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I thought that, but then the Chime, III and Midnight/Choice 12"s are all represented in full. Just a really strange decision to me.

It was effectively self-released, so they could license it to London. A long way off, though, I imagine they'll also gauge the response to each set as it goes out. When the Chems did that huge boxset version of Surrender and nobody bought it they followed it up with a very middling 2CD set for Dig Your Own Hole.

Nah, I reckon they'll fill it out with the full Radiccio and Diversions sets. Although it depends on how deep they'll go for the later ones. I can't imagine the Blue Album getting a 4CD 12" boxset for some reason. Or maybe they'll just give up like Underworld seem to have done. Gone through my collection to work out what might come along if they do all get sets like these: Snivilisation CD2: Times Fly (Slow) Sad But New Times Fly (Fast) The Tranquilizer Are We Here? (What Was That?) Are We Here? (Do They Here?) Are We Here? (They Did It) The Tranquiliser Busy Tranquilising Equinox CD3: Are We Here? (Oral Mix) Are We Here? (Lunasol Wet Mix) Are We Here? (Laconic Dub) + demos and unreleased tracks CD4: Glastonbury 1994 In Sides CD2: The Box (Radio Edit) The Box (Untitled Version 1) The Box (Untitled Version 2) The Box (Vocal Reprise) Satan (Industry Standard) - or a full 7 minute studio version from 1996. The Sinner Adnan Satan (Spawn) + demos and unreleased tracks CD3 Satan Live: Satan (New York) Out There Somewhere Choice Satan (V96) Lush 3 The Girl With the Sun in Her Head Chime Impact Halcyon CD4: New Years gig 1996/1997 The Altogether CD2: Mock Tudor An Fhomhair Doctor Look Out Bigpipe Style New Style Old Style Much Ado About Nothing Left Nothing Left Out Beached Nothing Left Out (Tsunami One Remix) Nothing Left Out (Way Out West Remix) Nothing Left Out (Schizoid Man Remix) CD3: Nothing Left (Breeder Remix) Nothing Left (Pariah Remix) Nothing Left (Les Rhythmes Digitales Remix) Nothing Left (Tsunami DJ Dub) Belfast (Sasha Vs The Light Remix) + demos and unreleased tracks CD4: Gig The Altogether CD2: Monorail Beelzebeat Funny Break (Weekend Ravers Mix) Illuminate (Orbital 12" Mix) Frenetic Chime (Live Style Mix) Funny Break (Plump DJ's Mix) Funny Break (Layo & Bushwacka! Up Remix) Funny Break (Layo & Bushwacka! Down Remix) CD3: Illuminate (Charlie May Mix) Illuminate (Dark Globe Remix) Illuminate (Medicine Mix) + demos and unreleased tracks DVD: The Altogether 5.1 Blue CD2: Initiation (Orbital Remix) Technologicque Park What Happens Next? One Perfect Sunrise (Radio Edit) One Perfect Sunrise (Phil Hartnoll Mix) Acid Pants (JDS Mix) + demos and unreleased tracks CD3: Octane soundtrack CD4: Gig from final tour

lol, nice work to their marketing team for not even checking the FB link. My guess for the Brown album deluxe - either later this year or this time next year: CD2: Halcyon The Naked and the Dead Sunday The Naked and the Dub Impact USA Semi-Detached Lush Euro Tunnel Disaster / Walk About (Peel Session) CD3: Kinetic Semi-Detached / Attached (Peel Session) Lush 3 Underworld Remix Lush 3 Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia Remix Lush 3 C J Bolland Remix A couple of alternate takes / jams One or two unreleased tracaks CD4: Dunno, some live stuff?

