Lush 3

'Lush' comes roaring of the second, untitled Orbital album, where versions 3.1 and 3.2 make up the first ten minutes of the audacious half-hour techno cycle that opens the album. Built on a crunchy, dramatic bass foundation and glowing with splashes of indeterminate colour, the original versions are twin dark companions to last year's soma symphony 'Halcyon'.

Out on its own, 'Lush' unwraps itself- in mixes by CJ Bolland (fast and predatory), Underworld (graceful, deceptive) and Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, (hot and oblique)- revealing even more going on inside. You can lose yourself in the cross-rhythms, sync to a multi-dimensional wash of technology unlike any other, or just tune out to that monstrous bass mantra. The choice is yours, and it's never exhausted.

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