In 2011, he worked with a team of writers including Jean-Baptiste Kouame, Julie Frost and Klas Ahlund and brought their compositions and his production work to contribute to the twelfth studio album by Madonna, MDNA, released on 23 March 2012, by Interscope Records. In 2000, Orbit continued working for Madonna on her album Music, recorded at The Hit Factory in New York.Īt this time, he also co-wrote and performed with her on the song " Beautiful Stranger". The album took four months to record and it was the longest she ever spent recording an album. That summer and autumn, they worked together and produced her multi-Grammy/award-winning seventh album Ray of Light. Orbit had created remixes for Madonna previously such as those of " Justify My Love" and " Erotica" but did not meet her personally until 1997. He produced the album 13 by Britpop group Blur, in London and Reykjavík, Iceland. When working with Beck, the two of them wrote a song for Pink, " Feel Good Time," which Orbit then produced for the soundtrack for the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. JSTOR ( May 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭollaborations and productions included Prince, Madonna, Britney Spears, Mel C, Pink, U2, Katie Melua, Ricky Martin, Beth Orton, Sarah McLachlan, Queen, The Joy Formidable, Robbie Williams, All Saints, Kraftwerk, Harry Enfield and Sugababes.Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Īround this time, Orbit's studio chiefly consisted of a pair of Akai S1000 samplers and a Roland Juno-106 synthesiser. 9 on the UK Singles Chart, and performed well on the UK Dance Chart. īassomatic's biggest hit single was "Fascinating Rhythm" in 1990, which reached No. A subsequent album, Science and Melody, was released in 1991. Both albums were released by Guerilla Studios, founded by Orbit with Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert.īassomatic's first album was 1990's Set the Controls for the Heart of the Bass, the title track derived from Pink Floyd's " Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun". For the second album, singer Sindy Finn replaced Musgrave on vocals. The band included vocalist Sharon Musgrave and rapper Steve Roberts, also known as MC Inna Onestep amongst others. The band recorded house music in the 1990s. This first incarnation of Guerilla Studios had a Trident 80B mixing desk and Otari MTR90 MKII 24 track (2 inch tape) multitrack housed in a back garden on the canals of Little Venice in Paddington, and they also ran it as a commercial enterprise.īassomatic was another of Orbit's group projects. They released their final album, Toward the Unknown Region in 1995. The band reunited briefly when Orbit worked with Laurie Mayer and Rico Conning. Orbit and Mayer also composed the soundtrack to the ice hockey movie Youngblood, starring Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze, and recorded "White Night", written by colleague Rico Conning, which was used in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. There they recorded two albums and four singles, the most successful being the dance chart hit "Prepare to Energize", which was featured in the film Bachelor Party. When Copeland signed them to the label the deal enabled them to build their ideal studio. Richard Law, who was A&R for IRS Records, was a follower of their music and aesthetic, and took it to industry mogul Miles Copeland, who had discovered and managed the Police and the Bangles in 1981. They initially self-released recordings in an audio cassette series, generated from their home-built studio in a disused school in Notting Hill Gate, in London, alongside the Grand Union Canal. In 1980, Orbit teamed up with electronic musician Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert to form the electronic/synth group Torch Song. Around this time, while rooming with a friend who was trying to start a recording studio, Orbit found his musical calling. He left school at the age of 16, and subsisted for a number of years in various low-paying jobs, while seeking an outlet for his creativity. His parents were both schoolteachers he was the elder of two sons. Orbit (Wainwright) was raised in Palmers Green, a suburb of London.
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