William Orbit

Ambient pioneer, studio master, and popular dance remixer William Orbit emerged in the early 1980s, first as a member of synth group Torch Song, before releasing both his solo debut, Orbit, and the first of his Strange Cargo series of LPs in 1987. Merging ambient, pop, world fusion, and dance music in collections of mostly spaciously arranged instrumental tracks, he eventually invited guest vocalists including Beth Orton and Cleo Torres into the Strange Cargo universe. In the meantime, he formed the short-lived house project Bass-O-Matic in the early '90s and produced and remi...