William Orbit

I don't know, even make it a more enriched listening experience.

For a lot of these tracks, Barry Jamison of Evolution, who works very closely with Sasha, was tasked with building some of these elements from scratch so Sasha and John could have more control over them in the mix, right? How he did it, I think you'd find really, really interesting was, let's take William Orbit, for example, who just recently passed away.

Well, obviously, Barry Jameson can't go and ask William Orbit, like, hey, where are these, you know, do you still have the masters to this or do you still have the stems? Like, however, and or he doesn't have the chance to ask him, hey, what equipment did you use? to make this track so for barry it was like this musical archaeology project where he was like doing research talking to frequent collaborators and things like that to literally learn what was the most probable setup that someone like william orbit used to create this track what kind of equipment do I think he had in his studio at the time, or can I confirm he had in his studio? And then he's literally going through, you know, bringing this old equipment together, going through and intentionally, but almost mistakenly finding the elements of the tracks in the samples that are included on this analog equipment that he was bringing together to rebuild these tracks.

And I immediately thought of you because it's like an aspect of collecting that I think gets, um, that I think gets not talked about as much as you have your vinyl collections and then you'll, you know, as you kind of your specialty, the acetate collections, but in terms of the, analog the physical production equipment in some ways that is collecting as well not just to own the equipment but because of the sounds and samples included in that equipment inherently even if it's all transferred to vst all digital it's still somewhat different and that's what barry was talking about and i just thought of you because it sounded like just an insane project

No, I mean, it's funny because, like, you know, especially whenever I talk to people about my record collection, like, people, you know, they always come up, it's like, oh, okay, so you're a DJ, too.

One of them being Asbury.

Yeah, one of them being ours, yeah, Phoenix.

And then, you know, the first track they asked me to do was Water From A Vine Leaf, William Orbit.

And then Playlist, once again, only Qobuz is actually putting effort into human curated playlists of sort of thematic interest.

William Orbit very sadly passed away not that long ago.

um a bit of a loss and you can be made aware of quite how much of a loss it is because cobuzz has an entire playlist of material produced by william orbit and you know his input into all of it and it goes to an awful lot of different places and there's an awful lot of things you wouldn't necessarily have expected him to have had anything to do with So it's well worth a listen.

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Thank you.

This one, Ballad of Pearl and John by Torch Song, which is William Orbit, Dearly Departed, who we played a little sort of offertory show with a lot of his music in and then found out he actually died the next day, which is really weird.

Anyway, brilliant musician, produced loads of Madonna music, et cetera, et cetera.

Yeah, this one, Torch Song.

Thank you.

This one, Ballad of Pearl and John by Torch Song, which is William Orbit, Dearly Departed, who we played a little sort of offertory show with a lot of his music in and then found out he actually died the next day, which is really weird.

Anyway, brilliant musician, produced loads of Madonna music, et cetera, et cetera.

Yeah, this one, Torch Song.