William Orbit (born on 15 December 1956, as William Mark Wainwright) is a B… Read Full Bio ↴William Orbit (born on 15 December 1956, as William Mark Wainwright) is a British musician and record producer, best known to the public for producing Madonna's album Ray of Light, which received four Grammy Awards. He has also co-produced several unreleased Madonna songs originally recorded for other albums that were never used. Also, he produced "13" by Blur, and remixed some of the songs on the album.

His speciality is atmospheric keyboard electronica although much of his work features accomplished guitar playing. He has also recorded several largely instrumental solo albums under the name Strange Cargo which features vocals by Beth Orton, Laurie Mayer, Joe Frank among others. He was the musical force behind Bassomatic in the early 1990s, and formed the band Torch Song together with Mayer and Rico Conning in the 1980s. He has also produced and remixed numerous other artists, like Kraftwerk, Nitzer Ebb, The Cure, U2 and P!nk. Orbit's remixes carry his signature electronic sounds and techniques, making them sought after by fans of his solo work. He also worked with pop girl trio Sugababes.

His newest work has involved writing an orchestral piece, which was performed by the BBC Philharmonic at the Manchester International Festival in July 2007.

He also has a new album due out in 2009 - This has now been released (8th June 2009) "My Oracle Lives Uptown"

Who Owns the Octopus?
William Orbit Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by William Orbit:

Angel Angel hold on to me Love is all around me…
Atom Dream Thousands of suns Millions of stars Separated by ??? systems…
Barber's Adagio for Strings - Ferry Corsten Remix Ramones Adios Amigos! It's Not For Me To Know Easy come and …
Barbers Adagio for Strings Ramones Adios Amigos! It's Not For Me To Know Easy come a…
Dice I was crying over you I am smiling I think of…
She Cries Your Name Falling from the western shore to find yourselves alone agai…
Spiral We bust a red light And I've got no fight Moving in…
Story Of Light Let your love shine on Let your love shine down on…
Tatouage Bleu Si elle le suit, il la fuit Si elle le fuit,…

The Monkey King What the hell are you doing!…
The Story of Light Let your love shine on Let your love shine down on…
Time To Get Wize ohhh…
Water From a Vine Leaf And you start swimming and swimming And swimming, and swimmi…

When You Touch Me Well you're boring me now First you stay then you go If…

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04You Know Too Much About Flying Saucers5:00

05Spiral4:58

06Who Owns the Octopus?6:22

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07Bubble Universe4:04

08Fragamosia6:32

09Firebrand6:16

10They Live in the Sky4:56

11Colours From Nowhere5:39

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Comments from YouTube:

james baker

11y↑11

I've been listening to orbit since the early 90's but this song slipped by me.Its addictive!A classic orbit tune it sounds better the more times you hear it.

Kent Borges

THIS ONE IS NEW TO ME TOO. BEEN LISTENING TO MR. WAINWRIGHT SINCE THE 80'S

Kent Borges

oops it is on "Hello Waveforms" !

Michael Bradley

3y↑6

I was abducted by Aliens last year! They were listening to this, showed me around the Universe and took me home. I was gone less than a second!! What an experience!! Thanks fellas!!

Trancor

12y↑31

Music like this is why youtube is great. Find the diamonds in the rough so that you know what bands/producers/artists to buy when you get home from work.

Jude Brown

44w

SCH..... The best. The painter is fab too released 2021. Second track is unbelievable...... enjoy.

Michael Bradley

8y↑6

What a great Pun and loaded Metaphor!! Nice little tune, I love this guys music!!

DeaconBluesClues

3y↑2

Wait

What pun

What metaphor

Is this one of those drug things the damn kids are on about again

Nelson

11y↑1

just so loving this...William Orbit is just otherworldly great...

Cathrine Steenstrup

8y↑2

Wonderful! The octopus drawing really brings a smile out too.

Daryl Rybotycki

8y↑4

+Cathrine Steenstrup

Drawing? That is William's Octopus, for reals! lol

DaveRave (AKA DAVE GØRDØN)

3y↑1

I cannot believe nobody has drifting so far the website version but ended up on the album. It's like one of the prettiest songs and from what I understand I believe it was once a Madonna production with different lyrics though

archie henry

11y↑1

This is excellent. Great music for writing about war and peace.

tpe54

9y↑1

great music...sounds fresh every time I listen

E P Carry

10y↑5

This opens up spaces in my mind.. very nice.

DaveRave (AKA DAVE GØRDØN)

10y↑19

Yes it's close to what Madonna's Arioso/Ariosa (still not sure if the title is correct) would have been. This and Wonderland are one and the same. Stunning as only Orbit can do.

UFOZ01

14y↑6

just to let you know i have the cd album, its called: "William Orbit - Hello Waveforms" i gotta say its the best William Orbit album to date.

DaveRave (AKA DAVE GØRDØN)

I would tie it for sure with My Oracle Lives Uptown, as basically it's just part of the same recording sessions and if you look they have Bubble universe AKA Madonna's Liquid Love, on both but one is slow and one is fast, at the speed of liquid love, so basically the project is kind of a continuation of Hello Waveforms and feels really like it should have just been achoo part album instead of separating the albums. Songs like drift so far and bubble Universe fast should have been on the same kind of project as the whole hello waveforms project which basically they were but got separated

Denise Parker

9y↑5

William Orbit my favorite is at 2:08...that Breakdown is SICK!!!

Kjartan Osmundsen

6y↑1

Wow ! Soothing and awesome

Manuela Bl.

Un paio di estati con le cuffie e qst album a palla fisso tutto il giorno sotto il sole.....che meraviglia....

Denise Parker

9y↑2

I LOVE this...Super Smooth...

Bomyster3000

13y↑1

Mad chill music!! I do my homework to this track.

Nora Berg

11y↑1

awesome tune!

Colaris

11y↑7

I still say Strange Cargo III is his best but this is still great. :)

Sam Moss

when it came out I got the CD an every time a friend would hear it ...it would disappear...went thru at least 20 of 'em before I found a 'keeper'...truly a landmark classic album.

PeepBox

14y↑1

they played this on BIg sonic chill in san diego on the radio and i have to say this is spectacular

Lonnie Ford

51w

Love this ❤❤ hello waveforms just getting up to speed with these tracks

soyousomesoyou

9y↑5

Classic Orbit, all the trademarks scintillating

Kûsh Bûsh

7y↑1

When I was in college we had an 8-sided hookah we called The Octopus that we always got high with. I can't think of a better Tribute to those times than this song.

Mark Laus

9y↑3

Still the best, ever... if she doesn't "get it", well, then, I guess she really doesn't "get" it....

Michael Bradley

My god!! Sheer genius at work here!

DaveRave (AKA DAVE GØRDØN)

3y↑1

Yeah his song Ariso with Madonna was his first known work with this melody and there's a more ballad-like version and a more groovy beat closer to this, but maybe not as good as this that exsists. It was 1st heard in 2000 for a show called Wonderland which was like Greys Anatomy meets X-Files but ran shortly cuz the world wasn't ready for it yet, but the humming Madonna does at the end of Arioso was the theme song to the show which until maybe Dec 2014 with the prerelease of Rebel Hearts demos, it was always known as Wonderland and to the surprise of all her fans aware of it, we all wanted to know where it came from because it was too pretty to be just left as only a 30 sec theme song. Then Who Owns The Octopus came out in like 2006, and Orbits Arioso Instrumental found on his Peices In Moden Style 2 came out in 2010ish I think, and then Madonna's Arioso clip came out in like 2013 or 14 but wasn't fully released until Dec 2014, but then there was more leaks in 2017, 2018 where the album of Madonna's Music demos came out and you can heard different versions of what he did with it in production. But someone on Soundcloud released the version of the vocal dancier mix which finalizes the song and shows how awesome that would have been for it to have been released but I think someone needs to mix all the versions together and make Who Own The Octopus the main backing track with her full vocals and elements for intros, breakdowns, and parts only heard in that specific track or demo used to weave into Octopus and her dancier beat version with his Arioso being very soft for some smoothness. I think itd be badass!

sculli722

11y

No one owns the octopus, the octopus is a part of all of us.

Luca Finocchiaro

10y↑5

I love this music. I think is what Madonna's Arioso demo became!

