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Octane Score

1. Octane
2. Through the Night (sample)
3. Strangeness in the Night
4. Preacher
5. Moments of Crisis (full track)
6. Frantic
7. Breaking & Entering
8. Chasing the Tanker
9. Total Paranoia
10. Confrontation
11. Initiation (sample)
12. Meet the Father
13. Blood is Thicker (sample)
14. The Road Ahead (full track)

Octane Film Poster

Info

Orbital's first solo film score was released on the 20th October 2003 through EMI. Orbital also remixed a track from the album called 'Initiation' which was serviced to clubs at the end of August 2003.

About the film
Orbital have completed the score for a new film called Octane. Marcus Adams who wrote and directed the thriller "Long Time Dead" directs the British film. The film was completed in November 2002, the score was finished in February 2003 and the film should was released on November 14th 2003.

Luxembourg, June 3rd 2002 saw the start of the 9-week shoot of OCTANE, the first film from Random Harvest's genre film production label Four Horsemen Films. A new style of horror, OCTANE is a stylish, high-energy feature drawing on America¹s double obsession with religious cults and the open road.

OCTANE'S all-star cast is led by Madeleine Stowe (We Were Soldiers, 12
Monkeys, The Last of The Mohicans) alongside Norman Reedus (Blade 2, 8mm), Bijou Phillips (Bully, Almost Famous), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Bend it Like Beckham, Velvet Goldmine) and Mischa Barton (The Sixth Sense, Lawn Dogs). OCTANE is directed by Marcus Adams (Long Time Dead), written by Stephen Volk and produced by Alistair MacLean-Clark and Basil Stephens.

When Senga (Madeleine Stowe) and teenage daughter, Nat (Mischa Barton), travel home on a nighttime freeway, they start to see the weirdest things a couple picnicking by the side of a crashed car, a baby crawling up the middle of the road and a lone Recovery Man (Norman Reedus) who trawls the night for new car wrecks.

Then, at a roadside coffee stop, a mysterious Backpacker (Bijou Phillips) lures Nat away with the offer of a compelling alternative existence with a
young, blood-obsessed cult. Forced into a nightmarish chase, Senga becomes a woman plunged into a dark, deranged world, where she must confront her past in order to save her daughter. Testing times for mother and daughter but can Senga save Nat in time?

Paul Hartnoll described the music as "Dark and minimal" and "Not too experimental weird...a bit more conventional". He explained that they have been using "the moody expander" type sounds that were familiar in "Dwr Budr" to give it its dark feel.

Phil Hartnoll said, "Music still excites us. That's the best thing - having something that drives you. Get that thing that does it for you. Film is a different discipline for us, a different approach. You've got a job to do, and it's a new challenge."

Phil and Paul Hartnoll on the set of Octane

Promos

Track 1 (Octane) - 1.31
Track 2 (Through the Night) - 5.20
Track 3 (Strangeness in the Night) - 3.22
Track 4 (Preacher) - 1.37
Track 5 (Moment of Crisis) - 2.44
Track 6 (Frantic) - 2.06
Track 7 (Breaking & Entering) - 2.42
Track 8 (Chasing the Tanker) - 1.28
Track 9 (Total Paranoia) - 4.10
Track 10 (Confrontation) - 2.52
Track 11 (Initiation) - 4.21
Track 12 (Meet the Father) - 5.03
Track 13 (Blood is Thicker) - 3.11
Track 14 (The Road Ahead) - 3.01

UK CDR Promo
June 2003

Final version

CDR of the final mix

Track names identified from final release. CDR has no track names

Track 1 - 1.30
Track 2 - 7.21
Track 3 - 3.36
Track 4 - 1.40
Track 5 - 2.47
Track 6 - 3.29
Track 7 - 4.17
Track 8 - 4.55
Track 9 - 3.11
Track 10 - 4.52
Track 11 - 8.37
Track 12 - 2.23
Track 13 - 4.33
Track 14 - 1.58
Track 15 - 0.52

UK CDR Promo
May 2003

Rough version

Contains additional music to the final release

ORBITAL001 Promo

1. Initiation (Remix)

UK 12 inch one sided Promo
September 2003

EMI

ORBITAL001

Different to the Initiation track on the final album.

Approx 1000 copies

ORBITAL002 Promo

ORBITAL002 Promo - Back

1. Initiation (Orbital Remix) 5.08
2. Initiation (Orbital Remix) (Radio Edit) 3.24

UK CD Promo
September 2003

EMI

ORBITAL002

Contains exclusive track "Initiation (Remix) (Radio Edit)"

Approx 250 copies

ORBITAL003 Promo

UK CD Promo
September 2003

EMI

ORBITAL003

Full Album Promo

Approx 1000 copies

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