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  • Audio CD (12 April 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Internal
  • ASIN: B000051JRP
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,100 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Girl With The Sun In Her Hair
2. Petrol
3. Box
4. Dwr Budr
5. Adnans
6. Out There Somewhere
7. The Saint

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By the time Orbital released its fourth album, the Hartnoll brothers were strongly tipped as techno heavyweights alongside more commercially palatable prospects like Underworld and Prodigy. Yet, instead of catering to the curious, they presented their most self-indulgent album to date with In Sides. Packaging the 24-minute symphonic track "Out There Somewhere?" with the loopy psychedelic flight of "P.E.T.R.O.L.", they created a most unusual and intriguing collection. Despite their best efforts, though, "The Box" still packed the same insistent rhythm that made "Belfast" such an indelible club staple. --Aidin Vaziri

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Since 1989, when they released their first single, Orbital's Hartnoll brothers have represented a less beat-heavy side of techno. Rather than rhythmic brawn and hyperkinetic RPMs,Orbital's music was driven by modern compositional style owing to Glass and Reich, with Eno's spacing thrown in for good measure, and electro-pulses providing the only things seeming beat-worthy. Theirs are sound sculptures consistently apart from their contemporaries--more melodic, more contemplative and soundtrack-like.
1996's IN SIDES, their fourth full-length release, is a fine representation of Orbital's sonic environment, and a great place to jump into the ways of the Hartnolls, if only because it's their cheeriest album. Bright melodies carried by shinny, happy keyboard textures enlighten a good deal of IN SIDES, most fruitfully on the expansive second part of the closer "Out There Somewhere?" where they keep streaming in like sun beams through sonic windows.As counterpoint, there's the needling mystery of tracks like "The Box", which marries an edge-of-your-seat piano score to some fuzzed-out guitars and lo-fi breakbeats.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars if you've never heard this album, buy it right now, 14 Dec 2001
By ben_darlow@lineone.net (Warwickshire, UK) - See all my reviews
my first experience with Orbital came in late 1995 when the Sony Playstation was first hitting the scene. Back then I hadn't really got much interest in music of any kind, but a certain game called Wipeout was being used as a marketing tool to make videogames cool. Sony had signed up a load of dance artists to do the game's soundtrack, and one of these artists was Orbital. As a games player I played the game and was entranced by the soundtrack. I began my journey exploring music on that day. The Chemical Brothers, Leftfield and, of course, Orbital were suddenly in my world.

In Sides was the first Orbital album I heard, and remains, to me, my favourite. It's pure genius. To quote a review I once read: "Play this to your grandmother enough times and she'll eventually start whistling along to it". The combination of haunting and chirpy tunes creates a fantastic odyssey through intelligent dance.

The Girl With The Sun In Her Head gently eases you into the album with layer upon layer of complementative sounds building up to an orchestra of pleasure. Tracks like The Box and Adnans are sublime yet offer a taste of something darker.

I would personally wager that you could get anyone to like this album. So subtle and unoffensive, yet powerful and inspiring.

My only possible gripe with this album would be that the initial release didn't include the Orbital cover of The Saint theme tune (created for the film) but it was added at the end for later releases. Like "Style" at the end of Middle of Nowhere, it sticks out like a sore thumb (to me) and whilst a great track in it's own right, it ends the album in a different light to how it would have prior to it's inclusion. Try listening to the album with your track listing ordered so it comes after P.E.T.R.O.L. and the feel of the album changes completely.

But I digress. This album is genius distilled and pressed. Own it.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Class, 17 Jan 2003
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I have listened to different types of music and heard hundreds of albums in the last 15 years, but no cd has ever moved me like In Sides.
I was already familiar with acts like the Prodigy, Underworld and The Future Sound of London before I heard this offering by Orbital. Instantly I realised I was listening to a true masterpiece. To me, this is the only album I've ever listened to which I would give every track 10 out of 10. At times the music is dark, sinister and angry sounding. At other times it is meloncholic and tearful, whilst having uplifting and euphoric moments which can make the listener's spine tingle.
Personally this album strikes a chord with me that I can barely explain. In Sides is possibly the best electronic album of all time.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Out there, somewhere (in a class of it's own), 23 Feb 2002
The best album I own, bar none. Electronica at it's finest; 'In-Sides' seems a natural progression from Orbital's previous works. I don't easily offer gushing superlatives, but language is too limiting to adequately describe this work of wonder. The Hartnoll brothers appear to have classical pretensions, and this album was a grandiose statement of intent. Yet, as ever, Orbital are impossible to categorise and marginalise. This was undoubtedly their finest hour (or so). Although, many seem to prefer some of Orbital's earlier works, these souls are sadly misguided. 'In-Sides' just gets better with age, as seminal and sublime as ever. Mature, majestic, and moving. This album is an essential addition to anyone's record collection.
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5.0 out of 5 stars best electro/dance album ever!!!
best orbital album and best electro/dance/idm/whatever album ever..it starts with 'the girl with the sun in her head' which has got to be one of the best opening tracks of all... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars David Geraghty
I bought this CD 10 years ago in Tokyo and it ... ahem ... changed my life. It's that good. The Hartnolls blew apart the confines of techno with this album, producing something... Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2006 by David Geraghty

5.0 out of 5 stars Just simply breathtaking
I couldn't put into words just how wonderfully sublime this album is. I listen to every genre of music and am passionate about music. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing album.
Orbital are probably the best electronic duo in the world, and this is the best that I have heard from them. Every song is long, and there are no poor songs. Read more
Published on 20 Jul 2004 by the great amphibian

5.0 out of 5 stars I saw them live!
Orbital are simply genius. live and on cd.
I was into orbital since the debut when I heard it playing in a store. Around the time of Sniv. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2004 by wmcn

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless classic
This album for me is one of those that will always sound ahead of its time. The Girl with the Sun in her Head is for me the most outstanding contribution by the Hartnoll brothers... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2004 by nicholas_courbet

5.0 out of 5 stars in sides review by a music producer
simply the best electronic album ever made.
Published on 13 Oct 2003 by nothingbreaks

5.0 out of 5 stars astonishing...
Well then! Personally I think this is one of the finest electronic albums you can buy. Something that always finds itself floating into my headphones, up there on a high plateau... Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2003 by Simon J. Whight

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST album of all time?
I have been a dedicated follower of orbital now for 4 years, now this may not seem like a long time but I heard a lot of their older songs and never knew who they where. Read more
Published on 19 Jul 2003 by Richard Rayment

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as it gets
I would like to second the gentleman who cited Insides as a life changing album. I was 16 when it got released and, having heard snivilisation, brought it immediately. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2002 by Mr. N. Connolly

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