Alex Paterson
Real Name: Duncan Alexander Robert Paterson
Profile:Born: 15 October 1959

Dr.Paterson and Prof.Fehlmann

Dr. Paterson is my all-time favorite musician and Dj. I just looked up his birthday and guess if i was up for a surprise, he is born the 15:Th. of October,that is the same month as my birthday and we only have 10 days between our birthdays. He is a autumn kid just like me.

Dr. Lx is about 10 year older than me, and what strikes me is that he’s music is so before it’s time, my belief is that most of he’s albums and remixes are yet to be discovered for a new coming generation and they will think of it as something futuristic.

A news flash i just learned that The Orb’s new Album Baghdad Batteries: Orbsessions Vol. 3 – An Illustrated Handbook With Stereo Sound Japan release is canceled or atlest postponed. I hope this status will change. As a comfort for you fans should look up iTunes Store! They will release the new album on September  7:Th, the ITS release has a bonus track named “Plastic Thrills” and there will be a digital booklet included.

You can Pre-Order Baghdad Batteries on iTunes Store

Don’t miss Dr. Paterson & Prof. Fehlmann live in London the 7:Th September, I wish i could go but i have other plans.

High Frequency Bandwidth is online!

Heavy Funk Bass, Hairy Fuzzy Balls, Hope Fun Baby, Hippy’s Full Brunch, Heavenly Fried Bananas, Hideous Face Bends, Highlands First Bank, Hydrogen Fart Bomb, Hen’s Breath Fixation, Hitchcock’s First Blunder…

Rr a technical term regarding aural expansion developments called High Frequency Bandwidth.

These initials are important. ‘All our song titles fit the letters H. F. B.,’ says Dr Alex Paterson, who has embarked on the new High Frequency Bandwidth project with Dom Beken. The two men are about to make some Huge F***ing Broohaha with their mission to inject some original hiphop innovation, sonic anarchy and earth-level raunch into the electronic foragings they’ve become known for with, for starters, The Orb.

Dom & Alex in the Studio

Dom currently runs music production company ‘and music’ with composer Ant Adams, making radio and TV commercials but also finding time for a band called Belka and Stelka, who released last year’s Tales From The Projection Room album. He started as a drummer in Liverpool after finishing his history degree there, going on to the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Dom started hanging out at the city’s Parr Street Studios, graduating from making tea to programming and engineering, working with artists including Manson, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pete Wiley and Graeme Park. Since relocating to London he has worked with names including Bowie, Lulu, Placebo’s Brian Molko, Liberty X and Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright. A long-term collaboration with Pink Floyd’s touring bassist Guy Pratt not only led to scoring TV programmes like Channel 4’s Spaced but to his old friend Dr Alex Paterson.

Alex is, of course, The Orb: for 20 years the ultimate embodiment of the acid house spirit, before and beyond, from early avant electronic and ambient to the furthest galaxies with major success. The Orb recently released acclaimed album The Dream while currently enjoying a flurry of reissues which now make all their albums up until 2001’s Cydonia available in deluxe form.

Alex loves a good satellite project: first himself, Dom and Guy formed the Transit Kings with original Orb member Jimmy Cauty, making the Living In A Giant Candle Winking At God album and touring festivals. After that, Alex and Dom’s Heavy Flapping Bollocks were inflamed with creative juices bursting to escape and, while Dom joined in Orb activities, H.F.B. started to materialise.

It cannot be overlooked that Dom’s studio, where the pair cook up their intoxicating sonic stews, is the old projection room at Ealing Studios, legendary home of classic British comedy, horror and war movies since the 1930s.

With the ghosts of Will Hay and Charles Hawtrey stalking the corridors, some spirit of mischief can’t fail to seep into the air, mixing with Dom’s live playing and production flights steered by the Head, Feet and Bonkers noise ratios of the good Doctor.

‘Horrific Bush Fire’ charts an a slow-boat to exotic hiphop climes complete with mutated guitar and wailing gospel vocal while ‘High Five Brother’ marks Alex singing, a throaty soul counterpart to the flying female vocals. ‘Hip Hop Blue Film’ takes a denser route through the sonic undergrowth.

The Orb

The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre known as ambient house, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for early-morning ravers once the clubs closed their doors. The group popularized the genre as well, by appearing on the British chart show Top of the Pops and hitting number one in the U.K. with the 1992 album U.F.Orb. Frontman Dr. Alex Paterson’s formula was quite simple: he slowed down the rhythms of classic Chicago house and added synthwork and effects inspired by ’70s ambient pioneers Brian Eno and Tangerine Dream. To make the whole a bit more listenable — as opposed to danceable — obscure vocal samples were looped, usually providing a theme for tracks which lacked singing.

Paterson had worked as a roadie for Killing Joke during the ’80s, and began to be influenced by the explosion of Chicago house music in England during the mid- to late ’80s. He joined the A&R department of EG Records — the home of Brian Eno himself — and first recorded as the Orb with Jimi Cauty (who had played in the Killing Joke side project Brilliant and later gained fame as one half of the KLF). The duo’s first release as the Orb, a failed acid house anthem named “Tripping on Sunshine,” appeared on the 1988 compilation album Eternity Project One. In May 1989, the Orb released the Kiss EP, a four-tracker dedicated to — and heavily sampled from — New York’s KISS-FM. Paterson had begun to DJ in London around this time, and Paul Oakenfold recruited him to man Land of Oz, the chill-out room at his club Heaven.

Paterson’s ambient sets incorporated a wide array of samples and sound effects, ranging from BBC nature recordings to NASA space broadcasts and special effects. With those samples mixed underneath the music of ambient pioneers such as Eno and Steve Hillage, his sets became popular alternatives for dancefloor victims and worn-out club kids. Hillage happened to be in the room one night when Paterson sampled his Rainbow Dome Musick album. The two became friends and later recorded together, Hillage contributing guitar to the Orb’s “Blue Room” single and Paterson working on the debut album by Hillage’s System 7 project (or 777, as it is known in the States due to copyright problems with Macintosh).

The Orb’s first actual foray into ambient house appeared in October 1989 on Paterson’s WAU!/Mr. Modo label. The 22-minute single “A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld,” which sampled ocean noises and Minnie Riperton’s “Loving You,” actually hit the U.K. charts that year. The single became popular with indie kids as well as club DJs, and earned Paterson and Cauty the chance to re-record the song in December 1989 for a John Peel session. (That version was released two years later, alongside their second session, on the Orb’s Peel Sessions album.)

In early 1990, Dave Stewart asked Paterson and Cauty to remix his single “Lilly Was Here”; the track hit the U.K.’s Top 20, and the Orb’s remix work soon became just as popular as their original material. Erasure, Depeche Mode, Yello, Primal Scream, and more than 20 other bands eventually received the remix treatment before Paterson began to cut back his remixing work in 1992. (One of the only outside remixes of Orb material occurred around this time when breakbeat pioneers Coldcut remixed the Kiss EP for a U.S.-only single.)

Alex Paterson and Jimi Cauty had been recording an album during the turn of 1989-1990, but the two split in April 1990 — a result of Paterson’s fear that the Orb had become known more as a KLF side project than an original act. Cauty stripped Paterson’s contribution to the recordings and released the eponymous album — credited simply as Space — later that year. (Cauty released another ambient album that year: Chill Out, this time with his KLF partner Bill Drummond.)

In the meantime, Alex Paterson had been working with Youth (from Killing Joke) on the new track “Little Fluffy Clouds,” with a melody incorporated from composer Steve Reich. The single appeared in November 1990, sparking the wrath of the sampled Rickie Lee Jones, whose dialogue with Levar Burton — from the PBS-TV children’s program Reading Rainbow — was sampled for the chorus and title of the track; Big Life later settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. Though the single failed to place in the charts, its laid-back vibe made it a big hit on the dancefloor.

Youth’s other commitments made it impossible for him to become a permanent member of the Orb, so Paterson decided to recruit Kris Weston (nicknamed Thrash for his punk/metal roots), a young studio engineer who worked on “Little Fluffy Clouds” and had recently left his previous band, Fortran 5. The Orb performed live for the first time just after the pairing, early in 1991 at London’s Town & Country 2 with Steve Hillage on guitar. The group’s live dates soon became their forte, breaking down the boundaries which had previously separated electronic music from rock. An Orb show encompassed the best elements of performance hall and club, with colorful light shows and visuals, and a relaxed, positive groove rarely found in electronic circles.

All this was fine and good, but the Orb had not yet released an album, the vehicle which virtually all modern musicians use to make artistic statements. Finally, in April 1991, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld was released in England to considerable critical acclaim. Its popularity extended to the general public as well, pushing the double-album into Great Britain’s Top 30 LP charts.

By mid-1991, the Orb had signed a deal to release Ultraworld in the States, but were forced to edit the album down to one disc. (The full double-disc version was later released in the U.S. by Island.) Paterson and Thrash toured Europe during 1991, and compiled the Orb’s first two Peel Sessions in November 1991. One month later, the duo released The Aubrey Mixes as a Christmas special. The album, a remix compilation with reworkings by Steve Hillage, Youth, and Jimi Cauty, was deleted on the day of its release, but still managed to place in the U.K. Top 50.

