My Oracle Lives Uptown is the tenth album by British electronic musician and record producer, William Orbit

William Orbit

William Orbit is an English musician, composer and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album Ray of Light. He has also co-produced several unreleased Madonna songs originally recorded for other albums...

. It has been released digitally on 4th May 2009 on Kobalt Digital, as a 12-track limited edition. It was released as a physical CD on 8th June 2009 with 16 tracks. The 16 track version has been released as a Studio Master quality digital download and on deluxe Double 180g vinyl by Linn Records

Linn Records

Linn Records is a Glasgow-based record label which specialises in classical, jazz and Scottish music. It is part of Linn Products.-History:While Linn engineers were testing their flagship product, the Sondek LP12 turntable, they became frustrated with some of the specialist test LPs they were using...

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Track listing (Digital Version)

Track listing (CD Version)

Album info

The album was produced by William Orbit over a period of six years. Many of the tracks on the final CD have been previously available to listen on the artist's website. Contributors to My Oracle Lives Uptown include Laurie Mayer

Laurie Mayer (composer)

Laurie Mayer is a composer and songwriter who has spent much of her career working in collaboration with William Orbit. She is credited with vocals and writing of several songs on the 1990 album Set the Controls for the Heart of the Bass by Orbit's Bassomatic and the 2009 album My Oracle Lives...

, from Torch Song

Torch Song

Torch Song was a British synthpop and dance band of the early 1980s consisting of William Orbit, Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert. In 1985, Grant left to pursue other projects and long-time friend Rico Conning officially joined the group. After the release of 'Exhibit A' in 1987, Torch Song as a...

; White Night is a remake, the track having been previously released by Torch Song. "Treetop Club" features drums by Alan Tilston of The Supernaturals

The Supernaturals

The Supernaturals were a five-piece guitar based pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. Fronted by singer-songwriter James McColl, they signed to Parlophone in 1996, and had a string of singles which were taken from their three albums and four EPs. Other members included Mark Guthrie, Derek McManus and...

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The song Purdy has been used in 2007 for Madonna's

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

 H&M

H&M

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A CD single for the track Optical Illusions has been released with several remixes and a new mix of the song by William Orbit named Billy Buttons Mix.

The physical release contains a 20-page booklet with art design conceived by William and Laurie Mayer, and put together by his webmaster Richard Shea. Most of the images are photos taken by William himself or Laurie Mayer.

Album Marketing

For marketing the new album Orbit has created a blog on his website in which he weekly posts pictures, information and song downloads. He has been using the microblog service twitter

Twitter

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to spread news, opinions and personal pictures as well.

He has been appearing in several British TV and Radio shows to promote the album.

Internet Leak

In May 2009, a promo version of the album was leaked on the internet. The tracklist for this promo differs from both the digital and CD versions of the final album. The version of Drift So Far is slower and more ambient than the website version on the final album. Optical Illusions (Billy Buttons Version) on the final album is slightly shorter than the promo version and has been subtly remixed. Unlike the final album, the promo includes Nimbus, which was later released as a free download from William Orbit's blog.