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OCR: brothers were dealing with their mother's 7-year addiction to the prescription tranquilizer Halcyon (as referred to by the track of the same name). In 1984, Phil bought a Korg Latin Percussion D10, and the brothers started making music together. The band took its name from the M25 Orbital Motorway, which encircles London. In December 1989, "Chime" was released on Oh-Zone Records, a small label run by one of their friends. When Oh-Zone tried to license "Chime" to London Records. Orbital were quickly snapped up by London's dance subsidiary, ffrr. "Chime" reached #17 in the UK charts in early 1990, about 6 months after the similar success of 808 State's classic "Pacific State." Paul recalls "making music before the term 'house' was around. We were listening to New Order and Divine, a lot of H ...