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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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Ambient house, a mix between house music and ambient music is a music style that describes itself as dreamy, chill out and quiet music. ...
Ambient music is a musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music, traditional, world, and noise. ...
Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ...
Chill out (sometimes chillout), a term derived from a slang injunction to relax, emerged in the early and mid-1990s as a catch-all term for various styles of relatively mellow, slow-tempo music made by contemporary producers in the electronic music scene. ...
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Martin Youth Glover (born December 23, 1960) is an influential record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. ...
The Transit Kings are a British electronic music group consisting of Jimmy Cauty, Alex Paterson, Guy Pratt and Dom Beken. ...
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. ...
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James Cauty, Jimmy or Jimi, also known as Rockman Rock, was born in Devon, England in 1956 and not much is known about him until, as a 17-year old artist, he painted a popular Lord of the Rings poster (and later, a counterpart based on The Hobbit) for Athena. ...
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. ...
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Chill out (sometimes chillout), a term derived from a slang injunction to relax, emerged in the early and mid-1990s as a catch-all term for various styles of relatively mellow, slow-tempo music made by contemporary producers in the electronic music scene. ...
Ambient house, a mix between house music and ambient music is a music style that describes itself as dreamy, chill out and quiet music. ...
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. ...
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. ...
James Cauty, Jimmy or Jimi, also known as Rockman Rock, was born in Devon, England in 1956 and not much is known about him until, as a 17-year old artist, he painted a popular Lord of the Rings poster (and later, a counterpart based on The Hobbit) for Athena. ...
Ambient music is a musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music, traditional, world, and noise. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. Most often, they played dub reggae and other chill out music which they described as "Ambient house for the E generation".[5][10] 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. ...
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Martin Youth Glover (born December 23, 1960) is an influential record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. ...
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. ...
James Cauty, Jimmy or Jimi, also known as Rockman Rock, was born in Devon, England in 1956 and not much is known about him until, as a 17-year old artist, he painted a popular Lord of the Rings poster (and later, a counterpart based on The Hobbit) for Athena. ...
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Chill out (sometimes chillout), a term derived from a slang injunction to relax, emerged in the early and mid-1990s as a catch-all term for various styles of relatively mellow, slow-tempo music made by contemporary producers in the electronic music scene. ...
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Sueño Latino is an Italo disco duo from Italy, formerly known as Righeira. ...
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Chill out (sometimes chillout), a term derived from a slang injunction to relax, emerged in the early and mid-1990s as a catch-all term for various styles of relatively mellow, slow-tempo music made by contemporary producers in the electronic music scene. ...
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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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 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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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Incubus is a five-piece alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California. ...
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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. ...
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Bicycles & Tricycles is a 2004 album from The Orb. ...
Bicycles & Tricycles is a 2004 album from The Orb. ...
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2004–present: Paterson & Fehlmann 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. ...
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The Transit Kings are a British electronic music group consisting of Jimmy Cauty, Alex Paterson, Guy Pratt and Dom Beken. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 compar |
