The Orb
Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann of The Orb at Culture Box in Copenhagen.
Background information
Origin	England
Genre(s)	Ambient house Ambient Ambient techno Chill out
Years active	1988–present
Label(s)	Big Life Island Badorb.com Kompakt
Associated acts	The KLF Space Sun Electric System 7 FFWD Youth Transit Kings
Website	http://www.theorb.com/
Members
Alex Paterson Thomas Fehlmann
Former members
Jimmy Cauty Kris Weston Andy Hughes Simon Phillips

The Orb are an English electronic music group known for popularising chill out music in the 1990s and spawning the genre of ambient house. Founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and KLF member Jimmy Cauty, The Orb began as ambient and dub DJs in London. Their early performances were inspired by ambient and electronic artists of the 1970s and 1980s, most notably Brian Eno and Kraftwerk. Because of their "trippy" sound, The Orb developed a cult following among clubbers "coming down" from drug-induced highs.^[1] The Orb has maintained their drug-related and science fiction themes despite personnel changes including the departure of Cauty and other Orb members Kris Weston, Simon Phillips, and Andy Hughes. Paterson has been the only permanent member, continuing to work as The Orb with the Swiss-German producer Thomas Fehlmann. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... 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Alex Paterson prides The Orb on manipulating obscure samples beyond recognition in their albums and concerts; however, his unauthorised use of other artist's work has led to disputes with musicians such as Rickie Lee Jones.^[2] During their live shows of the 1990s, The Orb performed using digital audio tape machines optimised for live mixing and sampling before switching to laptops and digital media. Despite changes in their performance method, The Orb has maintained their colourful light shows and psychedelic imagery in concert. These visually intensive performances prompted many critics to compare The Orb to Pink Floyd. Rickie Lee Jones on the Duchess of Coolsville album cover. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde progressive rock music. ...

The Orb's critical and commercial success in the UK peaked in the early 1990s with their albums The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and U.F.Orb, which reached #1 on the UK Albums Chart. This success led to their infamous appearance on Top of the Pops, where they showcased their quirky style by playing chess while the group's single "Blue Room" ran in the background. The Orb's mid-1990s albums were met with mixed reactions from UK critics; however, their work received praise from American publications such as Rolling Stone. They experimented with vocalists on their next two albums, which critics generally described as bland and uninspired. The Orb shifted to the minimalist techno style spearheaded by member Thomas Fehlmann, releasing their new material on the record label Kompakt. The Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld is a seminal 1991 ambient house concept album by the electronic music collective The Orb. ... U.F.Orb is an ambient house album by The Orb. ... The UK Albums Chart is a chart of the sales positions of albums in the United Kingdom. ... Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ... Blue Room is a 1994 single released by The Orb on Big Life Records. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Kompakt is a Cologne-based electronic music label and vinyl/cd distributor. ...

History

1988–1990: Paterson & Cauty

Alex Paterson began his music career in the early 1980s as a roadie for the post-punk rock band Killing Joke, for whom his childhood friend Martin "Youth" Glover played bass.^[3] After leaving Killing Joke in 1986, Paterson met future KLF member Jimmy Cauty^[4] and the duo began DJ-ing and producing music together under the name The Orb. Paterson and Cauty's first release was a 1988 acid house anthem track, "Tripping on Sunshine", released on the German record compilation Eternity Project One.^[5] The following year, The Orb released the Kiss EP, a four-track EP based on samples from New York City's KISS FM.^[5] It was released on Paterson and Glover's new record label WAU! Mr. Modo Records, which Paterson and Glover created out of a desire to maintain financial independence from larger record labels.^[4] After spending a weekend of making what Paterson described as "really shit drum sounds", the duo decided to abandon beat-heavy music and instead work on music for after-hours listening by removing the percussion tracks.^[6] Paterson and Cauty began DJ-ing in London and landed a deal for The Orb to play the chill out room at London nightclub Heaven. Resident DJ Paul Oakenfold brought in the duo specifically as ambient DJs for his "The Land of Oz" event at Heaven.^[7] Though The Orb's Monday night performances had only several "hard-core" followers initially, their "Chill Out Room" act grew popular over the course of their six month stay to the point that the small room was often packed with around 100 people.^[8] The Orb's performances became most popular among weary DJs and clubbers seeking solace from the loud, rhythmic music of the dancefloor.^[9] The Orb would build up melodies using multitrack recordings linked to multiple record decks and a mixer. They incorporated many CDs, cassettes, and BBC sound effects into their act, often accompanied with pieces of popular dance tracks such as "Sueño Latino".^[8] Though they used a variety of samples, they avoided heavy rhythm and drums so as not to disrupt their intended ambient atmosphere. 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Throughout 1989, The Orb, along with Martin Glover, developed the musical genre of ambient house through the use of a diverse array of samples and recordings. The culmination of their musical work came towards the end of the year when The Orb recorded a session for John Peel on BBC Radio 1. The track, then known as "Loving You", was largely improvisational and featured a wealth of sound effects and samples from science fiction radio plays, nature sounds, and Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You".^[11] For its release as a single on record label Big Life, The Orb changed the title to "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld". Upon the single's release, Riperton's management forced Big Life to remove the unlicensed Riperton sample, ensuring that only the initial first-week release of the single contained the original vocals of Minnie Riperton; subsequent pressings used vocals from a sound-alike.^[7] Despite its running time of 22 minutes, the sample-laden single reached #78 on the UK singles chart. Soon thereafter, The Orb was commissioned by Dave Stewart to remix his top 20 single "Lily Was Here". The Orb obliged and was soon offered several more remix jobs from artists including Erasure and System 7. Image File history File links OrbLovingYou. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ... A Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre of The Ultraworld is the second single released by the ambient house group The Orb. ... Minnie Julia Riperton (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979) was an American soul singer from Chicago, Illinois, most noted for her abilities in the whistle register and her 1975 hit single Lovin You. Possessing a rare five-octave vocal range, she displayed the ability to imitate instrumentation and even birds. ... Image File history File links OrbLittleFluffyClouds. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ... Little Fluffy Clouds is a single released by the ambient house group The Orb. ... Rickie Lee Jones on the Duchess of Coolsville album cover. ... Ambient house, a mix between house music and ambient music is a music style that describes itself as dreamy, chill out and quiet music. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... “Peel Sessions” redirects here. ... This page redirects from Radio 1. See Radio 1 (disambiguation). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Minnie Julia Riperton (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979) was an American soul singer from Chicago, Illinois, most noted for her abilities in the whistle register and her 1975 hit single Lovin You. Possessing a rare five-octave vocal range, she displayed the ability to imitate instrumentation and even birds. ... Minnie Julia Riperton (November 8, 1947 - July 12, 1979) was a soul singer from Chicago, Illinois, most noted for her abilities in the whistle register and her 1975 hit single Lovin You. Having possessed a rare five octave vocal range, she displayed the ability to imitate instrumentation and even birds. ... Big Life is a record label established in 1987 by Jazz Summers and Tim Parry. ... A Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre of The Ultraworld is the second single released by the ambient house group The Orb. ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ... David Allan Stewart, often known as Dave Stewart (born September 9, 1952 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear), is an English musician and record producer best known for his work with Eurythmics. ... Lily Was Here was the 1989 single for the soundtrack of the Dutch movie De Kassière. ... Erasure is an English synth pop duo band consisting of keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. ... System 7 is a band working in the dance/ambient scene. ...

