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From The Orb's webpage:

"fresh back from the land of the gods work on new material gathers momentum......new orb tracks out soon on kompakt and the album nears completion.....transit kings ep will be out may/june on malicious damage with the album early next year.....and the sun shines briefly on battersea....."

At last, some news! :lol:
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An update! :D

The Malicious Damage sampler album, "The Clock Machine Turns You On", has got a release date of 2nd May, according to Amazon UK:

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1. Blown - Nanosecond
2. Persuader - More Moments Of You
3. Faces Of Sarah - Keep Breathing
4. Fake Ideal - Every Word Is Yours
5. Headcount - Smoking Gun
6. Antennae - Rimshack
7. Shriekback - The Strongest Wind That Blows
8. Carcassette - After Hours
9. Necessary Inergal Actic Cooperation - Asamblea De Robots
10. Mass Spectrometer - Lab Coat Dude
11. 30,000 Days - Watchful Eye
12. Shadow Kabinet - Full Moon Song
13. Bob Meyer - Mary Lou
14. Transit Kings - Oh Shit
15. The Orb V Meat Beat Manifesto - Matron
16. Teledubgnosis - Crashed X
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About fekkin time we saw some new material - better not be a long wait.....
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The Orb V Meat Beat Manifesto

sounds good :)
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Kyblik wrote:The Orb V Meat Beat Manifesto

sounds good :)
It's not :(
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Komfort 12" should be out via Kompakt on 6th June (according to the Kompakt release schedule)... :lol:

Proposed catalogue number is KOMPAKT 121
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"The Clock Machine Turns You On" is out (got my copy from Amazon yesterday), and features the tracks:

Transit Kings - Oh Shit (4:19)
The Orb vs Meat Beat Manifesto - Matron (7:19)

Tracklisting for the new Transit Kings (Token EP) is as follows:

Transit Kings - Token EP (Malicious Damage CD; MD602)

1. Oh Shit
2. America Is Unavailable
3. Japanese Cars
4. West End of a Duck Going East
5. Magic (features Juliet Russell on vocals)

Transit Kings is a collaboration between Jimmy Cauty, Alex Paterson, Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd/Bryan Ferry bassist, and lyricist for "Fat Les"), and Dom Beken of 'AND'

Also, they are due to play the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, as well as some UK/European Festivals (tbc)... (Please be the Big Chill!) :D
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The long awaited MadOrb project seems to be coming into fruicion- Mad Professor and the Orb play together, live at this summer's Beautiful Days festival - UK. Wish I was there, but instead am hosting a stage at this year's Masterpeace Festival- http://www.themasterpeace.com on the same weekend.
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Blimey, that's a damn fine line-up!

MadOrb, Dreadzone, Eat Static, Hybrid, Michael Franti & Spearhead!

Might just pop over there for the Sunday for MadOrb., though... :)

Hmmmm! :D
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Transit Kings "Token EP" - out June 20th

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The Orb - Komfort EP (12") - out June 6th via Kompakt

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It's going to be a good month for music! :D
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Some more stuff on the Transit Kings:

this is very travelling stuff and a great honour that malicious damage has been chosen to haul the first few carriages for transit kings...
they may well change lanes at a later junction but for now it's life on the hard shoulder with the malicious crew...

so what's it all about?

it's simple really

it's a meeting of the grandmasters

it was always going to work

combine jimmy cauty's lifetime of pioneering, the ear scratching sonics of alex paterson, the unrivalled pedigree of guy pratt and musical glue courtesy of dom beken and what do you get?

transit kings

between them, they share a desire to give one in the eye to anyone who thought they knew what was coming next and the token ep is their beautifully crafted, speaker-punishing debut transit kings claim to have split up twice and reformed 4 times already... you do the maths, it may well be fabrication, but the truth is we're talking about the combined creative output of some of electronic music's most esteemed and revered pioneers, joined by guests including the legendary johnny marr and simon day...

on token we have 5 spiky, taken-to-the-limits mini masterpieces as an introduction to transit kings and a taster of things to come on the album - now close to completion...

and as the sun sets over the former projection room of ealing studios, tk continue their war on mediocrity and the unnecessary use of the words "war on...", smashing boundaries, igniting imaginations

"america is currently not available in its original form... oh shit... meantime, watch those girlz go like a duck" - transit kings, 2005

token ep
MD602 £10+p&p
oh shit/america is unavailable/japanese cars/
west end of a duck going east/magic
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to celebrate the arrival of transit kings
we're awarding a gold medal to the first 500
passengers who buy token ep from the malicious damage site

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token ep is not released until 20.06.05
but you can order it now
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shadyboy wrote:
Kyblik wrote:The Orb V Meat Beat Manifesto

sounds good :)
It's not :(
Yes it is! :P
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From the Malicious Damage website:

coming soon
orbsessions - a unique collections of unreleased rarities from the spherical archives


Nice! 8)
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Nick's Orbsession thread ;)
Mashed Potatoes? Why do hate mashed potatoes? (It's a hoax, I don't really hate them)
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trompurple wrote:Nick's Orbsession thread ;)
Yup, it used to be Bjorn's orbsession as well, until he went AWOL from the internet (or rather, got a life)! :P
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