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1997 Remix Competition
THE WINNERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE
Contestants were invited to remix any Orbital track of their choice. No samples or midi files were given out…the samples used and the track itself were created by the remixer. The response was outstanding…as you will see and hear.
The remixers came from various parts of the globe…all united to create their working of an Orbital track of their choice. All remixes have been sent to Paul and Phil Hartnoll (Orbital) for their views and to cast their vote. The judging table consisted of the following people:-
Below are ALL the enteries , their backgrounds, a Real Audio streamed sample, a Real Audio Full Version and a CD-quality MP3 sample (zipped).
Thanx to Paul and Phil Hartnoll for supporting this competition. Thanx to all the remixers that entered and all that have supported this. For those who are asking…YES … we will be doing this again in the near future…get remixing.
Paul Hartnoll .... Phil Hartnoll .... Steve "Loopz" Price .... Neil "Jones"
Finally a decision was made on the prizes....The full prize list is below....
2 Winners
2 Trupaks each (One open and One closed) (Value of over 100 English Pounds!).
(Trupak contains a Vac sealed package with 3 inidividual Vac sealed packages).
(1) ... One off Cd containing select tracks from the first three albums
(2) ... See-through silver/grey cards stating the discography of Album/Ep releases (slightly incorrect though)
(3) ... Video of Orbital - Halcyon (Live) - From Feile, Island - Tribal Gathering - Glastonbury
ALL CONTESTANTS
Signed Copy of Loopz Issue 4 - Signed by Orbital (Paul and Phil Hartnoll)
There will be a few Remix Cds for sale featuring 13 of the 14 remixes. At the time of writing the price will be 12 English Pounds - this will also include Loopz Zine Issue #4. Payment can only be in English cash or by International Cheque for English Sterling (English Bank address - ie it cant be an order to transfer money from another country) Im only taking names at the moment and naturally first come - first serve - remember this is gonna be very limited. To be added to the Remix Competition Cd List - Send a mail to me with the subject REMIX CD. More on this as it happens.
The whole of this page and its contents are copyrighted to Steve Price and cannot reproduced/hosted in any form/format without written confirmation from Steve Price. The samples are copyrighted to Steve Price, P&P Hartnoll and the remixer.
The Contestants
No 1 - Chris Broz - "Halcyon Rolling Hills" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 2 - Martin Leissmeister - "Orbital Orbited" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 3 - Moy - "P.E.T.R.O.L Mid-Temp Mix" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 4 - Niko Tzoukmanis - " Midnight (Unitary Techsteppin Mix)" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 5 - Ranger Rick - "Adnans" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 6 - Steve Lhomme - "Deeper UUUU melting pot m+)" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 7 - Morpheus - "Memories of Her" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 8 - Ranger Rick - "Times Fly" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 9 - Brain Hall - "Impact" (Submitted by Chris Herz) - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 10 - Scott Reeves - "Event Horizon Hull Breach Mix" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 11 - PoC - "Orb-it-al" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 12 - T.W.I.N - "Boxes" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
No 13 - Poc - "Belfast" - NOW ONLINE (Full Remix online)
Remix Number 1
Orbital Track : Halcyon
Remix Name : Halcyon Rolling Hills
Remixer: Chris Broz
Location: Norfolk , USA
Musical Influence:
Intelligent electronic and industrial, anything with artistic depth in those categories.
Why did you choose this remix:
Halcyon is a beautiful song...
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
More soundtrack scoring, more experimentation [less 303 and 808 stuff]
Favourite Tracks:
Kein Trink Wasser, The Box, Attached
Equipment/Software Used:
Korg Prophecy, Cakewalk 6.0 and Soundforge 4.0
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Remix Number 2
Orbital Track : Various
Remix
Name :
Orbital Orbited
Remixer: Martin Lessmeister
Location: New Jersey, USA
Musical Influence:
Electronic music really sparked my interest (by fate) about two years ago. The Future Sound of London was the group which got me onto the bandwagon.Branching from FSOL, I came to know and love artists like AFX, Autechre,and especially Orbital. The collage of sound that electronic music creates defines its originality. I feel this music inspires me and gives me more individuality.