Here's the full tracklist: There are also 2CD and 4LP versions which include the main album and the content from CD2 (the vinyl version includes 'Macrohead' as part of the main album, as per the original). And standard remastered LP and cassette versions. Some thoughts. 'Torpedo Town' is the title for 'Untitled', the previous cassette-only track. This is the first time '2 Deep' will appear on CD, as the single mistakenly included the 12" version of 'Omen' in its place. What's Missing? There's always stuff missing from these (apart from those Tears for Fears boxsets which had every alternate radio edit imaginable making the discs totally unlistenably repetitive). There are 3 minute, 8 minute and 12 minute versions of 'Chime' and 4 minute, 7 minute and 15 minute versions of 'Deeper', not sure which the 12" versions will be but hopefully the longest mixes (realistically, likely to be the 8 and 7 minute ones). 7" and 12" versions of Omen - the original is a notable omission here - as well as the Wheel of Fortune and Chariot versions. 7" edits of Satan, Midnight, Choice and Belfast. Remixes: Chime (JZJ Bacardi Remix) Chime (JZJ Oh Ya Mix) Chime (Joey Beltram / Program 2 Mix) Open Mind (Funky Alternatives Mix) Chime (Friends Of Matthew Remix) LC2 (Outer Limits Mix) Oolaa (Joey Beltram Mutation) Chime (Ray Keith Mutation) Speed Freak (Moby Mutation) Oolaa (Meat Beat Manifesto Mutation) Steel Cube Idolatry (Dave Angel & Dave Dorrell Mutation) On the whole that's not a bad selection - the Mutations remixes are actually quite good, but I'm glad there was a particular focus on original material where possible. The edits are pretty uninteresting. So it's just the original 'Omen' that feels like an odd omission. In terms of actual unreleased material, there's only two tracks - a jam on 'Open Mind', and 'The Other One' - which is a shame, they must have some other stuff lying around. Even that D.S. Building Contractors track of Paul's would have been nice. I'm sure the live disc will be excellent, but with what looks like one exclusive between-track jam there, it means in terms of actual new material, this box is offering three new tracks - only one seemingly finished - for £70, which is... well, steep probably doesn't come close.

Yeahhh, they're a bit much. Even with a nice hardback book, I'd be expecting £45-50 for the CD and £75-80 for the vinyl. Probably gonna plump for the CD version anyway (that third disc with all the b-sides would mean buying all the 12" reissues for vinyl, probably adding another £100).

I'm not so fussed about format, just want the archived material tbh.

Info about the reissues: https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/orbital-tell-sde-of-archival-reissue-plans/ “We’ve got a brand-new album coming next autumn after Thirtysomething. Then we’ll start a series of reissuing each album properly. I’m not sure what extras we’ll include yet, but tracks like the nine-minute Untitled, which was only ever on the cassette version of our first album, will find its way onto vinyl.”

Yeah, but that was quite a few years ago now, and nothing to do with the deluxe reissue campaign which they announced in 2021.

New long-haired artist pic and XL banner, big of an overhaul. Is he properly signed to XL for the foreseeable now, then?

I'm hoping this is the start of the promo for the reissue campaign, which was meant to start last year. Green and Brown (or LP / CD / MC and Orbital, as I still think of them) later this year, Sniv and In Sides next year, lots of b-sides and demos and outtakes, let's have it lads.

Yeah honestly I wouldn't worry about buying this unless you're a collector, they're terrible remixes.

Ha I asked Brian about that ages ago, he says he can't remember

Far as I can ascertain, these are basically fan mixes (using the Future Music remix kit, so they sound cheap and shit*) that Passion Music are distributing. Basically a semi-bootleg. *any real FSOL fan knows you can just cut all the sounds from the 'Dumb Child of Q' mix if you want to do a remix lol

To the best of my knowledge, the '94-'97 era isn't exhausted but is at least mostly released. '90-'93, in contrast, is very under-represented on archive releases and could probably fuel many albums' worth of material. Psych-era Amorphous, there's more unreleased material than released. And FSOLDigital-era stuff... there's a lot. Honestly, they could both pack in their various projects today and live off the archived material for a decade or more. Brian, at least, is a compulsive creative though, so that's never going to happen.

Out 11th February, triple vinyl reissue of this 2007 compilation featuring various unreleased tracks from FSOL's Jumpin' & Pumpin' era - Smart Systems, Yage, Mental Cube, Indo Tribe, Dope Module, plus an early FSOL jam - previously only available on CD / digital. https://wemerecords.com/shop/fsol-by-any-other-name-3lp-orange-vinyl-pre-order/

Yup, as Pete says, they're very strongly in the '80s post-industrial vein - they're superb examples of the style, and there's some proto-IDM stuff in them which gives an idea of how ahead of his time Brian was, especially as he never released the stuff at the time. Depends entirely on your taste, really, but if you like the sound of these then I'd definitely recommend picking them up, there's a lot to get lost in (plus it's fun spotting the bits they ended up using in FSOL tracks).

