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News: Electro techno maestros The Orb announce their 18th Album ‘Prism’ and spark things off with the pulsating single ‘Living in Recycled Times’ featuring Rachel D’Arcy.

The legendary The Orb have announced their return to the fray with the news of an new album ‘Prism’ – their 18th – and a single, ‘Living In Recycled Times’,…

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Album review: Sedibus – ‘The Heavens’: The Orb’s good Doctor administers a heady and blissful ambient potion

HE MAY have entered his sixth decade on this particular rock spinning in space – and don’t even get me started on the passage of time, I mean how can…

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News: The Orb’s Alex Paterson announces autobiography and new label; hear Sedibus’ ‘TOI 1338b’

DEEP space ambient techno overlord Alex Paterson, the good doctor of The Orb himself, has just announced a whole cluster of projects to take us into 2021. Fellow astral travellers:…

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NEWS: The Orb announce live stream date and remixes album – hear David Harrow’s rerub of ‘Haze’

SEMINAL techno groovesters and occasional pranksters of legend The Orb have a brace of excellently exciting news announcements for all you space cadets out there. Firstly, they’re gonna play their…

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Album Review: The Orb – Abolition of the Royal Familia

When George Harrison wrote ‘It’s All Too Much’ after encounters with LSD, he was voicing that feeling of overwhelming-ness the drug induced in him. That same feeling would later be…

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News: The Orb release COW / Chill Out, World!

The Orb (Alex Paterson & Thomas Fehlmann) are back, hot on the heels of their last release Moonbuilding 2703 AD, a project which took six years due to the circumstances…

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Album Review: The Orb – Moonbuilding 2703 AD

The Orb have landed on planet kompakt once more to deliver their latest outerstellar offering entitled ‘Moonbuilding 2703’. If your an Orbian (I just made that up, but Orbian sounds…

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Album Review – The Orb (feat. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry) – More Tales from the Orbservatory

The Orb are very reminiscent of a time in my life when, it is fair to say, I did a lot of chillin’. I was a research student but, unlike…

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