The Orb - Orboretum: The Orb Collection - New 2CD

Format: New 2CD Label: Cooking Vinyl Cat. No. COOKCD820 Barcode: 711297532029

Released: 08/11/2024

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.

“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