As far as other music, I like lots -- from Beethoven to Pink Floyd. It's pretty cool to listen to someone who has total contral of his instrument. That's why I like to switch over to analog/acoustic every once in a while. :)
Why did you choose this remix:
I didn't choose a particular song to remix. I thought putting together more than one of my favorite songs might be a better representation of this fantastic band. Plus I thought It would be more "exciting."
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
I can't really say. Just that they should be as creative as they always have been, and that they should follow themselves -- not necessarily the rest of the industry. And it would be nice to hear some live Orbital in a town near me. My friends and I would jump to the occasion!
Favourite Tracks:
Of what I own, my favorites are (in no particular order): Halcyon (live),Lush 3, Speed Freak, Chime (live), The Box EP, Sad But True, and Out There Somewhere?
Equipment/Software Used:
A couple hundred megs free hard drive space... Soundforge 4.0 and all its useful tools, Vienna 2.1 for sample manipulation. And to avoid sounding too machine produced, I resorted to my brain to add some natural imperfections ;)|
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Remix Number 3
Orbital Track : P.E.T.R.O.L
Remix
Name :
P.E.T.R.O.L (Mid-Tempo
Mix)
Remixer: MOY
Location: Malaysia
Musical Influence:
B.T (Brian Transeu) Tim Simenon (Bugger pow..wer duster) Other commercial acts like Prodigy, BTG,Chemmies....
Why did you choose this remix:
I chose petrol cause it the easiest to remix .I don't have a Korg Prophecy like they(Hartnolls)do.
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
I wish Orbital will continue with what they are doing at the moment cause when they tried to change thier sound they sounded bad (Snivilisation).
Favourite Tracks:
The Box ,The Girl With The Sun In Her Head ,Remind. All my fave tracks.
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Remix Number 4
Orbital Track : Midnight
Remix
Name :
Midnight (Unitary Techsteppin'
Mix)
Remixer: Niko Tzoukmanis
Location: Germany
Musical Influence:
Mike Oldfield (very early influence) The Human League (since about 1986) Some early House music. Baby Ford. The Orb, 808 State, The KLF (mainly their ambient records) and Orbital (since about 1991). Carl Craig, Kenny Larkin, Stacey Pullen. John Beltran. Ifach, Trelik, Pure Plastic. Ferox. Mosaic.
Why did you choose this remix:
Actually wanted to remix 'Sunday' or 'Choice', but achieved no satisfying results. Played the 'Midnight' chord sequence just for fun then, and then had the idea what rhythm to use. Spontaneous choice !
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
'Brown' Orbital, i.e. the more rhythmic, abstract sound.
Favourite Tracks:
'Forever', 'Impact', 'Lush 3 (Euro Tunnel Disaster 94)/Walk about', 'Desert Storm', 'Sad but true'
Equipment/Software Used:
I just use a digital Roland XP-50 workstation with two expansion boards, and the flowing sound comes from the effect sequence, which offers 40 different effects (several delay, distortion, overdrive, flanger... effects). The problem is that I can only use one effect at one time, the new XP-80 allows to use different effects for different tracks. By the way, I used the phaser effect with quite a long rate, hence the dynamical sound. I'm mostly using my own sounds (especially the basslines), or change preset sounds in a way that I can change their 'colour' in realtime. My dream would be to use a Roland JD-800, which offers great possibilities to change the sound while playing, just like those good old analogue synths.|
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Remix Number 5
Orbital Track : Adnans
Remix
Name :
?
Remixer: Ranger Rick
Location: ?
Musical Influence:
Orbital, Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, tons of others...
Why did you choose this remix:
Sounded best out of my many Orbital remixes... ;)
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
ANY!
