Paul and Phil's work in Orbital

[darkorb]

So I read a post from someone in another forum, who had read a peculiar Orbital interview, who stated "that the main composer had always been Paul and Phil did mainly the sound quality and all those technical things..

Is this really true? Comparing Paul's solo work to Long Range always gave me the impression that he was behind most of the melodies and harmonics, while Phil was behind the beatwork.

Any opinions on this?

[Timbob]

Paul did all the work and phil just got him tea and biscuits.

[shadyboy]

So I read a post from someone in another forum, who had read a peculiar Orbital interview, who stated "that the main composer had always been Paul and Phil did mainly the sound quality and all those technical things..

Is this really true? Comparing Paul's solo work to Long Range always gave me the impression that he was behind most of the melodies and harmonics, while Phil was behind the beatwork.

Any opinions on this?

Think you are refering to one of my old posts - I recall that this came from the centre page interview they gave Ted Kessler in the NME when The Saint was out (the photo shoot was a Saint/MI style thing where they were tied up on chairs?).

To be honest mate, I think you've kind of answered your own question with the statement about how their solo works compare to the Orbital sound, but I'm sure that we would all be surprised if we found out who did what on each track!

[shadyboy]

Old quote from an article I'd never seen before about the live performances - this probably would be the same in the studio?

''I do the arranging and Phil does the mixing,'' Paul Hartnoll said, ''and we both share the synthesizer manipulation. We don't have to adhere to any set structure, so it's different every night.''