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Orbital, Blue Album
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1018480
Disk length: 1h 15m 41s (14 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2004
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Transient | 5:50 |
| 2. Acid Pants | 6:31 |
| 3. You Lot | 7:10 |
| 4. Pants | 5:47 |
| 5. Lost | 5:10 |
| 6. Initiation | 5:11 |
| 7. Bath Time | 4:20 |
| 8. Easy Serv | 4:10 |
| 9. What Happens Next | 5:31 |
| 10. Tunnel Vision | 4:29 |
| 11. One Perfect Sunrise | 8:45 |
| 12. Technologicque Park | 5:43 |
| 13. Initiation (Orbital Remix) (Radio Edit) | 3:23 |
| 14. One Perfect Sunrise (Edit) | 3:32 |
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Review
The Blue Album is the seventh and supposedly final album by one of dance music's most enduring pioneers. Orbital's blend of techno, breaks, and acid has been mimicked but never quite copied in their 10-plus years at the top. Fans looking for sweeping cinematic dance numbers may be confused by first track "Transient," six minutes of techno bubbles, awash with echo, but not so much as a bass drum in sight. However, as it is common for their songs to be progressive, here it is the album itself that progs. Beginning in a chilled style best described as techno-Enya, the beats pick up and the synths get spikier until "You Lot," a classic Orbital piece complete with theological dialogue and a swirling melody.
"Bath Time" is more downbeat, a warm baroque number that slows the pace only to enhance the impact of next track "Acid Pants," a twisted acid monster featuring Sparks on vocals, which could well be the highlight of the album. The closing song featuring Lisa Gerrard is upbeat, jolly tech-house with her ethereal vocal soaring over the top--a fitting end to an album and indeed career that brought techno to the mainstream and kept analog synthesizers cool. --David Trueman
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 14, Disk length: 1h 14m 48s (-1m 7s)
Tracks: 10 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 57m 10s (-19m 29s)
Tracks: 9 (-5 tracks), Disk length: 52m 48s (-23m 7s)
Tracks: 9 (-5 tracks), Disk length: 52m 1s (-24m 20s)
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