EDM

[Edwardo Piet]

You'll notice Orbital fall under many genres, not just trance.

Sure Halcyon + On + On has trance elements but what I'm saying is if you think that that track is merely the trance genre, it's not. It also has ambient elements, house elements, techno elements, etc, and it transcends all those genres basically. Ever heard an electronic song made by another band that sounds even remotely like Halcyon + On + On or the original Halcyon for that matter? Orbital are very unique. Underworld are about the closest you can get to Orbital as a band and they're still vastly different in many ways.

BTW, I realized recently that one of my favorite ever Chemical Brothers tracks, while being far, far inferior to Orbital, I still thought sounded pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REOd_hgjhic

Despite being a distorted mess I thought it had a lot of tunage.

Turns out that's because they completely ripped off a far superior and far older Orbital song and distorted to fuck out of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPjygVc1R8M

They didn't credit Orbital at all.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/further-mw0001989733

[...] the psychedelic distortion on "Swoon" sounds self-sampled (or swiped from Orbital's "Lush 3-1")