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Orbital 20
Halcyon (USA Best of)
Blue Album
Octane
Work
The Altogether
The Middle of Nowhere
In Sides
Snivilisation
Brown Album
Green Album
 
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Brown Album
 
 
Info

The second album came out just as Europe started to really come out and subject themselves to Orbital. The joking bros decided to start the second album exactly the same way as the first album started. "There is this theory of the Moebious...". and if that wasnt enough they started "Planet of the Shapes" with a crackling intro (i wonder how many Vinyl owners were checking their records when they heard it).

A lot of the Orbital heads out there class this as their favourite...maybe it was their first taste of Orbital. Its the most danceable Orbital album and i even heard one person call it a "Rave" album (not too sure of that).

Highlights of the album has to be "Impact (The Earth Is Burning)" (the original release that spanned 2 million reworkings and is STILL a favourite on the live set), "Lush 3-2" (Debut vocals from Kirsty Hawkshaw that made the Lush track what it is), "Planet of the Shapes" (a gem) and "Halcyon + On + On" ( a slight re-working of the Ep release which captures the ambient like textures from P&Ps head

 
Track Name
1. Time Becomes  
2. Planet of the Shapes RA Stream MP3
3. Lush 3-1 RA Stream MP3
4. Lush 3-2 RA Stream MP3
5. Impact (The Earth is Burning) RA Stream MP3
6. Remind RA Stream MP3
7. Walk Now... RA Stream MP3
8. Monday RA Stream MP3
9. Halcyon + on + on RA Stream MP3
10. Input Out  
 
Visit http://www.real.com to download Real Player G2 (RA Stream)
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Chart Positions

Week
Main Chart
Indie Chart
1 (June 93)
3
10
2
1
2
3
4
3
4
5
4
5
10
24
6
7
16
7
8
14
8
16
12
9
10
29
10
6
-
11
10
-
12
12
-
13
5
-
14
7
-
15
10
-
-
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25 (RE - Nov 93)
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30 (RE - Dec 93)
 
Promos
12 Inch Promo - Brown -LIARXDJ5O / LIARXDJ5X
12 Inch Promo - LIARXDJ5O / LIARXDJ5X

Side O - 1) Walk Now
Side X - 1) Lush 3-1
Side X - 2) Lush 3-2

UK Promo - May 1993
Internal / FFRR

12 Inch Promo - LIARXDJ5O / LIARXDJ5X

 
 

Produced by Orbital with extra production by Mickey Mann.
Vocals by Kirsty Hawkshaw
Guitar on Lush3 by Paul Helliwell
Cut by Kevin Metcalfe
Bass line creation and one Jupiter 6 part
on Remind by Chris Daly

Known as Untitled II or Brown Album

American Promo -
May 1993
Internal / FFRR

PRLP - 026 - 1


 
 
First Release
General Release - Brown Album

Produced by Orbital with extra production by Mickey Mann.
Vocals by Kirsty Hawkshaw
Guitar on Lush3 by Paul Helliwell
Cut by Kevin Metcalfe
Bass line creation and one Jupiter 6 part
on Remind by Chris Daly

Known as Untitled II or Brown Album

UK General Release - May 1993
Internal / FFRR

CD - (FFRR 828 386-2) - (TRUCD1)
LP - FFRR 828 386-1) - (TRULP1)

 
 
General Release - Brown MC

Produced by Orbital with extra production by Mickey Mann.
Vocals by Kirsty Hawkshaw
Guitar on Lush3 by Paul Helliwell
Cut by Kevin Metcalfe
Bass line creation and one Jupiter 6 part
on Remind by Chris Daly

Known as Untitled II or Brown Album


Track 6 has been amusing renamed to
"Planet of the Tapes"

UK General Release - May 1993
Internal / FFRR

(FFRR 828 386-4)
(TRUMC2)

MC




 
 
Additional Releases - American Release

Produced by Orbital with extra production by Mickey Mann.
Vocals by Kirsty Hawkshaw
Guitar on Lush3 by Paul Helliwell
Cut by Kevin Metcalfe
Bass line creation and one Jupiter 6 part
on Remind by Chris Daly

Known as Untitled II or Brown Album

American Release - May 1993
Internal / FFRR

CD - FFRR 162 351 026-2)


 
 
Additional Releases - Canadian Release

Produced by Orbital with extra production by Mickey Mann.
Vocals by Kirsty Hawkshaw
Guitar on Lush3 by Paul Helliwell
Cut by Kevin Metcalfe
Bass line creation and one Jupiter 6 part
on Remind by Chris Daly

Known as Untitled II or Brown Album

Canadian Release
1994 Polygram Canada

CD - 422 828 386-2

Thanx to Aimee Couture



 
 
Additional Releases - Australian Release
Australian - Brown Album - Back
Australian Brown Album - Back
Australian - Brown Album - TRUCD2A
Australian Brown Album - TRUCD2A
Australian - Brown Album - TRUCD2A
Australian Brown Album - TRUCD2B

Produced by Orbital with extra production by Mickey Mann.
Vocals by Kirsty Hawkshaw
Guitar on Lush3 by Paul Helliwell
Cut by Kevin Metcalfe
Bass line creation and one Jupiter 6 part
on Remind by Chris Daly

Known as Untitled II or Brown Album


Double CD - Second CD contains the Peel Session from the 10th September 1993. Tracks are:-
Lush 3 (Euro-Tunnel Disaster ‘94)
Walk About
Semi Detached
Attached

Australian Release
1994 Internal / FFRR / MDS

CD - INT MSB; TRUCD 2 A/B











 
Media Reviews
'As warm as plasma and as eerie as ectoplasm' - NME

'Lush 3.1 - is a tantalising shimmer-swirl of synth textures that feel as sensual as sprin rain.' - NME

'Lush 3.2 - introduces an ethereal girl-voice whose extasy could be either ecclesiastrical or sexual, an unearthly horn-section and a rubbery bass like that what itches in the bloodstream.' - NME

'Lush - Built on a crunchy dramatic bass foundations and glowing with splashes of intermitant colour.' - Select Magazine

'Halcyon - is the flipside of the hardcore attitude, a shimmering dream-like embrace that repeats a backwards-looped sample of Opus IIIs Its a Fine Day over eleven minutes of mantric Orbital house' - Select Magazine
 
 
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