It’s taken awhile, this one hit hard…. this was the producer who defined my generation. There are producers who shape records, and then there are those rare figures who reshape the very ground that music grows from. William Orbit was the latter. Born William Mark Wainwright in Shoreditch in December 1956 and raised in Palmers Green, north London, he left school at sixteen with no clear path but a restless creativity that eventually found its home in sound. His friends gave him the nickname “Orbit” because of his love of rocketry and astronomy and, by all accounts, his general way of existing somewhere just slightly…
