Tony Stuart wrote:
but what's known about its origin, though? saying its part of an mp3 project makes it sound like a fan remix, but this sounds like a genuine demo to me
A few years ago, someone who used to be associated with The Orb (exactly who was never made public) offered a bulk lot of DATs for sale, which included a number of demos, remixes, alternate/extended mixes, and live sets; most of which was not currently available. An Orb fan (also not publicly known, but I have my suspicions) bought them (for maybe $400-$500, IIRC), and graciously released them in bulk 256 kbps mp3 form to the Orb list. The mp3s filled 6 CD-Rs, and were distributed through a tree. Now, they are available from a number of ftp sites, and probably on your favorite file-sharing service. Unfortunately, all of the DATs were mp3ed as one long track per DAT, so it took me quite some time to develop tracklistings, decide on good track-breaks, clean up the tapeflips etc., and burn them to audio CDs. Some really nice stuff in there, most of it in pretty good quality (including the sources for a number of the tracks that ended up on Live 93). You also get three mixes that show the evolution of the track Codpiece/Cocksville USA/Occidental (all longer than their released forms), and a ton of other neat stuff. Chris np: Opium Jukebox - Never Mind the Bhangra