In 1990, Paterson and Cauty held several recording sessions at Cauty's studio, Trancentral. When offered an album deal by Big Life, The Orb found themselves at a crossroads: Cauty preferred that The Orb release their music through his KLF Communications label, whereas Paterson wanted to ensure that The Orb did not become a side-project of The KLF.^[12] Due to these issues, Cauty and Paterson split in April 1990, with Paterson keeping the name The Orb.^[9] As a result of the break-up, Cauty removed Paterson's contributions from the in-progress recordings and released the album as Space on KLF Communications.^[13] Also out of these sessions came The KLF album Chill Out, on which Paterson appeared in an uncredited role.^[14][4] Last Train to Trancentral is a song and - in different mixes - a series of singles by The KLF, including Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent), a commercially successful single of April 1991 that reached # 2 in the UK Singles Chart and achieved international top ten placings. ... In the UK, The KLF and their incarnations released an array of 12 singles and albums on their own independent record label KLF Communications. ... This album began as a collaboration between Dr. Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty, the original line-up of The Orb. ... The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs), The Timelords and other names) were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Chill Out is a seminal 1990 ambient house album by The KLF. The album is part ambient music for post-rave chill outs, part concept album - a mythical road trip (or perhaps train journey) up the U.S. Gulf Coast from Texas into Louisiana. ...

Following the split, Paterson began working with Youth on the track "Little Fluffy Clouds". They incorporated samples from Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint and vocal clips from an interview with Rickie Lee Jones in which she recalls picturesque images from her childhood.^[15] While Reich was flattered by The Orb's use of his work,^[16] Jones pursued the issue in the legal system.^[9] Big Life chose to settle out of court for an undisclosed sum of money for use of her voice on The Orb's recording.^[9] "Little Fluffy Clouds" reached #87 on the UK singles chart; however, due to Glover's other production obligations, he did not become a permanent member of The Orb.^[9] Little Fluffy Clouds is a single released by the ambient house group The Orb. ... Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer. ... Category: ... Rickie Lee Jones on the Duchess of Coolsville album cover. ... In law there are two main meanings of the word settlement. ...

1991–1994: Paterson & Weston

In 1991, Paterson invited energetic studio engineer Kris "Thrash" Weston to join The Orb.^[17] Steve Hillage, who Patterson had met while DJ-ing in London, also joined as a contributing guitarist. Along with producer Thomas Fehlmann and audio engineer Andy Falconer, The Orb completed several additional tracks for their first album, The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld.^[9] At least six studios and twenty outside musicians were used during the three weeks of recording.^[4] Weston's technical abilities and Hillages's guitar work allowed The Orb to craft panoramic sounds portraying aspects of space travel, most notably the launch of Apollo 11.^[4] Adventures sold well in the UK and received praise for its balance of ambient music, house music, and sampling.^[18] Retrospectively, Adventures is considered ground-breaking for changing the way musicians view sampling and as a seminal work for the genres of ambient and dance music.^[19] To promote the release of an edited single disc version for an American release, The Orb embarked on their first tour of the United States beginning in Phoenix, Arizona in October 1991.^[20] Image File history File links OrbBlueRoom. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ... Blue Room is a 1994 single released by The Orb on Big Life Records. ... Kris Weston (born 1972) (aka Thrash) is a British electronic musician, record producer and remixer best known for his work as a member of The Orb. ... Steve Hillage is a English musician, associated with the Canterbury scene, who has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s. ... Thomas Fehlmann, who lives in Berlin has been active in electronic music as far back as the 1980s. ... The Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld is a seminal 1991 ambient house concept album by the electronic music collective The Orb. ... The Apollo 11 mission was the first mission to land on the Moon. ... Nickname: Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: , Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area  - City  515. ...

The Orb often used bizarre imagery, such as for their live album Live 93, the cover of which parodied Pink Floyd's Animals album cover.

In late 1991 and early 1992, Paterson and Weston wrote their next single, "Blue Room". Assisting with the recording was bassist Jah Wobble, keyboardist Miquette Giraudy, and guitarist Hillage.^[9] Despite its playing time of almost 40 minutes, "Blue Room" entered the UK charts at #12 and peaked at #8, making it the longest track to reach the UK singles chart.^[9] The Orb promoted this single with a "legendary avant-garde"^[21] performance on Top of the Pops where Patterson and Weston played a game of chess in space suits while footage of dolphins and an edited version of "Blue Room" ran in the background.^[22][7] In July 1992, U.F.Orb was released featuring "Blue Room" and, in the US release, The Orb's next single, "Assassin". Weston integrated his technical and creative expertise with Paterson's Eno-influenced ambience on U.F.Orb, combining "drum and bass rhythms" with "velvet keyboards" and "rippling synth lines".^[4] U.F.Orb reached #1 on the UK Albums Chart to the shock of critics, who were surprised that fans had embraced what journalists considered to be progressive rock.^[22][17] Despite The Orb's success, Paterson and Weston preferred to avoid personal publicity and instead allow their music to be the focus of attention.^[23] Because of this partial anonymity and The Orb's rotating membership, they are often recognised as more of a musical collective than a "band".^[24] Image File history File links Live93. ... Image File history File links Live93. ... Live 93 is a live album released in 1993 by The Orb. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... <this entry is incomplete and in the wrong place. ... Jah Wobble (born John Wardle, Stepney 1958) is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. ... System 7 is a band working in the dance/ambient scene. ... Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ... Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ... U.F.Orb is an ambient house album by The Orb. ... Assassin is a single by The Orb from U.F.Orb. ... Brian Eno (pronounced ) (born Brian Peter George St. ... The UK Albums Chart is a chart of the sales positions of albums in the United Kingdom. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Over the next year and a half, Paterson and Weston continued to produce new material, but releases stalled when Paterson began to feel that Big Life was trying to dictate the direction of The Orb's music.^[12] This led to intense disagreements with Big Life and The Orb soon left the label to sign a deal with Island Records.^[25] Their first release on Island Records was the live album Live 93, which gathered highlights from The Orb's recent performances in Europe and Asia. It featured The Orb's live crew of Paterson, Weston, producers Nick Burton and Simon Phillips, as well as audio engineer Andy Hughes, who had stepped in previously when Weston had decided to stop touring.^[6] The Orb's first studio production on Island Records was Pomme Fritz, a chaotic EP noted for its heavy use of strange samples and its lack of conventional harmonies.^[26] Though Pomme Fritz reached as high as #6 on the UK charts, critics panned it as "doodling".^[4][27] Even Island Records "hated it" and "didn't understand it at all", according to Paterson.^[25] Soon after production finished on Pomme Fritz, Paterson, Weston, and Orb contributor Thomas Fehlmann joined with Robert Fripp to form the group FFWD as a side project. FFWD released a single self-titled album on Paterson's Inter-Modo label, which Fehlmann later described as "an Orb track which became so long that it became a whole album!".^[4] Due to this aimlessness, FFWD lacked an artistic goal and disbanded after a single release.^[4] Soon after the release of FFWD in August 1994, Weston suddenly quit The Orb. Paterson claimed that Weston's departure was due to Weston's desire to have more control in The Orb.^[6] However, in an interview with i-D, Weston attributed the split to Paterson, saying that Paterson "didn't do his 50 per cent of the work."^[27] Paterson reaffirmed the status of The Orb saying, "The Orb is The Orb, and nothing can change that" and continued work with Hughes and Fehlmann.^[28] Island Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group and is operated through The Island Def Jam Music Group. ... Live 93 is a live album released in 1993 by The Orb. ... Simon Phillips is an artist. ... Andy Hughes is an English electronic music producer. ... Pomme Fritz is a 1994 EP by The Orb. ... Robert Fripp (born May 16, 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is a guitarist, record producer and a composer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of King Crimson. ... FFWD may mean: FFWD (band), a musical side project of The Orb and Robert Fripp, FFWD (newspaper), an alternative weekly newspaper in Calgary, Alberta. ... WAU/Mr. ... i-D is an influential British magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. ...

1995–2001: Paterson, Fehlmann & Hughes

Following Weston's departure from The Orb, Thomas Fehlmann joined as a full-time studio member, though he would not always participate in live performances. Paterson, Hughes, and Fehlmann then finished producing the album Orbus Terrarum, on which Paterson and Weston had been working. Orbus Terrarum, released in 1995, featured more "earthbound" and "organic" sounds than their previous trippy science fiction themed music.^[6][29] Orbus Terrarum suffered, as Paterson described it, "a good kicking" at the hands of the British press,^[30] who described it as "generic" and a low point for Paterson's creativity.^[31][27] Orbus Terrarum alienated many of the group's fans,^[32] causing the album to only reach #20 on the UK charts.^[33] American critics, however, gave it great acclaim including Rolling Stone who made it their album of the month, citing the album's symphonic flow coupled with The Orb's "uniquely British wit".^[34][35][4] After a long world tour, The Orb, with Andy Hughes and Steve Hillage, settled down to produce their next album, Orblivion—the process of which saw a return to their spacy sounds. Though Orblivion was recorded in May 1996, it was not released until almost a year later, due to Island Records' desire to promote it as a follow up to U2's techno-rock album Pop.^[36] Orblivion sold well in Europe as well as the United States, where it reached the Billboard Top 200. The first Orblivion single, "Toxygene", was the highest charting single by The Orb, reaching #4 in the UK on 8 February 1997. Despite high sales, Orblivion received a lukewarm reception from the UK press.^[2][37] As with Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion was better received by American critics, including Rolling Stone, who praised its "contrast of chaos and euphony".^[32][4] Meanwhile, the stresses of touring sat heavily on Paterson; he considered retiring The Orb, but ultimately continued touring and producing.^[38] Orbus Terrarum is a 1995 album by The Orb released on Island Records. ... Orblivion is a 1997 album by The Orb released by Island Records. ... U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. ... Pop is an album released by the Irish rock band U2 in March of 1997 (see 1997 in music). ... The Billboard 200 is a listing of the 200 highest selling music albums in the United States, published weekly in Billboard magazine. ... Toxygene is a single by electronic music artist The Orb. ... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ...

Paterson and Fehlmann, along with usual collaborators Hughes, Burton, and Phillips, wrote and produced Cydonia for a planned 1999 release.^[9] Featured on the album were appearances from Robert Fripp, John Roome (Witchman), and Fil Le Gonidec, one of The Orb's live performers. Singers Nina Walsh and Aki Omori appeared on two tracks each, providing vocals and co-writing lyrics with Paterson. Paterson felt that this new direction of songwriting for The Orb was more similar to the experimental work of Orbus Terrarum than to the techno-pop of Orblivion.^[39] As Island Records was in a period of restructuring due to its recent purchase by Universal Music Group, Cydonia was not released until 2001.^[40][25] Upon release, critics noted that Cydonia merged together pop, trance, and ambient-dub music, which they felt to be a conglomeration of bland vocals and uninventive ambience that lacked the appeal of The Orb's earlier work.^[41][40][42] NME harshly described it as "a stillborn relic, flawed throughout by chronically stunted ambitions" and describing its only appropriate audience to be "old ravers" seeking nostalgia.^[43] Not only did the album receive poor reviews, but The Orb was generally regarded by the UK press as past their prime and an "ambient dinosaur" out of place in the current dance music environment.^[3][41] After the release of Cydonia, Hughes left the group for undisclosed reasons, becoming "another acrimonious departure from The Orb" according to The Guardian.^[27] Cydonia is a 2001 album by The Orb released on Island Records. ... // John Roome (aka Witchman) is a hip hop/breaks artist who has worked with The Orb and The Jungle Brothers. ... Universal Music Group (UMG), formerly MCA Music Entertainment Group, is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. ... Not to be confused with the Canadian music magazine Music Express The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music magazine in the United Kingdom which has been published weekly since March 1952. ...

2001–2004: Paterson, Fehlmann & Phillips

Paterson's record label Badorb.com had only fourteen releases in its brief existence.

In 2001, Alex Paterson formed the record label Badorb.com as an outlet for Orb members' side projects. To promote both Badorb.com and Cydonia, The Orb toured internationally, including their first visit to the United States in four years.^[44] NME described The Orb's tour as "charming" and that The Orb was "freed from the Floydian pretensions that dogged the band throughout the mid-'90s.^[45] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Badorb. ... Badorb. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde progressive rock music. ...

The Orb, now composed of Paterson, Phillips and Fehlmannn, with guest John Roome, accepted an invitation to join the Area:One concert tour with Moby, Paul Oakenfold, and other alternative and electronic artists.^[46] Though The Orb was paired with more mainstream artists during the tour such as Incubus, Paterson and Fehlmann chose to make their next releases a series of several low-key EPs for German label Kompakt in 2002. The Orb found critical success on Kompakt;^[47] however, Badorb.com collapsed soon after releasing the compilation Bless You. Badorb.com had released fourteen records over the course of fourteen months from artists including Guy Pratt (Conduit), Ayumi Hamasaki, and Takayuki Shiraishi, as well as The Orb's three-track Daleth of Elphame EP. Though Badorb.com was an internet-based record label, they only sold vinyl releases (with one exception, the aforementioned Orb EP), which Paterson later remarked was a poor idea because "not many people... have record players".^[48] Moby (born Richard Melville Hall, September 11, 1965), is an American songwriter, musician and singer. ... This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedias quality standards. ... Incubus is a five-piece alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California. ... Kompakt is a Cologne-based electronic music label and vinyl/cd distributor. ... Guy Pratt is a well-known session bassist and also a songwriter, actor and comedian. ... Ayumi Hamasaki , born October 2, 1978) is an award-winning J-Pop singer. ... Daleth of Elphame EP is a 2002 EP by The Orb released on Badorb. ...

Though their musical style had changed somewhat since the 1990s, The Orb continued to use their odd synthetic sounds on 2004's Bicycles & Tricycles,^[49] to mixed reviews. The Daily Telegraph praised Bicycles & Tricycles as being "inclusive, exploratory, and an enjoyable journey";^[50] however, other publications dismissed it as "stoner dub" and irrelevant to current electronic music.^[51][52][53] Like Cydonia, Bicycles & Tricycles featured vocals, including female rapper MC Soom-T who added a hip hop twist to the album.^[54] The Orb left Island Records and released the album on Cooking Vinyl and Sanctuary Records. To promote the album, the band began a UK tour with dub reggae artist Mad Professor. Though The Orb still pulled in large crowds, The Guardian noted that they lacked the intensity found in their earlier performances.^[55] Image File history File links The_Orb_-_Aftermath. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ... Bicycles & Tricycles is a 2004 album from The Orb. ... Bicycles & Tricycles is a 2004 album from The Orb. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ... Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

2004–present: Paterson & Fehlmann

The Transit Kings performing at The Fringe Festival in Dublin.

After two more EPs on Kompakt, The Orb (now composed of only Paterson and Fehlmann) released Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt, which featured new material in addition to tweaked versions of their previous Kompakt output.^[47] By this stage, the All Music Guide observed, Thomas Fehlmann had become the primary creative figure in The Orb, "inhibiting Alex Paterson's whimsical impulses".^[47] Because of this, Okie Dokie was considerably more focused and less "goofy" than Cydonia and Bicycles & Tricycles.^[47][56] Fehlmann's trademark hypnotic loops and delays made him the center of Okie Dokie production and, according to Pitchfork Media, made it "difficult to say where [Paterson] is in the picture".^[57] The Orb's releases with Kompakt gained The Orb back much of their musical credibility with the press and showed that The Orb could "age gracefully".^[56][58] Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... The Transit Kings are a British electronic music group consisting of Jimmy Cauty, Alex Paterson, Guy Pratt and Dom Beken. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: 01, +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ... Okie Dokie Its the Orb on Kompakt is an album by The Orb. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... In electronic music, a loop is a sample which is repeated. ... Delay is an audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time[1]. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating... A typical example of Pitchforks main page, as of 12-12-06 Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork and occasionally shortened to P4K, pitchy, or pfork,[1] is a United States-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ...

In August 2006, the founders of The Orb - Paterson and Cauty - released Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God, their debut album as the Transit Kings with Guy Pratt and Pratt's associate, Dom Beken.^[59] The album featured appearances from The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and comedian Simon Day.^[60] Beken described Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God as "self-consciously musically written and less sample-based" compared to the members' previous work.^[61] Living had been in production since 2001, but due to members' other obligations, it was delayed for several years.^[59] The album received mix critical reactions, with reviewers such as The Sun comparing the album favorably to the music of DJ Shadow and Röyksopp^[62] while other publications, such as The Times, called it "Orb-lite" and proclaimed it to be "Deep Forest-style sludge".^[63] Soon after the album's release, Cauty left the Transit Kings on "extended leave", leaving the project in indefinite limbo.^[61] Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God is the debut album by the Transit Kings. ... The Transit Kings are a British electronic music group consisting of Jimmy Cauty, Alex Paterson, Guy Pratt and Dom Beken. ... Guy Pratt is a well-known session bassist and also a songwriter, actor and comedian. ... The Smiths were an English rock group active from 1982 to 1987. ... Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher on 31 October 1963 in Ardwick) is an English guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player and singer. ... Simon Day is a British comedian most famous for his roles in the sketch show The Fast Show, sitcom Grass and a series of comedic adverts for Powergen. ... This article is about a British tabloid. ... DJ Shadow (born Josh Davis on January 1, 1973) is a United States DJ, turntablist, music producer and songwriter. ... Röyksopp ( IPA: ; sometimes misspelled Royksopp or Røyksopp) is an electronic music duo based in Bergen, Norway composed of Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ... Deep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians, Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. ...

In the summer of 2007, The Orb (Paterson and Fehlmann) are scheduled for several dates on European music festivals, including Wickerman Festival and Bestival. The Wickerman from the 2006 festival The Wickerman Festival is an annual music festival held near to Dundrennan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. ... The Bestival is a music festival on the Isle of Wight. ...

The Orb's official MySpace page indicated a new album, dubbed The Dream (MECHTA) will be released September 9, 2007 [The Orb's MySpace page]

Themes and influences

Inspiration

The Orb's members have drawn from an assortment of influences in their music.^[64] The Orb's central figure, Alex Paterson, had early musical tastes and influences which included King Tubby, Alice Cooper, Prince, Kraftwerk, and T.Rex.^[65] Among these, Paterson cites Kraftwerk as one of the most important, claiming they created the foundation from which all modern dance music has been built.^[1] While in Brixton with Martin Glover as a teenager, Paterson was also exposed to a large amount of reggae music, such as The Mighty Diamonds, The Abyssinians, and Bob Marley.^[1] The reggae influence on Paterson and The Orb can readily be heard in tracks such as the single "Perpetual Dawn" and U.F.Orb's "Towers of Dub". The earliest ambient influences of The Orb came in 1979 during Paterson's roadie days with Killing Joke. While with the band in Neuss, Paterson listened to Brian Eno's Music for Films while on LSD and watched "the Ruhr steel works explode in the distance", noting that "[t]he scene seemed to be taking place in the music as well".^[4] That same night, Paterson was also inspired while listening to Cluster's Grosses Wasser and found that the steel works' "huge metal arms were crushing molten rocks in time to the music", which was something he'd "never seen, or heard, anything like it before".^[1] Along with Cluster and Kraftwerk, Paterson was also influenced by other German experimental music from Can and composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.^[6] Modulations calls Paterson's music a "maximal" version of Brian Eno's "minimal" ambience,^[66] though according to Paterson, Eno resents Paterson's use of his music as an influence.^[10] King Tubby King Tubby (born Osbourne Ruddock, January 28, 1941 – February 6, 1989) was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s. ... Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ... Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an iconic American musician. ... Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) is a German musical group that has made key contributions to the development of improvisational rock and electronic music, most notably within the latter categorys sub-genres known as synthpop, electro, techno, house and IDM. Early musical templates formed within the industrial and... T.Rex (originally known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, also occasionally spelled T Rex or T-Rex), were an English rock band fronted by Marc Bolan. ... Brixton is an area of South London, England, part of the London Borough of Lambeth. ... The Mighty Diamonds are a Jamaican harmony trio, recording roots reggae with a strong Rastafarian influence. ... The Abyssinians are a Jamaican reggae group in the roots reggae style, famous for their close harmonies and promotion of Rastafarianism in their lyrics. ... Robert Bob Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and political activist. ... Neuss is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Music for Films (1978) is one of Brian Enos ambient albums. ... Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, LSD-25, or acid. ... Map of the Ruhr Area The Ruhr Area (German Ruhrgebiet, colloquially Ruhrpott or Kohlenpott or simply Pott) is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, consisting of a number of large (former) industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to... Cluster is a German musical group whose output prefigures ambient music. ... Grosses Wasser is a 1979 album by Cluster. ... Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968. ... Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a German composer, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century. ... Modulations is a multi-media exploration into the history of electronic music, consisting of a documentary film, its soundtrack album, and a book. ...

The Orb has often been described as "The Pink Floyd of the Nineties",^[67] however, Paterson has stated that The Orb's music is more influenced by experimental electronic music more so than progressive rock of the 1970s.^[1] He has noted though that the Pink Floyd album Meddle was influential to him as a child in the 1960s.^[17] The psychedelic prog-rock similarities have led critics to describe The Orb as hippie revivalists;^[68] however, Paterson has strongly rejected the tag, claiming that even as a youth, he was "one of those punks who hated hippies".^[69] Meddle is an album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. ... Singer at a modern Hippie movement in Russia Hippie, or hippy, refers to a member of a subgroup of the counterculture that began in the United States during the early 1960s, becoming an established social group by 1965, and expanding to other countries before declining in the mid-1970s. ...

During production of Cydonia and Bicycles & Tricycles, Paterson's biggest influences were drum and bass and trip hop music, as seen on the tracks "Ghostdancing", "Thursday's Keeper", and "Aftermath".^[70] The Orb's more recent influences consist largely of German techno producers, such as Triola, who themselves were inspired by The Orb's earlier work.^[47] Paterson cites the music of Kompakt as one of his primary modern influences and claims it to be among the best modern ambient music.^[71] Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb,deenbee, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound) is a term coined by United Kingdom dance magazine Mixmag, to describe a musical trend in the mid-1990s; trip hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of Englands hip hop and house scenes. ... Jörg Burger is a music producer who has had several releases on Kompakt as Triola, including a full length album Triola im Fünftonraum in 2004. ...

Drug use

As chill out DJs in the late 1980s, The Orb often played to the needs of "the chemical generation" (ravers of the 1980s and 1990s), making music "to come down from drugs to".^[1] Paterson described The Orb's original intent as "basically about taking lots of drugs and going clubbing."^[6] Similarly, one of The Orb's early taglines was "Ambient house for the E generation".^[5] Often during interviews, Alex Paterson will smoke joints,^[8] including a 2003 interview with The Guardian, where interviewer Will Hodgkinson noted the assorted "hash-smoking paraphernalia" around Paterson's Battersea apartment.^[1] Drug references often turn up in tracks, such as "72" from Orblivion, which features a clip from Hair proclaiming "the youth of America on LSD!". Another notable case is on "Little Fluffy Clouds", where the odd nasal tonality of Rickie Lee Jones' voice is sometimes attributed to drug use, though Jones claimed that it was the result of a heavy cold.^[72] This article is about a form of party. ... MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), most commonly known by the street names ecstasy or XTC (for more names see the full list), is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family, whose primary effect is believed to be the stimulation of secretion as well as inhibition of re-uptake of large amounts... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ... Hair, subtitled The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, is a musical about hippies and was a significant part of the drug, music and peace-love culture of the 1960s. ... Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, LSD-25, or acid. ... Rickie Lee Jones on the Duchess of Coolsville album cover. ...

Imagery

The Orb's performances are noted for the use of psychedelic and science fiction images.

Imagery has always been an important part of The Orb's persona.^[73] This is most prominent during live performances, where The Orb often projects surreal images against onstage screens. Common images include morphing faces, futuristic cityscapes, and ubiquitous alien references.^[74] They have long associated their act with absurd symbology with images such as floating pigs.^[70] This has carried over to their music videos, most of which are spacy, brightly coloured montages of surreal images including astronauts, clouds, and neon dolphins. Because of their use of psychedelic images at shows, The Orb's shows are frequently compared to those of Pink Floyd, who also experimented with in-show imagery and films.^[74] Paterson cites Godfrey Reggio's and Philip Glass's film Koyaanisqatsi as a primary influence to their concert imagery.^[38] Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Polaroid by Michael Dare Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1940) is an American director of experimental documentary films. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance is a 1982 documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. ...

The Orb is also been noted for their original album art, which features much of the same imagery as their live act. Noted graphic design group The Designers Republic created the cover art for the The Orb's earlier work, including Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, U.F.Orb, and the singles from those two albums.^[75] For their next album, The Orb poked fun at their Pink Floyd comparisons with the cover of Live 93 featuring a floating stuffed sheep over the Battersea Power Station, which had appeared on the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals.^[76] The artwork found in Badorb.com releases was similar to The Orb's odd artwork of the mid-1990s, as it was stylistically similar and contained little writing.^[25] Paterson has also dabbled in the creation of cover art himself, designing the cover of Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt.^[77] Incunabula by Autechre, cover design by TDR Appetite for Disctruction by Funkstörung, cover design by TDR WipEout for the Playstation, logo and interface design by TDR The Designers Republic (TDR or miTDR for short) is a group of graphic designers, founded on July 14, 1986 by Ian Anderson, and... Battersea Power Station viewed from the north bank of the River Thames at Pimlico. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Science fiction and space

Some of the more prominent motifs in The Orb's work are outer space and science fiction, including alien visitations, space flight, and mind control. These have included The Orb's use of samples from serious sources such as NASA transmissions to comedic clips from films like Woody Allen's Sleeper. U.F.Orb especially expressed a fascination with alien life with its bizarre sound samples and in the album's title itself.^[20] The title of its most popular single, "Blue Room", is itself a reference to the supposed Blue Room of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which was heavily investigated as a possible UFO evidence holding room.^[69] Their 2001 album, too, is named for a space-related subject, specifically the Cydonia Mensae region of Mars.^[2] Due to Paterson's focus on science fiction and astronomical phenomena, The Guardian described Paterson as "pop [music]'s primary spokesperson on aliens".^[27] Currently, the most common technology for space transport is rocket propulsion, which expels matter to provide a net forward thrust. ... Mind control (or thought control) has the premise that an outside source can control an individuals thinking, behavior or consciousness (either directly or more subtly). ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States federal government, responsible for the nations public space program. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Sleeper (1973) is a futuristic science fiction comedy film, written by, directed by, and starring Woody Allen. ... Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force base in Greene and Montgomery counties, adjacent to Riverside, Fairborn, Beavercreek, and Dayton, Ohio. ... The Cydonia Region taken by the Viking 1 orbiter and released by NASA/JPL on July 25, 1976 (north is to the upper right). ...

Techniques, technology, live performances

Paterson and Fehlmann at a 2006 performance at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

In The Orb's early DJ events in the 1980s, Paterson and Cauty performed with three record decks, a cassette player, and a CD player all of which were mixed through an Akai 12-track mixer.^[36] They used their equipment to harmonise recorded music and sound effect samples into an "endless sound continuum" for audiences of worn out dancers.^[4] Even after The Orb began producing original material, they kept the same sample-heavy model for live acts by spontaneously integrating obscure samples into their pre-recorded tracks. During promotional tours for Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and U.F.Orb, The Orb performed using a digital audio tape machine and experimented with other media sources such as dubplates. The tape machines held individual chords, rhythms, and basslines for each composition, allowing The Orb to reprocess them and mimic the act of DJ-ing.^[24] Members could then easily improvise with these samples and manipulate them using sound effect racks.^[6] Often, The Orb had a live musician accompanying them, such as Steve Hillage on guitar. Their shows in the early 1990s would often be three hours of semi-improvised, continuous music featuring a wealth of triggered samples, voices, and pre-recorded tracks which were barely identifiable as the original piece.^[78][78] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 378 pixelsFull resolution (902 × 426 pixel, file size: 70 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photographer: Barry Mulling The Orb @ Disney Concert Hall 2006-03-18. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 378 pixelsFull resolution (902 × 426 pixel, file size: 70 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photographer: Barry Mulling The Orb @ Disney Concert Hall 2006-03-18. ... Alex Paterson (Duncan Robert Alex Paterson also known and abbreviated as Dr Alex Paterson, born October 15, 1959 in London) near Battersea is an English musician and co-founder of the ambient group The Orb, in which he has worked since its inception. ... Thomas Fehlmann, who lives in Berlin has been active in electronic music as far back as the 1980s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Akai () was a Japanese consumer electronics producer founded in 1929. ... BBC Local Radio Mark III radio mixing desk In professional audio, a mixing console, digital mixing console, mixing desk (Brit. ... Digital audio tape can also refer to a compact cassette with digital storage. ... A dubplate is an acetate disc — usually 12 inches, 10 inches or 7 inches in diameter — used in mastering studios for quality control and test recordings before proceeding with the final master, and subsequent pressing of the record to be mass produced on vinyl. ... Amp rack is short for amplifier rack and is a term used mostly in reference to professional audio applications to describe any furniture, fixture, or case where amplifiers are mounted by their faceplates or in slot grooves, mostly synonamous with rack mount. ...

The Orb began performing regularly at the Brixton Academy in the early 1990s, where they used the high ceilings and large space for their "well-suited amorphous sound", frequently performing their newest and more experimental pieces there.^[79] Andy Hughes took Weston's place at live performances after the 1993 tour, though Weston did reappear for The Orb's concert at the rainy Woodstock '94.^[9] The Orb played for late night raves on the first two nights of Woodstock '94 in addition to artists including Aphex Twin, Orbital, and Deee-Lite. The next year, The Orb's touring group consisted of Paterson, Hughes, Nick Burton on percussion, and Simon Phillips on bass. This ensemble of live performers and electronic music created a "cacophony" of "gigantic, swarming sounds".^[80] Though The Orb's performances use much onstage equipment and many props, Paterson prefers to present The Orb as "a non-centralised figure of amusement on stage".^[28] Brixton Academy The Brixton Academy is a large music venue in Brixton, South London with a capacity of 4,921. ... Woodstock 94 poster design Woodstock 94 is a rock concert that was held in order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock concert of 1969. ... Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is a Welsh-Cornish electronic music artist, credited with developing the genres of techno, ambient, acid, Goat Minge and drum and bass. ... The term orbital has several meanings: In physics and chemistry it is used to describe an atomic electron configuration, see also molecular orbital and atomic orbital. ... Deee-Lite was a house- and dance music group formed in New York City. ...

The Orb used ADAT recorders for performances from 1993 to 2001 and utilised large 48-track decks, which Paterson described as basically being a "studio onstage".^[81] They hooked synthesisers, such as the ARP 2600, to MIDI interfaces to recreate specific sounds that appeared on their albums.^[6] The Orb's methods of studio music creation changed as well. For more recent albums such as Cydonia, The Orb used inexpensive equipment such as Korg's Electribe products, which Paterson described as employing more of a "bedroom techno" approach.^[2] Despite their use of laptops during performances and in-studio computers, Paterson says that he still cherishes vinyl and does not find purchasing CDs or downloading music to be nearly as satisfying.^[48] This is an article about the digital recording format. ... The ARP 2600 was semi-professional before being made popular. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... For comic book character, see Korg (comics). ... Electribe is the name given to a group of electronic musical instruments by Korg that essentially resemble the Roland TR-808 and TR-909 in appearence and in function. ...

Sampling and remixing

One of The Orb's most notable contributions to electronic music is their idea of blurring the distinction between sampling and remixing.^[24] Albums such as Pomme Fritz, though released as a piece of original work, consist largely of manipulated samples. Conversely, The Orb's remixes typically use only small sections of the original track, most notably in the case of their single "Toxygene". "Toxygene" was originally commissioned as a remix of Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygene 8" from Oxygene 7-13.^[82] However, The Orb "obliterated it" and reassembled only a few fragments for their remix, much to the chagrin of Jarre, who reportedly refused to release it;^[82] The Orb released the track themselves under the name "Toxygene", which further irritated Jarre, to whom Paterson retorted "The French are always five years behind us, anyway."^[82] In statements made after the release of "Toxygene", however, Jarre denied that he rejected the original remix because of disliking it.^[83] Jean-Michel André Jarre (born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France) is a French composer, performer and music producer. ... Oxygene 7-13 is a 1997 album of instrumental electronic music by Jean-Michel Jarre. ...

Other artists have gotten agitated with The Orb sampling their work, though Paterson jokingly suggests that "[t]hey don't know the half of it."^[25] Paterson says that he finds a "beauty" and a "cleverness" with slipping unlicensed samples into compositions without anyone recognizing it.^[6] Even though fans often try to guess the origins of many of The Orb's samples, Paterson states that they are rarely correct and that they would "die" if they discovered, for example, where the drums on "Little Fluffy Clouds" originated from.^[2] He has said that record labels have cautioned him, "Don't tell anyone where you got your samples until we get them cleared!".^[2]

The Orb has used a wide variety of audio clips from sources ranging from McCarthy era speeches to prank phone calls by Victor Lewis-Smith to David Thewlis' apocalypse-driven rant from the film Naked.^[74] Paterson obtains many samples from recording TV and radio for hours at a time and picking out his favorite clips.^[6] He and other members of The Orb record nature sounds for use on albums, most notably on FFWD and Orbus Terrarum. The Orb's combination of ambient music and sampling from lower fidelity audio sources often creates a "fuzzy texture" in the sound quality, depersonalising The Orb's music.^[24] The Orb is lauded for their "Monty Python-esque levity" in their use of audio samples,^[32] though NME asserts that Paterson "sabotage[s] his majestic soundscapes" with "irritatingly zany" sounds.^[84] Image File history File links OrbToxygene. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ... Toxygene is a single by electronic music artist The Orb. ... Jean-Michel André Jarre (born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France) is a French composer, performer and music producer. ... Oxygene 7-13 is a 1997 album of instrumental electronic music by Jean-Michel Jarre. ... McCarthyism, named after Joseph McCarthy, was a period of intense anticommunism, also (popularly) known as the (second) Red Scare, which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956 (or later), when the government of the United States was actively engaged in suppression of the Communist Party USA, its... Victor Lewis-Smith (born probably 1961 but possibly earlier) is a British satirist, producer, critic and prankster. ... David Thewlis in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. ... Naked Naked (1993) is a British film directed by Mike Leigh. ...

The Orb has been a prolific remixing team, having completed over 80 commissioned remixes since 1989.^[75] Even during periods of label conflict and contractual limbo, The Orb found steady work remixing for artists including Depeche Mode, Lisa Stansfield, and Front 242. Though The Orb's remixes from the early and mid-1990s feature a large number of comical samples, Progressive-Sounds describe them as "ahead of their time" and NME notes them as "not entirely incompatible with contemporary chilling."^[64][84] However, some pieces, such as their Bee Gees cover collaboration with Robbie Williams, received criticism for being "beyond a joke" for their use of strange noises.^[84] The Orb's remix of Nine Inch Nails' "The Perfect Drug", too, was described as "silly", as they made it sound like Trent Reznor was "drowning in his bathtub".^[85] Though Paterson maintains that much of The Orb's remix work is done to support other artists, he admits some of their remixes for major artists were performed so that The Orb could "pay the bills".^[70] Depeche Mode are an electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, England. ... Lisa Stansfield on the cover of her debut album Affection Lisa Jane Stansfield (born on April 11, 1966) is an English R&B/Soul/House music singer from Rochdale, Greater Manchester. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Progressive-Sounds is one of the most popular electronic music review and news websites. ... The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — that became one of the most successful musical acts of all time. ... For footballers with the same name, see Robbie Williams (footballer). ... “NIN” redirects here. ... The Perfect Drug Versions (also known as Halo 11) is an EP by Nine Inch Nails of remixes for the song The Perfect Drug released in 1997. ... Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. ...

Selected discography

Albums^[33][86]

• 1991: The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld (Big Life) (UK Albums Chart #29)
• 1992: Aubrey Mixes: The Ultraworld Excursions (Big Life)
• 1992: U.F.Orb (Big Life) (UK #1)
• 1993: Live 93 (Big Life) (UK #23)
• 1995: Orbus Terrarum (Island Records) (UK #20)
• 1996: Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty (Deviant Records, Ultra Records)
• 1997: Orblivion (Island Records) (UK #19, Billboard 200 #174)
• 1998: U.F.Off - The Best of The Orb (Island Records) (UK #38)
• 2001: Cydonia (Island Records)
• 2001: Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty Part 2 (Deviant Records, Ultra Records)
• 2004: Bicycles & Tricycles (Cooking Vinyl, Sanctuary Records) (Billboard Top Electronic Albums #22)^[86]
• 2005: Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt (Kompakt)
• 2005: Orbsessions Volume One (Malicious Damage)
• 2007: Orbsessions Volume Two (Malicious Damage)

Singles/EPs^[87][86]

• 1989: Kiss EP (WAU/Mr. Modo Records)
• 1989: "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld" (Big Life, WAU/Mr. Modo Records) (UK Singles Chart #78)
• 1990: "Little Fluffy Clouds" (Big Life) (UK #87, Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #13))
• 1991: "Perpetual Dawn" (Big Life) (UK #61, Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #13)
• 1992: "Blue Room" (Big Life) (UK #8, Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #46)
• 1992: "Assassin" (Big Life) (UK #12)
• 1993: "Little Fluffy Clouds" (reissue) (Big Life) (UK #10)
• 1994: "Perpetual Dawn" (reissue) (Big Life) (UK #18)
• 1994: Pomme Fritz (Island Records) (UK #6)
• 1995: "Oxbow Lakes" (Island Records) (UK #38)
• 1997: "Toxygene" (Island Records) (UK #4)
• 1997: "Asylum" (Island Records) (UK #20)
• 2001: "Once More" (Island Records) (UK #38)
• 2002: Daleth of Elphame EP (Badorb.com)
• 2004: "Aftermath" (Sanctuary Records)
• 2004: The Orb vs. Meat Beat Manifesto - Battersea Shield (Malicious Damage)

Remixes

• 1989: The KLF - "3 a.m. Eternal"
• 1989: David A. Stewart - "Lily Was Here"
• 1990: Depeche Mode - "Happiest Girl"
• 1991: System 7 - "Miracle"
• 1991: Primal Scream - "Higher Than the Sun"
• 1992: Mike Oldfield - "Sentinel"
• 1992: Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Tong Poo"
• 1994: Suzuki K1 >> 7.5cc - "Satellite Serenade"
• 1996: Prong - "Rude Awakening"
• 1997: Tubeway Army - "Jo the Waiter"
• 1997: Meat Beat Manifesto - "Radio Babylon"
• 1997: Nine Inch Nails - "The Perfect Drug"
• 1998: Semisonic - "Secret Smile"
• 2001: Ayumi Hamasaki - "End of the World"
• 2002: Indochine - "Mao Boy"
• 2003: Mika Nakashima - "Find the Way"
• 2004: Hybrid - "Higher Than a Skyscraper"

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External links

• Official Website
• The Orb at Discogs
• The Orb at MusicBrainz
• The Orb at Last.fm
• BadOrb.com label
• Area One video