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Recording started in October 1997 and was completed approx November 1998. The fifth album is a lot more up tempo , a more jolly affair. Just over one hour long (64 mins to be exact) ...the album features various vocalist and musicians. Paul has described one track as sounding "like a rock track before heavy metal was invented. Basically its all kinds of styles and tempos. It'd be bloody difficult to play at a cocktail party".
'Spare Parts Express - Pitch changes, shifting up and then lowering, this is truly one big mind-fuck' - Loopz Issue 6
'Spare Parts Express - By the time we reach the last 2 minutes, the track is abusing haunted female speech samples and the whole sound is like a busy hectic synth rebellion.' - Loopz Issue 6
'Know Where To Run - ...a whining vocal sample and this absolute dirty deep bass which warps lower and lower - sounds incredible.' - Loopz Issue 6
'I Dont Know You People - ...By the time the "Nothing changes .nothing..God damn you" comes in you find yourself jumping round the room .' - Loopz Issue 6
'Nothing Left - The second part takes the idea a stage further with a prominent commanding synth line and even more harsher metalic acid squelching.' - Loopz Issue 6
'Okay, they've sampled Dollar. It shows an admirable open-mindedness, if you ask me. Not that you'd expect anything less. My favourite Orbital moment is when they whack the chorus of Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth through the speakers at their gigs. Wide-open-mindedness is the thing, great rolling prairies of it. They've yet to put a foot wrong or double-back on themselves. Just in case you've missed them so far, Orbital are a unique techno duo with neo-classical ambitions but, thankfully, next to zero pretensions. The only reason they're not rated alongside composers such as Steve Reich and Phillip Glass is that people dance to Orbital's music rather than stroke their goatees to it. People with woolly, sock-shaped hats, often as not. Orbital haven't done away with their fluid loops and trademark bleeps, I'm glad to say. Nor have they made their songs any less intricate, or taken the electronic edge off in any way. But there's something about Middle Of Nowhere which makes it sound ever so slightly like a rock record, in the best way. Know Where To Run, for instance, really does rock along like the proverbial bastard, in the tradition of thunderous A to B numbers like Spiritualized's Run and Pink Floyd's On The Run. I Don't Know You People is closer to The Young Gods if anything, with fuzz guitar taking vicious slices out of its mottled hide, and a sense of unease not in the least bit relieved by the bizarre voice-overs. Is it, you'll probably want to know, as good as the last two superb LPs, Snivilisation and Insides? Not yet. But I've only played it a couple of times, enough to know that it's splendid in its own right, but far too little to have heard all of it. I still come across things on those earlier records that take me by surprise. Anyway, it's good enough to call itself an Orbital record, and that ought to be enough..' - David Bennun - The Guardian - April 9th 1999
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Photography by Louise
Kelly and Orbital : Farrow Design
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"Otoņo" features Pooka - pictured below |
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The Middle of Nowhere |
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UK (General) Release ("Otoņo" features Pooka (Sharon Lewis and Natasha Jones), "Nothing Left" features Alison Goldfrap and "Way Out" features Lumo on Trumpet and Barbera Cohen on vocals. Produced by Mickey Mann. Photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital.)
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Way Out feat Barbera Cohen / Brother Sun Sister
Moon & Simon Poole / Lumo on Trumpet. Spare Parts Express Know Where to Run I Dont Know You Peoplefeat Andy James on Bass
& Lem on Guitar Otoņo feat Pooka . Nothing Left Part 1 feat Alison Goldfrapp Nothing Left Part 2 feat Alison Goldfrapp Style |
April 5th 1999
London/FFRR (556 076-1(1) - LP) (556 076-1 / PY900 - CD) (556 076-4 / PY589- CS) |
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German Release ("Otoņo" features Pooka (Sharon Lewis and Natasha Jones), "Nothing Left" features Alison Goldfrap and "Way Out" features Lumo on Trumpet and Barbera Cohen on vocals. Produced by Mickey Mann. Photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital.)
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Way
Out feat Barbera Cohen / Brother Sun Sister Moon & Simon
Poole / Lumo on Trumpet. Spare
Parts Express Know
Where to Run I
Dont Know You Peoplefeat Andy James on Bass & Lem on Guitar
Otoņo
feat Pooka . Nothing
Left Part 1 feat Alison Goldfrapp Nothing
Left Part 2 feat Alison Goldfrapp Style
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May 1999
FFRR / London Records / Warner Music (3984-27104-2 / EW 851 - CD) |
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US Release ("Otoņo" features Pooka (Sharon Lewis and Natasha Jones), "Nothing Left" features Alison Goldfrap and "Way Out" features Lumo on Trumpet and Barbera Cohen on vocals. Produced by Mickey Mann. Photography by Louise Kelly and Orbital.) Buy
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Way
Out feat Barbera Cohen / Brother Sun Sister Moon & Simon
Poole / Lumo on Trumpet. Spare
Parts Express Know
Where to Run I
Dont Know You Peoplefeat Andy James on Bass & Lem on Guitar
Otoņo
feat Pooka . Nothing
Left Part 1 feat Alison Goldfrapp Nothing
Left Part 2 feat Alison Goldfrapp Style
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June 8th 1999
Polygram
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Equipment Used to create "The Middle of Nowhere"
| Other | Synths | Drum Machines | FX | Mixing Desk |
| Power PC 6100/66 | Kawai K5000R | 909 | M5000 | 2 Yamaha OSZ |
| G3 (this was replaced by the Power PC 6100/66 half way through the album) | Nord Rack | 808 | Esoniq DP/4 | |
| Power Book 3400c | Korg Z1 | Trinity workstation for drums (Korg) | Alesis Quadraverb | |
| Roland JP8000 | Joe Meek Compressor | |||
| Recycle Package | Roland SH 101 | Dbx Compressor | ||
| Logic Audio | Roland SH 09 | Lexicon LX P1 | ||
| Audio Werks Card | Yamaha DX 7 Mark 2 | |||
| Stylophone | ||||
| E4 Turbo Sampler | Supernova (Novation) | |||
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List created by Paul Hartnoll (02/10/98) - 2 new synths added (03/01/99)
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