Andy Hughes passed away on June 12th

Very sad news today:

"Electronic music engineer/producer genius Andy Hughes of The Orb sadly passes away on friday 12th June 2009"

More info here.

DDD (Dirty Disco Dub) Remixes - new Orb single

Tracklisting:

1. DDD (dirty disco dub) 5:02
2. DDD (dirty disco dub) (radio edit) 3:31
3. DDD (dirty disco dub) (belka and strelka remix) 5:03
4. DDD (dirty disco dub) (thomas fehlmann remix) 9:39
5. DDD (dirty disco dub) (codemonkey remix) 8:55

Released by Six Degress as a digital single only. You can get it here.

Both tracks 4 & 5 were previously available on 'Full Orbient' podcast, but Fehlmann remix was named 'flowing disco remix' and Codemonkey was named 'tripswitch remix'.

US tour delayed

The Corpral spoke:

"dear friend sorry but due to unfortunate circumstances beyond the control of The Orb (more on this later) the north American tour delayed!?"

Thanks to Guiesepe Eisonhawk for info.

Edit: more info here.