The discography of the electronic dance music duo Orbital consists of ten studio albums, four original score albums, three live/session albums, seven compilation albums, two DJ-mix albums, five extended plays, and forty singles.
Albums Studio albums Title Album details Chart positionsCertifications(sales thresholds) UK AUS N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart. BEL(FL) US USElec. USHeat. OrbitalReleased: 30 September 1991 Label: FFRR, Polydor K.K., Internal Format: CD, cassette, vinyl 31 – – – – – BPI: Silver"Certified Awards Search ". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved on 13 August 2011. Note: User needs to enter "Orbital" in the "Search" field, "Artist" in the "Search by" field and click the "Go" button. Select "More info" next to the relevant entry to see full certification history. OrbitalReleased: 24 May 1993 Labels: FFRR, Polydor K.K., Internal Format: CD, cassette, vinyl 13 – 117 – – – BPI: Silver SnivilisationReleased: 8 August 1994 Labels: FFRR, Polydor K.K., Internal Format: CD, cassette, vinyl 4 190 – – – – BPI: Silver In SidesReleased: 29 April 1996 Labels: FFRR, Polydor K.K., Internal Format: CD, cassette, vinyl 5 – – – – 47 BPI: Gold The Middle of NowhereReleased: 5 April 1999 Labels: FFRR, Polydor K.K. Format: CD, cassette, vinyl 4 113 38 191 – 11 BPI: Silver The AltogetherReleased: 30 April 2001 Labels: FFRR, EastWest Japan Format: CD, cassette, DVD 11 50 – – 8 24 BPI: Silver Blue AlbumReleased: 21 June 2004 Label: Orbital Music Format: CD, vinyl 44 – – – 9 – WonkyReleased: 2 April 2012 Label: Orbital Music Format: CD, vinyl, digital download 22 186 44 – – – Monsters ExistReleased: 14 September 2018 Label: ACP Format: CD, vinyl, digital download 12 – 143 – 24 9 Optical DelusionReleased: 17 February 2023 Label: Orbital Recordings Format: CD, vinyl, digital download 6 – 70 – – –
Soundtrack albums Title Album detailsUK Event Horizon(with Michael Kamen)Released: 25 August 1997 Labels: London Format: CD, cassette, vinyl 83 OctaneReleased: 20 October 2003 Labels: EMI Format: CD, vinyl – PusherReleased: 29 October 2012 Labels: Silva Screen Format: CD – The Pentaverate (Original Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)Released: 5 May 2022 Labels: Lakeshore Format: Digital, vinyl –
Live albums Title Album detailsUK Orbital: Live at Glastonbury 1994–2004Released: 11 June 2007 Labels: ACP Recordings, ATO Records Format: CD 101 Glastonbury 1994Released: 25 September 2026 Labels: London Records Format: LP, CD, digital 57
Compilation albums Title Album details UK Peel Session Released: 7 March 1994 Labels: FFRR, Polydor K.K., Internal Format: CD 32 DiversionsReleased: 22 March 1994 Labels: Full Frequency/Ils Format: CD, cassette – Work 1989–2002Released: 3 June 2002 Labels: FFRR Format: CD, vinyl 36 HalcyonReleased: 26 September 2005 Labels: WEA Format: CD – Orbital 20Released: 8 June 2009 Labels: Rhino Format: CD 118 30 SomethingReleased: 29 July 2022 Label: Orbital Format: 2×CD, 4×LP, digital 19 A Beginner's GuideReleased: 8 November 2024 Label: London Format: CD, LP, digital –
Mix albums
The Bedroom Sessions (2002, Mixmag) Back to Mine: Orbital (2002, DMC)
Singles and extended plays Year Title Chart positions Album UK UK Dance IRL US Bub. US Club Play 1989 "Chime" 17 – – – 23 Orbital (Green Album) 1990 "Omen" 46 – – – – — 1991 III EP (including "Satan" and "Belfast") 31 – – – – Orbital (Green Album) "Midnight / Choice" – – – – – 1992 Mutations EP 24 – – – – Radiccio EP (including "Halcyon") 37 – – – 33 Orbital (Brown Album) 1993 "Lush 3" 43 – – – – 1994 "Are We Here?" (featuring Alison Goldfrapp) 33 16 – – 38 Snivilisation 1995 "Belfast/Wasted" / "Innocent X"(split single with Therapy?) 53 – – – – Wasted – The Best of Volume (Part 1)(originally released on Volume 3 in 1992) Times Fly (EP) – – – – – — 1996 "The Box" 11 2 25 – – In Sides "Satan Live" 3 – 7 – – — 1997 "The Saint" 3 3 7 4 – The Saint soundtrack and In Sides (reissue) 1999 "Style" 13 3 – – – The Middle of Nowhere "Nothing Left" 32 5 – – – 2000 "Beached" (Orbital and Angelo Badalamenti) 36 15 – – – The Beach soundtrack 2001 "Funny Break (One Is Enough)" 21 3 – – – The Altogether "Illuminate" (12" only) – – – – – 2002 Rest/Play EP 33 3 – – – Work 2003 "Initiation" – – – – - Octane soundtrack and Blue Album (Japanese releases only) 2004 "One Perfect Sunrise" (featuring Lisa Gerrard) / "You Lot" 29 2 – – – Blue Album "Acid Pants" (featuring Sparks) – – – – – 2010 "Don't Stop Me" / "The Gun Is Good" – 37 – – – — 2012 "New France" (featuring Zola Jesus) – – – – – Wonky "Wonky" (featuring Lady Leshurr) – – – – – "Where Is It Going?" – – – – – "Beelzedub" – – – – – 2013 "Christmas Chime" – 36 – – – — 2017 "Kinetic 2017" – – – – – Monsters Exist (HMV exclusive edition) "Copenhagen" – – – – – 2018 "Tiny Foldable Cities" – – – – – Monsters Exist "P.H.U.K." – – – – – "The End Is Nigh" – – – – – 2019 "Buried Deeper Within" – – – – – 2022 "Dirty Rat" (featuring Sleaford Mods) – – – – – Optical Delusion "Ringa Ringa (The Old Pandemic Folk Song)" (featuring Mediæval Bæbes) – – – – –2023 "Are You Alive?" (featuring Penelope Isles) – – – – – "The Crane" (featuring Dina Ipavic) – – – – –2025"Deepest" (featuring Tilda Swinton)–––––Radiccio 2025 "Re-lush" (featuring Confidence Man) – – – – – Orbital 2 (The Brown Album Expanded)
