LOOPZ (The ORBITAL Zine) V3.0
- ️Fri Oct 11 1996
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The first track to be released off
the 5th Album. This track incorporates sounds/samples from the
Stylophone made famous by that wonderful hairy beast - Rolf Harris.
The additional tracks on the release include "Big Pipe Style"
which crosses Bagpipes with the Stylophone and brings Orbital
as close as they will probably ever get to a Big Beat. The track
"An Fhomhair" which features on the first 12 Inch Promo and the
2nd CD is a remix of the album track "Onta�o" but with a up beat
/ sub bass feel to it. The track reached number thirteen in the
Uk charts.
The 'classic' stylophone is a simple monophonic instrument that
is played by bringing the electrical contact on the end of the
stylus into contact with a pictorial representation of a standard
20 note (A - E) keyboard. The 'keyboard' is actually part of the
main, single-sided, circuit board exposed by a hole in the plastic
case. There was 3 different colour schemes - black, white and
woodgrain. Their wasnt many controls...There are two switches
to the left of the keyboard, organ on / off (vital!), and vibrato
on / off (optional). The 'woodgrain' version also has the added
advantage of a volume control. There is also a tuning control
on the bottom and a line out on the left hand end. To complete
the package there is an internal 2" diameter speaker. Internally
there seems to have been many versions (some transistors, some
with IC's) and as a result there is a lot of variation in how
they sound.
There have been a few artists that have used the stylophone including
David Bowie "Space Oddity", Pulp and the cheesey Two Little Boys
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Style | RA Stream MP3 Click here to view the video |
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Mock Tudor | RA Stream MP3 |
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Old Style | RA Stream MP3 |
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Big Pipe Style | RA Stream MP3 |
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An Fhomhair | RA Stream MP3 |
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New Style | RA Stream MP3 |
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| 'Style's winning decorum - which uplifts and seperates the techno pretenders.....' - NME (06/03/99) 'the whole track contains a typical Orbital build which sounds spooky and slightly mysterious' - Loopz Issue 6 'The first taste from the upcoming album The Middle Of Nowhere. "Style" is a pretty majestic, almost epic thing where the Brothers Hartnoll sound almost optimistic... earlier they've always had an odd, conspiracy-theoretic undertone that has given the techno music a cinematically phat nerve' - Harald Grenne, Natt&Dag, March 1999 | |||
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