The Orb - Orboretum: The Orb Collection [2CD]

Cooking Vinyl Limited

£21.58

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: COOKCD820
Barcode: 711297532029
Release Date: 25 Oct 2024
Genre: Electronic

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

Tracklisting
Disc: 1
1. A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Orbital Dance Mix)
2. Little Fluffy Clouds (Ambient Mix 1)
3. Perpetual Dawn (2024 Version)
4. Pomme Fritz (Meat 'N Veg)
5. Blue Room (Radio 7")
6. Oxbow Lakes (Sabres No. 1 Mix)
7. Toxygene
8. Asylum (7" Edit)
9. Once More (Scourge Of The Earth Long Mix)
10. Ghostdancing (Version)
11. Gee Strings
12. Aftermath (LP Version)
13. From a Distance (Blast Master v The Corpral)
14. Dilmun

Disc: 2
1. Lunik (Komplott E.P. Version)
2. Captain Korma
3. Appletree In My Back Yard (Abakus Remix)
4. DDD (Dirty Disco Dub) (Belka & Strelka Remix)
5. Metallic Spheres In Colour - Round Side (2024 Edit) [with David Gilmour]
6. Golden Clouds (feat. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry)
7. Fussball (feat. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry)
8. Pillow Fight @ Shag Mountain (Radio Edit)
9. Rush Hill Road (Radio Edit)
10. Doughnuts Forever
11. Daze (Missing & Messed Up Mix)
12. Hawk Kings (Oseberg Buddhas Buttonhole)
13. AAA (Violeta Vicci Remix (Hung, Drawn & Quartered))
14. H.O.M.E. (High Orbs Mini Earth)