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I don't think I've listened to this album in full until now, but I have listened to some other Orbital albums, and I've seen them live once too. I think their music is best heard in a live setting, but I still really enjoyed this for the most part. The only tracks I didn't enjoy were "Remind" and "Walk Now". The intro and outro are also a bit long for what they are - quirky experiments. Orbital's sound still stands out to me as unique in the early 90s electronic scene, it's amazing to see the diversity and innovation that was going on in these years. When "Planet of the Shapes" kicked in, I felt like I had to strap in for the ride. I do prefer Snivilizaton, but that might just be because I'm more familiar with it.
Impossible escoltar-lo sencer a casa posant-hi atenció. M'avorreix.
Our last two albums used the word "halcyon": on yesterday's it was the album's title and on today's it was a song title. I guess most musicians and definitely most songwriters have a better vocabulary than the average Joe. Call me crazy, but I think most of the members of the last two bands have a vocabulary that's even better than David Lee Roth's. This is a very good techno album.
It's hard to evaluate a technology-based album accredited with pushing the needle forward without taking a peek at what else was being released at that time. Aphex Twin was the year before, but this precedes Chemical Bros. and Fatboy Slim by a couple of years. I find this sound by comparison to be more of an extension of Kraftwerk. My gripe, as it usually is with electronic dance music is, it's really about the singles, so while Halcyon and Lush are great tracks and entire album is hard to handle in one listen especially the longer tracks with primitive sampling loops.
I always get Orbital confused with The Orb and William Orbit. Not just for the obvious reason - that their names are so similar but also because their brand of electronic trance music all sounds painfully the same. I present Exhibit one - this album by Orbital. Maybe if I was at a rave taking ecstasy it might be more interesting, but I am sitting in my living room utterly bored.
bem tri o fadinho eletrônico, envolvente
Starts with a star trek reference? Sadly I wasn't high, and at a rave.
Unnecessary beats album that provides no value to this list of albums.
I thought this list was supposed to contain music albums, not just noise probably generated when one of the guys fell asleep on the sound machine
This was alright. I actually didn't mind listening to this, despite me not having a good track record with electronica on this website. There's just something about it that sounds a little different to me. The intro was interesting. Some of the songs on here could probably stand to be shorter though. My favourite song was Planet of the Shapes.
For Techno, this is really good. But it's still techno, so no vocals and a rather lifeless sound.
When an album starts out with a track that repeats ‘where time becomes a loop’ for nearly TWO MINUTES, you know you’re in for a banger of an album 🙄. Hot garbage.
No thank you. This album makes me hate music. The intro and outro tracks are stupid. It's a great representation for the rest of the album.
Very early 90s. Very shit
This was ok but forgettable
Yeah Nah Thanks. Cookie cutter electro isn't for me.
It gets better toward the end but I'm really just not that into 90s electronica. A bit too repetitive too.
67/100: Most of this album is "Stroke Simulator: The Album." Im incredibly good at multitasking while listening to music. I've never had any issues doing work while listening to music. Oftentimes, I'll even read while listening to music. This album broke me on that front. I had to skip "Input Out" after I accidentally wrote "translation" while doing homework. I think there is something to be said in favor of this being a good album, and maybe even an important one, but I'm not gonna be the one to say it. I feel mentally slower having listened to it.
This site has taught me that I just don’t like electronic music 🤷♂️
Screams 90s electronic. Feels like I'm in the cybergoth dance meme video. A couple interesting moments but overall wasn't for me.
Absolutely love this, just pure bliss. It was a happy day back in 1997 when someone pressed this into my hands at uni. Obviously had some familiarity with Orbitals before that but it didn't extend much further than Chime, The Box and Satan. I didn't even know Belfast at that point. Anyway, got a hold of this work of genius and I didn't look back. Walk Now... is admittedly annoying, but the rest of the album is basically perfect, so despite not liking one track it's getting 5 because of all the bellends giving it 1.
Nope
This inclusion is a reminder that there is a lot of music with no piano, guitar, or voice that has had enormous success and large bases of fans. Ok, point taken. If there’s something in that world for me, this ain’t it.
10/26/22 Not bad
Eh.
Pretty decent, but some of these tracks go on much longer than they should.
This album sounded like the music that plays during the end credits of a techie 90s action movie
Formative sounds in my musical fandom...I still remember being blow away by a Halcyon & On & On remix that contained a mash up of Bon Jovi and Belinda Carlise...I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. Solid album with a distinctive sound. 3.5/5
-It's just like background music for an hour. It isn't unpleasant but it isn't interesting
A great relisten
Good background work music
The second outing from the regents of recursion manage to produce one stand out song (Halcyon and on and on). Other than that, this is a snooze fest.
Just feels very empty. Don’t care for techno music and definitely not a fan of 1 hour straight. Just as you finish a song you think it’s q gonna get better; it always remains the same boring level which I’m not about.
