ALBUMS
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EPS/SINGLES
Dont Stop Me / The Gun is Good
One Perfect Sunrise/You Lot
Rest and Play
Illuminate
Funny Break (One is Enough)
Beached
Nothing Left
Style
The Saint
Satan Live EP / Spawn
The Box
Times Fly
Belfast Wasted
Are We Here?
Peel Session / Diversions
Lush
Radiccio
Mutations
Midnight / Choice
Satan (III Ep)
Omen
Chime
 
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Style
 
 
Info

The first track to be released off the 5th Album. This track incorporates sounds/samples from the Stylophone made famous by that wonderful hairy beast - Rolf Harris. The additional tracks on the release include "Big Pipe Style" which crosses Bagpipes with the Stylophone and brings Orbital as close as they will probably ever get to a Big Beat. The track "An Fhomhair" which features on the first 12 Inch Promo and the 2nd CD is a remix of the album track "Ontaņo" but with a up beat / sub bass feel to it. The track reached number thirteen in the Uk charts.

The 'classic' stylophone is a simple monophonic instrument that is played by bringing the electrical contact on the end of the stylus into contact with a pictorial representation of a standard 20 note (A - E) keyboard. The 'keyboard' is actually part of the main, single-sided, circuit board exposed by a hole in the plastic case. There was 3 different colour schemes - black, white and woodgrain. Their wasnt many controls...There are two switches to the left of the keyboard, organ on / off (vital!), and vibrato on / off (optional). The 'woodgrain' version also has the added advantage of a volume control. There is also a tuning control on the bottom and a line out on the left hand end. To complete the package there is an internal 2" diameter speaker. Internally there seems to have been many versions (some transistors, some with IC's) and as a result there is a lot of variation in how they sound.

There have been a few artists that have used the stylophone including David Bowie "Space Oddity", Pulp and the cheesey Two Little Boys track "Stylophonia".

 
 
Track Names
Cd1
1.
Style RA Stream MP3 Click here to view the video
Cd1
2.
Mock Tudor RA Stream MP3
Cd1
3.
Old Style RA Stream MP3
Cd2
4.
Big Pipe Style RA Stream MP3
Cd2
5.
An Fhomhair RA Stream MP3
Cd2
6.
New Style RA Stream MP3
 
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Acetate
Style  - 12 Inch Acetate
Style - 12 Inch Acetate

A) Bigpipe Style (incorrectly labelled as Bagpipe Style on actual Acetate)
B) An Fhomhair

Very Rare - Less than 10 copies



Acetate 12 Inch
(Very Rare)
10th December 1998
London Records

Date on Acetate is 10/12/99

 
 
Promos
Style Cd Promo
Style Cd Promo

1) Style (Radio Edit)
2) Bigpipe Style (Radio Edit)

Quite Rare - Limited to less than 500

UK Cd Promo
18th January 1999
FFRR

12 Inch Promo -
FCDJ 358

 
 
Style 12 Inch Promo
Style 12 Inch Promo

A) Big Pipe Style
B) An Fhomhair



UK 12 Inch Promo
Christmas 1998
London Records

12 Inch Promo -
ORBX1

 
 
Style Promo Video (special)
Style Promo Video (Special)

Style (4'15)

UK Promo Video
February 1999
Internal / FFRR

 
 
Style Promo Video
Style Promo Video

Style (4'15)

UK Promo Video
January 1999
Internal / FFRR

 
 
General Release
General Release - Style Cd 1
Style Cd One - Louise Kelly / Orbital

Written and produced by Orbital.
Produced by Mickey Mann
Cover Photograph: Louise Kelly and Orbital.
Farrow Design
Constructed using samples from the Stylophone Synth.



Style
Mock Tudor
Old Style

UK General Release - March 8th 1999
Internal / FFRR

CD One - FCD358

 


 
 
General Release - Style Cd 2
Style Cd Two - Louise Kelly / Orbital

Written and produced by Orbital.
Produced by Mickey Mann
Track 2 - Vocals by Pukka.
Track 3 - Bass by Andy James
Cover Photograph: Louise Kelly and Orbital.
Farrow Design
Constructed using samples from the Stylophone Synth.


Big Pipe Style
An Fhomhair
New Style

UK General Release - March 8th 1999
Internal / FFRR

CD Two - FCDP 358




 

 
 

Written and produced by Orbital.
Produced by Mickey Mann
Track 3 - Bass by Andy James
Cover Photograph: Louise Kelly and Orbital.
Farrow Design
Constructed using samples from the Stylophone Synth.


Style
Old Style
Big Pipe Style

New Style

UK General Release - March 8th 1999
Internal / FFRR

12 Inch - FX 358




 

 
 
Media Reviews
'Style's winning decorum - which uplifts and seperates the techno pretenders.....' - NME (06/03/99)

'the whole track contains a typical Orbital build which sounds spooky and slightly mysterious' - Loopz Issue 6

'The first taste from the upcoming album The Middle Of Nowhere. "Style" is a pretty majestic, almost epic thing where the Brothers Hartnoll sound almost optimistic... earlier they've always had an odd, conspiracy-theoretic undertone that has given the techno music a cinematically phat nerve' - Harald Grenne, Natt&Dag, March 1999
 
 
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