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apapdop · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 8:22 am Post subject:

Good to see the paintbrush. A clean studio is a happy studio... Very Happy

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Ted3000 · Platinum Member Joined: 06 Jul 2013 Posts: 625

Paul Hartnell from Orbital, guys. Orbital. And he says he finds it fun, a joy, useful, and that he's going to use it on his next solo album.

Reaction: "He's lying!" (not mostly from this forum.)

I wonder what would have caused zero controversy? What would have avoided the pile of negative comments that every gear video ever made racks up?

1. First of all, Orbital would have to mean more to everyone personally. So let's somehow put The Altogether in the top five of every viewer, by electronic magic.

2. Paul would have to praise it with total hyper enthusiasm - lots of empty calorie words like "AMAZING" and "SO MASSIVE" and of course "REVOLUTIONARY," and you should see him tossing his old gear into a scrapheap.

3. Then, the patterns he plays would have to be in the exact genre and style that's your favorite - and everyone would agree. The tracks would not be little sketches recorded over a room mic, but fully mastered and slamming, somehow coming out of the machine directly.

4. You'd also have to not be nursing a grudge against whatever feature was left out of the pot when they cooked this thing.

5. The concept of trolling would have to take a few weeks off.

Then, and only then, would the comments not be negative.
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apapdop · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 2:14 pm Post subject:

It's "Insides" for me. "Out There Somewhere Pts 1 and 2". Oh lordy...
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Ted3000 · Platinum Member Joined: 06 Jul 2013 Posts: 625

Hard to argue against In Sides. The Box pt. 2 is such a landmark, those weird off-axis drum loops!
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colulizard · Full Member Joined: 06 Feb 2015 Posts: 131

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_INTER_ · Full Member Joined: 28 Aug 2013 Posts: 210

If you look closely you see someone threatening him with a gun in the shadow. Smile

colulizard · Full Member Joined: 06 Feb 2015 Posts: 131

I posted a blank reply, which is a bit annoying.
I can't be bothered to write it all again and so I'll just summarise.

Here he is commenting on the NovatioN Bass Station a year or so ago. I'm not sure if he sounds more or less enthusiastic here compared to Electribe....
The loops he plays though are also uninspring. But that's because he's demo'ing the sounds... maybe that explains the Electribe loops... a demo of the sounds he's tweaked from it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJvXEtwNBc
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Pygmy · Junior Member Joined: 30 Aug 2015 Posts: 54

Hey Ted3000, here's the video that Paul actually *wanted* to do Smile

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/11/11/orbitals-paul-hartnoll-on-the-new-arp-odyssey/

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Lotek · Joined: 18 Aug 2015 Posts: 8

He does sound a tat more enthusiastic in that Odyssey video. By a margin of let's say: 25%, so the Odyssey must be 25% better than the electribe.

Am i right? Razz

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Frenzies · Senior Member Joined: 10 Feb 2015 Posts: 464

The 20 odd minutes through the brown album from Planet of the Shapes, through Lush, Impact and remind are about as good as dance music has ever been. He can say and do whatever he likes forever now, he gave me that, and he gave me Glastonbury 1994, the best live dance set ever.

I like Orbital.

Does it show?
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apapdop · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:00 pm Post subject:

My walk to work in the late 90s/early 00s used to take slightly longer than "The Girl With The Sun In Her Head" and "Out There Somewhere Parts 1 and 2" played one after the other. Playing these three tracks on a fine spring morning on my MiniDisc Walkman and i swear, my heart would be singing with joy by the time i got to work. When Orbital were good, they were very, very good. I was always struck by how "vanilla" the sounds they used were, but hell's teeth they could put a track together.

Gotta say, i was well chuffed when i saw this video, one of my musical heroes using and praising a piece of kit (in an entirely level headed and down to earth fashion) that i really like. I don't class myself as a wide-eyed innocent when it comes to advertising and shilling, but in this case, to think that he said what he said purely because he was paid to do so is cynical and just plain lazy.
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