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Dr Alex Paterson used to be a roadie for Killing Joke, before he got caught up in the acid-house revolution alongside fellow punks Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond (of KLF fame). Under his Orb moniker, he has taken electronic music into the realm of eccentric dreams, bringing together disparate musical threads and whisking them all together with his magic dub-stick. Orblivion doesn't contain any classic songs like "Little Fluffy Clouds" or "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain…" but it is a return to form after weaker albums like Pomme Fritz and Orbus Terrarum.
Dr Alex Paterson used to be a roadie for Killing Joke, before he got caught up in the acid-house revolution alongside fellow punks Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond (of KLF fame). Under his Orb moniker, he has taken electronic music into the realm of eccentric dreams, bringing together disparate musical threads and whisking them all together with his magic dub-stick. Orblivion doesn't contain any classic songs like "Little Fluffy Clouds" or "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain…" but it is a return to form after weaker albums like Pomme Fritz and Orbus Terrarum.
In contrast to the apocalyptic vision that its title conjures up, Orblivion is essentially a happy merry-go-round that takes a typically kaleidoscopic approach. There is an element of dystopia in the use of dialogue snatched from Mike Leigh's stark classic "Naked", but apart from that the usual oddball humour, floppy madness and dubby dance music is very much in abundance. Enjoyable stuff. --Paul Sullivan
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The Orb are the rave scene's resident gods of ambient psychedelia. ORBLIVION's beats don't so much swing with techno's hyperkinetic verve as they imply that swing through their extreme, dubbed-out feel. At times a spaced-out bassline serves as more of a grounding factor than the dissolved backbeat.Yet that lack of a solid bottom gives Dr. Alex Patterson and his cohorts the flexibility to morph into whatever fourth world musical creation they choose to become, incorporating everything from funk grooves to Third World woodwind textures on a digital floor that seems more natural than synthetic.
The Orb's fifth full-length album frames all these sonicfreedoms within various vocal samples that symbolise eitherits curtailing (McCarthy-era Congressional hearings, a monologue on the apocalypse from Mike Leigh's NAKED) or its fullblossom (a TV commercial-like chorus praising LSD). Augmented by music that is in constant weirdo flux, the members of The Orb are revolutionaries destroying borders and fences (physical, psychological, and musical) while on a downward spiral towards the millenium.
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