Orbital – Orbital (1993)

April 14, 2023

An album that defines the sound of the 90s for me. I was just a kid, but fuck me, these sounds are just forever burned into my head. It’s the closing epic “Halcyon + On + On” which for me just absolutely blows my mind apart every time I hear it, taking me back to the times where the world seemed like a less scary place (of course it wasn’t, I was just ignorant to the facts), where I could play my Sega Megadrive over and over or watch the Mortal Kombat movie and eat chicken dippers. Now I’ve got my own little boy it absolutely fucking spins me out to think back to what I was like at that age.

Anyway, I’m getting all lost in nostalgia, but fuck, does that not speak for the power of music and for the power of these songs? I didn’t really know the rest of this album when I was younger, it was something that I became more familiar with as I got older, but the pulsing techno blasts are really great fun. It’s not my music, and it’s not my scene, but I really enjoy listening to this Orbital record all the same. And then the last track as always just leaves me in a stupor.