http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gd-QkRA8Ik Phil and Paul Hartnoll are reuniting as Orbital, after four years of relative obscurity, to headline UK’s Big Chill Festival in England, next August. “It’s not an exercise in nostalgia, the time just seems right. Everything just seemed to fall into place,” says Phil Hartnoll. “We’ve got 15 years of active service, making song.… Read More Orbital Back Together
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If you’re planning on going to a Russian rave, you may want to wear protective eyewear: Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow have been partially blinded after a laser light show burned their retinas, say Russian health officials. 12 cases of laser blindness were recorded at the Central Ophthalmological Clinic in the… Read More Dancers Blinded By Lasers At Russian Rave
Movement 07, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, is steaming up Detroit’s Hart Plaza, despite rain and the admission charge. “It was a slow start,” says Jason Huvaere, president of Paxahau Promotions Group, which produced this year’s festival. “But after 4 p.m., people never stopped coming in.” He said he’d grade Saturday a “B+” and by… Read More Detroit Electronic Music Festival Steams Up The Rain
Named after Greater London’s own circular autobahn, the M25, central to the early Rave scene and party network in the South East of England during the halcyon ‘daze’ of Acid House, Orbital is made up of brothers Phil (born 09 Jan 64) and Paul Hartnoll (born 19 May 68). From their beginnings producing simple but… Read More Orbital
After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their forthcoming LP, The Blue Album, will be their last. Paul Hartnoll explains how their latest CD came together, and why it will be their last. “Orbital has run its course,” explains Paul. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music.… Read More Orbital Calls It Quits
After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their upcoming recording, The Blue Album, will be their last. “I think we feel that Orbital has run it’s course,” says Paul Hartnoll. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we’ve been sat, as brothers, in the same room… Read More Orbital Calling it Quits
Edited by Peter Shapiro Modulations serves as a good introduction to the various genres of modern dance electronica. It was was written to accompany Iara Lee’s 1998 film of the same name. It is written in a hip style by people you can tell really love electronica. It is stylishly put together, and includes many… Read More Modulations: A History of Electronic Music – Throbbing Words on Sound
