I’m not sure why my love of Orbital has just resurfaced, although their music makes the perfect backdrop to cruising around with the top off your car, so perhaps that’s part of it.

It’s strange to feel how a simple hop across the Atlantic can change the status of your musical tastes. Orbital are pretty well-known and loved in the UK and a lot of my friends there are die-hard fans. But all of a sudden I’m living somewhere where hardly anyone seems to have heard of them, except maybe in passing. A quick change of address and I’m suddenly “underground” (relatively speaking.)

But anyhow, here I am, back deep in the first dance music which ever really caught my attention.

And it’s not without a sense of sadness in a lot of ways, because Orbital have hung up their synthesisers (or so they say) - no more live gigs, festival or otherwise; no more albums.
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