It's 1999 again!

holden · #1 05-22-2010, 08:24 PM

As we eagerly await the new Underworld album and anticipate a summer scored by "Scribble"... we also have:

New single ("Swoon") and album ("Further") by The Chemical Brothers.

New (amazingly good) record by Hybrid ("Disappear Here") - ok, this came out in March, but it's been on endless loop since then.

New tracks by Orbital! Hooray!

Seems Leftfield is also making a comeback.

Fluke is also staged to tour.

And for the real deep diggers, i hear there's new Apollo 440 to be released.

Now if only we'd get a second LP from The Propellerheads, it really will be 1999 all over again!

Call me old fashioned, but i love all these bands and have strong nostalgic feelings for a time when electro ruled the airwaves and was dare-i-say more exciting than its been the past 5 years or so.

chems1919 · #2 05-23-2010, 12:29 AM

Fluke is going to tour again? That's good news; I was wondering when I'd hear about them again. It's been like 5 years since Puppy was released and I haven't heard any talk about 2 Bit Pie. Bring on the '99 vibes!

Bargo · #3 05-23-2010, 01:16 AM

FSOL just released their very Dead Cities-esque new album Environments 3 as well.

//\/\/ · #4 05-23-2010, 03:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Bargo

FSOL just released their very Dead Cities-esque new album Environments 3 as well.

that's very interesting news indeed

joethelion · #5 05-23-2010, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Bargo

FSOL just released their very Dead Cities-esque new album Environments 3 as well.

wait - how did I not know about this?!?!?!?

and new Orbital as well... weird.

and Cassius is re-releasing "1999" btw

Dirty0900 · #6 05-23-2010, 10:36 AM

New Orbital, where is this info from?

darktrain · #7 05-23-2010, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by holden

New tracks by Orbital! Hooray!

a WHUH?!?!

purlieu · #8 05-23-2010, 10:52 AM

They've been playing new tracks on their recent shows, I think one was played on a Six Music show they did lately. I had a glance at some info over at the forums on loopz.co.uk a couple of weeks back.

Environments 3 contains a couple of Dead Cities era outtakes but it's 3/4 all newly recorded FSOL material. Mix of ambient, neoclassical and glitchy bits. It's marvellous.

holden · #9 05-23-2010, 11:02 AM

Info on the new Orbital single (20th of June):
http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/0...es-new-single/

Still waiting for new news about the Fluke tour, but the bandmembers have mentioned it's happening in 2010:
http://www.2bitpie.net/post-fluke-live-2010-86.aspx

the mongoose · #10 05-23-2010, 11:31 AM

One of the new Orbital songs pretty much sucks badly in my opinion: