The Orb have been long been acknowledged as prime instigators in 1988’s acid house revolution who invented and “ambient house and ” and took it to the top of the album charts, always pushing the outer limits of electronic innovation and sonic pioneering in a parallel and “Ultraworld and ” of their own making. Always steering The Orb’s anarchic starship with an ever-changing crew of collaborators (which has included Youth, Andrew Weatherall, Jah Wobble, Steve Hillage, Dave Gilmour, and Lee Perry), 2019 saw Alex celebrating over thirty years of visionary mischief-making on a sell-out UK tour attracting younger generations along with seasoned fellow travellers. Yet, as The Orb enters its fifth decade with seventeenth album The Abolition Of The Royal Familia greeted as a late-period masterpiece, Alex’s spaced odyssey has not been an easy ride, battered by betrayal and rip-offs punctuating triumphs. Behind the surreal samples, inter-galactic sounds, billowing hash-smoke, and decidedly British humour lies an astonishing life story that’s far from ordinary and resounds with the depth of the true survivor following their musical passions.

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