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THE ORB & DAVID GILMOUR

Mixed results on remix album from ambient techno astronauts and Floyd guitarist.

he Orb’s Alex Paterson might have consistently dropped Pink Floyd’s name in interviews for two decades, but a 2010 collaboration within Wandsworth, south London armed with a Stratocaster and the same EMS synthesiser Floyd used on . For the next five hours, Gilmour would ping perfect guitar line after perfect guitar line in his inimitable, languid style, all captured on tape by Youth.

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