Orbital

Orbital will reissue their self-titled 1991 debut album, known to fans as ‘The Green Album’, on 19 April via London Records. The electronic music duo have also been confirmed to perform at this summer’s Glastonbury Festival, 30 years on from their 1994 set, apparently ‘regularly cited as one of the greatest gigs of all time and with turning the festival on to live dance music’. 

Reissue formats include a 4LP Box Set, 4CD Box Set, Black and Coloured 2LP, 2CD, and Cassette, which you can pre-order. All tracks have been fully remastered by Orbital’s Phil and Paul Hartnoll for the very first time. Additionally, for Record Store Day on 20 April the album will be available exclusively on red & green splatter double vinyl at participating stores.

33 years after its initial release, and over 10 years since last pressed on vinyl, the remastered ‘Green Album’ arrives ahead of the ‘The Green + Brown Album - Live’ Tour’, which will see the duo revisit and reinterpret both albums in their entirety, including performing several of the tracks live for the very first time. The tour will start in the US, where Orbital will appear at Coachella Festival in California on 13 & 20 April before returning for the UK leg.

Originally released on 30 September 1991, the album contains tracks including their breakthrough 1990 single ‘Chime’, and ‘Belfast’. The package also includes early favourites like ‘Satan’ plus previously unavailable tracks. 

As part of the album celebrations they recently released the brand new track 'Tonight In Belfast', a collaboration with David Holmes & DJ Helen featuring Mike Garry. Orbital are also revisiting their pre-‘Green Album’ EPs with a series of ‘Orbital LED’s’ (Limited Edition Drops). Again, these are fully remastered versions of the duo's original 12” EP series, with brand new artwork by Julian House. Fans will be alerted to these extremely limited releases on the release day. The first in the series, ‘Chime’, is now sold out. Look out for the second EP in the series which will drop soon.

Since reuniting with London Records, Orbital have released the 2022 compilation ’30 Something’, which contained reworks, remakes, remixes and re-imaginings of their tracks, and last year’s new studio album 'Optical Delusion' which gave them their first UK Album Chart Top 10 album since 1999’s ‘Middle Of Nowhere’.

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