Orb
 

stolen from Pitchfork Media:
When Dr. Alex Patterson hung up his ass-crack roadie jeans and Killing Joke tech gig to devote himself fully to DJing and creating mixes of mid-tempo, sample-heavy sweetness, he not only managed to find immediate commercial success, but also invented ambient house music. Whether to thank him or curse him is your call.

It's been 15 years since the Orb embarked on its first raid into the rambling, progressive ambient field with its debut masterwork The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, and while subsequent albums haven't lit up the charts like their introductory message, the Orb has remained a venerable force on record and in performance, and Patterson is an in-demand remixer. October seems to be Orb Month, as the group will release not one, but two albums.

Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt will be released October 31, and is a collection of new material recorded for German minimal house/techno addicts Kompakt. Okie dokie, here's the tracklist:

01 Komplication
02 Lunik
03 Ripples
04 Captain Korma
05 Can Can
06 Lolo
07 Beautitude
08 Cool Harbour
09 Traumvogel
10 Before/Because
11 Tin Can
12 Kompania
13 Falkenbruck
14 Snow Bow
15 Lunik (Remix)

Sooner still, Malicious Damage will release an extravagantly packaged rarities collection taken from Patterson's celestial archives. It's called Orbsessions (you knew that was coming sooner or later) and will come out on October 10. The tracks are taken from years of tripping and tweaking with the cream of the electronic world, including Patterson's past partners in crime Jimmy Cauty (KLF), Thrash, Andy Hughes, and most recent chief collaborator Thomas Fehlmann. Orblist:

01 Mummie Don't
02 Sail
03 Yungle
04 Chromatik (Orbzone)
05 Eurofen
06 Sun Of
07 73.5 (featuring Nitram)
08 Steel Horse
09 Something Like
10 Pluto Calling (Twinkle)

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yea, orbsessions is definately rockin my stereo the most out of the two.

okie dokie sounds like a fehlmann solo album. but shittier.

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Fehlmann rocks.

Do you like techno? Do you like Kompakt, in general?

Would you like some sweets willy? What would you like then?

LSD

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i am also disapointed with okie dokie, i haven't heard the other one yet

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Hmm... Orb outtakes and rarities? Could be a mess or could be magical.

i own most of the Orb albums, and generally enjoy them, but i often feel like "what else can they do that they haven't done before?" The albums are all good listens, but the novelty of "ambient house" (or whatever you wanna call it) wore off, i feel. "Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld" was amazing, because it was so unique. "UFOrb", also a treat, but a bit like been-there-done-that. And successive discs, the same effect.

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out of slight interest:

orbert (featuring robert fripp) was going to be on the track listings but thrash said no, so it's not there. he objected to anything of his being released.

also, mummy don't and pluto calling are from the lxp/immy cauty days. pluto calling was going to be on the first orb lp, entitled "space", but they split up, and cauty released "space" sans-lxp samples.

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" ft myers, fl / bristol, uk"

fuck me! he's omnipresent!

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actually, i'm in nottingham at the moment.

:D

i shit you not.

but yea, i registered this account in ft myers, i live in bristol, and i'm at uni in notts.....