Ahead of the release this autumn of an album of original material, the Hartnoll brothers, pioneers of the English rave scene since the success of their composition Chemistry (1989), underline some three decades of making the masses dance with this strange compilation made up of three unreleased, revamped (and uninteresting) versions of their old classics and, above all, a complete disc of remixesall costs. All the pleasure is in these re-readings, which we listen to as a tribute paid by the remixers to the techno imagination of Orbital, one of the most singular of its time: the Brazilian ANNA stands out with her massive version of the immortal Belfastveterans Octave One insist on the influence of the sound of their city, Detroit, in their reinterpretation of ChemistryJon Hopkins seduces with his flowing version of Halcyon Wethe vocal sample (taken from the tube dance It’s a Fine Day of Opus III) always giving us the same hypnotic effect.
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