Compilation appearances Tracks not released on an Orbital release. Title Released on Year "Chime (The Helium Mix)" FFRR presents Gold on Black 1990 "Son of Chime" Live at The Brain 1990 "Chime (Friends of Matthew Remix)" October 91: Two 1991 "Open Mind (Remix by Orbital)" Funky Alternatives Six 1991 "Adnan"This track appears in longer form on the In Sides album, as "Adnan's". War Child: The Help Album 1995 "Equinox" 3rd Side of the Record: Compilation One 1995 "The Tranquiliser Busy Tranquilising" Foundations: Coming up from the Streets 1997 "The Girl with the Sun in Her Head"Recorded live at Leeds Sound City in 1996. A longer version of this track appears on the In Sides album. Sally's Photographic Memory 1997 "Technologicque Park" Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture xXx (a New Breed of Special Agent) 2002 "The Box (Equilibrium Found Mix)" The Fire This Time 2002 "Lush (Hervé's Tree and Leaf Remix)" Hervé: Ghetto Bass 2 2010 "Halcyon Teen Spirit" (with Elle Fanning) Teen Spirit (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2019
Featured songs Sonatine (1993) "Belfast" Shopping (1994) "Crash and Carry" Hackers (1995) Soundtrack Vol.1 • "Halcyon + On + On" (shortened version) (Used as the film's theme) Hackers (1995) Soundtrack Vol.2 • "Speed Freak [Moby Remix]" Mortal Kombat (1995) • "Halcyon + On + On" Johnny Mnemonic (1995) • "Sad But True" The Saint (1997) • "The Saint Theme" A Life Less Ordinary (1997) • "The Box" and "Dŵr Budr" Test Drive 4 (1997) • "Out There Somewhere? (Part 2)" (Background music for the main menu) Spawn (1997) • "Satan" (with Kirk Hammett) π (1998) • "P.E.T.R.O.L" Human Traffic (1999) • "Belfast" (Played when the ravers are driving back from the house party and the sun rises over Cardiff, viewed from above) The Beach (2000) • "Beached" Groove (2000) • "Halcyon + On + On" CKY2K (2001) • "Halcyon + On + On" FreQuency (2001) • "Funny Break (One Is Enough) (Weekend Ravers Mix)" 24 Hour Party People (2002) • "Satan" (Played when Shaun Ryder fires a gun and sells the mastertapes of the Happy Mondays album Yes Please! to Tony Wilson in Dry Bar Fac 201) XXX (2002) • "Technologicque Park" (original to this film) (Orbital appears in the film performing during the night club/rave sequences) ER (episode: "Insurrection") • "Frenetic" BBC 40th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who (2003) • Doctor? Keen Eddie • (original to this programme) (score for first episode) (2003) Haggard: The Movie (2003) • "Doctor?" (Played while Valo and Falcone tape fæces to Glauren's garage door) Mean Girls (2004) • "Halcyon + On + On" (not on soundtrack) (Played in the last scene of Mean Girls before closing credits) It's All Gone Pete Tong • "Frenetic (Short Mix)" Wipeout • "Kein Trink Wasser", "P.E.T.R.O.L" Forza Motorsport 2 • "Nothing Left" Long Way Round (2004 BBC series) • "One Perfect Sunrise"
Remixes Year Original artist Title 1990 Queen Latifah "Come Into My House" (The Orbital Mix) The Shamen "Hear Me O My People"1992Daydreemer"Show Me"EMF"It's You" (13 ½% Extra Mix)Global Method"Good Life"Golden Girls"Kinetic" Meat Beat Manifesto "Edge of No Control" (Take Control - Orbital Reply)Yellow Magic Orchestra"Behind the Mask"1993Drum Club"Alchemy" (Phasers On Stun Mix)Meat Beat Manifesto"Mindstream" (Mind The Bend The Mind)Back to the Planet"Daydream" Soft Ballet "Believe in a Blue World"Abfahrt"Come Into My Life" (Hart Fab Mix) 1994 Confusion "Joy" Pressure of Speech "Aphelion" "X-Beats" (The Orbital Mix) 1995 Madonna "Bedtime Story" 1997 Pressure of Speech "X-Beats" 2000 Kraftwerk "Expo 2000" 2003 Karl Bartos "I'm the Message" 2008 Alabama 3 "Ska'd For Life"2019Plaid"Maru" Floex "The Glasshouse with Butterfly"2020DMA's"Life Is a Game of Changing"Joris Voorn"Never"2021Sleaford Mods"I Don't Rate You"2022Morcheeba"Namaste"Fontaines D.C."In ár gCroíthe go deo"2023Octave One feat. Karina Mia"Price We Pay"2024Energy 52"Café Del Mar"2025Confidence Man"Far Out"The Cure"Endsong"
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