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Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
Alex Paterson is an English musician and co-founder of ambient house group the Orb, in which he has worked since its inception in 1988. Badorb.com was a record label created by Alex Paterson of the Orb in 2002. In 2021 Paterson started his own record label, Orbscure Recordings.
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Alex Paterson was born in 1959. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
These figures put everyday life in Alex Paterson's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.
| Measure | 1959 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | $0.31 | $3.45/gal |
| Average home | $12,400 | $435,000 |
| Average income | $7,000 | $67,500 |
| Minimum wage | $1.00 | $7.25/hr (federal) |
| Movie ticket | $0.69 | $11.95 |
| Postage stamp | $0.04 | $0.73 |
| Population | 177.1M | 341 million |
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