Alex Paterson began his music career in the early 1980s as a roadie for the post-punk rock band
Killing Joke, for whom his childhood friend Martin "Youth" Glover played bass. After leaving Killing Joke in 1986, Paterson met future
KLF member Jimmy Cauty and the duo began DJ-ing and producing music together under the name
The Orb. Paterson and Cauty's first release was a 1988 acid house anthem track, "Tripping on Sunshine", released on the German record compilation Eternity Project One. The following year, The Orb released the Kiss EP, a four-track EP based …
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