Orbital have confirmed a date in Dublin on Friday 13th November 2009 @ Tripod (Harcourt Street - Dubline 2). This will be their first indoor Irish show since playing the Point on New Years Eve 2001. This will be a 2 hour show featuring all the ground-breaking electronica and roof-raising techno anthems of the last 2 decades. Not to be missed!
Loopz regulars will be able to purchase tickets in a special pre-sale running for 72 hours from Saturday 3rd October at 9am. Tickets will then go on general sale on Tuesday 6th October at 9am.
PRE-SALE - Starts on Saturday 3rd October at 9am
Visit Loopz News page for details of Pre-Sale.
Paul Hartnoll TORMENTED score - DVD NOW OUT
Paul has finished the score to the film "Tormented". Below is a few words from the man himself.
"I wrote the score to the film, Tormented which is out on May 22nd. It's a comedy horror kind of film and the score is totally electronic with guest vocals from Lianne Hall. The score takes it's influence from the Malcolm Clark era radiophonic workshop (basically first analogue synth era), also the score to Children of the Stones (Look it up on YouTube) and the score to the Legend of Hell House (Delia Darbyshire and Brian Hodgson). Look that up on YouTube as it has a big smatering of good old fashioned break beat dance music. I also played holywood style drums recorded with one mike in a log cabin, so it's not entirely electronic."
"Completely low budget with a short lead time but i think it is all the better for it, both the film and score. DVD is now out! BUY Below"
We have setup a Loopz / Orbital video channel to capture some official videos plus some very unique live and backstage footage. Link is below - feel free to leave comments! Loopz / Orbital You Tube Channel
Orbital confirmed for London Freeze 2009
London Freeze is the UK’s biggest winter sports and music festival, confirmed to return for a second year following the success of 2008. The event kicks off on Friday 30 October running through until Sunday 1st November. The event will feature three days of international class ski and snowboard competition by day, with live music performances when the sun sets on the 32m high snow jump.
Orbital will headling the event, appearing on the main stage on Friday. Friday’s snowsports action sees the Battle of Britain ski and snowboard contest with the best of British talent battling it out for the title of top dog in the UK. Brit Olympic snowboard hopefuls Ben Kilner and Dom Harrington will be jostling for the top spot, before focusing on the World Cup event later in the weekend.
Tickets are now on sale via the event website: www.londonfreeze.com
Day tickets cost £35 for an adult (£15 for a child) and £85 for a season pass (£35 for a child)
6 MIX Show
8th August 2009 - In their first 6 Mix show, brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll play a selection of records which inspired them to make music including Kraftwerk, OMD, Depeche Mode and Steel Pulse, and chat about their musical heroes growing up in early 80s Kent. There's also an exclusive old skool electro mix from Phil Hartnoll, featuring tracks by Kid Frost, Roxanne Shante and Afrika Bambaataa in the last hour of the show.
15th August 2009 - Pioneering dance duo Orbital return for the second instalment of their 6 Mix residency, playing the tunes which have influenced and inspired them.. This week they play tracks from Scott Walker, David Bowie, Cabaret Voltaire, ans Severed Heads and talk about how they influenced them as teenagers. There's also an exclusive On U Sound reggae mix from Paul Harnoll in the last hour of the show, featuring tunes from Dub Syndicate, Tackhead and Gary Clail. Orbital return for a third 6 Mix show in September. The shows are live on Saturday 8th August and 15th August from 9pm to 11pm GMT. Track listings will be online after each show. Remember you can listen to the show again online for 7 days.
Pre-Sale is now online and the earlier you buy, the cheaper it will be. At time of writing the price is only £5.99 for CD and £3.99 for Digital. These will go up 20p every 12 hours until the official release date. Normal price is £9.99 per CD and £7.99 for Digital. Get in quick!
After unveiling headline performances at this summer’s hottest dance festivals, as well as a UK headline tour, dance pioneers Orbital announce the release of their most well known tracks plus some new mixes. Simply titled ‘ORBITAL 20’ the compilation celebrates 20 years of ground-breaking electronica, reworked and remixed onto 2 CD’s of generation-defining dance music, to be released on June 8th via Rhino Records.
“This compilation is the most definitive summary of our work since ‘Chime’ came out in 1989”, says Paul Hartnoll on the release of their definitive collection, “It's a great introduction, or indeed a reminder, of the story so far...”
Track listing plus a snippett of one of the new remixes can be found on the NEWS page at http://www.loopz.co.uk.
ORBITAL - Next Live setup
First details or should i say, photos, have been sent to www.loopz.co.uk by Paul Hartnoll of the next live setup. For those who like their hardware...please visit the NEWS page at http://www.loopz.co.uk for the first look!
MARCH 2008 - Newsletter
Orbital
We get a lot of messages on myspace asking is THIS the offical Orbital Myspace? Well, we decided to get this cleared once and for all. I will let the picture answer the question (Thanks Paul)
Please note we review the friend requests every week so there maybe a slight delay in adding you to the list, but we will get there eventually. Also we dont allow comments pluging music, music nights on the comments section to ensure its spam free and all about Orbital. If you send any other comments then they will be denied.
Paul Hartnoll
Paul Hartnoll has started work on not 1, but 2 albums. The 1st is a solo album which is so far geared towards electronica but the 2nd album is being written alongside Lianne Hall who was the guest vocalist on his debut album, The Ideal Condition.
Late last year, Paul was asked to co-produce The Music's next album alongside legendary producer, Flood! "Strength by Numbers" will be out hopefully in late spring.
Continuing his love of score music, Paul has composed some music for the episode "An Officer and a Lady" as part of the new "Cutting Edge" television series. He also completed some work for a film by Jes Benstock entitled "The Man with an Extended Mind". This can be viewed via the popular YouTube website. Links are shown below:-
Named after Greater London's own circular autobahn, the M25 -- central to the early Rave scene and party network in the South East during the halcyon 'daze' of Acid House -- Orbital are manned by brothers Phil (b. 09 Jan 64) and Paul Hartnoll (b. 19 May 68). .
From their relatively humble beginnings producing simple but infectious top 20 Pop-Dance tunes to their more recent sophisticated top 5 Pop-Dance tunes, classic albums, film & TV scores and beyond, Orbital have crafted some of the most innovative yet accessible electronic music since their inception in 1989 whilst at the same time retaining great respect for their live work due to their extraordinary shows around the globe which pay as much attention to the live mixing of visuals and choice of imagery, as to the live sound itself. Perhaps, though, one of their greatest achievements is their longevity which is firmly based on a sound that is recognizably their own, coupled with a will to proceed at their own pace and on their own terms with little regard to the industry machinations that surround them or the musical fads and trends that come and go.
Originally from Sevenoaks (a suburban 'commuter reservation' somewhere in deepest Kent) the Hartnolls grew up listening to second generation punk (Crass, Dead Kennedys, Crucifix...), mutant-electro (Severed Heads, Hula, Adrian Sherwood...) and early Hip Hop (Phil went over to New York in the mid-eighties in order to 'find' Hip Hop). By 1988 Paul had contributed two electro pieces (!) to FFrr's 'House Sound Of London Volume 4' under the name D.S.Building Contractors, but it wasn't until the following year that the first true Orbital release emerged: the single 'Chime'.
The original 1,000 copies released through Jazzy M's Oh-Zone label sold out immediately through word of mouth alone and the track was picked up by London Records subsidiary FFrr with whom it soon became a nationwide Dance anthem. This translated into a number 17 singles chart position and gained the Hartnolls a 'Top Of The Pops' appearance where they 'performed' (ie. reluctantly) whilst sporting anti Poll Tax T-shirts. A decade later, the often sampled and bootlegged 'Chime' is still regarded as a classic and has remained one of the highlights of many a live set over the years.
In the period 1990-1991 the burgeoning UK dance scene was still very much perceived as a short-lived phenomena with limited crossover potential and the very idea of a 'dance' artist producing an album as opposed to an endless stream of 12' cuts for club consumption was still a relatively uncommon occurrence, yet when Orbital released their untitled debut long player, or 'green' album, it was to unanimous critical approval and was early proof that dance/electronic music could after all produce albums that would have to be taken as seriously as those produced by conventional Rock acts. Over the coming months remixes carried out by Orbital became further evidence that the Hartnoll brothers had by now established a distinctive sound of their own whilst retaining a characteristically diverse approach to their work.
In the summer of '93 they became instrumental in setting-up and then went on to headline the Midi Circus Tour, a roaming electronic extravaganza which traveled the UK spreading the latest word on live dance music. Next came the release of their second album. Once again an untitled double LP, it became a resident in the upper reaches of the UK Indie album charts for the next few months. The 'brown' album, as it's now generally referred to, bore the now classic Orbital live standards 'Halcyon+on+on', 'Remind' and 'Impact (The Earth Is Burning)', going on to feature highly in most end-of-year Best Album polls. A tour of the US (their second) and two sell-out nights at the Brixton Academy (New Years Eve and New Years Day) finally brought Orbital's hectic year to a close.
March 1994 saw the release of their John Peel session (recorded the previous Autumn) which featured two tracks re-worked from the 'brown' album together with two new compositions. At Glastonbury, Orbital played the coveted final slot on the second stage, previewing some of the new material from their soon to be released third album. The show was a resounding success and sections were broadcast by Channel 4 and John Peel. On its release, 'Snivilisation' entered the album charts at number four, quickly followed by the single 'Are We Here?'. The album broke the hitherto 'no title' rule and sported for the first time a non-graphic cover courtesy of noted painter John Greenwood. Musically, too, it was a departure from their previous collections, the material being far more disparate in style than before. On the accompanying 'Are We Here?' UK tour Orbital played to packed houses throughout the UK where they played 'in the round' from the top of a specially constructed scaffolding tower before heading off to play the Woodstock 2 festival in the US.
1995 saw the release of their remix of Madonna's 'Bedtime Stories', followed by a triumphant headline slot at Tribal Gathering and Main Stage performance at Glastonbury, which many thought even better than that of the previous summer. The year's new material came in the shape of a track recorded for the Sony Play Station game 'WipEout', an untitled EP featuring 'Times Fly' (which proved to be too long to be eligible for chart inclusion) and a track, 'Adnan', donated to the 'Help' compilation.
In April 1996 Orbital released a new single, the dulcimer-driven 'The Box' (number 11), quickly followed by their fourth long player, 'In Sides'. Perhaps their most adventurous collection up until that point, the album may have been a more studied and sombre affair than 'Snivilisation' yet the Hartnolls' love of film soundtracks revealed some startling results, and though it's well-crafted mixture of beats and cinematics unwittingly opened the floodgates to a stream of largely uninspiring copycat James-Bond-with-a-dance-beat efforts, 'In Sides' was universally acclaimed and entered the album charts at number five on week of release.
By May, the Hartnolls embarked on their first full UK tour for over two years which included a triumphant performance at a filled-to-bursting Royal Albert Hall, proving once and for all that Orbital had finally escaped the limiting definitions of 'Techno', 'Dance' et al, whilst at the same time taking live electronic music even further into previously uncharted territory. By the end of the year 'In Sides' featured highly in most of the 1996 Best Albums polls. On New Years Eve Orbital played to 12,000 people at Alexandra Palace and released a live version of 'Satan'. The track had originally been recorded in 1991, though it had only reached as far as 31 in the charts when it was released that year as a single. This time around it entered at a much more convincing number three.
In April 1997 Orbital went on to release their own version of the theme tune to the 60's cult TV classic 'The Saint' from the soundtrack of the Hollywood remake starring Val Kilmer as Simon Templar. The film itself (understandably) received mixed reviews though the single became their second UK top three success since Christmas, whilst on the live front that year Orbital's main appearances were at Tribal Gathering, two sets at the Phoenix Festival and the closing slot on East coast leg of Lollapalooza in the States.
To mark the first ten years of Hartnoll activity, in April they released their fifth album, 'The Middle of Nowhere', which became their third consecutive Top 5 chart placing, preceded by their most successful UK tour to date.
2000 -- After taking a short and well-earned break the Hartnolls began recording their 6th album, The Altogether. The first track to make its airing was Meltdown when it was supplied for a modern dance project as part of the South Bank Centre's Meltdown Festival which was curated by one of the Hartnolls' all time heroes, Scott Walker. Orbital completed a small world tour in South Africa, Greece, Ireland and Japan. Orbital play a one-off live show at the Hammersmith Palais as part of Q magazine's pre-award ceremony celebrations: one of three new tracks previewed on the night ("Tension") is later broadcast on Channel 4. On New Years Eve they round off the year with a live set at the London Arena in Docklands with Leftfield. The set is broadcast the following day on Radio One.
2001 - Orbital release their sixth studio album The Altogether and their first DVD with 5.1 SurroundSound. They headline Homelands and embark on a UK Tour including 2 shows at Brixton Academy.
2002 - Work the greatest hits album is released. Orbital close the second stage at Glastonbury on the Saturday night and also play 2 open air concerts at Somerset House on the Strand in London.
2003 - Orbital score the music to the horror film Octane directed by Marcus Adams and starring Madeleine Stowe. The score album is released by EMI in October.
They also score the US TV series Keen Eddie and begin working on tracks which will become the Blue Album
2004 was the year Orbital finally decided to take a long break (initially called a split!). After 15 years together Phil & Paul moved onto different projects but finished with a few goodbye shows at Brixton Academy show and closing Glastonbury on the second stage. The 7th studio LP the ‘Blue Album’ was released on June 21st.
2009 - Orbital reform. The year will be a busy touring schedule appearing at various festivals around the world.
PAUL HARTNOLL - THE IDEAL CONDITION - LIVE - REHEARSAL PICTURES
PAUL HARTNOLL - THE IDEAL CONDITION - LIVE AT THE BIG CHILL
You guys always continue to blow me away with such stunning tracks. They're more than just music though. It just pulls you in. Hard to explain but once I've put an Orbital track on, I just cannot turn it off!
I'm pretty sure that was the date. I know Crystal method and lo fidelity allstars opened up for you. You guys blew em away, but that's just my opinion. I remember I'd never ever witnessed a live show of that magnitude before and you changed my outlook on music production and stressed the importance of a live show. After that show, I listened carefully to "Insides" and "Middle of nowhere" and remember dubbing you guys as "The Beatles of electronic music". Always 10 steps ahead of the rest. Anyway, if you both get time, would really appreciate a listen to my track "Branded". I'm trying so hard to make my productions good but lack of good monitoring is holding me back. Please let me know how I can improve this, if you get time that is. I know retirement can be rough, LOL
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