The Orb team up with Lee 'Scratch' Perry on new album

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  • Entitled THE ORBSERVER in the star house, the trio's first collaboration is due for release in September.
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  • The Orb have teamed up with Lee 'Scratch' Perry for an album due out in September called THE ORBSERVER in the star house. The album marks the coming together of two very different generations of dub. Perry is unarguably one of the style's chief innovators, with a famous mixing board technique that helped lay the groundwork for dub and reggae throughout the '60s and '70s. Though they arrived about three decades later, The Orb, AKA Dr Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann, are innovators in their own right as well, having brought dub into the electronic realm with now classic tracks like "Little Fluffy Clouds" and "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld." Though Paterson had DJ'd with Perry in the past, the three artists had never officially collaborated before THE ORBSERVER... sessions, which took place earlier this year in Berlin. "I met Lee for the first time during this session and it was pretty touching to see how an unexpected connection and inspirational exchange could so awaken our creative juices," says Fehlmann. "Alex and I had never made so much new music on the spot before... [Perry] was constantly active, referring to the tunes we were working on and hitting bits of wood or stone to create percussion patterns, so we ended up using field recordings of him banging on bits and pieces." The album includes two reworks of classics from both parties: "Little Fluffy Clouds" is re-imagined as "Golden Clouds," and "Police & Thieves," which Perry produced for Junior Murvin in the '60s, gets a rerub as well. The album is due for release on UK institution Cooking Vinyl. You can download the first track here in exchange for your email address. Tracklist 01. Ball of Fire 02. H.O.O. 03. Man in the Moon 04. Soulman 05. Golden Clouds 06. Hold Me Upsetter 07. Go Down Evil 08. Thirsty 09. Police & Thieves 10. Ashes 11. Congo Cooking Vinyl will release THE ORBSERVER in the star house on September 3rd, 2012.
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