- In Sides
Infobox Album
Name = In Sides
Type =Album
Artist = Orbital
Released = May 1996
Recorded = 1995/6
Genre =Electronica
Length = 72:02
Label = FFRR,
Internal Records
Producer = Paul and Phil Hartnoll
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lfuf6ja871r0 link]
*"Rolling Stone " Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/orbital/albums/album/218982/review/5942701/in_sides link]
Last album = "Snivilisation " (1994)
This album = "In Sides" (1996)
Next album = "The Middle of Nowhere" (1999)"In Sides" is the fourth album recorded by Orbital, released in 1996. The name is a reference to the fact that the album was originally available as a 3-LP vinyl box set, with one track per "side" of each LP.
"The Girl with the Sun in Her Head" was dedicated to the memory of photographer
Sally Harding who died in 1995. The track was recorded using electricity from aGreenpeace solar power generator.citation|periodical=Billboard|pages=9,96|title=Internal's Orbital Takes Ambient Techno From Studio To Stage|date=1996-05-25 |last=Pride|first=Dominic]" "P.E.T.R.O.L." was included in the soundtracks for the video game "Wipeout" and also the film π. The title of the fifth track, "Dŵr Budr" is Welsh for dirty water. "Adnan's" was originally written for 1995's "
The Help Album " benefitting War Child.American and other overseas versions of the album contained a bonus CD of tracks that had been previously released in the UK, such as "Times Fly"," "The Saint", "The Sinner", "The Box" and live versions of "Satan" and "Halcyon".
The album spent 12 weeks in the UK charts in 1996,fact|date=July 2008 and reached a high of #5 the week of its release. By late May 2006, over 60,000 copies of the album had been sold.
Track listing
The original track listing from 1996:
# "The Girl with the Sun in Her Head" – 10.26
# "P.E.T.R.O.L." – 6.17
# "The Box (Part 1)" – 6.28
# "The Box (Part 2)" – 6.00
# "Dŵr Budr" – 9.55
# "Adnan's" – 8.41
# "Out There Somewhere? (Part 1)" – 10.42
# "Out There Somewhere? (Part 2)" – 13.26The U.S. version of the record was initially packaged to include the "Times Fly EP" along with The Box EP (the latter included as a single 28-minute track):
# "Times Fly (Slow)" - 7:58
# "Sad But New" - 7:29
# "Times Fly (Fast)" - 7:53
# "Tranquilizer" - 6:27
# "The Box" (Extended Play, full version) - 28:11In 1999, the reprint of the album included both tracks of The Saint single along with Irving Plaza recordings of "Halcyon" and "Satan" (previously found on Orbital's "III EP" and the "Satan Live EP"):
# "Satan (Industry Standard)"
# "Satan (Live at NYC Irving Plaza)"
# "The Saint"
# "The Sinner"
# "Halcyon (Live at NYC Irving Plaza)"References
External links
* [http://www.loopz.co.uk/begin.html Full details of Orbital "In Sides"]
* [http://www.songtwo.demon.co.uk/orbital/insides.html Reviews of "In Sides"]
* [http://www.giles-guthrie.com/reviews/showreview.php?id=95&cat=title Reason for album name explained]
* [http://www.mikebaas.org/orbital Orbital Gear List] , including a list of synths used on "In Sides"
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