Produced as part of the 2012 London Paralympics Opening Ceremony, the track features Hawking speaking about his “complete theory of everything” over Orbital’s music.

On the single, Orbital said, “This is our special Paralympic version of ‘Where Is It Going?’, featuring the fantastic Stephen Hawking. He’s tackling the big question of the unification of physics and the understanding of a theory of everything. We’re not there yet, we can’t even find a unification socially as a species but hopefully one day we will find out where we are going…”

Consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, the pair released most of their work from 1989-2004. They have reunited twice since then, releasing new albums both times. The group’s name is taken from Greater London’s orbital motorway (a freeway surrounding a city center), the M25 — an essential part of the city’s early rave scene.

The album is set to release on July 15th and is available to pre-order through numerous digital outlets. Those interested can find more information here.

The five-song record originally came out in 1970. Resident Advisor notes that it’s the German group’s only longform work featuring members Klaus Schulze, Conrad Schnitzler, and the late Edgar Froese, who rented a factory where they recorded it on a Revox two-track tape recorder.

Electronic Meditations encapsulates Tangerine Dream’s early style of free rock, characterized by the use of homemade instruments and noise samples a la musique concrète. The record, which has seen numerous reissues in the more than 50 years since, marked the band’s breakthrough, long before they developed the synth-heavy style of ambient/experimental music scored films like Thief, Risky Business and The Keep.

Froese, who founded the group in 1967, died at 70 of pulmonary embolism in 2015. The current lineup consists of Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane, and Ulrich Schnauss. Last year, they participated in an installment of Fact Magazine‘s “Against The Clock” and released a box set of their early ’80s releases.

Preorder the 2021 cassette tape reissue of Tangerine Dream’s Electronic Meditations via Forced Exposure.

“The Darkess That You Fear” keeps with The Chemical Brothers’ penchant for concepts that shouldn’t work in practice but somehow do. Haunting vocals clash just enough as the elements framing them build up to a crescendo that rewards the listener with just enough familiarity. In the accompanying visual, images of dancers cut out from organic textures move to the music in stop-motion animation.

“The Darkness That You Fear” follows No Geography, the ninth studio-length album by The Chemical Brothers (real names Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons). It released in April 2019, nearly three years after the duo’s previous studio-length album, Born in the Echoes.

“‘The Darkness That You Fear’ is a hopeful piece of music,” said Rowlands in a statement. “When we found the combination of the different voices worked set to the flow of the music, it made us feel optimistic—like it was something we wanted to share.”

Stream or purchase “The Darkness That You Fear” across platforms here.