Favourite Tracks:
The Box, The Girl with the Sun In Her Head, Halcyon+on+on
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Remix Number 6
Orbital Track : Deeper
Remix
Name :
Deeper (UUUU melting pot
m+)
Remixer: Steve Lhomme
Location: France
Musical Influence:
Genre : Techno / Big Beat / Brit-hop / techno-pop Bands : Chemical Brothers, KLF, Orbital, Orb, Pet Shop Boys, Shamen
Why did you choose this remix:
Because It's a song I like by Orbital. And I thought I could add little bits to it. That was just to test how I could handle this challenge.
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
Whatever they think is good. I'll decide then :) More Snivilisation like works.
Favourite Tracks:
Halcyon+on+on, Lush suite, Are We Here ? (snivilisation version) and of course Deeper
Equipment/Software Used:
A PC, with Rebirth, Cakewalk, and no keyboard.
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Remix Number 7
Orbital Track : The Girl With The Sun In Her Head
Remix
Name :
Memories of Her
Remixer: Morpheus
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Musical Influence:
Influence is Orbital. Then FSOL, The Orb, Aphex Twin
Why did you choose this remix:
Because it is my favourite song and it would be quite easy to get samples from. I have also wanted to figure out the tunes and stuff in it ever since I heard it..
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
I want to hear whatever Phil and Paul want to do. To say I want to hear a certain sound would be putting limitations on there unlimited diversity.
Favourite Tracks:
The Girl With The Sun In Her Head, Forever, Halcyon, Lush 3
Equipment/Software Used:
Fastracker II, Cool Edit 96
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Remix Number 8
Orbital Track : Times Fly
Remix
Name :
Remixer: Ranger Rick
Location: ?
Musical Influence:
Orbital, Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, tons of others...
Why did you choose this remix:
I actually just had the samples from the beginning of the song (woman's voice, and drums) sitting around on my hard drive, I was working on something completely different (non-orbital ;), and saw those samples, and they fit perfectly with what I was already doing, so it turned into a Times Fly mix. :)
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
ANY!
Favourite Tracks:
The Box, The Girl with the Sun In Her Head, Halcyon+on+on
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Remix Number 9
Orbital
Track :
Impact
Remix Name :
Remixer: Brian Hall(right)(Submitted by Chris Herz)(left)
Location: Originally Dallas in USA but working in Nicaragua. Chris is from Eugene in USA.
Musical Influence:
Loves Orbital, Skankin Pickle, The Police, The Specials... Really anyone who enjoys the art of music should be an influence to him.
Why did you choose this remix:
He chose Impact to remix because he wanted the challenge of trying to recreate of what he loved. Impact, I believe, is one of his favorite Orbital tracks.
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
By Orbital? Well anything! If the bros proud of what they hear ,then Brian and myself will groove to it.
Favourite Tracks:
Brian: Halcyon +On +On, Impact, Forever, Oolaa Chris: Halcyon +On +On, Impact, Satan, Crash and Carry, TGWTSIHH
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Remix Number 10
Orbital Track : Event Horizon
Remix
Name :
Hull Breach Mix
Remixer: Scott Reeves
Location: Redhill, UK
Musical Influence:
Umm, I guess I'm influenced in mixing by most mixers around today, but most of my inspiration comes from listening to the classic movie composers like John Barry, James Horner (whos music I used for the intro to my mix), Danny Elfman and alike. To me, music is a visual medium, whether its supported by images on a screen or by what you can conjure up in your own mind. Other influences would come from synth musicians like Jarre, Tangerine Dream and Mark Shreeve.
Why did you choose this remix:
Well, I've been following both Kamen and Orbital for years.. How could I pass up a chance to mix such a great collaboration between one of fave movie composers and two of my fave composers, period.
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
I'd like to see them do more movie stuff, but then *I* would. What I'd really like to hear would be them both working with an orchestra, nothing heavy but just to see what they could do. I really liked what they did with some of the cues in Event Horizon, I'd just like to see them expand of what they begun.
Favourite Tracks:
I guess the Box pt2 and Halcyon.
Equipment/Software Used:
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Remix Number 11
Orbital Track : Lush
Remix
Name :
Orb-it-al
Remixer: PoC
Location: Macedonia
Musical Influence:
Orbital, Aphex Twin, Transwave, Man With No Name...