The album opens with a weird intro track where the line “when time becomes a loop” is repeated for a whole minute it’s a great use of sampling but it really drags on the theme of time is carried on in the next song planet of the shapes with the line “even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day” then the words just stop for most of the track and honestly it’s quite boring most of the tracks are either lyric-less or just have one repeating sample throughout the album is mindnumpingly boring. 1/5
Mira, este disco no estuvo nada mal. Si lo hubiese escuchado en el año en que se lanzó no lo habría entendido. En ese tiempo tenía la cabeza metida en el Rock y muy pronto en el Grunge. Tal vez si hubiese nacido antes o, en otro país, lo de Orbital me habría parecido mucho más esencial. Lo loco de este disco, como algunos otros de este mismo listado, es que suena tan actual como si hubiese salido en este década. Es asombroso.
I recall the practice session my old band had when our keys player Brittany discovered the effect he uses on "Remind". On her keyboard the setting was called "Solar Flare". Everyone thought it was awesome and we briefly contemplated building an entire song around it but quickly decided this would be much too thin a concept for an entire song. Mssr. Orbital has concluded differently. I have no way of judging this on its own terms, and while it's pleasant enough to put on as background music, it's not that interesting and I wouldn't have picked it for myself. Just a two things to note. One, the CD takes 4 minutes to even get rolling - why did they think it would improve the listening experience to have you sit around listening to nonsense noise for 4 minutes before playing some music? Two, it's very monotonous - I think the artist may have been going for that, but on an hour-long CD it really wears on you.
Not in mood for ambient techno - seems like it was probably on the list due to influence and not quality
It wasn't offensive or anything....just don't care for electronica
This was very boring and uninspired imo.
Just a tough listen, I can see the appeal but it’s the worst kind of experimental electronic music. At its best it’s confusing and at it’s worst it’s impenetrably antithetical to what music is meant to be.
More fucking bog UK techno that goes for an hour. I don't just hate this album, I hate anyone who actually likes it. 1/5.
Space jam(2)
This album defines "90s electronica" for me and is a stone cold classic as far as I'm concerned.
Very 90s, but enjoyable, hypnotic techno.
One word: Bad!!
Loved it
Enjoyable overall; the bookend vocal loops really annoyed me but I’m not taking track 1 and 10 into consideration when rating this. Didgeridoos, tampuras and Paul McGann unite. September 15, 2022
оочень долго слушала этот альбом, почти месяц жила с ним и не знаю, что ставить сейчас такое ощущение, что я слушала два разных альбома, один из которых мне не зашел, а другой наоборот очень понравился будем считать, что это 4,5
energetic electronic music. Certainly doesn't sound it's age.
ALBUM RATING: 3.4 ALBUM GRADE: C+ TRACK RATINGS: 1. Time Becomes - 3.0 2. Planet of the Shapes - 3.5 3. Lush 3-1 - 3.5 4. Lush 3-2 - 3.5 5. Impact (The Earth Is Burning) - 3.5 6. Remind - 4.0 7. Walk Now… - 4.0 8. Monday - 3.5 9. Halcyon + On + On - 2.5 10. Input Out - 3.0
Old school electronic from before I had ever heard electronic music. Less monotonous then current electronic music for sure. My ear needs to hear changes for this type of music to keep me interested, and for the most part, this album supplies that interest, even if it is just one instrument changing, providing a bit of ebb and flow in a sea of sameness.
If you allow it to disappear into the background, say, by revving your car engine or vacuuming, it’s not bad. Otherwise, it’s horrendously repetitive.
decent listen. not a fan of the first and last songs.
Surprisingly good throughout.
Started out thinking that techno doesn't really translate to the recorded album format but by halfway I was quite into it. In the battle of albums on this list released in 1993 by English electronic artists with 'Orbit' in their name, this wins hands down for me. Sorry, William.
This is very early dance music. A good example of the origins of dance music - BUT, the songs themselves are pretty basic, very repetitive. And the first track and last track, Time Becomes and Input Out are gimmicky audio sync experiments that you'd never listed to more than once. It's OK - but dance music progressed and became way more sophisticated after this.
Fantastico!
Awesome.
Amazing. Loved every track!
Svaka nostalgía. Þægilegur bakgrunnur, svona í seinni tíð.
3.7 - It starts with a vocal loop, "where time becomes a loop", that's a little on-the-nose but still pretty trippy. From there, I'm expecting a whacked out space record, à la "Phaedra" by Tangerine Dream or something by Arca. Instead, it's an almost scientifically well-composed EDM record with some spacey elements that still feels balanced and grounded. Standout: "Halcyon and On and On"
Slightly non-plussed by it. It just washed over me. And I don't feel like I need another listen to see if my view changes. It's very of its time.
Still not as good as In Sides.
One of my all time favourite albums
Time becomes- a loop. Love the worf sample Planet of the Shapes - I don’t have much to say tbh.. Lush 3-1 - I was hiccuping which I think adds to the long Lush 3.2 - this is literally the same thing Gave up on individual songs, all blend into one. I could not just sit and not do anything except listen to this album. Ultimate background music. DO people still dance to this? 1/5
Alt-Techno with Class
Good background music.
