[4] They released their recordings in an audio cassette series, generated from their home-built studio in a squatted disused school, nicknamed the Centro Iberico, in Notting Hill, in London, next to the Grand Union Canal.
There they recorded two albums and four singles, the most successful being the dance chart hit "Prepare to Energize", which was featured in the film Bachelor Party.
[5][6][7] Orbit and Mayer also composed the soundtrack to the ice hockey movie Youngblood,starring Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze and recorded "White Night", written by colleague Rico Conning, which was used in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
This first incarnation of Guerilla Studios had a Trident 80B mixing desk and Otari MTR90 MKII 24 track (2 inch tape) multitrack housed in a back garden on the canals of Little Venice in Paddington, and they also ran it as a commercial enterprise.
[12][13] Collaborations and productions included Prince, Belinda Carlisle, Madonna, Britney Spears, Mel C, Pink, U2, Katie Melua, Ricky Martin, Beth Orton, Sarah McLachlan, Queen, The Joy Formidable, Robbie Williams, All Saints, Kraftwerk, Harry Enfield and Sugababes.
When working with Beck, the two of them wrote a song for Pink, "Feel Good Time," which Orbit then produced for the soundtrack for the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
Written by group member Shaznay Lewis along with Peter Hutchings and Orbit, whilst produced by the latter, it was released as the album's second single on 26 July 2018.
The first single release from the album was "Barber’s Adagio for Strings", and a trance remix of the track by Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten was hugely successful.
In 2010 he teamed with Rico Conning and Laurie Mayer to make a follow-up album, Pieces in a Modern Style 2, which was released as a two-disc set on the Decca label.
He performed in 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and at a gala at Banqueting House in London's Whitehall for the charity Together for Short Lives, a group that sponsors and supports children with terminal illnesses and their families.
[25] Orbit has deejayed at various clubs in London and Ibiza, and at Buckingham Palace for Her Majesty The Queen's annual staff and family Christmas party, in 2015.
[26] Orbit joined Hawkwind on stage on 29 September 2023 at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their Space Ritual album.