Oh and yeah, absolutely. My favourite Photek track. Shafts of sunlight reflecting off puddles in a disused warehouse always come to mind when I hear it.

I went through a period of trying to downsize my CD collection, so I have the Japanese version with it on the end just so I could half the space the album and single took up, hah. Not being on the album means it's not on Spotify, which seems daft given that it's probably his best known track. Neither is this wonderful b-side: I stumbled across the MO single a few months after getting Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu and was really surprised at how different it was. I eventually picked up the album for, I think, £17.99, which was a fucking fortune for a 13 year old at the time.

Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu snuck into the UK top 40 at a time when I used to tape anything that sounded remotely interesting from it. Remember playing it on repeat for months afterwards before finally tracking down the single. My intro to dnb and, sadly, it's never really been topped. Almost everything else I've heard since has sounded so simplistic. Other than the IDM lads, I suppose.

Just given this a first run through tonight actually - Vertical Reflection a real highlight. Otherwise a nice selection of interesting offcuts, experiments and random pieces, only one I didn't like was the last track which felt a bit unfinished. Definitely one of the stronger Calendar Albums, although I miss the '90s archived tracks that were in the earlier volumes. Haven't had one of those for a few years.

Been checking out some of the alternatives. jam.coop seems to have a lot of potential, run as a cooperative with any potential future profits being shared with artists. Also very honest about the fact that it's all speculative, and the site is very bare bones at the mo, clearly just starting up. Will keep an eye on it, though. Nina might be accepting proper currency but all releases are added to blockchain meaning you can't remove them once they're added. So that's a big no. Would love to know what their approach to copyright infringements is in that context. Gumroad is already reasonably established for software, tutorials and other things. No direct music features, transcoding, etc. so you have to have all your files converted and tagged manually before adding. Also no streaming option, although you can embed YouTube videos of your music to preview. Has flexibility to do different versions of albums and stuff which is a plus, and by not being limited to music you can also sell various other stuff - written material, videos, etc. - through the same page, which has some potential. I've made one, anyway, so I have a non-Bandcamp backup. Resonate is such a great idea, but looking at the forums it seems like it's on the verge of disappearing down the toilet, sadly. Bandzoogle isn't free. Rauversion and Faircamp seem to just be free store software, but obviously hosting is still required and costs money. I have literally no idea what Funkwhale is.

Some decent stuff on Solaris but it hasn't aged anywhere near as well as his debut. It's also really disjointed, like half of it half speed dnb, almost trip-hop-ish, then the rest is house, with one (really bad) dnb track smack in the middle. My favourite track from that era was 'DNA' on the Terminus EP: If the whole album was like that, 'Terminus', 'Halogen' and 'Lost Blue Heaven' I'd fucking love it. Between the dodgy dubstep and EDM shit, there are a few really good tracks on Ku:Palm as well. I'd still take the bad stuff of that period over his jump up era, though. Form & Function II is probably the single most disappointing album I've ever bought.

Good to see some Sawako upthread, she's one of my favourite 12k artists. As is Fourcolour... Hmm, what else. Logreybeam's debut on Type is wonderful. Love this skeletal version of Danny Elfman's Beetlejuice theme Matt Rösner's debut album: I do love that clicks & cuts / DSP era, still waiting a very much overdue revival. And a couple of tracks from unlikely artists:

It was probably in this thread that I asked if there were any alternatives to BC when the Epic buyout happened and there was nothing, so it's interesting to see that there are some around now. Although it'll take a big shift to get large numbers away from BC, I'll probably get my material on alternatives so I have options for the future. Songtradr obviously have vested interest in areas that go against a lot of what BC was about, but at the same time they might also be sensible enough to follow Epic and realise that it's so successful because of what it does, and not make (m)any changes.