Exclusive Premiere – The Orb feat. Lee Scratch Perry – Ball of Fire (Deadbeat NYAH Version)

It appears last year’s stellar collaboration between the Playground Festival headliners The Orb and long-time inspiration Lee Scratch Perry unsurprisingly produced more music than one album could handle, so Scratch, Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann are returning in fine style with ‘More Tales From The Orbservatory’.

The Orb have long been known for their assimilation of deepest dub into their stratospheric sonic innovations, while Thomas has been at the forefront of Germany’s electronic music scene since his avant foraging with Palais Schaumburg in the early 1980s, becoming part of Berlin’s seminal techno underground, working with Sun Electric and many of the city’s major artists and operations, including the Kompakt label.

Thomas’ electronic knowledge and intuition had two disparate lightning rods to bounce between, recalling, “I met Lee for the first time during this session and it was pretty touching to see how an unexpected connection and inspirational exchange could so awaken our creative juices. Alex and I had never made so much new music on the spot before. It was soon pretty clear that we wouldn’t get far with the four backing tracks we pre-produced for the session. Lee was so overwhelmingly creative that it took an afternoon for those to be finished. From then on we were forced to come up with new beats on the spot, to keep Lee in the flow.”

So with plenty more material to come unwind to this down-tempo minimal rework from The Orb and Lee via this deadbeat incarnation.  Chilled vibes!

 ‘More Tales From The Orbservatory’ is out June 3rd via Cooking Vinyl