New Malicious Project

From Malicious Damage mailing list:

SCREEN: BRAND NEW MALICIOUS PROJECT
this is a very exciting new project from alex paterson, gaudi & chester, there'll be a new album out after the summer and some downloads available before then - if you like spaced out ambient dubness you'll love it, if you like gaudi's unique synthesis of dub and electronica you'll love it, and if you like the orb you'll love it... watch this space...

Thanks to Rachel Roth for info.

The Orb to play in Poland again

The Orb will perform on Burn Selector Festival in Kraków, Poland. It's their second visit in my country. Details here.

Some interesting info from Aaron Miles

The weird Orb/HFB track released a while ago - Liquidator Chelsea Mix (HFB vs the Orb) is ACTUALLY The Harry J. All Stars - Liquidator from the I'll Be Black compilation... Might be a little bit different but not enough to be a remix.

On the Baghdad Batteries bonus cd, the track "The Doll" is a version of Thomas Fehlmann's Barbie Girl remix of Electric Chairs BOB 6.

Another Fehlmann connection is Angel 3 Dub from Orbsessions 1 and Angel 4 Matrix from Orbsessions 2 is ACTUALLY Teufel from Fehlmann's Good Fridge (Flowing: Ninezeronineight).

Thanks to Aaron Miles for info.

Battersea Bunches Limited Edition A & B

Limited edition set of battersea bunches prints + DVD

there are 2 versions of this, SET A & SET B, each one has different prints but the DVD contents are the same on both

a short film by mike coles & alex paterson with music specially created by the orb plus accompanying exhibition by mike coles
In 1956 three young children took a trip from Battersea to Greenwich and the journey was beautifully captured on super-8 film by their aunt. In Battersea Bunches Mike Coles and Alex Paterson have revisited this journey, merging echoes of the past with fragments of the present to create an emotional and powerfully surreal memory. Ghosts of childhood in the fifties haunt the cavernous and derelict Battersea Power Station of today, fragments of lost time drift along the river Thames blending with snatched visions of the future. Set to a haunting musical soundscape written and recorded by The Orb this film suspends us in a twilit, dreamlike world of lost memories. It has its funny bits too.
Mixing stills from the film with contemporary footage Mike Coles has created a series of stunning, frozen snapshots of this haunted magical world.

CONTENTS [SET B]
6 signed & stamped prints of images from the exhibition
ON THE DVD: Battersea Bunches Film 17m 26s
Slideshow of images from the exhibition plus extra images
Dolly Unit by The Orb, promotional video 05m 04s
a poem by Lil Newell written when she filmed the original footage in 1956

PLEASE NOTE: the DVD was burnt for UK TV systems and i'm not sure whether it will work in other regions, however, it should work on most computers

Get it here: http://www.maliciousdamage.biz/shop/

Thanks to Aaron Miles for info.

Metallic Spheres Burn Interview 24-09-2010

A Burns Studio interview with LX back in September is up on youtube….

Thanks to Dave and Ros Booth for info.

Le Gran Orb Soundsystem

"tune in to www.FNOOBradio.com
next week, the 11th Lx Paterson's Chewy Chewsday session with DJ Gaudi
... & on the 18th Lx announced (on today's Chilled Chewy Choosedays session) The Orb Soundsystem will be live (sounds like a tour rehersal!)"

Thanks to Giuseppe Eisonhawk for info.

Metallic Spheres on Blu-Ray in Japan

"Metallic Spheres is shortly (29th December) to be released on Blu-Ray in Japan, featuring 2 extra tracks: The Cult Of Youth (Ambient Mix) and Hymns To The Sun...."

HMV Japan

Thanks to Nick King for info.

Interesting article about The Orb + some news about band's future

"Jimmy Cauty, the original other member who left to concentrate on the KLF, has asked to come back to the fold and we're going to re-record what should have been our first album but never got released. I'm also doing an opera - the Royal Opera House has commissioned one from The Orb for 2012. And I'm going to be working with Lee 'Scratch' Perry who, like Dave, was an original hero of mine. One by one, I'm knocking them off."

Whole article here.

Thanks to Bytesizenun for the info.

Alex Paterson Of The Orb Chooses His Favourite 13 Albums

"You can find the entire article and 13 album choices from LX Paterson on this link:

http://thequietus.com/articles/05233-bakers-dozen-alex-paterson-chooses-his-favourite-13-albums."

Info from The Orb's myspace blog

Battersea Bunches trailer

Check it out here - the trailer to Battersea Bunches - a movie by Alex Paterson and Mike Coles.