Orbital

With support from Manami

Orbital, the Sevenoaks-born duo of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, have crafted a vast catalogue of ambitious yet accessible electronic music, informed by a wide range of genres such as ambient, electro, punk, and film scores. They became one of the biggest names in music during the mid-'90s by completely reinventing the notion of what a dance act could do live, turning multitudes of rock fans on to the limitless pleasures of electronic music. It’s not for nothing that the band’s colossal set at Glastonbury Festival in 1994 is regularly cited as one of the greatest gigs of all time.

This year, Orbital celebrated over three decades of making music with 30 Something which. unlike other Best Of’s, contains reworks, remakes, remixes and re-imaginings of landmark Orbital tracks by luminaries including David Holmes and Jon Hopkins.

2023 will bring Orbital’s tenth studio album Optical Delusion, a deep dig into the unquiet psyche of our increasingly surreal and disordered world announced by the fabulous, furious lead single “Dirty Rat”, a collaboration with Sleaford Mods, which has been playlisted by BBC Radio 6Music.