ltd.
Made in Germany by Warner Music Manufacturing Europe
GEMA/BIEM. GEMA/MCPS.
WE8820. LC00253.

Barcode: 0685738778225
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Tracklisting:

1   Tension (5:52)
2   Funny Break (One Is Enough) (4:55)
    Saxophone - Michael Smith*
  Trumpet - Dominic Glover
  Vocals, Lyrics By - Naomi Bedford
  Written-By - N Bedford*
  Written-By, Lyrics By - A Bramley*
3   Oi! (5:04)
4   Pay Per View (5:11)
    Bass - Andy James
5   Tootled (4:51)
6   Last Thing (5:12)
7   Doctor? (5:30)
    Written-By - Ron Grainer
8   Shadows (5:47)
9   Waving Not Drowning (4:31)
    Vocals - Kirsty Hawkshaw
10   Illuminate (5:28)
    Backing Vocals - Clune
  Vocals, Written-By, Lyrics By - David Gray
11   Meltdown (10:17)
User Reviews:
kawayama, Oct 21, 2006

Orbital. Now more pop than ever before.

Ive found three really good tunes on Orbitals new album. "Funny Break (One Is Enough)" is a classic Orbital-song with beautiful cyclical vocals by Naomi Bedford. "Doctor?" is the brothers techno version of the Doctor Who theme, a favorite from innumerable live sets, finally down on plastic. "Meltdown", the last track on the album, is an epic masterpiece with clear rave vibes. The tunes got it all: slow HEAVY bass, at least two different breakbeats, piano loops, samples of type writers, sirens, telephones, smashed glass... and a build-up so filled with energy that its next to impossible to sit still, you just gotta dance.

The rest of the album does have a few golden moments, but they are overshadowed by an all permeating feeling of cheesiness. For some unfathomable reason Orbital have taken the tinny sounds of eighties hi-nrg pop and tried to turn it into nineties rave. The result is thin and unengaging. Dated.

Also irritating is the fact that all of "Meltdown" isnt included on the CD, only the DVD version has the complete 22 minutes.

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