Track Listing

1. The Knack - John Barry
2. Justice to the People - Lee Perry & Friends
3. Babaloo - DSR
4. Spice (J Saul Kane Mix)- EON
5. Love and Fury - The Tornadoes
6. We Have Come to Bless This House - The Severed Heads
7. Ska'ed For Life (Instrumental Mix) EXCLUSIVE - Orbital
8. Schoolgirl Report Title Theme - Gert Wilden & Orchestra
9. Kamikaze - PJ Harvey
10. Celebrate the Bullet - The Selecter
11. No Idea (Psychotronic EP)- Earth Leakage Trip
12. Lost Property - Divine Comedy
13. Pal Pal Tori Yaad - Falguni Pathak
14. Half Stepper - Hyper on Experience
15. Dont You Burn Your Bridges - Susan Cadogan
16. Living in the Past- Jethro Tull
17. Network 23 - Tangerine Dream
18. New Base Hippo - Plaid
19. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Main Theme- Robert Mellin & Gian Piero Reverberi

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74643 in Music
• Released on: 2002-06-24
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Back to Mine series has already brought us some very memorable compilations from a diverse collection of dance luminaries, including Morcheeba, MJ Cole, Groove Armada, Faithless, Nick Warren and Talvin Singh. Now it's the turn of famous brothers-in-rhythm Paul and Phil Hartnoll, aka Orbital, to offer a selection of the tunes that lie close to their hearts and get their heads bopping. Their effort is indulgently deep and impressively broad, and is certainly one of the series' most eclectic offerings yet. Starting with John Barry and His Orchestra's "The Knack", we are taken through a weird and wonderful selection of tastes and styles, leaping from soundtrack to ska, rave to reggae, industrial to psychedelic, punk to pop. The intensely wide range of sounds means that the LP doesn't flow quite as mellifluously as it might, but with songs by Lee Scratch Perry ("Justice to the People"), The Tornadoes ("Love and Fury"), PJ Harvey ("Kamikaze"), The Selecter ("Celebrate the Bullet"), Earth Leakage Trip ("No Idea"), Jethro Tull ("Living in the Past") and Plaid ("New Bass Hippo"), it's still an enjoyable, sprawling and educational album that manages to pull together a disparate but relevant bunch of pre, post and present dance tunes. --Paul Sullivan

CD Description
BACK TO MINE is a series of compilation records featuring selections by established performing artists with enough cultural cache to get paid for making funky mixes from their owneclectic record collections. Orbital's entry does, in fact,have plenty of eclectic grooving to offer. The stylistic whiplash approach reflects the electronic duo's (brothers Philand Paul Hartnoll) influences and tastes, and includes rock(PJ Harvey), dub (Lee "Scratch" Perry), and, of course, electronica and classic house (Plaid, DRS, Eon).
There are afew non-contemporary surprises including Jethro Tull's "Living in the Past" and some loungey, swinging instrumentals from the 1960s thrown in for good measure (John Barry's "The Knack" and the Tornadoes' wonderful "Love & Fury"). The songsare spliced together in a manner resembling the world's most schizophrenic jukebox, but the whole thing works surprisingly well. This unique, scrambled set is recommended for personal mix-making, or for trying to impress friends back at your own pad.

Customer Reviews

Genius' at Work
Orbital - Back To Mine.

Orbital's Back to Mine collection is a bit special, not only is it the 10th in the series but it's probably the most eclectic mix to date, but if you've heard the Hartnoll brothers own recordings you wouldn't expect anything less. Here the boys dim the lights on their famous torch glasses and rely on trusty candle power to accompany an evening back round theirs. Orbital's soiree kicks off with 60's soundtracky grooves like John Barry's 'the knack' and glides into skanking reggae territory courtesey of Lee Perry and an exclusive from the Hartnolls themselves in the shape of 'Ska'd For Life'. Then as more gold label gets drunk the boys move into a more twisted dancefloor direction and drop standout tracks like DSR's 'Babaloo' or the ever trippy Earth Leakage Trip's 'No Idea'. The odd curveball is thrown in too like PJ Harvey and Divine Comedy then it's wound back down again as the boys experimental faves Tangerine Dream and Plaid take us to home time.

Back to some sweaty pyscho's
If your idea of capping a fun night out is sitting around amid several coloured blocks containing angry midgets from James Bond movies then you might be well into this.
While this whole dance is dead kind of thing is being borne out by the easy listening buzz of the BTM series, and well we're all getting old now and a baseline which your living room walls can't bear isn't entirely civic minded all told, this steers someway clear of anything dancey by giving the relaxed, mature, ironic, London flat vibe a wide berth. Instead, we have a wild meander through some edgy, class tunes, with very little to link them to any idea of dance music.

This has a frantic, psychotic edge and a collection of totally brilliant songs from some esteemed musicians and singers.

Excellent.

Sort of twisted but with apogees
If Orbital effectively reposes to such skewed acoustics they'll never be invited to loll about on my fluffy couch (a very frolicable settee, indeed). Tremendously uplifting exceptions to this rather tedious and murky compilation and thus the only motive why I already treasure this CD like my eyeball are PJ Harvey ("Kamikaze"), Divine Compedy ("Lost Property") and Pathak, Falguni ("Pal pal whatever") - truely magical mystery tours into pure aurical pleasure. But then again, isn't that what the "Back to Mine" series is all about? Dayfly pop saints impelled to perform ingeniousness in favour of mainstream commerce and actually kicking it off with some exceedingly mind-boggling cadences. When are we finally going to have a Stevie Wonder or B-52s "Back to Mine"?
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