ORBITAL - Orbital (The Green Album) [Repress] - 2LP - Black Vinyl [AUG 23]

2LP - Standard Edition 140g Black Vinyl Repress housed in a Gatefold Sleeve. All tracks have been fully remastered by Phil and Paul Hartnoll. 

Originally released on September 30, 1991, Orbital’s eponymous debut album became known as “The Green Album” to distinguish it from their second album (known as “The Brown Album”)

The Green Album includes the seminal ‘Belfast’ and a live version of ‘Chime’, the landmark dance track that launched their career in 1990. This is a black vinyl repress of the standard 2LP edition of their seminal self-titled 1991 debut album, known to fans as ‘The Green Album’. All tracks have been fully remastered by Phil and Paul Hartnoll. 

Following the success of ‘Chime’, Pete Tong signed Orbital to London/ffrr Records, and Tong allowed the Hartnolls the freedom to record the album they wanted to make. Where their contemporaries on the rave circuit would knock out ten formulaic 4/4 piano bangers with guest vocalists and call it an album, for their debut Orbital wanted to explore wider textures, different rhythms, stranger mind spaces. “Our heroes were always Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, the Severed Heads – people who made proper, satisfying, full albums,” explains Paul, “and we were like, yeah, that’s what we want to do.”

It was this ambition that led to Orbital becoming giants of electronic music. The Hartnoll brothers would go on to redefine what dance music could do and the place it took within popular culture itself. Their music has influenced and inspired artists from Björk to Bicep and they have collaborated with minds as diverse as Madonna, Kraftwerk and Professor Brian Cox.

Following The Green Album their second self-titled album – aka The Brown Album – cemented Orbital’s position as musical visionaries. A career of creative leaps quite unlike those usually seen in the fast turnover world of dance music followed, including creating soundtracks for Hollywood films including 1997’s Event Horizon, and most recently for Mike Myers Netflix series The Pentaverate.

Alongside their boundary-pushing work in the recording studio, Orbital earned a reputation as one of the best live acts on the planet. This year marks the 30th anniversary of their legendary 1994 Glastonbury performance, often cited as converting the festival to dance music.

Since reuniting with London Records, Orbital have released the 2022 compilation ’30 Something’, which contained reworks, remakes, remixes and re-imaginings of their landmark tracks, and last year’s critically acclaimed new studio album 'Optical Delusion' which gave Orbital their first UK Album Chart Top 10 album since 1999’s ‘Middle Of Nowhere’.

"Orbital’s exploratory debut album re-wrote the rule book for rave" - DJ Mag

Tracklist:

Disc 1
A1. The Moebius
A2. Speed Freak
A3. Macrohead

B1. Oolaa
B2. Desert Storm

Disc 2
C1. Fahrenheit 303
C2. Steel Cube Idolatry
C3. High Rise

D1. Chime (Live)
D2. Midnight (Live)
D3 Belfast