Orbital
In Sides

The brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll have produced several masterpieces throughout their career. Their first album (Green Album) dates back to 1991, and I still find myself listening to the hit Belfast during avant-garde electronic evenings.

This "In Sides", dated 1996, is a overall ambient album and, although the choice is difficult, it remains my favorite. The sound is clean and very relaxing. The rhythmic complexity is impressive, yet with each listen a sense of peace remains. Of completeness. But this does not mean at all a flatness of sound! There are driving beats and samples of female voices that make the basic melody very lively and captivating.

The singles "The Box" and "The Saint" (from the film of the same name with Val Kilmer) were barely aired here in Italy. Perhaps someone remembers a girl wandering around with headphones in a metropolis where everyone lived their lives at lightning speed, while she, moving slowly, observed this frenzy, reacting with grimaces of bitter awareness (video for "The Box"). Someone might recall going to see the movie The Saint or having seen the video in 007 style. However, I don't believe many went to buy it in a record store (assuming that such a store was well-stocked).

I therefore invite all the Debaser fans who made such a gesture (even after reading this review) to post about it! Followed by a close analysis of the last 3 seconds of The Box (Part 2), to reveal if it is a backward satanic message or similar stuff! My favorite? What a question! "Out There Somewhere?".