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The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre known as ambient house, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for early-morning ravers once the clubs closed their doors. The group popularized the genre as well, by appearing on the British chart show Top of the Pops and hitting number one in the U.K. with the 1992 album U.F.Orb. Frontman Dr. Alex Paterson's formula… Read more in Amazon's The Orb Store

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  • Audio CD (15 Mar 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Spectrum Audio
  • ASIN: B00000E5F7
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,779 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. O.O.B.E.12:51Album Only
Listen  2. U.F.Orb 6:08£0.69
Listen  3. Blue Room17:31Album Only
Listen  4. Towers Of Dub14:57Album Only
Listen  5. Close Encounters10:27Album Only
Listen  6. Majestic11:03Album Only
Listen  7. Sticky End0:50£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

After the sprawling ambient opus that was their debut LP, Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, The Orb voyaged into new interstellar realms for the follow-up. The languid rippling soundscapes and far-out samples persisted, but Dr Alex Patterson and Thrash introduced uptempo beats to the brew, lending the album a chunkier, less meandering feel which was reflected in its commercial success. "Blue Room" was the longest single in history at a touch under 40 minutes long, while the centrepiece was the staggering "Towers Of Dub", which married abstract electronica with some of the mightiest bass this side of Kingston. An LP which sees The Orb at the peak of their tripped-out talents, before their later slide into a self-indulgent, sonic miasma. --Ed Potton

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An ambient-techno classic, UFOrb captures Alex Patterson and his sonic henchman at their early peak. While the Orb had already created a dance-floor and chill-out-room sensation in 1991 with Little Fluffy Clouds, this follow-up disc displays Patterson's talent for fusing ambient music with dub science and a club culture mindset. Incorporating psychedelicized samples over the era's reigning techno beats and deep reggae bass lines, heady compositions such as "Towers of Dub" and "Close Encounters" are excessive in length but consistently entertaining. The album's highlight is an 18-minute version of "Blue Room" (there's a 40-minute version out there, too), which features the sensual bass playing of Jah Wobble and the oscillating guitar of coproducer Steve Hillage. A most serious contribution to the legacy of the modern DJ. --Mitch Myers

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
I'm actually on TV 12 July 2005
Format:Audio CD
Mine still has the 'Brit Awards Nominee' sticker on the front. I believe this got to number one in the charts, which was dead unprecedented for what was mostly a lot of multi-layered samples with some beats here and there. For some reason it all worked; I have heard bootlegs of the early sessions which led to this album, and there's no magic in the demos. The Orb's later albums were conceptually similar but uniformly rubbish. But U.F.Orb, whether because the band was going the extra mile, or because of some ineffable fairy dust, U.F.Orb actually worked, it was relaxing, funny, mesmerising, an excellent listen with headphones, as background music, and loudly to dance to in the bits which have beats. The samples are all well-chosen and I can still recite most of them; the bit where there is a snippet from Radio Moscow, followed by loud drums, is the best. The second side of the album is noticeably moodier, with 'Close Encounters' sounding as you would expect a song about UFOs to sound.

It's also a nostalgic album, for people in their early 30s. The pre-internet 'Wired'-era computer whizz-bang space-age techno-pagan futurism of it all was mirrored in contemporary releases by the Future Sound of London, System 7 and so forth, and although this kind of ambient space music is now as dated as krautrock was in 1992, it's heartbreaking to listen to. So many dreams and hopes smashed to bits.

Excellent way to show off a hi-fi system, too, because it has quiet bits and loud bits and they all sound top-notch. 'Sticky End' is a short joke track and 'Majesty' is a bit irritating, but it's otherwise an excellent way to spend fifty minutes or so. Shame they didn't include the lengthy 'Blue Room' single as a pack-in or bonus track (it was basically the album version looped a couple of times, with a different bassline).

