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Orbital 20
Halcyon (USA Best of)
Blue Album
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The Altogether
The Middle of Nowhere
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Snivilisation
Brown Album
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Album Section - LOOPZ Online Orbital Discography
 
The Middle of Nowhere
 
General Release - The Middle of Nowhere
Photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital : Farrow Design
 
Info
Recording started in October 1997 and was completed approx November 1998. The fifth album is a lot more up tempo , a more jolly affair. Just over one hour long ...the album features various vocalist and musicians. Paul has described one track as sounding "like a rock track before heavy metal was invented. Basically its all kinds of styles and tempos. It'd be bloody difficult to play at a cocktail party".
 
Track Name
1. Way Out (feat Barbera Cohen / Brother Sun Sister Moon & Simon Poole / Lumo on Trumpet) MP3 RA Stream
2. Spare Parts Express MP3 RA Stream
3. Know Where to Run MP3 RA Stream
4. I Dont Know You People (feat Andy James on Bass & Lem on Guitar) MP3 RA Stream
5. Otoño feat Pooka. MP3 RA Stream
6. Nothing Left Part 1 (feat Alison Goldfrapp) MP3 RA Stream
7. Nothing Left Part 2 (feat Alison Goldfrapp) MP3 RA Stream
8. Style
MP3
RA Stream
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Chart Positions

Week
Main Chart
1 (May 96)
4
2 (Silver)
16
3
32
4
40
5
59
6
72
7
73
 
 
Promos
First Tape Promo - The Middle of Nowhere
First Tape Promo - 4 Tracks from The Middle of Nowhere
 
2nd Tape Promo - The Middle of Nowhere
Second Tape Promo - The Middle of Nowhere
 
CD Promo - The Middle of Nowhere
CD Promo - The Middle of Nowhere
 
 
First and General Release
Produced by Mickey Mann. Inner Sleeve photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital.

The CD is in a cardboard slip case.



UK Release - April 5th 1999
London Records / FFRR

LP - 556 076-1(1)
CD - 556 076-1/PY900
CS - 556 076-4/PY589
 
 
Additional Releases - German (European)
European - The Middle of Nowhere
Photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital : Farrow Design
 
Produced by Mickey Mann. Inner Sleeve photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital.


Differences to first general release
There is no cardboard slipcase.

German (European) Release - May 1999
London Records / FFRR / Warner Music

CD - 3984-27104-2 / EW 851
 
 
Additional Releases - USA Release
Produced by Mickey Mann. Inner Sleeve photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital.

Differences to first general release
There is no cardboard slipcase
USA Release - June 8th 1999
Polygram

CD - 31065-2

 
 
Additional Releases - Japanese Release
Japanese - The Middle of Nowhere
Photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital : Farrow Design
 
Produced by Mickey Mann. Inner Sleeve photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital.

Differences to first general release
There is no cardboard slipcase

Japanese Release - April 1999
Polydor KK

CD - POCD - 1295

 
 
Media Reviews
'Spare Parts Express - Pitch changes, shifting up and then lowering, this is truly one big mind-f___' - Loopz Issue 6

'Spare Parts Express - By the time we reach the last 2 minutes, the track is abusing haunted female speech samples and the whole sound is like a busy hectic synth rebellion.' - Loopz Issue 6

'Know Where To Run - ...a whining vocal sample and this absolute dirty deep bass which warps lower and lower - sounds incredible.' - Loopz Issue 6

'I Dont Know You People - ...By the time the "Nothing changes….nothing..God damn you" comes in you find yourself jumping round the room….' - Loopz Issue 6

'Nothing Left - The second part takes the idea a stage further with a prominent commanding synth line and even more harsher metalic acid squelching.' - Loopz Issue 6

'Okay, they've sampled Dollar. It shows an admirable open-mindedness, if you ask me. Not that you'd expect anything less. My favourite Orbital moment is when they whack the chorus of Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth through the speakers at their gigs. Wide-open-mindedness is the thing, great rolling prairies of it. They've yet to put a foot wrong or double-back on themselves. Just in case you've missed them so far, Orbital are a unique techno duo with neo-classical ambitions but, thankfully, next to zero pretensions. The only reason they're not rated alongside composers such as Steve Reich and Phillip Glass is that people dance to Orbital's music rather than stroke their goatees to it. People with woolly, sock-shaped hats, often as not. Orbital haven't done away with their fluid loops and trademark bleeps, I'm glad to say. Nor have they made their songs any less intricate, or taken the electronic edge off in any way. But there's something about Middle Of Nowhere which makes it sound ever so slightly like a rock record, in the best way. Know Where To Run, for instance, really does rock along like the proverbial bastard, in the tradition of thunderous A to B numbers like Spiritualized's Run and Pink Floyd's On The Run. I Don't Know You People is closer to The Young Gods if anything, with fuzz guitar taking vicious slices out of its mottled hide, and a sense of unease not in the least bit relieved by the bizarre voice-overs. Is it, you'll probably want to know, as good as the last two superb LPs, Snivilisation and Insides? Not yet. But I've only played it a couple of times, enough to know that it's splendid in its own right, but far too little to have heard all of it. I still come across things on those earlier records that take me by surprise. Anyway, it's good enough to call itself an Orbital record, and that ought to be enough..' - David Bennun - The Guardian - April 9th 1999
 
 
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