In June 1992, the new single “Blue Room” hit the British Top Ten. The longest single in chart history at just under 40 minutes, it earned the Orb a spot on Top of the Pops, where they ruminated over a chess game and waved at the camera while a three-minute edit of the single played in the background. Released in July, the album U.F.Orb concentrated not on space, but the beings that inhabit it. (The actual “Blue Room” is an installation where the U.S. government allegedly keeps the relics of a 1947 saucer crash outside Roswell, NM.) It hit number one on the British album charts, and also did well with critics, who praised it and the duo’s sold-out tour of England.

The non-album single “Assassin” — originally slated to feature vocals from Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie — followed in October, and it reached number 12 on the British charts. The U.S. release of U.F.Orb appeared two months later, with initial copies including a second disc with the full version of “Blue Room” plus mixes of “Assassin.” A limited LP release of U.F.Orb in England included a live recording of the Orb’s appearance at London’s Brixton Academy in 1991. (The date was later released on video with an added CD soundtrack as Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures.)

Though the Orb had released several hours of recordings and many remixes during its first three years of existence, the beginning of 1993 prompted a dry spell of over a year and a half. The problem wasn’t a lack of material; Paterson and Thrash continued to record, but Big Life Records had begun a controversial campaign to reissue several early singles. The Orb threatened to release no new material until the label promised to cease and desist, and negotiations stalled while the duo looked to opt out of their contract. In the meantime, Big Life spent 1993-1994 reissuing five CD singles and two other 12″ releases, including “Little Fluffy Clouds” (which hit the British Top Ten), “Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain,” and “Perpetual Dawn” (the second single from Ultraworld).

Paterson finally signed an international deal with Island in 1993 and released the stopgap Live 93 later that year. The double-disc set — which hit number 23 in the album charts — included highlights from Orb appearances in Europe and Japan, and featured another clever dig at Pink Floyd: the cover has a large stuffed sheep suspended over a power station, à la Floyd’s Animals cover.

The Orb’s first studio release for Island appeared in June 1994. Pomme Fritz (a “little album”) was quite a departure from ambient house, the field that had since caught up with Paterson’s revolution of the late ’80s. The album has a schizophrenic quality that portrays the group caught between two worlds: the pastoral ambience of the first two albums, and the harsher, almost industrial, rhythms which the Orb were pushing forward. Pomme Fritz made number six on the British charts, but critics hated it, charging that Paterson had finally disappeared up his own arse. They even compared him to Pink Floyd’s own Syd Barrett, who masterminded the psychedelic classic Piper at the Gates of Dawn, but later slipped out of the band as the world’s first — and most popular — acid casualty.

Pomme Fritz was also a watershed in that the role of Kris Weston had diminished highly. Credited on Pomme Fritz only as an engineer, Weston did appear with Paterson on the August 1994 side project FFWD, the collaboration between Robert Fripp, Orb members Paterson and Weston, and Orb contributor Thomas Fehlmann (hence the name: Fripp, Fehlmann, Weston, and Doctor). By early 1995, Weston finally left the Orb to devote time to his own projects. Before the duo separated, however, they teamed for the Orb’s most famous live appearance: on a rave bill at Woodstock 2 with Orbital, Aphex Twin, and Deee-Lite.

Taking up the slack from Weston’s departure was Thomas Fehlmann. The Orb had previously remixed a single from his Sun Electric project, and most of Pomme Fritz was recorded at his Berlin studios. Finally, almost three years after U.F.Orb, the new and improved group released the Orb’s third studio LP, Orbus Terrarum. With a concept and a sound rooted firmly on terra firma, the album’s dense rhythms and return to natural samples heralded a turn away from the cosmic fascination within ambient house — which had been nurtured in large part by Ultraworld and U.F.Orb. During 1995, Paterson and Fehlmann mounted an ambitious world tour. After the release of a double-disc remix compilation, the Orb returned to the great beyond with the spacy sounds of 1997′s Orblivion. The retrospective U.F.Off followed in 1998, and though Paterson and co. finished their fifth studio effort Cydonia soon after, Island delayed its release until the new millennium. A shift in labels was in order so 2004′s Bicycles & Tricycles found the Orb on Sanctuary. Working their next label change into the album title, Okie Dokie It’s the Orb on Kompakt appeared at the end of 2005, as did the rarities compilation Orb Sessions, Vol. 1, which was released by the Killing Joke associated label Malicious Damage.

Alex Paterson and Dom Beken been working together on The Clock Machine Turns You On: Volume 2 a great compilation from Malicious Damage their new project is called High Frequency Bandwidth (HFB).

The first first release appears on Loverush UK! Compilation. Track 6. Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (HFB Rmx) (4:10)

I love this remix it’s awesome! It starts with a sample were Nelson Mandela is saying – I am Nelson Mandela, and also a funny laughter that I think belong to Chevy Chase my favorite comedian. This is promising and I really look forward to what will come next from these two blokes.

