RIP William Orbit

I was quite taken with the Bass-O-Matic album, cringe though the band name isIn the review, I make that cardinal rockcrit error of looking for the dance artist who can sustain at album level. Writing still from outside the culture at this point (October 1990, a year before the Conversion). The technorave-chillout yen for Pink Floyd is worth a mini-essay - wasn't there some ambient house (89-90 phase) track that samples "Wish You Were Here"? Consults faded regions of the back brain - ah yes, Innocence, "Natural Thing"The Orb obviously.... The KLF too. And there was an ardkore track by the wonderfully named E that interpolated from The Wall - "Nobody's Home", the line "I've got a little black book with my poems in" became "oi! I've got a little black disk with me tune on it", and I think a bit of David Gilmour soloing also got sampled at the end. It's the first tune hereThe technoptimism of this end of '80s /start of '90s moment is endearing - painfully poignant too, considering all…