It is not every day that a legendary electronic duo rep in one of the cinema’s most enigmatic figures for a track, but circulation has never played by the rule book.
The Hartnoll-brothers-long acclaimed as rave-god fathers-have lost “deepest”, a shiny reinterpretation of their tracks from 1989 “deeper”, with none other than Tilda Swinton who lent his voice in a mesorical spoken word. Released April 4th as part of their Radiccio EPThe single arrives at a wave of expectation that has been built since Swinton’s now-iconic live comed with Orbital at Glastonbury’s Park Stage last year-a moment that went viral and left the festival mass in collective reverence.
Swinton does not sing. She doesn’t have to. Her voice, cool and leading, weaves herself through the “deepest” as a hypnotic incentation and turns the original into something completely stranger, richer, more cinematic. It is a movement that can only pull off without it feeling like a stunt. Instead, it reads as the next logical step in the duo’s constantly evolving sound image-seamless fusion of rave history, movie drama and avant-garde experiments.
And this is not a single one. “Deepest” is the opening ointment in what is forming to be a full-scale celebration of the Orbital 2-iled as the Brown album– As the groundbreaking LP 1993 receives a deluxe re -release treatment on May 23 via London Records. It has been over a decade since the album was last pressed on vinyl, and this re -publishing does not shim in substance: a 4LP box, 4CD box, a kaleidoscope of vinyl variants, cassette releases and a rich selection of unreleased and rare cuts (23 bonus trails to be exact to be exact to Add mixtures from Titans such as Underworld, CJ Bolland and Psychick Warriors OV Gaia, and this release feels less like a change and more like an excavation of a time capsule.
The Brown album Wasn’t just another rave disc. That was the moment that Orbital simply ended sound track and began to re -form what electronic music could mean. From the apocalyptic crunch of “Impact (Earth burns)” to the dream-like glide of “Halcyon + On + On” etheric track that later found a second life in movie sounds and DJ sets late at night-committed out a space for emotion, intellect and chaos to Samexist. The composed of Shoreditch’s strong room studios, it sewed everything from Reichian minimalism (pioneering of composer Steve Reich) to squat-punk-gravel and didgeridoo samples, which embodied the spirit in the early 1990s with a visionary eye.
This re -release, cuts with half -speed for high allegiance, goes beyond nostalgia. It invites a new generation to explore Orbital’s unclassifiable heritage and gives long -term fans a treasure chest with extended content. A hardcover book that is part of the Vinylbox set digs deep into the album’s LORE-superior to interviews, essays by music author Andrew Harrison and track-by-track comment from Phil and Paul Hartnoll themselves.
The re-release also lands in the middle of a distance of sold out tour dates across the UK and Europe, which proves that Orbital not only visits the past-is still much in motion. After well -received heading performances in New York, Chicago and Coachella last year, Brown & Green Album Tour Have already stormed through Paris, Amsterdam and Glasgow, with a much -awaited Brixton Academy stop on April 5. For a full list of live -show and to buy tickets, click here!
For an act that is always pressed against the restrictions of genre and format, the return of Brown album Feels at the right time. Not just as a nick to Rave’s Golden Age, but as a reminder that good electronic music does not go along – it develops. And with Tilda Swinton, who now revolves around their universe, the Hartnoll brothers seem more expansive and more fearless than ever.
Listen to “Deepest” by Orbital (with Tilda Swinton):
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