Not to be outdone by n00bs (krhm), here's my version of an Orbital Best Of.
This takes us from 80 minutes to 160 minutes, or into a 2-CD compilation.
I've thought of this last year already, but I don't think I've posted this before. Almost all of the songs are mixes by yours truly, so that each song that needed to be fitted in would actually make it in the final cut. That's why Monorail is only a 1 minute cut, and why The Girl With The Sun In Her Head starts at the bass line interlude, and why almost EVERY single track is cut down in length using ADVANCED cut-and-splice techniques (NOT mere fade in/out!), with different sections mixed together for optimal length and quality.
So what I've done is something like an amateur DJ mix, where a few of the tracks mix into one another (Satan into Tootled, Forever into IWIHDF, Way Out into SPE, Lost into Dwr Budr, Are We Here? into Do They Here? and Chime Crime into Chime), and the rest are in an order that emphasizes continuity.
My compilation is ridiculously well thought out (if I say so myself), but no compilation is perfect, so there's no The Box (the 30 min version) or LC1 or Out There Somewhere, but that would be an additional 3rd CD already! Some tracks are too good to be included on compilations in truncated form.
The first CD is more beat-oriented, while the second is more chill-out.
Here's the tracklisting (again, believe me, the track lengths are accurate!):
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CD1: Into Orbit
01 - The Visit (part 2 - snippet) [1:05]
02 - Way Out --> Spare Parts Express (OMix) [7:48]
03 - P.E.T.R.O.L. (OMix) [2:01]
04 - Monorail (OMix) [1:19]
05 - You Lot (Radio Mix) [3:39]
06 - The Girl With The Sun In Her Head (OMix) [5:43]
07 - Satan Spawn --> Tootled (Fuckin' Bon Jovi OMix) [6:43]
08 - Waving Not Drowning (OMix) [1:29]
09 - Nothing Left (7 Inch OMix) [3:02]
10 - David Gray - Please Forgive Me (Paul Hartnoll Remix) (OMix) [2:45]
11 - Tension (OMix) [3:11]
12 - Technologiski Park (OMix) [1:54]
13 - Halcyon LIVE 2004 (Bon Jovi Darkness Carlisle OMix) [3:41]
14 - Orbital & Angelo Badalamenti - Beached (Radio ver.) [3:37]
15 - Sad But True [7:48]
16 - Impact USA (OMix) [4:57]
17 - The Naked And The Dead (OMix) [4:11]
18 - Dr Who (Knobs OMix) [5:48]
19 - Chime Crime (LIVE '92) --> Chime (Live Style Mix) (OMix) [8:17]
[total running time: 1:18:58]
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CD2: Exorbitant Chill
01 - Forever --> I Wish I Had Duck Feet (New Age Travellers OMix) [12:07]
02 - Funny Break (radio edit) [3:56]
03 - The Octane Theme (intro) [1:30]
04 - Lost --> Dwr Budr (OMix) [6:50]
05 - Times Fly (fast) (OMix) [3:23]
06 - Easy Serv (OMix) [3:26]
07 - Are We Here? --> Do They Here? (OMix) [5:21]
08 - Beelzebeat (OMix) [5:29]
09 - Mock Tudor (OMix) [5:25]
10 - Transient (OMix) [4:14]
11 - Oolaa (OMix) [3:17]
12 - The Saint (OMix) [2:06]
13 - Otono (OMix) [3:30]
14 - Pay Per View (OMix) [3:00]
15 - Kein Trink Wasser (OMix) [5:11]
16 - Planet Of The Shapes (OMix) [2:35]
17 - Adnan's (Long OMix) [8:09]
[total running time 1:19:29]
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I can't list ALL the little tweaks I've made in the songs, but here's a few:
- In Are We Here / Do They Here, I inserted the album opening monologue to the beginning of the radio edit, which segways into the "warning warning nuclear attack" interlude of the album, which flows into the middle of the Do They Here? remix, which eventually fades out.
- In Satan Spawn / Tootled, I start with the "bring on the fuckin' bon jovi" shout from the infamous live recording. (The same sample I used in the Halcyon track right before the bon jovi sample kicks in...) Satan eventually flows into Tootled's latter half.
- In Adnan's, I added the serbian sample (with the accompanying strings) from the HELP version to the beat of the album version's opening. Also, the ending is modified.
- In my Chime mix, I used the Doctor Who "one day I shall come back" from Blue Album tour to flow into Chime Crime live version from 1992, which flows into an edited version of Chime (Live Style Mix). At the beginning of the album version of Dr?, on the other hand, I've put in the classic "what are all these knobs?" sample, which is missing on The Altogether.
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OK, criticisms, comments?
(remember, you can also contact me at K2nsl3r@yahoo.com...)
