The Orb, innovators of ambient house and one of Britain’s all-time
most celebrated electronic acts, have teamed up with the inimitable Lee
‘Scratch’ Perry, one of Jamaica’s greatest ever musicians, for a new
album, The Orbserver in the Star House. As The Orb’s Alex Paterson put it, in an interview
earlier this year, “we wanted to do a souly type, modern, minimal album
with some reggae influences with [Perry's] vocals on top. I think its
one of the best bits of work we’ve ever done.”
To toast the album’s forthcoming release, The Orb and Perry have also
teamed up for a FACT mix. God knows how you’re supposed to start
tracklisting, or even describing it; FACT mix 341 is like a slow-motion
kayak ride through a pipe of slurry, thick, overwhelmingly delayed
basslines obscuring wonky melodies – some recognisable (‘What A
Wonderful World’, ‘Zombie’), others from another planet entirely. Plus,
of course, you get Perry toasting on top, though around half-way through
he gets bored and toddles off for a while. Would you want it any other
way? We certainly wouldn’t.
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