ORBITAL - The Girl With The Sun In Her Head - IN SIDES album - Paul and Phil Hartnoll

ORBITAL - "The Girl With The Sun In Her Head" from the IN SIDES album
Written by Paul and Phil Hartnoll
Drums by Clune

Some facts about this track

It started life as an idea for a scene in the film Hackers but it didn’t make the cut .

While Orbital were working on the track one of their best friends from Sevenoaks, Sally Harding, passed away. It then became a tribute to her.

The wump and kick sounds come from the ARP 2600

Drums were created by Clune, friend of the brothers and also played with Dave Grey

They were approached by Greenpeace to record the track powered by their mobile solar powered generator - Cyrus. The whole track was recorded using only the power of the sun.

The track title is a play on the name of a John Barry song - “The Girl with the Sun in her Hair”. Orbital used to use this track as a intro to their live set.

The Korg Wavestation was heavily used for all the voices and smooth sounds. The lead is from the Roland SH-101 and SH-09.

The funky pitch bend was an idea by Phil Holmberg (Schematix / Schizoid Man)

Bass line is from a weird sample and the Jupiter 6 combined .