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Key to the album’s appeal, both indoors and out, is the strong melodic thread that runs through its 11 tracks (in this case, I am talking about the original UK edition - the US album release differed significantly). This makes the ‘The Green Album’ an important jumping off point for Orbital, an insight into why they would go on to become one of the most enduring electronic music acts, appealing to rock fans, home listeners and festival crowds alike. But if you listen to Autechre’s two contributions to ‘Artificial Intelligence’, they don’t sound that far from what Orbital were cooking up on ‘The Green Album’ tracks like ‘Steel Cube Idolatry’ or ‘High Rise’ - all clean melodic lines and idiosyncratic beats. Autechre and Orbital would go on wildly differing career paths over their respective four-decade careers. But the album’s melodicism, shifting beats and atypical structures suggest a step onward from rave, pointing towards the electronic home listening that Warp’s epochal ‘Artificial Intelligence’ compilation would nail in summer 1992, in a way that Dominator’s ‘Human Resource’ most certainly did not.Ī more apposite historical comparison would perhaps be Autechre. The Orbital brothers, Phil and Paul Hartnoll, made their initial breakthrough with ‘Chime’, a rave anthem par excellence and the 11 tracks on the ‘The Green Album’ - which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year - would doubtlessly have worked at a 1991 rave. Plenty of people will disagree with this assessment. It’s a record of snarling riffs and heart-breaking melody that skirts around the rave scene rather than submerging in it, like the M25 motorway from which the band took their name does to central London. ‘Orbital’, the band’s 1991 debut album - also known as ‘The Green Album’ to distinguish it from their second eponymous LP - is the band’s not quite rave album.
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Not so Orbital, a British duo whose career has been marked by distinct phases of not quite fitting into scenes, from the not exactly techno of 1993’s ‘Orbital’ (aka The Brown Album) to the not really drum & bass of ‘Snivilisation’. Most electronic music acts are fairly easy to work out.