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Rightly ranked among the best-loved UK dance acts of all time, Orbital’s famed live shows conclusively proved that electronic dance music in its pure form could hold sway on a major festival stage. Part of the first wave of musicians to take the nascent acid house scene beyond the warehouses of the M25 (the road that famously inspired their moniker) and on to world domination, brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll shot to prominence on the back of their timeless hit ‘Chime’, fusing the abstract moods of Detroit techno with unabashedly widescreen atmospherics to hugely successful effect. Still resonating as gloriously as they ever did, Orbital’s special power to unify dance music’s myriad tribes shows few signs of abating over twenty years on.
