~ The Orb
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~ The Orb
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~ The Orb
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~ The Orb
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~ The Orb
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Track Listings
| 1. Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rule From The Centre | |||
| 2. Little Fluffy Clouds | |||
| 3. Perpetual Dawn | |||
| 4. Blue Room | |||
| 5. Assassin | |||
| 6. Pomme Fritz | |||
| 7. Toxygene | |||
| 8. Outlands | |||
| 9. Dj Asylum | |||
| 10. Mickey Mars | |||
| 11. Towers Of Dub | |||
| 12. Pi | |||
| 13. Oxbow Lakes | |||
| 14. Little Fluffy Clouds (2) | |||
| 15. Perpetual Dawn (2) | |||
| 16. Pomme Fritz (2) | |||
| 17. Toygene (2) | |||
| 18. Assassin (2) | |||
| 19. DJ Asylum (2) | |||
| 20. OOBE | |||
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Product Description
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The title, coupled with a sleeve depicting an Apollo launch pad with a huge middle finger giving that gesture, summarises the ethos of former Killing Joke roadie Alex Patterson's The Orb. Their musical scale is gargantuan and fearlessly meandering, taking in ambient, reggae, techno and innumerable mutated samples. In order to pre-empt "prog-rave" tags or accusations of Pink Floyd-style pretentiousness, however, Paterson and his various collaborators always took a facetious, self-deflating approach to their work. In spite of the aura of silliness shrouding The Orb--as evinced on titles like "A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Underworld"--they can't puncture the delights of the freewheeling, orbiting "Pomme Fritz" or the intoxicating "Little Fluffy Clouds" with its ingenious sample of a Rickie Lee Jones interview. This compilation could either serve as an introduction to The Orb or as sufficient for those unwilling to follow them on some of their more extreme sonic excursions. --David Stubbs
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During the rave explosion of the early 1990s, U.K. act the Orb began mixing slower house tempos with ambient music inspired by '70s pioneers like Brian Eno and Steve Hillage. The trippy, often beatless music found favor with clubbers retreating from the loud, rhythmic techno typically played at raves, ostensibly kick-starting the ambient house genre and a whole new context for DJs, the chill-out room. Fronted by charismatic leader and musical omnivore Alex Paterson, the Orb experimented with mixing a diverse array of samples and musical motifs from a variety of disparate genres. Covering 10 years of the band's evolution, U.F.OFF: THE BEST OF THE ORB includes material culled from four studio albums, singles, and unreleased studio outtakes. Sequenced non-chronologically and stitched together like a DJ-mix, the album flows seamlessly from ambient breakbeat excursions to dub-inflected soundcollages in the span of its 12 tracks. From the pulsating reggae shuffle of "Perpetual Dawn" to the leaden, heavy rootsrhythms of "Towers of Dub", the music contains the distinctimprint of Jamaican music--albeit one marked by a decidedlyfuturistic, sci-fi sensibility. "A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Center of the Underworld", on the other hand, mixes far more eclectic sources, including a Minnie Riperton a cappella and some dark atmospheric synthesizers.
The title, coupled with a sleeve depicting an Apollo launch pad with a huge middle finger giving that gesture, summarises the ethos of former Killing Joke roadie Alex Patterson's The Orb. Their musical scale is gargantuan and fearlessly meandering, taking in ambient, reggae, techno and innumerable mutated samples. In order to pre-empt "prog-rave" tags or accusations of Pink Floyd-style pretentiousness, however, Paterson and his various collaborators always took a facetious, self-deflating approach to their work. In spite of the aura of silliness shrouding The Orb--as evinced on titles like "A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Underworld"--they can't puncture the delights of the freewheeling, orbiting "Pomme Fritz" or the intoxicating "Little Fluffy Clouds" with its ingenious sample of a Rickie Lee Jones interview. This compilation could either serve as an introduction to The Orb or as sufficient for those unwilling to follow them on some of their more extreme sonic excursions. --David Stubbs
Description
During the rave explosion of the early 1990s, U.K. act the Orb began mixing slower house tempos with ambient music inspired by '70s pioneers like Brian Eno and Steve Hillage. The trippy, often beatless music found favor with clubbers retreating from the loud, rhythmic techno typically played at raves, ostensibly kick-starting the ambient house genre and a whole new context for DJs, the chill-out room. Fronted by charismatic leader and musical omnivore Alex Paterson, the Orb experimented with mixing a diverse array of samples and musical motifs from a variety of disparate genres. Covering 10 years of the band's evolution, U.F.OFF: THE BEST OF THE ORB includes material culled from four studio albums, singles, and unreleased studio outtakes. Sequenced non-chronologically and stitched together like a DJ-mix, the album flows seamlessly from ambient breakbeat excursions to dub-inflected soundcollages in the span of its 12 tracks. From the pulsating reggae shuffle of "Perpetual Dawn" to the leaden, heavy rootsrhythms of "Towers of Dub", the music contains the distinctimprint of Jamaican music--albeit one marked by a decidedlyfuturistic, sci-fi sensibility. "A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Center of the Underworld", on the other hand, mixes far more eclectic sources, including a Minnie Riperton a cappella and some dark atmospheric synthesizers.
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