hen The Orb and David Gilmour came together over a decade ago to produce the two-part, 49-minute ambient soundscape dubbed in 2010, there almost seemed to be a bit of unfinished business attached to what we were hearing—and now we know why. To take that music to the next level, original producer Youth recast it in Dolby Atmos as a more concise 40-minute edition duly renamed (Columbia/Legacy). In a recent Zoom interview, Youth and I discussed how morphed into its current fullbodied Atmos and shape, what notable Orb song seems ready-made for an immersive remix, and what else he’d like to mix in Atmos next. (A longer version of this interview appears in my monthly Spatial Audio File column on the site.)
