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Orbital announce career retrospective, 30 Something
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 21 April 2022
Orbital have announced that they will release a new retrospective album called ‘30 Something’, which will contain reworks, remakes, remixes and re-imaginings of tracks from across their career. Its first single is ‘Where Is It Going?’, a version of their collaboration with Stephen Hawking for the 2012 London Paralympics opening ceremony.
“This is our special Paralympic version of ‘Where Is It Going?’, featuring the fantastic Stephen Hawking”, say the duo of the single. “He’s tackling the big question of the unification of physics and the understanding of a theory of everything. We’re not there yet, we can’t even find a unification socially as a species, but hopefully one day we will find out where we are going”.
Contributing to the new album are Joris Voorn, Dusky, Jon Tejada, Yotto, and David Holmes, as well as Orbital themselves.
“What’s been amazing for me is looking at our past and thinking of all the people who’ve come to see us, they are absolutely brilliant, warm and create such an amazing vibe”, says Phil Hartnoll of putting the new release together. ”They are now bringing their kids to our gigs, they love it”.
His brother Paul adds: “Now we’re diving into our past and reminding ourselves, blimey, we really did that. And it’s still got something to say”.
‘30 Something’ is set for release on 15 Jul. Watch the video for ‘Where Is It Going?’ here:
