Orblivion is a 1997 album by The Orb released by Island Records. It is known as one of the most popular electronic albums of the 1990s and some of The Orb's "best music of its career". It is characterized by a trippy vibe and "jazzy mid-tempo grooves" as described by Jim DeRogatis. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Island Records is a record label that was founded in Jamaica in 1959 by Chris Blackwell. ... Jim DeRogatis (born 1964 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a U.S. music critic. ...
‘Orblivion’ is the fifth album from the godfathers of the chill out LP, the Orb.
Not as overtly obnoxious as ‘Pomme Fritz’ nor as plodding as ‘Orbus Terrarum’, ‘Orblivion’ is a more like a return to the days of ‘Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld’ where the experimentation, while broad and deep, never overpowers the melodies and rhythms.
Throw in some percussive jungle-type tracks such as “Delta MK II,” “Asylum” and the obligatory sampled-fueled rant of “S.A.L.T.” and ‘Orblivion’ quickly shapes up to be one of the best (and most accessible) productions in the Orb’s extraordinary catalog.
If the Orb's 1995 release Orbvs Terrarum was an extended meditation on the earthbound, the band's follow-up in Orblivion rises from the muck of primordial ectoplasm for a guided tour of late-20th century Western culture's more paranoid face.
The ubiquitous bar code!"), Orblivion does for post-industrial, turn-of-the-century mania what earlier albums such as The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and U.F.Orb did for aliens and flying saucers.
Like the previous record -- an effusive mix of sprawling environmental textures; clanging, treated percussion; and humorous, trainspottery samples -- Orblivion brings with it another adjustment in mood, combining elements of downbeat, electro, and drum'n'bass with dense, soupy amalgams of treated electronics and shimmering rhythms.
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