At first for free, then later on, as word spread, for considerable sums. He began to create remixes for a long list of artists.
The Cocteau Twins, Colour Box, Stewart Copeland, Belinda Carlisle, Etienne Daho, Howard Devoto, Erasure, The Fall, The Frank Chickens, Goldie and Metalheadz, Martin Gore, Kemistry and Storm, Laibach, Lords of the New Church,, S'Express, Gary Numan, Renegade Soundwave, Les Rita Mitsouko, Sting, The Swans, 23 Skidoo, The Waterboys, Jah Wobble, World Party / Karl Wallinger They have been close friends and creative collaborators ever since, writing the melodic top line for Madonna's track "Falling Free" from her twelfth album MDNA.Įncouraged by Meyer's creative zeal, he went on to build a commercially viable recording studio in Little Venice called Guerilla Studios (later situated in Crouch End, North London)Ī variety of clients booked the facility, including: An experiment in audio cassette soundscapes that also included the graphic designer Neville Brody. Mayer and Orbit formed the band Torch Song. On that same trip was also the young Hamish Bowles, now International Editor at Large for Vogue magazine.ġ981-1993: Torch Song, production & remix work It was around that time, in 1980, that William was asked to model clothes for the designer Takeo Kikuchi in Tokyo and this experience opened his eyes to the world of fashion and the visual arts. The building was also home to the Spanish Anarchist collective Centro Iberico.
Meyer and Orbit held mini-festivals in the deserted classrooms and workshops of the old school. This semi-derelict Victorian edifice was the perfect environment for live music to flourish, with bands such as Throbbing Gristle frequently performing there. But an opportunity to work as an assistant at Basing Street Studios just off the Portobello Road in West London gave him a first glimpse into the world of recording.Īged 23, he met Laurie Mayer who had just moved into his squat in an abandoned primary school in Paddington. In these early years he was creatively frustrated, with no means to bring his ideas to life. Living in squats around Europe and working at various jobs, hotel kitchen worker, motorbike messenger, at a ladies shoes factory, as an accounts clerk (in the days before computers), a night shift worker at the old Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam, junior draftsman at a North Sea oil rig design company (he was 'creative' with his CV') and so on. Aged 16, and living in a squat in Norwich and working as a strawberry picker in the summer, he started to devote himself to guitar playing. He does not have a formal education, having left school at 15 and being entirely self-taught. His mother, of Italian and Swedish descent, and his father, from Yorkshire, were both schoolteachers. William Orbit was born William Wainwright in London's East End in 1956. He worked again with Madonna on her 2012 album MDNA co-producing six songs.īiography 1956-1980: Early life & first work His work with Madonna led him to win three Grammys. Towards the end of the 1990s Orbit started to work with bigger name artists, producing songs on Ray of Light and Music by Madonna, 13 and Think Tank by Blur and Saints and Sinners by All Saints. In 1987 he released the first of his Strange Cargo album series, containing ambient music. In the early 1980s he formed synthpop act Torch Song with Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert. William Orbit (born William Mark Wainwright, 15 December 1956) is an English musician, composer and record producer. Please help improve this article by removing excessive trivia, uncritical praise, lists and collections of links that are of little or no interest to a general audience.
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