And it's "Teilhard de Chardin", it took me ages to find that out; he's the one who conceived of a third world, a world of objective contents of thoughts.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
The sound of an epoch 19 May 2005
Format:Audio CD
This is a condensed version of the original triple vinyl release of 'U.F.Orb', which came 'hermetically sealed' in blue-grey PVC and had to be cut open with knife or scissors - a typically elaborate Paterson/Cauty marketing gimmick that also seemed to say something about how they viewed The Orb as a cultural project. It was as if 'U.F.Orb' was a time capsule, a distillation of the sprawling experiments on 'Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld', a sealed container flung into space to show the rest of the universe what it was like on Earth (or at least in Britain) in 1992.

As a summation of a point in musical time, it's as evocative as 'Revolver' or 'Ziggy Stardust' or 'Sound Affects'. And like all of those, there's something ineffably British about the way The Orb took beats from Detroit, minimalist compositions from New York and dub from Jamaica, and stretched and warped them into a completely new form. If the clubs were full of house and techno, the bedrooms were full of smoke and ambient dub, and The Orb were responsible for much of it.

'U.F.Orb' is their finest achievement, proving that 'Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld' wasn't a novelty record but the herald (along with The KLF's 'Chill Out') of a new genre. The sound here is both denser and more dubby, with more going on but less dependence on the BBC sound effects records and slowed-down house beats that were the backbone of their earlier work. 'Blue Room' (here edited from its 39'58" single length) and 'Towers of Dub' are the standouts, but The Orb's legacy is even more impressive than their music. You can hear it not only in experimental 'dance' music from Shpongle to Monolake, from Portishead to Lemon Jelly; it's embedded in mainstream pop, soundtracks and muzak the world over. And if you still have that triple vinyl release, with the PVC intact, I bet it's worth a fortune.

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From the swirling, outer-space beauty of O.O.B.E. to the simply stunning and very long Blue Room and Towers of Dub, this is the Orb's most assured and most melodic album, with evidence of the weird sound effects and dialogue voiceovers to come in their very good 1997 album Orblivion, although this one is far more memorable probably due to more recognizable tunes and stunning house beats that render any kind of modern dance music anaemic. Stunning!
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orbtastic!
the only song i ever remember hearing from the orb in the 90's was the brilliant Chill out/ambient/trip hop classic "little fluffy clouds",so having read reviews on here for this... Read more
Published 1 month ago by darren1983
Good chill out music
Good chill out music. You have to love the Orb! This is a perfect addition to anyone's electronic music collection.
Published 5 months ago by Darjeeling
Simply Wonderful
There are some albums that you know from the first listen are going to be favourites for life and this is what happened for me when I first heard this glorious album almost twenty... Read more
Published 6 months ago by ronston
orb - uforb
obviously one of the best albums out there. sounds slightly dated second time around but, nevertheless, an absolute must for anyone into their music. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2009 by P. Harris
CHILL OUT AT IT'S VERY BEST!!!
I can't really tell you in words how good this album is it is just amazing from the word go. All you need to do is put some head phones on in a dark room and this selection of... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2009 by Jason Thorne
One of the true Electronica greats...
This album is unquestionably one of the best Electronica records ever made...

You simply cannot be an electronic music fan without owning this CD. Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2008 by Robster
I dont like dance music but I love this!
I'll be straight, dance is'nt my usual taste. I love rock and indie and my limited ventures into dance have been Progidy, Underworld (the dark hardcore stuff) and the poppy KLF. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2003 by Jean Bradbury
Utterly baffling
Great tunes for you to lay back and relax to . Love this and you're in for a spaced out trip .
Published on 1 May 2001 by filterite
To be played again and again...
Fantastic follow up to the Ultraworld. Different and maybe a little colder and more concise in it's approach, UFOrb gently leads us through the ultimate in chilling (O.O.B. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2001
Sweeeeeet Music
The Orb at their best? Yes...Quality songs? Yes...Mad Sounds all over the place? Yes...Well this is my favourite Orb CD, its great...nuff said. Read more
Published on 26 Oct 2000 by alexk@gentleman.co.uk
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