THE ORB - Orboretum: The Orb Collection - 2CD [OCT 25]

2CD - 6 panel 2CD with 24 page booklet.

A career-spanning 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.

2CD - 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. 

Tracklist: 

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)