Orbital - Middle of Nowhere
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Album Review
The Middle Of Nowhere
Keep your brain in a jar and your heart on the beat. Keep an eye out for beauty and a finger on the pulse....
Keep your brain in a jar and your heart on the beat. Keep an eye out for beauty and a finger on the pulse. And, most importantly, keep moving, on to that silvered future where unimagined musical forms float free in the ether. These are the duties of electronic avatars - no longer the faceless synthmachines of ancient lore, but somehow suprahuman, recording and assimilating, extrapolating and...
- Feb 28, 1999
Tracklisting click track to read more
- Way Out
- Spare Parts Express
- Know Where to Run
- I Don't Know You People
- Otoño
- Nothing Left 1
- Nothing Left 2
- Style
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Orbital - Middle of Nowhere: Wikipedia Album Entry
The Middle of Nowhere is the fifth album released by Orbital. It was released on the 5th of April 1999, it peaked at #4 and spent 7 weeks in the UK albums chart. The track "Know Where to Run" was featured in the Playstation game Wipeout 3.
Samples used include:
A small section from John Baker's "New Worlds" was sampled for "Spare Parts Express".
The track "Spare Parts Express" contains a sample from the movie Carnival of Souls containing the line "Why can't anybody hear me?"
The vocal samples in "I Don't Know You People" are taken from the film The Legend of Hell House.
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