WilliamJ.S.Rodriguez

5y↑1

Years later William Orbit released Bach's Arisos for 2 Mintues

Autogen // Drone Atlas

man I just checked out the demo Orbit produced for Arioso, it's so weird hearing this mix of Bach's Arioso that Orbit did for Pieces in a Modern Style and Who Owns the Octopus! I've loved Who Owns the Octopus for so many years, it's so weird to hear it's connections to other projects. I've never really listened to much Madonna beyond whatever's been on the radio, but having been a fan of Orbit for many years I get to know/hear these random Madonna bits that I guess dedicated fans would know of

DaveRave (AKA DAVE GØRDØN)

@Autogen // Drone Atlas Yeah his song Ariso with Madonna was his first known work with this melody and there's a more ballad-like version and a more groovy beat closer to this, but maybe not as good as this that exsists. It was 1st heard in 2000 for a show called Wonderland which was like Greys Anatomy meets X-Files but ran shortly cuz the world wasn't ready for it yet, but the humming Madonna does at the end of Arioso was the theme song to the show which until maybe Dec 2014 with the prerelease of Rebel Hearts demos, it was always known as Wonderland and to the surprise of all her fans aware of it, we all wanted to know where it came from because it was too pretty to be just left as only a 30 sec theme song. Then Who Owns The Octopus came out in like 2006, and Orbits Arioso Instrumental found on his Peices In Moden Style 2 came out in 2010ish I think, and then Madonna's Arioso clip came out in like 2013 or 14 but wasn't fully released until Dec 2014, but then there was more leaks in 2017, 2018 where the album of Madonna's Music demos came out and you can heard different versions of what he did with it in production. But someone on Soundcloud released the version of the vocal dancier mix which finalizes the song and shows how awesome that would have been for it to have been released but I think someone needs to mix all the versions together and make Who Own The Octopus the main backing track with her full vocals and elements for intros, breakdowns, and parts only heard in that specific track or demo used to weave into Octopus and her dancier beat version with his Arioso being very soft for some smoothness. I think itd be badass!

Michael Vašek

It sounds cool, it could be amazing with Madonnas voice.

Sophie Saphire

14y↑1

beauitful song!!!!!!!

tom darrohn

8y↑1

Very nice :)

Michael Vašek

2y↑2

Can someone add Madonnas backing vocals from Arioso to this track?

T Diddle

If you like sushi, seems like a hellava good opportunity for some super-fresh tako.

Daryl Rybotycki

9y↑3

Should be on Google Music, but not... :(

Nikki Gloom

10y↑5

i fucking love it. get some weed, relax and lay back and let it do its thing and become the octopus......yeah...

Frater Senior

14y↑8

Alright, who let Cthulhu out?"

permaveg

10y↑3

Dub it ORB it.

Richard Peake

💙

Mark Laus

8y↑8

the 'elephant' in the room is..... an octopus :)

quantum64

14y

@cmonutube That's my channel as well! I have found lots of incredible artists through it. William Orbit, Little People, and Sasha are just a few.

UFOZ01

12y↑1

@kebwyant It's from the William Orbit cd album called: Hello Waveforms

L337ish

9y↑6

Did you know
An octopus has 9 brains, one central brain, and then one in each tentacle!

Did you know
Smoking marijuana and listening to this song while you look into the sky is a pretty good idea?

3:11 to the end. yes.

daniel m

Did you know that an octopus can’t smoke weed under water?

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Chank241

9y↑1

Pandora spells it Octupus for some reason.

DaveRave (AKA DAVE GØRDØN)

10y

Geez Harold angry much? I think orbit did a beautiful job

Helios Fire

12y

who left their octopus in the dining room???

JM12Green

Hey I just wanted to let everybody know I actually own the octopus

Squishy TwoFourSeven

13y

@kebwyant its on his album waveforms

Hommerecorder

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Khalsa Lakhvir-Singh

5y↑1

'in the beginning' was jean michel jarre :)

Gelato

Echo the dolphin

Lewis Johnson III

11y

shazbot :D

RITH5150

13y

@kebwyant I know that's right I tried too.

Life is a Teacher Find the true

3:38

Ypipable

8y↑1

mmm...William Orbit.

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