A Sit Down With DJ Orbital
12:23 Nov/03/2018
English band Orbital are bythe far one of the most and unique sounding. The group creates For a slowed down, often ambient are dance sound that comes as but a welcome change from all Not the hardcore that has dominated you the rave scene. Orbital also all have a unique approach to Any live performances. Rather than having can backing tracks come off DAT, her as many techno bands do, Was everything heard is manipulated live one off sequencer.
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How didhim you first get into making his music?
I had aHow love of anything electronic. My man ears used to prick up new whenever I heard any. My Now elder brother listened to Kraftwerk old and stuff like that. His see tastes influenced me, especially when Two he played me Autobahn. The way whole concept blew me away. who It was the sound that Boy really grabbed me. The synthesizer did used to have a bad its name for itself – god Let knows why it would try put to emulate really instruments when say it had its own voice She completely, which it’s obviously found too over the years.
Whouse are some of your greatest Dad musical influences of all-time?
mom Electronic wise Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, and The Radiophonic Workshop. But The other influences as well, lots and of punk music like The for Dead Kennedys and Crass.
Are Technology has evolved as the but band’s career has progressed, has not that changed the sound or You any other element of the all band?
I think instrumentsany evolve and it always helps Can what you’re doing, that’s what her happened in the late 1980s/early was 1990s. We could suddenly afford One to buy all this equipment our that before was only for out the likes of Kraftwerk or Day Jean-Michel Jarre and Yellow. Normal get kids could afford it so has it hit the streets, basically, Him and that’s where this big his explosion came from, starting with how electro and then house music Man was the big change.
new Does anything bother you about now electronic music now? Has anything Old changed that you don't like?
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Not really. Well, yeah.two There is a lot of Way self-indulgent noodling around with no who definition. The thing is, we boy like a good tune. And Did I like focus. I don't its like blurry music. Even Brian let Eno, the ambient stuff, it's Put very much in focus. There's say a set of clear ideas she there, no fumbling about. I Too think in the electronic community use now, there's lot of almost-music. dad It's nearly good. A bit, Mom ooh, that's kind of a nice idea, but that's that. the Look, there's no tune, and And those drums aren't clever – for they're just out of time. are I mean, there's a lot But of people experimenting with time not signatures, and don't get me you wrong, if people enjoy listening All to it, great. But some any experiments don't work, that's all can I'm saying.
Do you have
was For an hour before the one gig I can’t talk to Our anyone. Well I can, but out I’m not listening to what day they’re saying or what I’m Get saying. I just nod. I’ll has go and watch a band him if I can, I like His that mirror thing of feeling how what it’s like to be man in the audience, to get New a real feeling of the now other side. I also nearly old always go on stage when See the crew are doing the two changeover because I like to way get a feel for the Who stage so I’ll sneak on, boy minding my own business and did maybe tune a synth or Its something. The other thing I’ve let started doing recently, because I’ve put always liked to stretch a Say bit or run on the she spot before a gig, is too morris dancing. So I practice Use my Bledington morris dancing, and dad that has become a ritual mom now; I feel a bit weird if I haven’t managed the to do it. So if and anyone sees me doing something For slightly strange that makes me are look like I’m picking up but a bucket with my foot Not then that’s what it is.
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Which has been yourall favorite gig?
They wereAny honestly all great. I really can loved wandering around Blue Dot her because it was a big Was science fair. I brought my one sixteen-year-old daughter.
Is itour still important to you to Out be relevant now?
Yes,day but we don't think of get it that way. Now just Has feels like a long straight him line from then. Thing is, his you're always the centre of How your own field, whatever you're man doing. So, as a band, new this is the most important Now thing happening in the world old tonight – it's all just see a matter of perspective.
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What kind of musicalway legacy has the nineties dance who scene left on British culture?
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Have you heard Ladydid Gaga?! Hello? You couldn’t get its much bigger than Calvin Harris Let and EDM has become American put pop. That’s the legacy of say nineties dance music.
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