Interessant
Again, I forgot how much I enjoyed Orbital. At over an hour, this album flew by perfectly.
Electronic music is generally not my thing, but this is pretty solid. It's not holding my attention but it doesn't feel like it's supposed to. Each track kind of ebbs and flows one after another in a pleasing way. I dig it.
Decent background music.
Oh bloody hell, here we go, more fucking electronic garbage. Seriously, this is my 330th album so far and my 27th of the electronic genre. That's too many! I realize that 27/1001 is only about 2% market share for genre, but like goddamn, even that is too much for me. I do not want this on a train, I do not want this in the rain. I will not put this music in my brain.
Interesting. But struggled to rate this two stars.
did not really liked it but appreciate the effort
This is a great electronics album. Groundbreaking for its time
Maybe it's because I'm not into dancing or dropping acid and staring at strobe lights but electronic music doesn't speak to me. It's too repetitive and I find it uninteresting. Some of the sounds these artists create from the use of technology is cool and innovative but that's about it.
lush 3-1 and 3-2 hit, surprising
Was NOT looking forward to this one - in my head it's dull old techno. But that's what this project is for, to try and expand my horizons. Generally I was pretty unimpressed, but I concede there are some pretty listenable moments in Lush 3-1 and Halcyon. Heard some possible inspiration for artists that would come along 20 years later: Mount Kimbie, Four tet, Gold panda.
Quality production but not my jam
Not my favorite, but interesting.
What the hell? I gave up…
Nice and meditative, but also very repetitive.
125. Þetta er danstónlist og eðli málsins samkvæmt full endurtekningarsöm fyrir minn smekk, og á köflum satt best að segja aðeins of intense. En þetta er ekki leiðinlegt, ég gæti alveg hlustað aftur. Jájá ef þið setjið þetta í gang þeas.
6/22/2022 - ALBUM #146 Today's Album: "Orbital 2" by Orbital - This album has to have one of the best attention grabbers so far. The opener Time Becomes is a looping sample of a man saying, "where time becomes a loop" in each audio channel. It begins with it playing in both channels together, but as it repeats, one channel begins to delay behind the other and the space between them grows until eventually they line back up with each other. It sort of reminds me when you're looking at car blinkers that are going at different rates and watch as they line up and separate again. It really brings the whole theme of the album together as a lot of the EDM dance loops that this album features will build up elements just to break them back down and end where they began. The end of the album also ends with a similar idea, but with this one one channel says "Output Rotation" and the other ways "Input Translation". These bookending songs are a fantastic day to make this album feel like a cohesive idea and make the name of the band make a lot of sense. The music in between these tracks are pretty excellent too, being a collection of dance loops that really do a great job of building, climaxing, de-escalating and rebuilding while still keeping the listener's attention. No musical idea sticks around for too long before something else comes in to switch things up. I also love how much diversity is on this record, the Lush collection of tracks are these really clubby dance tracks with heavy synths and bass, Impact is this kind of breakdown track with a lot of washed out pianos and some really dreamy and unintelligible vocals. Remind takes that techno edge and totally runs with it with these robotic synths. Walk now sound a bit basic at first, but some of the switch ups they do sound pretty insane. I like more mellow piano sample loop that holds the track Monday together and the progression is just really satisfying. The last musical track here Hylcyon ends things off perfectly by getting really ethereal with these long drowning dream synths and some beautiful meditative vocal samples. Overall, this album really blew me away for an EDM project and I am surprised more people don't talk about it. Give this one a listen if you want some really solid study beats or just want to float away for a little bit. It's also really great for dancing! Highlights: Planet of the Shapes, Lush 3-2, Impact, Walk Now, Monday, Halcyon and On and On Score: 8.5/10 Elaborate and well-executed EDM with tons of personality
Orbital 2 Electric Bugaloo gets a 2. It is techno music. Overall it was unremarkable. It is was alright as background music. There is no need for me to revisit the album.
I would enjoy this at the right time and place. Like at a hookah bar, or a rave. Unfortunately I listened on a beautiful sunny drive on Highway 61 and it just didn't fit.
This album has a hard time getting off the ground. Begins with some Steve Reich type phasing, which I thought was going to break out into a beat, but never did. Then, the second track goes into another hard panned intro section of its own and doesn't drop a beat until it's 1:44 in. Once I got past my initial frustration with the prolonged opening, I enjoyed the rest of the album well enough. I like that they walk a line between more atmospheric headphone music and meatier dance material.
I enjoyed the random vocal loop experiments, the rest of the stuff is okay, not my style of electronica that I would listen to in a non-club setting, but I liked this album more than their first.
Influential and great at festivals, but not a good album to listen to.
Enjoyed it - it’s a bit long over all and it sounds a tiny tiny bit dated - but fair enough. I guess it would have done better without the first AND last track - they’re fine on first listen but then they become tedious.
Música electrónica, en ocasiones techno, con ritmos variados y para tener una noche de fiesta. Sin destacar especialmente, valoro el estilo y su variedad de ritmos
Definitely worth the money - with tracks lasting between 5 and 10 minutes, you get a whole lot for your cash.
