Orbital talk new collabs with Tilda Swinton and Confidence Man and revisiting ‘The Brown Album’

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Orbital have teamed up with actor Tilda Swinton for new single ‘Deepest’, a reworking of the duo’s 1989 track ‘Deeper’. Check out it below along with our interview on the reissue of the classic ‘Brown Album’.‘Deepest’ was debuted live last year, when Swinton joined the dance pioneers, brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll, onstage at Orbital’s Glastonbury performance.

She had previously worked with Orbital when playing the mysterious Traveler in the video for 1996 single ‘The Box’.“Tilda has the right gravitas to be a hypnotist on ‘Deepest’,” Paul Hartnoll told NME. “If she hadn’t done it, we’d have asked Derren Brown.”The original voice on ‘Deeper’ was male, but Hartnoll revealed: “To do a new version of a song, you need something else to happen for it to be different.

Also, there are so few women in the dance world. Speaking as yet another balding, white, middle-aged man, we have to try to redress the balance wherever we can.”Alongside ‘Deepest’, Orbital have also announced an expanded reissue of their classic second album ‘Orbital 2 (The Brown Album)’ from 1993, to be released on May 23.

Orbital have been touring ‘The Brown Album’ alongside 1991 debut ‘Orbital (The Green Album)’ for the past year, including a sell-out show tomorrow (April 5) at London’s Brixton Academy.Revisiting the two albums on tour is inspiring new music, as Hartnoll explained: “It feels like I’m playing a completely different person’s music, in some ways: 22-year-old Paul’s music, not 56-year-old Paul.