Ambient pioneers The Orb have unveiled details of their upcoming album The Dream, conceding the music ‘harks back to the original spirit’ of their first two albums. New single Vuja De sounds distinctly reminiscent of mid-80s samplist pioneers Colourbox and The Orb’s breakthrough single Little Fluffy Clouds, which Orb mainman Alex Patterson told Skrufff several years ago had defined both the band and his life.

“When I go out sometimes people say ‘this is the bloke who did Little Fluffy Clouds’. It’s a talisman but it’s also been a great salesman for me, it’s opened so many doors for The Orb,” he admitted. “I can’t say ‘I fucking hate it’, because that’s what you want me to say, because that’s a good journalistic line. I actually regard Little Fluffy Clouds and A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain as the two main cornerstones of The Orb,” he continued. “If it wasn’t for those two tracks we wouldn’t have got anywhere, the other tracks would have been seen as being just good tracks, whereas those two are the excellent ones.”