Не мой жанр, хотя было интересно познакомиться. Понял, что музыка либо напрягает, либо клонит в сон. Но прикольно.
funky i like the worf song
Boring
this feels like a time machine i love it. damn do these synths sound incredible and the use of phasing and looping throughout rips. awesome discovery for me!!
Where Time Becomes a Loop... This one will take more time to digest. I don't dislike the album, on first listen I thought it was a waste of time. But, after listening to it all day, I think there are some interesting sounds going on here. Not sure if that makes it good yet though. 2 / 5 (for now)
Starts off well, but just becomes one-paced and boring.
3.75
No
Ok I guess
Techno is just not my jam. It's hard for me to even evaluate because it just doesn't speak to me here. I want to rate not applicable lol, but I guess I've gotta give a 2. Not BAD like a 1 would be, but a forgettable 2.
me brains been thoroughly washed
Groovy tunes.
I love electronic music of the early 90s. This wasn't an amazing album, but it's pretty good, and a fun listen.
Just an experimental instrumental album. Complete snoozefest. 4/10.
I enjoyed it quite a bit. Some of the songs really pushed my patience, but not because I wasn’t enjoying the beat, but just that it was quite repetitive. Wish I had some drugs for this one, though. 6/10
Not my kind of music.
A little more just ambiance than I would normally want
fart*
The opening is a bit rough, song one and the first minute of song two are just spoken bits with a computerized voice. The voice is just repeating a phrase over and over again too, so there's nothing there but hearing a line. This happens again later in the album too. When the music is actually playing, it's very good ambient electronic and I liked having it on while I worked. Song 1, and the very end of Song 2 are jarring and take away from the quality of the album. Lush 3-1,Lush 3-2, and Monday are highlights. I'm on the fence on rating this one. How they decided to have the opening and closing tracks be this annoying, lazy, no-effort put a sentence on a loop thing boggles my mind. Everything in the middle is pretty solid, and you have some great music in there but the album has decided to piss you off at the start and risk you turning it off before getting to the music, or you actually listen to it and then it pisses you off at the end and kills the vibe you just built. I'll rate it 3, I really enjoyed the actual music on this album, they're lucky I'm not in a bad mood or this would be a 1 or 2 just for having those asinine first and last tracks.
Halycon + On + On + On +On
Asides from the first track, this album is superb.
weak
Solid
The first wholly great dance album of the rave era - 91 is pretty early to make a complete masterpiece. Halcyon is a thing of wonder.
Took me back briefly, and not as hardcore as I remember. Strangely started to find it good for zoning out and relaxing.
Make sure your suits are buttoned up tight and your oxygen tanks are full- and you better bring some extra canisters- because you’re invited to dance amongst the stars with two of Techno’s finest space ambient artists: the English duo Orbital. I love me some Ambient music, man. And while mine leans more toward the likes of the non-tempo sort (Steve Reich, ie) I still enjoyed this LP very much, beats and all. And that’s really where 'Orbital 2' is coming from, it’s all about the beats. Seems to be a bit of a concept album, too, bookending the space rave with words on loop (‘Time becomes’), but subtly morphing into a slightly different phrase (the opening number ended with the words, ‘For time becomes a loop.’) The technique itself, in which two identical samples are repeated at slightly different speeds, was coincidentally popularized by Steve Reich. Thus, the entire LP seems to be a very creative artistic representation of ‘the theory of the Mobius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop.’ And that’s what you get, in spades/space, on 'Orbital 2': lots of synthesized beats, excellent syncopation (‘Lush 3-1,’ ie), good use of dynamics (wish there had been just a bit more, but I’m just being picky), some great drone instruments like sitar and didgeridoo, echoed vocals, and all looped into one dynamite techno package. Orbital indeed. I’ll certainly loop back around to this one again.
Ok
Tecno. Ni fu ni fa.
Heel sferisch album, niet zo mijn ding
Genre: Techno 3/5 A truly inoffensive Techno album from the 90s. Orbital, a couple of Brits, go ahead and produce some of the most boring, yet beautiful, electronic music I’ve heard in a while. A rather heavy emphasis on the ambient side of things more so than the heavy big beat sound which was becoming popularized at that time. Lush 3-1 is good and there are a few other minor highlights, but none too interesting, and everything is all very cohesive, but the overall vibe doesn’t reach beyond a mild head bob. Maybe for a slow workout, or if you need a chill, accessible Techno album while you work, but this was much more “easy listening” than I had anticipated.
90s masterpiece that probably didn't age very well but i'm completely incapable of judging it with anything approaching objectivity. Halcyon still rules.
What is this???? I don't understand this at all. I disliked the repetition of words in the first track and that put me off the rest of the album. I'm not a stranger to eletronica but this is too out of left field for me.
