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Album
Section - LOOPZ Online Orbital Discography
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The
Middle of Nowhere
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Photography
by Louise Kelly and Orbital : Farrow Design
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Info
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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". |
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Track
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1.
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Way
Out
(feat Barbera Cohen / Brother Sun Sister Moon & Simon Poole
/ Lumo on Trumpet) |
MP3
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Spare
Parts Express |
MP3
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Know
Where to Run |
MP3
RA
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4.
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I
Dont Know You People (feat Andy James on Bass & Lem on Guitar) |
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5.
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Otoño
feat Pooka. |
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6.
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Nothing
Left Part 1 (feat Alison Goldfrapp) |
MP3
RA
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7.
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Nothing
Left Part 2 (feat Alison Goldfrapp) |
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RA
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Style |
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Chart
Positions
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Week
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Main
Chart
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1
(May 96)
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4
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2
(Silver)
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16
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3
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32
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4
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40
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5
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59
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6
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72
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7
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73
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Promos
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First
Tape Promo - 4 Tracks from The Middle of Nowhere
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Second
Tape Promo - The Middle of Nowhere
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CD
Promo - The Middle of Nowhere
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First
and General Release
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Produced by Mickey Mann. Inner Sleeve photography by Louise
Kelly and Orbital.
The CD is in a cardboard slip case.
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UK
Release - April 5th 1999
London Records / FFRR
LP - 556 076-1(1)
CD - 556 076-1/PY900
CS - 556 076-4/PY589 |
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Additional
Releases - German (European)
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Photography
by Louise Kelly and Orbital : Farrow Design
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Produced
by Mickey Mann. Inner Sleeve photography by Louise Kelly and
Orbital.
Differences to first general release
There is no cardboard slipcase.
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German
(European) Release - May 1999
London Records / FFRR / Warner Music
CD - 3984-27104-2 / EW 851 |
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Additional
Releases - USA Release
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Produced
by Mickey Mann. Inner Sleeve photography by Louise Kelly and
Orbital.
Differences to first general release
There is no cardboard slipcase
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USA
Release - June 8th 1999
Polygram
CD - 31065-2
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Additional
Releases - Japanese Release
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Photography
by Louise Kelly and Orbital : Farrow Design
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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
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Media
Reviews
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'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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