Also, halcyon hasnt aged well at all. Lovely vocals, but like nearly all of orbital's tunes, the beats completely let it down.
Nah, this is the proto-proto breakbeat hardcore tune.
Nah, this is the proto-proto breakbeat hardcore tune.
[sirens] ITS A PROTO-OFF!!!! [sirens]
squarepusher is the happy hardcore of electronic muso boffins. basically if you read him in exactly the opposite way to the IDM boys he becomes great fun. much better than all that nu jazz shit.
it's kind of sickly and toilet humour jazz funk but that's what is charming about it.
Orbital is an altogether more insidious proposition. progressive house NME clientele. them lot actually believed in the utopian techno futurist gimmics of rave! no wonder Eat Static and Banco De Gaia and a lot of other shit never worth thinking about got into their top albums of 93-94-95.
I saw him at the Glade festival a year when it rained torrentially and nearly sank the whole site into a marsh. He stood on stage and played slap-bass over some backing tracks and it was not very engaging. I was clearly in a minority of miserable cunts because his reception was rapturous
I'll go with this instead...