Dom Beken’s been engineering on several Transit King Albums and done some DJ mixing on I’ll Be Black Compilation Among other albums. I’m looking forward to listening to new “Orb” and (HFB) stuff from these two guys.

Artist: Loverush UK! Ft Molly Bancroft / Avatar One ft Alexandra Greene
Album: Fountains Of Youth / Open Up
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/1650903
Label: Loverush Digital
Catalog#: none
Released: 2008
Style: Progressive House

Tracklist:
1 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Original Mix) (5:17)
2 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Kinky Roland Dreamscape Rmx) (7:46)
3 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Arnold T Rmx) (7:17)
4 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Damien.S Rmx) (7:06)
5 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Kawa 1/2 Flight Rmx) (7:10)
6 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (HFB Rmx) (4:10)
7 Loverush UK!  Ft Molly Bancroft – Fountains Of Youth (Avatar One Rmx) (5:36)
8 Avatar One  ft Alexandra Greene – Open Up (Original Mix) (7:09)
9 Avatar One  ft Alexandra Greene – Open Up (Damien.S Rmx) (7:15)
10 Avatar One  ft Alexandra Greene – Open Up (Tom Noize Rmx) (5:45)
11 Avatar One  ft Alexandra Greene – Open Up (Elucidate Rmx) (7:42)

NEW RELEASE: The Orb – The BBC Sessions 1991-2001. Despite me having the Strange Fruit Peel Session CD from 1991 in my Orb-Collection, this new repackaged and remastered 2CD offering has brought together a large slice of the Orb’s BBC sessions into one easy to listen package.

I might be a little cynical about The Orb these days, hey! Deluxe versions of U.f.Orb, Adventures Beyond… Cydonia and Orblivion, same music in a new plastic box, all about the money? I am a hardcore fan of Orb and i crave for some new fresh music from the Orb! Let’s turn back time some 10 years Alex and Kris with some talented producers like Youth and Lewis… Those were the times! They made music that blew you hair back! Only wishful thinking from my side.

I guess I’ll be picking up this CD eventually when it hits my face in some store, but it’s not one of those rare Orb CD that you go turning the internet upside-down to find [...]

Tracklisting:

The BBC Sessions 1989-2001 Disc 1

1. A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Loving You) [John Peel Session 3/12/1989]
2. Back Side Of The Moon [John Peel Session 3/12/1989]
3. Into The Fourth Dimension [John Peel Session 3/12/1989]
4. O.O.B.E. [John Peel Sessions 12/5/1992]
5. No Fun [John Peel Sessions 12/5/1992]
6. Once More [The Evening Session: 1/3/2001]
7. I Am The Red Worm [The Evening Session: 1/3/2001]
8. EDM [The Evening Session: 1/3/2001]

The BBC Sessions 1989-2001 Disc 2

1. Plateau [Mark Radcliffe 12/7/1995]
2. Oxbow Lakes [Mark Radcliffe 12/7/1995]
3. Towers Of Dub [Mark Radcliffe 12/7/1995]
4. Montagne D’Or (Der Gute Berg)[John Peel 14/2/1995]
5. Perpetual Dawn [Lamacq Live 12/10/1998]
6. Egnable [Lamacq Live 12/10/1998]
7. Assassin [Lamacq Live 12/10/1998]
8. Toxygene [Lamacq Live 12/10/1998]
9. Little Fluffy Clouds [Lamacq Live 12/10/1998]

Label: Universal Island Records, Format: File, MP3 320, Album Released:2008 Genre: Electronic

For those interested into the story behind the remastering, take a look at the blog below.
Mastering The Orb – Complete BBC Sessions

The Orb – Aubrey Mixes: The Ultraworld Excursions

Aubrey Mixes mixes is my favorite orb album and one of my top 10 album cover designs as well. This is a scan from my CD version of the Cumulus Nimbus press. I have worked with the colors and made it as clean and true to the original as possible.

Track listing:

01. Little Fluffy Clouds (Cumulo Nimbus Mix)
02. Back Side of the Moon (Under Water Deep Space)
03. Spanish Castles In Space (Castles In Goa Mix)
04. Outlands (Fountains Of Elisha Mix)
05. A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Loving You, Aubrey Mix Mk II)
06. Perpetual Dawn (January Mix 3)
07. Spanish Castles in Space (Extended Youth Mix)

These amazing remixes are produced and remixed by Youth, Pal Joey, Ready Made, to name a few. This album is very rare and out of print, but if you love ambient music i recommend you to try to get you hands on this masterpiece.

Aubrey Mixes: The Ultraworld Excursions is a remix album compilation by The Orb, which was deleted on the day it was released. The album consists of seven alternate mixes of their first album, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. Five of these mixes are also available on the 2006 Deluxe Edition re-release of The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld.