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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…”

The full track-listing unfolds as follows:

CD 1

CHIME (LIVE STYLE MIX)

BELFAST

SATAN

HALCYON (TOM MIDDLETON RE-MODEL) MP3 SAMPLE

LUSH 3

IMPACT (LIVE FROM ROYAL ALBERT HALL)

ARE WE HERE (WHO ARE THEY)

THE BOX

NOTHING LEFT (MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING LEFT)

ONE PERFECT SUNRISE (RADIO EDIT)

CD 2

OMEN

CHOICE

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD

SAD BUT TRUE

STYLE

FUNNY BREAK (ONE IS ENOUGH)

THE GIRL WITH THE SUN IN HER HEAD

REMIND (LIVE FROM NEW YORK)

LUSH (HERVE’S ‘TREE AND LEAF’ REMIX) MP3 SAMPLE

IMPACT

iTUNES EXCLUSIVES

LC1

IMPACT (JAMES ZEBELIA MIX) MP3 SAMPLE

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 (June 8th). Normal price is £9.99 per CD and £7.99 for Digital. Get in quick!

Please visit the Rhino Orbital shop website

Paul has finished the score to the film “Tormented“. Below is a few words from the man himself plus the link to the trailer.

“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. No release dates for the score as yet.”.

Paul has kindly passed me some samples from the score. Below are 5 pieces for your listening pleasure. My personal favourite is 3m3 which has lots of Plaid-like elements!

1m1 mp3
1m2 mp3
1m4 mp3
1m11 mp3
3m3 mp3
5m3/5m4 mp3 

Trailer