It's February 1994 and I am at a spontaneous illegal rave on a beach near La Perouse. I am dancing in the ocean the water up to my thighs. The sun is just coming up on the horizon as the cops come to tell us to move on. Apart from a few sculls of goon on the drive there mind is not altered in any way, just vibing to the beats and rhythm coming off the sound system. I'm not sure if even anything off this album was playing that night, which was mostly local doof DJs but listening to this album evokes the memories of that night. I still love listening to the Orb, this album threading the sacred ground between anthem and come down music. Best played through my headphones at a volume not right for my damaged ear drums.
first listen well loved in terms of techno but i find it boring personally
very cool
Can’t tell if I enjoyed it or hated it
Cool
Big beats are the best. It was fine if you like this kinda thing
Un buon sottofondo per lavorare. Lush 3-1 non male, per niente male. In generale pensavo peggio, tutto quanto forse è un po' troppo tutto insieme, però le singole tracce non sono male. ***
I live in the technno capital of the world and I've heard better techno through the wall from my neighbour. It's bland and boring, but it's saved in that regard. It could be a lot, lot worse, like the shitty looping on the first track which sounds neat in the first 15 seconds, then you realise it goes on for another minute and a half.
90s edm. Not really for me.
1/27/22
Repetitive garbage
Killer dancey electronic album. Love the intro and Impact in particular. This list desperately needs more electronic music but I'm happy that this is included at least.
It's very easy to hate on electronic music. All the things that make music great, the timing, the tonality of live instruments, the play of expected vs. unexpected changes and sounds, improvisation, and the slight imperfections that make something sound organic just don't come across in a mathematical sequence. Things have improved somewhat since the early 9s when this came out but it's still about as emotional as interacting with a pissed off microwave.
Some of this album was quite enjoyable, after a while however it became quite repetitive and it lost me. Like the production of it and the fact that it stuck firmly to its genre, not an album I would listen to again.
Fantastic
Classic
Definitely a 90's Electronica album. I enjoyed the atmosphere it built, but found that the songs usually blended together into white noise after a bit.
Techno, or edm in general, has been an underrepresented genre on the list, but this is great. Good music to listen to while working. Although I'm not a fan of first and last tracks, it's just a wanky, unnecessary steve reich knockoff
Not heard this album before - very familiar with the later stuff. Will definitely be listening again.
Cool beats with a variety of sounds from industrial to ethereal to electronic. Interesting intro/extro samples. In/out drive me nuts but made me think. Planet of the shapes, Lush, Monday, halcyon and on and on
Good album for getting in the zone, maybe for a gym workout. If this was playing in a club, I'd probably leave, though.
This album sounds how I imagine a tofu + dragonfruit salad would taste. It's literally nothing. This is a toddler playing with FL Studio presets for an hour. I think listening to white noise is a more thrilling experience than this.
I enjoyed the weird glitch like soft electric tone of the album. Not a background album
The best of this album IMO: - Impact (The Earth Is Burning) - Monday - Halcyon + On + On Not bad. 3.2/5
Not my kind of thing, very repetetive and mostly instrumental.
Pretty revolutionary and unique
Tarda unos minutos en despegar, pero cuando lo hace, verga. Larga vida al ravé.
standard electronic music - gave it a couple of spins in case I had missed something but nothing really grabbed me.
5/10
A bit more musical than some other electronic albums I've heard, and not just annoying noise. Expect the intro and outro which are so annoying, don't understand why you would want to annoy the listener at the start and end of an album, which makes it a 1 star not 2 for me.
booring
Meh. Not the worst thing I've heard. Just put it in the background and not really noticeable.
amazing...halycon on and on is a classic. studio masters before digital studios
Classic house
Thought I would like this. But I didn't, I think I'd need to a lot of eccys to appreciate it. So repetitive.
If you thought the song Donda was a mind breaker, just wait. Nice listening.
Lovely stuff start to finish - Halcyon and on and on being an absolute standout track
A very strong electronic album and a blueprint for their later work (which is even beter).
There are signs of the genius of Orbital on this early '90s album, but the sound feels rather outdated and the melodies are too repetitive to really enjoy this. The looping trickery on the opening and closing tracks was interesting, though.
Apparently I am getting every techo album on this list in a row...
This is not my jam but it got me in the mood to listen to Aphex Twin, so it's something
I was going to give this a 1, but so many reviews say that these sounds were so new and amazing at the time of its release - something I didn't think about.
16th November 2021 Listened on my headphones whilst travelling from the Excel centre to book club in Kings Cross. 90s raving culture in an album. I wouldn't sit and listen to it, I think you need to be on something and in a field to properly enjoy it but I can kind of see it.
5/10
8/10 pretty cool, daft punk vibes
Well Loop de fucking Loop! Laaaange samples som hvis man lige havde fået Dee-Jay til sin PC i 90erne Utrolig kedeligt
Just noise
Reconec el disc com un dels moments àlgids de la cultura rave i el cert és que tants anys després es deixa escoltar molt bé i té els seus moments... però més enllà de la seva importància històrica i la seva competència técnica, no m'arriba; tampoc és el meu món....
