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Way back, in the U.F. Orb days, Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) was supposed to sing on an Orb track.  That track was intended to be Assassin.  For some reason, however, that idea never became a reality. Apparently, The Orb and Bobby Gillespie ended up doing a track together…just not Assassin.

I give you “Sucker” by Maximum Bob.

Sucker is a track sung by Bobby Gillespie, produced and engineered by The Orb, and was only issued as a very limited edition white label but never was released by a major record company.  Frankly, I can understand why…

The track is…less than average.

Maybe it was only intended to be a demo that would be polished up, or just the guys messing about one day, but it’s really nothing impressive. I think this will only be on interest for a collector – someone who simply wants to have everything – but I will let you judge for yourself.

Give it a download here.

Time for some DJ sessions:

Paul Oakenfold – C9 5th Year Anniversary

Blank & Jones (The Mix, Week 22)

Paul Van Dyk - Vonyc Sessions 143

Armin Van Buuren - A State Of Trance 405 

Ferry Corsten - Corsten’s Countdown 099

Matt Darey - Nocturnal 198  (this is a great session! Nice work Matt)

Enjoy the sessions!

Time for some live DJ Mix Sessions.  As always, I’m sure you won’t be dissapointed… and if anyone is wondering, the Andrew Weatherall session is not trance.

Matt Darey - Nocturnal 51 

Andrew Weatherall - 6Mix

Paul Van Dyk - Voync Sessions 141

John Digweed - Transitions (05/08)

Blank & Jones - 5/5/09

I ran into a friend of mine today (yo, Rick) and we were talking about the latest DJ mix session.  There are a number of new ones out there, so I thought it was time to post for all to enjoy.

Tiesto - Club Life 108

Ferry Corsten - Countdown 095

Armin Van Buuren - State of Trance 401

Paul Van Dyk - Vonyc Sessions 139

Blank & Jones - The Mix Week 18

Enjoy!

It has been some time since I’ve posted DJ sessions, and right now I’m really in the mood for some trance.  So, who better than the best DJs out there to fill my desire.  

• Paul Van Dyk - Vonyc Sessions 136
• John Digweed - Transitions Bedrock Spring Collection
• Armin Van Buuren - A State Of Trance 298
• Sasha - Live @ Southfest Buenos Aires Argentina
• Ferry Corsten - Countdown 093
• Tiesto - Club Life

I hope you enjoy as well!

It doesn’t get any better than this, folks - a huge set of live Orb shows.  I am unsure of sources, and the sound quality varies from set to set.  Any Orb completest would be happy to have these.

The Orb Live at Sound City, Bristol, 1995

1. Happy Happy Joy Joy
2. Oobe
3. Occidental
4. Hidden (FFWD)
5. Reporter

Download

The Orb Live in Detroit 1995

1. Happy Happy Joy Joy
2. Oobe
3. Occidental
4. Towers Of Dub
5. Valley
6. Montagne Dor
7. Blue Room
8. An Huge Ever Growing…
9. Oxbow Lakes

Download

The Orb Live Glasgo Barrowlands 1997

1. Towers of Dub
2. We’re Getting Hot
3. Beer, Beer, Beer
4. Terminus
5. Asylum
6. S.A.L.T
7. Toxygene
8. Delta MK2
9. Majestic

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The Orb Live at Organicfest 1996

1. Delta MKII
2. Happy Happy Joy Joy
3. Blue Room
4. Oobe
5. Chill Out
6. Passing of Time
7. Spanish Castle
8. Unknown (?)
9. Towers of Dub
10. Unknown (?)
11. Hempire (FFWD)
12. Unknown (?)
13. K-Rock Reporter

Download

I found this over at The Chill Out…  An Orb mix session from Radio 1.  

The highlight of this session is The Orb’s unreleased remix of “Numb” by U2.  I’ve never been able to find a copy (be it an original Acetate or digital) until now.  

Here is the track breakdown:

1. The Orb - E.D.M. (Orb Remix) (Island)
2. Creature - Cuba (What For)
3. Brian Eno - The Dove (EG)
4. Ash Tracey - I’m Ready (White Label/CDr)
5. FFWD - Drone (Inter-Modo)
6. Schem - The Lost Woods of Timber (Bad Orb)
7. Sun Electric - Shuffle (Bad Orb)
8. John Carpenter - Dark Star (Citadel)
9. World Standard - Country Gazette (Daisy World Discs)
10. S.E. Berlin - Barbie Girl (Bad Orb)
11. U2 - Numb (Deaf And Numb Orb Remix) (Acetate)
12. The Orb - S.A.L.T (Oblivion)
13. John Carpenter - Mr. Sandman (Varese Sarabande) 

The mix session is uninspiring, and I swear there are a few things missing in the play list above, but any Orb collector would be happy to have Numb in their collection.  

You can download everything here.

Also - you happen to have a high quality and complete version of the U2/Numb remix please contact me.

Back in 2003 it came out that there was going to be a limited edition remix for The Orb’s classic “Blue Room.” One thing leads to another, the press (and fans) seem to forget the remix and it gets stuck on a compilation album… As a result, time passes and the remix is forgotten by history. 

Early this morning I received an email with a link to the remix in question.  It turns out that a limited release white label promo 12” was also distributed to DJs in hopes of gaining attention for the compilation release. After listening to the remix I can understand why the track was lost in the mp3 files of music history.

It appears the remix producers, Chris Coco and Rob Da Bank, simply took parts of the original mix and decided to overlay a new percussion and a few extra lead synth sounds.  I find the remix to be very unimpressive.  If I wanted the original version I would just pull out the original release.

So, for individuals who must have every remix of the Orb (such as myself) I give you the promo only remix of The Orb’s Blue Room (CocoDaBank Remix).

UPDATE: 02/26/09

This was originally posted at Chemical Beat and has a password of chemicalbeats.blogspot.com - thanks to Lazy@TheChillOut for passing this information along.

Welcome to day 9 of “31 days of Music”, and today we have a great one!  We have The Orb’s Resident Advisor Podcast.

You can download it here!  Enjoy!

Day 8 of 31 Days of Music, I hope it brings you some joy today…

Ferry Corsten - Corsten’s Countdown 080

Armin van Buuren - A State of Trance Episode 386

Matt Darey Live on SenseFM

Talla 2XLC Mix Session

Sven Väth live @ The Orbit