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August 13, 2003

Orbital Feeling "Blue"

Electronic duo ready for their grand finale
July 16, 2002

Orbital, Morcheeba, Singh Go Back

After-party mix series drawing attendees
June 25, 2002

Orbital Take a New Turn

Electronic duo releases hits album, soundtrack
June 8, 2001

Orbital Enlist David Gray

New album due in September

Recordings and Reviews

Blue Album

Orbital, true to their name, have floated free from most of electronic music's conventions -- they make strikingly blissful techno that's just tough enough. The group, a duo of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, has said The Blue Album will be its last record, and it's leaving on a high note. The...

2004 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Work: 1989-2002

2002

The Altogether

2001

The Middle Of Nowhere

1999

In Sides

1996

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Biography

As Orbital, brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll gave the faceless electronic-dance-music scene of early-'90s Britain an indelible image: two wildly bobbing miner's helmets topped by twin flashlights (their standard stage headgear). The Hartnolls also differentiated themselves from most techno artists by crafting their albums as coherent statements and by showing an interest in melody and harmony as we...

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