Horrendous
Lush 3-1 is a good track. Its a cool sonic atmosphere but i just cant find it in me to put a house album above a 3
90's techno, very repetitious. 90's techno, very repetitious. 90's techno, very repetitious. 90's techno, very repetitious. repetitious. repetitious. repetitious.
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Really dull with repetitive samples looped for 6 minutes and called a song. Maybe worked in the clubs back in the day but pointless as a home listen
Lovely stuff start to finish - Halcyon and on and on being an absolute standout track
Snorebital
Listening to this felt like a chore. I can absolutely see how groundbreaking and influential this album was. Its influence over electronic music in the 90s is clear. But this feels like the music in a concentrated form, like runway fashion vs what ends up in department stores. I guess it's not a genre that I have ever been into and what is left just reminds me of the electronic pop that came in the later 90s - and I'm not ready to be reminded of that yet. So yeah, the album deserves its place on the list but it's not something I would otherwise enjoy listening to.
Wow. Not my type of music at all but it does take you on a journey
didnt relise it was this album. i like it alot
Dawno tak nie pokaralo gatunkiem z gatunku tych najtrudniej przyswajalnych, czyli chodzi o odmiane elektroniki zwana powszechnie techniawa, orbital 2 jak sama nazwa wskazuje bedzie drugim albumem studyjnym grupy o nazwie orbital, ktora jest duetem braci Hartnoll, ich imiona to Phil i Paul, jak przystalo na standardy listy orbitale musza byc oczywiscie rezydentami wyspiarskimi, bo jakze inaczej moze byc, nie jest to pierwszy i pewnie nie ostatni album elektroniczny podczas tego forsowania listy, ale jest to jeden z tych pickow od ktorego zupelnie sie odbilem podczas odsluchu, techniawa, ale nie wiksiarska, tylko inteligentniusia techniawa, dla wysublimowanych gustow koneserow muzyki elektroniczej, ktorej nie potrafie zrozumiec, cecha charakterystyczna brzmienia duetu na tym materiale bedzie bogaty sampling, juz pierwszy trak rozpoczyna sie sampelem z star treka time becomes a loop, ktory oczywiscie jest zlupowany przez prawie dwie minuty z letkim jego opoznieniem przy loopie, takie przesuniecie sampla w czasie okresia sie jakp phasing, z tego zabiegu kompozycyjnego mocno czerpia braciszkowie, przez co juz po pierwszych 5 minutach odsluchu mialem dosc, a nie jest to dobry omen, gdy plyta ma godzine i piec minut dlugosci i 10 trakow, kawalki lushowe kojarza mi sie z trancowym klimatem, ktory kontynuuje swa obecnosc na nastepne piosenki, bo kawalki wydaja sie byc ze soba zespawane tak jakby orbital drugi byl jednym wielkim songiem, ktory jest do konsumpcji w calosci, na co trzeba miec mocny zoladek muzyczny, cale szczescie, ze to juz ponad 250 piczek, wiec zahartowanie pozwolilo dosluchac albumu do konca i z czystym sumieniem jestem w stanie stwierdzic, ze nadal nie rozumiem tego gatunku, a rzadkie przepadki, jak z juno reactor, nie objawily sie jeszcze na liscie, songiem ktory najmniej mnie zabolal byl impact, ktory jest takze najdluzszym utworem plyty, a sample sa calkowicie niezrozumiale i niezbyt obszerne przez co nie tak odczuwalne, wiec leci na plejke lofikowych, zeby jakis slad po tym orginalnym elektronicznym projekcie orbitalowym nie zaginal, okladka faktycznie wyglada jak cos co mogloby byc orbitalowe
It's alright. I don't tend to like to just listen to electronica so this isn't for me. Those who like electronica will dig it though.
Time and again this site has served me turn-of-the-90s UK electronica, and it's still yet to make an impression on me. I try to not generalize about music, but I can completely understand why music from this period gets slammed for being so repetitive. for being so repetitive for being so repetitive for being so repetitive boom-boom-boom-snap so repetitive boom-boom-boom-snap so repetitive boom-boom-boom-snap so repetitive
I dug this, but I wanted the pieces to not flow into each other. It made it difficult to get a sense of what each song truly was. Definitely a bigger step in evolution of electronica from Kraftwerk, but not something I would listen to on a regular basis.
You know, electronica back to back is not a good thing. Any genre back to back likely isn't good for this list. Need to cleanse the palate. The problem with Orbital is that they repeat everything so quickly (e.g., some phrase or beat on loop). It's mind numbing. Kraftwerk at least paused for a bit before coming back to the same phrases. And their beats didn't feel so incessant or monotonous. Planet of the Shapes had some really cool beats but it lacked variation or it didn't layer in its beats well. It's like they have one dominant beat and that drowns out everything else - it's all you can hear and it just repeats. More variation in pacing, timing, and beats is needed - in almost all songs. I think if I was in solitary confinement and you played this album I would go crazy after about two revolutions. I don't think I could play this album as background music to a party unless that party was a rave. Its inferiority is glaringly obvious when placed next to Kraftwerk.