Why did you choose this remix:
Well, I adored the brown album, and I thought I had to do it.
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
I like to hear them yust the way they are, thank you:))
Favourite Tracks:
Adnans, Lush, Out There Somewhere Part 2, Kein Trunk Wasser, Quallity Secconds...
Equipment/Software Used:
I used the cheapest soundblaster I could afford (round 20$). And I also used Fast Tracker to put the sond together, and Sound Forge to rip the music of the cd-s. Fastracker is version 2.6, becouse this piece of yunk wont work with 2.8:))
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Remix Number 12
Orbital Track : The Box
Remix
Name :
Double Mix
Remixer: T.W.I.N (obj@islandia.is)
Location: Iceland
Musical Influence:
Everything that sounds or looks good
Why did you choose this remix:
Why not?
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
The stuff they are into now and and some new stuff, perhaps some agressive too.
Favourite Tracks:
The box, Hypnotiz'n, Go, Sugardaddy, Weather experience, Nothing man, Sarajevo
Equipment/Software Used:
Impulse Tracker 2
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Remix Number 13
Orbital Track : Belfast
Remix
Name :
Remixer: PoC
Location: Macedonia
Musical Influence:
Orbital, Aphex Twin, Transwave, Man With No Name...
Why did you choose this remix:
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
I like to hear them yust the way they are, thank you:))
Favourite Tracks:
Adnans, Lush, Out There Somewhere Part 2, Kein Trunk Wasser, Quallity Secconds...
Equipment/Software Used:
I used the cheapest soundblaster I could afford (round 20$). And I also used Fast Tracker to put the sond together, and Sound Forge to rip the music of the cd-s. Fastracker is version 2.6, becouse this piece of yunk wont work with 2.8:))
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Remix Number 14
Orbital Track : Out There Somewhere
Remix
Name :
Mobeus Mix
Remixer: Mobeus (http://mobeus.base.org)
Location: Blackpool, UK
Musical Influence:
Martin : Kraftwerk, 80's electronica and of course Orbital ;)
Pascal : Electronica
Why did you choose this remix:
Martin : Really like the track and wanted to do something not everyone else would have a go at. Wanted something with a challenge, and it was *believe me*
What style of Orbital do you wish to hear in the future:
Martin : "Orbital style", you've got to remember these guys are probably the most unique band in the UK. They don't fit into any pidgeonholes, they are Orbital, they're the only 'underground' act to chart top 10 and still keep every bit of credability. Whatever Orbital release next I'm sure will be well worth listening to.
Favourite Tracks:
Martin : I would have said Out there somewhere, but I think I've heard it enough for a lifetime now. I think I'm going for Adan's or Lush 3.x ;)
Pascal : Tracks from the green album...Fahrenheit 303
Equipment/Software Used:
We've recently got a PC system with the idea of hard-disk recording, however he Orbital remix was our first chance to use it. Previously we'd just been using the PC for remastering and for MIDI sequencing. First thing we did was to digitally transfer the track from In-Sides to the Hard Disk. We then loaded it up into Soundforge and picked off 16bar loops, which we re-processed with Phaser/Flange/Wah-wah/ and loaded into Cubase Audio's sound pool. We had intended to use more of the original track however the original tempo (130bpm) seemed to drift about 6mins into the track, so we just used samples from the first 6mins. After building a basic arrangment we set about writing our remix on the seqencer, sussing out the chord progressions etc. Our 'extra' tracks were recorded and digitally mixed with the original Orbital samples and burned to CD. I also used Timestreching to slightly increase the tempo on another version of the track. The amazing thing was that original Orbital samples never left the digital domain !
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Competition Results
WINNER OF TRUPAKS AND SIGNED ZINE
Contestant #4 - Niko Tzoukmanis - Midnight (Unitary Techsteppin' Mix)
Contestant #5 - Ranger Rick- Adnans
WINNER OF INTERNET VOTING
Contestant #14 - Mobeus- Out There Somewhere (Mobeus Mix)
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