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Orbital: The Altogether (ffrr) ****

David Stubbs, Uncut, June 2001

ON THE techno calendar, the present era isn't so much AD as AD&B – the post-drum'n'bass era. That genre followed a curious arc – it went straight from pirate underground to co-option by anyone who wanted to give their TV theme tune an injection of instant hipness, without ever touching down in the Top 40 as such.

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