I wanted to like this more than I did. After all, it started with a loop of Worf from Star Trek:TNG talking about time becoming a loop. I do like electronic dance music and the album did have its moments. But I think Underworld did this better. Strange that some of this sounds a bit more dated than stuff like Kraftwerk from the 70s and 80s.
Good techno music. Accessible and interesting but nothing really stood out to me. 3.
This is barely music.
The music here was decent but their heads are so far up their own nether regions with the stupid spoken tracks that its insufferable. Listening to some of their later stuff they've gotten a lot better.
Vile.
Favs: Halcyon And On And On, Impact Mehs: Walk Now I like Orbital. They remind me of Mortal Kombat, Hackers, and middle school. A lot of their music is more jangly 90s techno than I'd prefer, though.
This is a basic bitch version of Thievery Corporation.
I'm usually more of a fan of Detroit and Acid Techno (particularly in the style of Richie Hawtin/Plastikman) as the British variety can be a bit more rave oriented as seen by the Two-Step and Breaks influences, but overall not bad.
1.5 | Más Techno... Del mismo grupo???? Insisto... no es que tenga nada en particular contra el género. Sí puede tener su lugar y no es que sea un disco 100% sin mérito pero creo puedo repetir casi lo mismo que dije del primero. No le veo el caso en la lista, no propone nada tan distinto de cualquier otro artista competente del género como para estar en la lista y ahora mucho menos como para decir que merece DOS lugares en la misma. Sin mucho que decir, competente, pudiera funcionar de música de fondo en situaciones específicas... nada más. De verdad lo que sí siento es que es casi un desperdicio/abuso dar dos lugares al mismo grupo y a dos discos que básicamente te los puedo poner en shuffle y no podrías realmente diferenciar uno de otro.
Ya vi que esta va a ser una ultra-unpopular opinion, pero el disco realmente me gustó. Cierto, tiene cosas muy raras empezando por la primera y la última canción, pero me parece una propuesta muy atrevida y original para la época. Me resulta muy interesante que UK fuera la cuna de esto a la par del Britpop y el Punk, pero a la vez como que también encaja. Su música me recuerda a The Prodigy, pero también a música electrónica más “reciente”, como Paul Van Dyk y Moby. Por la época en que salió este álbum y el éxito que tuvo, creo que se podría asumir que el álbum tuvo influencia importante sobre el género de la electrónica. Identifico algo más en la música de este disco, y sé que decirlo va a ser controversial: siento que aplica una fórmula similar a lo que años antes hizo Pink Floyd (Wish you were here / Animals), sólo que con electrónica en lugar de rock: las canciones toman una melodía base y realizan una progresión sobre la misma, logrando extender la duración sin aburrir, pero hay que estar poniendo atención. En la página de Wikipedia hay una cita de una reseña que dice que “este album se beneficia tras escucharlo múltiples veces”, y coincido. Lo escuché tres veces en total, y cada vez lo disfruté más.
Qué aburrido y largo y hasta molesto. Y nada chistosos sus Tracks con las frases repitiéndose. En algunos puntos me sonó a cuando bajamos FrootLoops y jugábamos a hacer rolas de electrónica.
Noise. But that one mean girls song is cool lol
Thanks, I hate it
Pour ne rien vous cacher, cet album m'a donné envie d'ingurgiter plusieurs cachets d'ecstasy et de danser au milieu d'une foule de personnes baignées dans leur sueur.
Si je vous retrouve votre duo intro/outro ridicule je peux vous jurer que ça va très mal se passer.
If I ever need to pick music at a luxury resort ocean / poolside happy hour I have my album
This album probably deserves 4 stars. It's innovative, interesting, and unique. But, I feel like "my kitchen table at 8am while I'm checking my emails" is not the ideal environment to experience something like this. I shouldn't hold it against the album, and yet I do.
Not where I’m at right now. If I was a little bit older I can imagine this being important to me but without being on that scene it’s not doing much for me.
Okay techno. Won’t be listening again.
Maybe I need to give this another listen, but it didn't strike me as particularly amazing. I paid more attention to the spotify recommendations after this album.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was one of my favorite shows. The original one. I've been writing reviews so I don't have much time to watch the new one, but I hear it's good. Though I never listed to Orbital in the 90's this is a huge throwback for me. My pacifier and glowsticks, oversized pants, pigtails, pumas and DANCING! Oh, how I loved Special K and dancing. Anyway, this is a huge throwback and I did enjoy listening to this. There's a lot of repetition and beats as you'd expect from 90's rave music and There's a lot of repetition and beats as you'd expect from 90's rave music andThere's a lot of repetition and beats as you'd expect from 90's rave music andThere's a lot of repetition and beats as you'd expect from 90's rave music andThere's a lot of repetition and beats as you'd expect from 90's rave music andThere's a lot of repetition and beats as you'd expect from 90's rave music and I liked this but probably won't listen to it again unless I get nostalgic or eat more Special K.
