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ORBORETUM: THE ORB COLLECTION (4LP COLORED VINYL BOX) - LP
UPC: 711297532012
Label: COOKING VINYL
Format: LP
Release Date: November 8, 2024
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A career-spanning, 2CD & limited-edition quadruple vinyl octagonal set including new and rare mixes, compiled by Dr. Alex Paterson ‘Orboretum: The Orb Collection’ goes way back, but also focusses on recent highlights from albums such as ‘Abolition Of The Royal Familia’ (2020) and ‘Prism’ (2023) – which were cited by the media as some of their greatest work – up there with the bonafide gold of yesteryear. The limited edition 4lp set is uniquely packaged in a beautiful octagon-shaped set, which folds out into a huge flower. Each disc will be pressed on a different colour, green, lilac, orange and blue, with sleeve notes by Kris Needs. Each side of vinyl is grouped by Alex to represent the 4 seasons, hence its botanical title. The comp’s “roots and more recent shoots” traverses their work for Universal across discs A and B, whilst discs C and D explore their music for indie labels Cooking Vinyl, Kompakt, Malicious Damage, and Liquid Sound Design. In addition, ‘Orboretum’ will also be available on a 6 panel 2CD with 24 page booklet. “I don’t want The Orb to end up milking it like Roxy Music, who were always cranking out another best-of, although we did release the ‘History Of The Future’ best-of in 2013, and its part 2 in 2015 to be fair. We have such a gigantic catalogue though, that sometimes even I need a reminder of what I’ve done, especially these days. This is a sort of director’s cut, reframing our output, making new neuro pathways, and new juxtapositions. Some of these tracks are 30 years apart, but there are clear through lines, a continuum.” Alex Paterson
TRACK LIST:
Disc 1
- A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Orbital Dance Mix)
- Little Fluffy Clouds (Ambient Mix 1)
- Perpetual Dawn (2024 Version)
- Blue Room (7" Radio Mix)
- Pomme Fritz (Meat 'N Veg)
- Asylum (7" Edit)
- Oxbow Lakes (Sabres No. 1 Mix)
- Once More (Scourge Of The Earth Long Mix)
Disc 2
- Toxygene
- Gee Strings
- Aftermath (LP Version)
- Lunik (Komplott E.P. Version)
- Dilmun
- Captain Korma
- From a Distance (Blast Master v The Corpral)
- Appletree In My Back Yard (Abakus Remix)
- Ghostdancing (Version)
Disc 3
- Vuja De (Gaudi Remix)
- DDD (Dirty Disco Dub) (Belka & Strelka Remix)
- Golden Clouds (feat. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry)
- Fussball (feat. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry)
- Metallic Spheres In Colour - Round Side (2024 Edit) [with David Gilmour]
- Alpine Morning
- Doughnuts Forever
- Rush Hill Road
Disc 4
- Pillow Fight @ Shag Mountain (Radio Edit)
- Wish I Had a Pretty Dog
- Daze In Dub (98.7 Kiss FM Mix)
- Hawk Kings (Oseberg Buddhas Buttonhole)
- Say Cheese (Siberian Tiger Cookie Mix)
- AAA (Violeta Vicci Remix Hung, Drawn & Quartered)
- Why Can You Be In Two Places At Once, When You Can’t Be Anywhere At All
- H.O.M.E. (High Orbs Mini Earth)