Peel Session is an EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by Orbital

Orbital (band)

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. It is the commercial release of a session first broadcast on the John Peel

John Peel

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 show on BBC Radio 1

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 on 10 September 1993.

The session comprises four tracks, arranged in two medleys. The first medley features new versions of tracks from the duo's previous album Orbital 2, also known as The Brown Album. The second features a remake of "Semi Detached", the original version of which appeared on the various artists compilation Trance Europe Express, which segues into a new ambient music

Ambient music

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 track, "Attached". The latter was itself remade for Orbital's next album, Snivilisation

Snivilisation

Snivilisation is the third album and the first named album by Orbital. It was released in 1994. "Are We Here?" features vocals by Alison Goldfrapp, as does "Sad But True"...

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Samples of laughter heard in 'Lush (Eurotunnel Disaster '94)' are taken from Mike Leigh's 1991 film Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet (film)

Life Is Sweet is a 1991 British film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent, Alison Steadman, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall. Leigh's third cinematic film, it was his most commercially successful title at the time of its release...

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Track listing

1. "Lush (Eurotunnel Disaster '94)"
2. "Walk About" (remake of "Walk Now")
3. "Semi Detached"
4. "Attached"