I'm sure there is a through line from Brian Eno, to Orbital, to the techno I listened to college and beyond. There was a moment while listening to this that I kind of wanted to go back and listen to Brian Eno again to see how it compared to this. But I quickly thought better of it. Unlike Eno, Orbital builds and layers in a way that feels rewarding. (I think, again I'm kind of blocking Eno out and I'm not ready to undo that.) Yes, sometimes certain segments drag on too long, but overall I liked Orbital. It was vaguely familiar at times, but I couldn't figure out if I'd heard this or just similar early house/electronica. Happy to have this on as background music.
Shhhhh! I almost turned this off within the first track. Any time they sample someone speaking it loses a star as it interferes with my ability to let this fade into background music.
Really not my thing. Extra star for Doctor Who.
This album sounds like it was quite advanced in 1993 for electronic music. However, now it sounds outdated. It’s OK, but something I would turn off if I had the choice.
shid
Bloody brilliant!
Halcyon + On + On was the only track I knew coming into this album, and happily the rest of it was pretty solid too.
What can I say? It was Orbital being Orbital. Weirdly I've seen them live twice.
Sounds like a sci-fi fps ost. Halcyon+on+on is really dope.
Shocked this is 1993. I kept thinking about Prodigy’s Firestarter. That was 1996. So this is really novel stuff for that time.
If you don't remember Halcyon + On + On from the intro of Hackers (1995), add that film to your list.
Niets voor mij
Not a fan. A bit out there
Not great but not all bad EDM. Not sure if revist. Stand out track - Lush 3-1
It's bad when the first song has me looking at the time left to make sure I don't have to listen to it for too long; "Time Becomes" is a terrible opening song to this album. The repetitive lyric thing gets old real quick, and I was dismayed when it happened again in the second song, which actually had some interesting beats, and the final song. As the album went on, however, I found my attention waning; the songs and the beats just didn't grab me, certainly not enough to enjoy listening for over an hour. Perhaps it's just dated, because I can see why people would have liked it at the time; I just can't get into it now. "Halcyon and On and On" was probably the best song on the album.
nope
This was quite strange, not the biggest fan of this kind of music
alright. a couple of bright spots but overall way to long. forgettable background music. wish i could give 1/2 star ratings
Solid beats, interesting progressions. Often embarrassingly 90s.
The opening and closing track completely killed this album for me. I got into it during the middle and was enjoying it, only reason its not getting a 1
Wow this has aged really poorly, sounds really dated Not the absolute worst music I've ever heard, but not for me at all
Like orbital
beep boop beep boop vrrrrrrooooooo vrrooooo vroooo. 7.5.
Electronic music like this is not something I listen to very often, or really at all, at least not on purpose, but I like this one. I don't know anything about how this kind of music is made, which is maybe why it feels less accessible to me; however, this album has some interesting elements, like sampling of movie quotes that fit well with the feel of the music. Even though I doubt I'll listen to this or any electronic music all that regularly, at least not now, I am glad I got to hear it.
Ach Gott!
Besser als David guetta Hat seine Berechtigung
As a fan of Steve Reich (thanks Miles) I liked the phased intro and outro songs. Generally a great album and a step on the way to "Chill Lo-Fi Beats to Study and Relax To" playlists so I'm a fan. Glad to hear this album.
This was like being at a rave without drugs. The first track was excruciating. An exercise in futility.
It's great. How did they make all these sounds? Was going to mark down for a bad car journey with Mike, but it's brilliant. One of the first albums that hit me away from guitars...
quelle daube
Couple of good ones but not super into it
Funky, but just not my jam.
5? Seemed cool but just ended up being grating. Not super enjoyable to listen to
2/5
4/10. Okay, this album was really long, and fairly annoying. Not so annoying that it distracted me from homework, but it made it a bit less pleasant. The first and last songs were both kinda cool, and even more annoying than the rest of it.
Good ambient/mood-creating music. Experimental.
Treibt gut an, hat durchaus freie improvisiert anmutende, spielfreudige Momente, poppiger Collagen-Techno. Etwas einfach gestrickt aber wie gesagt: gut Druck dahinter. Keine großen Überraschungen dafür sehr klare Schlagrichtung Vorwärts 3.4
3,7 für den immer noch schönen Trip. Ist zwar durchaus gealtert - aber auch nicht schlechter als Leftfield, und erzählt dabei die schönere Geschichte! Außerdem sind Lush und Halcyon immer noch Top Hits.
It's just hard to listen to for an hour. 4
A lot to like here but I have limited years of my life and I can’t afford to spend them waiting several mins for a song to begin or listening to “time becomes a loop” a billion times.
Máquina. Largo. Aburrido. Machacón.
Didn't love it...pretty basic EDM
th*t w*s fucking p**nful
not really a positive or negative response to this album. fine but boring. enjoyed one song
How were these guys so influential?
4
electronica. vibes. weird.
5/10 - ok music
First track annoying. Hope it gets better. Songs overall are ok. Good for background music except the first and last songs. Both annoying and unnecessary. 2.5
Sounded astonishing at the time and holds up well.
it's OK.....I prefer In Sides