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William Orbit News

Dizzee Rascal, Robbie Williams for William Orbit compilation

3-CD set 'Odyssey' to be released next month

  • Aug 13, 2009

Madonna producer William Orbit returns with new album

Orbit's eighth album is out this May

  • Feb 12, 2009

ORBIT TO BE JEN'S 'JOURNEY'-MAN

[a]Madonna[/a] and [a]Blur[/a]'s knob-twiddler gets to work on making sweet music with the Latin beauty...

  • Sep 7, 2000

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William Orbit 'Barber's adagio for strings'

William Orbit 'Barber's adagio for strings' (03:39)

Montage of nature pix to the song 'Barbers Adagio For Strings' by William Orbit

William Orbit - Sea Green

William Orbit - Sea Green (06:26)

Homemade video for William Orbit's "Sea Green," off his album Hello Waveforms.

William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf

William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf (07:05)

Orbit is best known to most people as a producer and remixer who has worked with such artists as U2, Madonna, Blur, Sugababes, etc. However, he is also a recording artist/multi-instrumentalist himself, having released...

William Orbit - Barbers Adagio For Strings

William Orbit - Barbers Adagio For Strings (06:36)

William Orbit - Barbers Adagio For Strings music

Finley Quaye & William Orbit Dice

Finley Quaye & William Orbit Dice (08:28)

Layo & Bushwacka Missing You Mix Feat. Beth Orton

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William Orbit Reviews

Pieces In A Modern Style

Pieces In A Modern Style

Sounds truly appalling, doesn't it? Whenever people from rock or dance music start dabbling in the murky netherworld of classical music, that's when any right-minded modern music fan reaches for their

  • Jan 12, 2000

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William Orbit Biography

William Orbit (born William Mark Wainwright, 15 December 1956, Shoreditch, Hackney) is an English musician, composer and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album Ray of Light, which received four Grammy Awards, sold 4 million copies in the U.S., and sold 16 million copies worldwide. He has also co-produced several unreleased Madonna songs originally recorded for other albums that were never used. In addition, he produced 13 by Blur, and remixed some of the songs on the album. He has three Grammy Awards.

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William Orbit's Best Songs

  • 1. Barber's Adagio for Strings
  • 2. Adagio for Strings
  • 3. The Story of Light
  • 4. Water From a Vine Leaf
  • 5. Sea Green
  • 6. You Know Too Much About Flying Saucers
  • 7. Spiral
  • 8. They Live in the Sky
  • 9. Bubble Universe
  • 10. Humming Chorus
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William Orbit Discography

William Orbit albums.

  • My Oracle Lives Uptown - 15/06/2009 (Guerilla/GB)
  • Hello Waveforms - 20/02/2006 (Sanctuary Records/GB)
  • Pieces in a Modern Style - 29/05/1995 (N-GRAM Recordings/GB)
  • Strange Cargo III - 12/1993 (Virgin/US)
  • Strange Cargo 2 - 16/02/1991 (I.R.S. Records/US)
  • Orbit - (I.R.S. Records/US)

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