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Ambient electro legends The Orb hope to rekindle memories of unforgettable nights in Aberdeen when they headline The Lemon Tree.

The original acid-house maverick and full-time member of The Orb filled what might have been a blank schedule with a myriad of projects.

NECESSITY IS the mother of invention they say, and The Orb’s Alex Paterson has proved as inventive in reimagining his career in a time of pandemic, as he has been forward thinking in more than 30 years of music making.

London indie outfit This Is The Deep make wonderfully eccentric but catchy music. The Best is Yet to Come (Part 1) is a mini-album that plays at 45 RPM, whose eight songs mingle quirky post-punk dub-funk with something altogether poppier and frothier. They are unafraid of utilising quirky sound effects and stylings that, in others hands, might lead to a kitsch novelty factor, but in theirs the results range from outright pop to the skronk-punk-jazz abstraction of “Eyes on You” to a weird s...

Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again. Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather, Ram is a jolly thing, s...

Orb Delta Mk II 72 2008 digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this long-deleted classic from the British Ambient House outfit, originally released in 1997. Features a bonus disc containing nine rare and previously unreleased r...   more &raquoemixes compiled by main Orbman, Dr. Alex Paterson: Delta Mk II (Love Bites Mix), Bedouin (The Sheiks Film Mix), Log Of Deadwood (Implanting Machines Mix), Secrets (I Love A Woman In Uniform Mix), Passing Of Time (Ambient Mix), Molten Love...

Updated Rachel DArcy A Christmas song produced by Aylesbury Vinyl on Wednesdays stalwart Jay Burnett is being streamed in its thousands by music fans across the globe. Little Christmas, by Rachel DArcy has been described as the John Lewis Christmas song that never was and in the style of a timeless Christmas classic, embodies the feelings of 2020, this most difficult of years. In non-Covid times, producer Jay Burnett is a regular face at Temple Street Wine Bars Vinyl on Wednesdays evenings, ...