- Audio CD (15 Dec 2000)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Island
- ASIN: B000026JBX
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 77,535 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More. |
Product details |
Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s
Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or
view the MP3 Album.
|
Disc 1:
Disc 2:
|
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
With more than two hours of music, this is a hard-core Orb experience. However, fans and newcomers alike should not be intimidated, because Live 93 offers coherent, wonderfully recorded versions of some of the band's greatest moments. Indeed, many of the tracks included here are even better than their album versions ("Towers of Dub", for example, is absolutely devastating). While no one has ever accused the Orb of condensing their music, the tracks here feel even less constrained by the notion of time. Free to wander up, over and around the music, the Orb let no thought go unexplored. Bass lines rumble like tectonic plates, melodies echo and float gravity-free and all the while samples drift in and out of view, as if "Dr" Alex Patterson were scanning the universe with some jerry-built, deep-space radio. Tune in, turn on... --S. Duda
From Amazon.com
With more than two hours of music, this is a hard-core Orb experience. However, fans and newcomers alike should not be intimidated, because Live 93 offers coherent, wonderfully recorded versions of some of the band's greatest moments. Indeed, many of the tracks included here are even better than their album versions ("Towers of Dub," for example, is absolutely devastating). While no one has ever accused the Orb of condensing their music, the tracks here feel even less constrained by the notion of time. Free to wander up, over, and around the music, the Orb let no thought go unexplored. Bass lines rumble like tectonic plates, melodies echo and float gravity-free, and all the while samples drift in and out of view, as if "Dr." Alex Patterson were scanning the universe with some jerrybuilt, deep-space radio. Tune in, turn on... --S. Duda
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album IS the best of the orb. Every single lengthy track has been performed live to a standard that far betters its album counterpart. The orb have always been consistently good on their releases, but this album condenses every ounce of blissfull, bassy, ambient, drugged up, chilled out tune-age and slaps it into a two disk compilation that will entertain anyone who wants to relax to music at any time of day, anywhere.
More like a 'sound and bass' experience than real tunes, it also steers clear of full on ambient themes (and the consequent boredom people with 'normal music' tastes would suffer). Yet each magical sounding, voice sample laden track spans around 10 mins!
If you're strapped for cash and cant buy all this bands stuff or just bored of the popular chill-out bands of the moment, go retro and fork out for a band who sound like no-one else!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Wow! Ten years, I bought this album when it came out and I was in the middle of secondary school, now here I am in my mid-twenties and I'm still popping it in the CD player. I've followed The Orb right from the start and this (in my opinion) remains their best release.
The tracks are well divided between the two CDs although Disc One wins the "Most Accessible" award. All the classic early Orb tunes are here and the live aspect adds a subtle ambiance to the music that (on reflection) is lost when performed in the studio.
In some cases a live album means reduced sound quality however this isn't true with plenty of samples and bass lines for good audio systems to pick out.
The reworking of tracks is well done with at least ten minutes to build up each one and with some notable differences from their original form, existing Orb fans will enjoy this while newcomers who go onto buy the original versions will wonder why they bothered.
Standouts are the ever-popular Little Fluffy Clouds with an excellent morphine sample and deeply satisfying bass line. Star 6 & 7 8 9 proceeds at slow dreamy pace that is more rounded than the album version and finally everyone's favourite aHEGPBtRftCotU (LU) which stands at a worthy nineteen minutes. Building up with plenty of samples and teasers it finally launches into the core riff and powers its way to the end with another Patterson bass line. Although it's not the best version (see Peel Sessions 1) it is an excellent end to a magnificent double album.
On their Auntie Aubrey's remix project it is written that The Orb is better listened to straight and I would agree with this. Getting blitzed and listening to The Orb defeats the point as there are so many little nuances that are missed when you're wasted on the living room floor. A better plan is to take a quiet summer night, a good stereo, maybe some company then just relax and appreciate some superbly crafted tunes.
The tracks are well divided between the two CDs although Disc One wins the "Most Accessible" award. All the classic early Orb tunes are here and the live aspect adds a subtle ambiance to the music that (on reflection) is lost when performed in the studio.
In some cases a live album means reduced sound quality however this isn't true with plenty of samples and bass lines for good audio systems to pick out.
The reworking of tracks is well done with at least ten minutes to build up each one and with some notable differences from their original form, existing Orb fans will enjoy this while newcomers who go onto buy the original versions will wonder why they bothered.
Standouts are the ever-popular Little Fluffy Clouds with an excellent morphine sample and deeply satisfying bass line. Star 6 & 7 8 9 proceeds at slow dreamy pace that is more rounded than the album version and finally everyone's favourite aHEGPBtRftCotU (LU) which stands at a worthy nineteen minutes. Building up with plenty of samples and teasers it finally launches into the core riff and powers its way to the end with another Patterson bass line. Although it's not the best version (see Peel Sessions 1) it is an excellent end to a magnificent double album.
On their Auntie Aubrey's remix project it is written that The Orb is better listened to straight and I would agree with this. Getting blitzed and listening to The Orb defeats the point as there are so many little nuances that are missed when you're wasted on the living room floor. A better plan is to take a quiet summer night, a good stereo, maybe some company then just relax and appreciate some superbly crafted tunes.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
"What were the skies like when you were young?" A question that still reverberates around the heads of a lot of people my age, ie, in their (whisper it!) Late twenties/early thirties.
There's a reason for that and the reason, invariably is the track Little Fluffy Clouds off this album. The live version is even more powerful than the studio version and that's really saying something.
There are however many other tracks which will grab the imagination. If you can imagine an ambient, electronic Pink Floyd, this is pretty much the closest you'll get.
There's a reason for that and the reason, invariably is the track Little Fluffy Clouds off this album. The live version is even more powerful than the studio version and that's really saying something.
There are however many other tracks which will grab the imagination. If you can imagine an ambient, electronic Pink Floyd, this is pretty much the closest you'll get.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Masterpiece
When i first heard this in 90's i was blown away by it and to this day this remains a masterpiece,highly recommended.
Published 19 months ago by Mr. J. Lennon
I was there
I have been lucky enough to see this band/collective a few times.... awesome isnt a strong enough description.... buy it, put out the lights and leave your mind to wander....
Published on 27 Jan 2008 by Jr Anderson
Re: Best of T'Orb
Love this album dearly, if you need an overview of what the Orb are about, this is it!
Very twiddly, not exactly tuneful but lets you drift away blissfully into your own... Read more
Very twiddly, not exactly tuneful but lets you drift away blissfully into your own... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2007 by Mr. A. A. Cavanagh
The best live album ever?!?!?!?
This is a fantastic 2cd set - nearly 2 1/2 hours worth of incredible ambient/dub. I can listen to this over and over again and i still find it quite breath-taking. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2003 by Guy
A huge ever pulsating album that rules ...
Floating sheep ... evil brothers? What are we to believe? An ambient album that's surprisingly unambient inviting you to concentrate on intensely mad samples; marijuana... Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2001 by lgxgrr@nottingham.ac.uk
Awesome psychedelic ambient music
This is a brilliant example of ambient music at it's best. Most of the songs are fabulous mixes of old seventies musical influences and pure ambient sounds. Read more
Published on 29 July 2000
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
