The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld is the seminal 1991

1991 in music

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ambient house

Ambient house

Ambient house, a music genre that first emerged in the late 1980s, is a sub-genre of house music, combining elements of acid house and ambient music...

-concept

Concept album

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debut album by the electronic music collective The Orb

The Orb

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 its musical work came toward the end of the year when the group recorded a session for John Peel on BBC Radio 1...

. The album's framework is of a two-hour psychedelic

Psychedelic

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trip

Psychedelic experience

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through music genres and studio electronics, produced to "push the threshold" of live stage performance. The double album

Double album

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is a continuous progressive

Progressive electronic music

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composition consisting of several tracks advancing the journey concept and composed of vocal samples and sound effects interspersed with original music.There are three versions, a 109:41 minute UK release, a 70:41 minute U.S.

United States

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release and a 182:05 minute UK Deluxe Edition reissue that was released in mid 2006.

History

The Orb have always primarily been composed of one individual, Alex Paterson

Alex Paterson

Alex Paterson is an English musician and co-founder of the ambient group The Orb, in which he has worked since its inception....

, along with numerous and varied individuals assisting throughout the group's recording career. Paterson's late 80's and early 90's chillout

Chill out music

Chill out music is an umbrella term for several styles of electronic music characterized by their mellow style and mid-tempo beats — "chill" being derived from a slang injunction to "relax."Chill out music emerged in the early and mid-1990s in "chill rooms" at dance clubs, where relaxing music...

dj sets in Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold

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's "Land of Oz" night in the club Heaven

Heaven (nightclub)

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are thought of by those involved as legendary. and included collaborations with another ambient house

The KLF

The KLF were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....

pioneer Jimmy Cauty

Jimmy Cauty

James Francis Cauty is a British artist and musician born in Liverpool, England, in 1956...

. Paterson said of these events:

Following success in the singles market (including the 1988 "Tripping on Sunshine", 1989 "Kiss EP" and 1989 "Huge, evergrowing brain that rules from the center of the Universe"), Paterson and Cauty started work on their first album. Cauty left in 1990 to pursue another band, The KLF

The KLF

The KLF were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....

, with Bill Drummond

Bill Drummond

William Ernest Drummond is a Scottish artist, musician, writer and record producer. He was the co-founder of late 1980s avant-garde pop group The KLF and its 1990s media-manipulating successor, the K Foundation, with which he burned a million pounds in 1994...

,. Paterson moved on to his next collaboration "Little Fluffy Clouds

Little Fluffy Clouds

"Little Fluffy Clouds" is a single released by the English ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in July 1990 on the record label Big Life and peaked at #87 on the UK Singles Chart. The Orb also included it on their 1991 double album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld...

" in Autumn 1990 with Killing Joke's

Killing Joke

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Youth. The track was recorded by an 18 year old studio Engineer and future Orb collaborator Kris "Thrash" Weston

Kris Weston

Kris Weston is a British electronic musician, record producer and remixer best known for his work as a member of The Orb....

.

In April 1991, the Orb released their first album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld for an audience familiar with their groundbreaking singles and several John Peel

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...

radio sessions. The album was received in the UK and Europe with critical acclaim. The album rose to position #29 in the UK Album charts. By mid-91, the Orb had signed a deal to release the album in the U.S. but were forced to edit the double-disc 109:41 minute UK release down to a one disc 70:41 minutes. The full double-disc version and cassette were later released in the U.S. by Island.

Album covers

The two covers are primarily distinguished by the outing of the Floydian

Pink Floyd

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Battersea Power Station on the version in U.S of A. cover. The images are attributed as follows (in the lining):

orbsonic love deep space & sampling image in the designers republic
The Designers Republic
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: ian, dave, nick, micheal & vanessa
Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station
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photographed by richard cheadle and treated by dr/chromagene
cumulonimbus clouds over the congo basin
Congo Basin
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(challenger
Space Shuttle Challenger
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1 April '83)

Critical reception

Melody Maker (12/91) - Ranked #22 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991 - "...some of the most unique sounds of the year..."
NME (10/2/93, p. 29) - Ranked #45 in the NME Writer's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
Alternative Press (7/95, p.116) - "...probably [the Orb's] most influential [release]. A combination of light rhythms, inter-stellar spaces, and random knob-turning, ADVENTURES BEYOND THE ULTRAWORLD soared into our minds with an ambient shriek unheard since Eno first experimented with the concept..."
Q (11/96, p.155) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...[this] 1991 debut album...has all the trademark devices of The Orb in place: helicopter noises, vocal samples, slabs of dub, sudden washes of apparently random noise, absurd titles...and very long tracks..."
Spin (9/99, p.160) - Ranked #82 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
Muzik (2/02) - Ranked #7 in Muzik Magazines Top 50 Dance Albums if All time
Pitchfork (2003) - Ranked #100 in Pitchforks Top 100 records of the 1990s "... supremely hypnotizing ... simultaneously liquid enough to put you to sleep and frighteningly exotic enough to hype your nerves up"
Slant Magazine (2003) - Ranked #4 in Slants The 25 Greatest Electronic Albums of the 20th Century

Side one

(earth orbit one) "Little Fluffy Clouds
Little Fluffy Clouds
"Little Fluffy Clouds" is a single released by the English ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in July 1990 on the record label Big Life and peaked at #87 on the UK Singles Chart. The Orb also included it on their 1991 double album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld...

" (A. Paterson/Martin Glover) – 4:27
(earth orbit two) "Earth (Gaia)" (A. Paterson/K. Weston) – 9:48
(earth orbit three) "Supernova at the End of the Universe" (A. Paterson/S. Hillage/M. Giraudy) – 11:56

Side two

(lunar orbit four) "Back Side of the Moon" (A. Paterson/S. Hillage/M. Giraudy) – 14:15
(lunar orbit five) "Spanish Castles in Space" (A. Paterson/J. le Mesurier/G. Pratt) – 15:05

Side three

(ultraworld probe six) "Perpetual Dawn
Perpetual Dawn
"Perpetual Dawn" is a reggae influenced track by The Orb from The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. It was originally released in 1991 and re-released in 1994 and features vocals by Jeffrey Nelson and Shola...

" (A. Paterson/E. Maiden) – 9:31
(ultraworld probe seven) "Into the Fourth Dimension" (A. Paterson/A. Falconer/P. Ferguson) – 9:16
(ultraworld probe eight) "Outlands" (A. Paterson/T. Fehlmann) – 8:23

Side four

(ultraworld nine) "Star 6 & 7 8 9" (A. Paterson/Tom Green/Hugh Vickers) – 8:10
(ultraworld ten) "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld
A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld
"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld" is a single by the ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in October 1989 and made the UK Singles Chart in 1990, peaking at #78. The 'Peel Session' version was also voted into #10 place in John...

(Live Mix Mk 10)"(A. Paterson/J. Cauty/M. Riperton
Minnie Riperton
Minnie Julia Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from 1972 until her death in the summer of 1979. They had two children - music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya...

/R. Rudolph/S. Darlow/S. Lipson/B. Woolley/T. Horn
Trevor Horn
Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....

) – 18:49

Side two

"Supernova at the End of the Universe" – 11:55
"Perpetual Dawn (Solar Youth Mix)" (A. Paterson/E. Maiden/J. Nelson/S. Phillips/Martin Glover) – 3:48

Side three

"Into the Fourth Dimension" – 9:14
"Outlands" – 8:20
"Star 6 & 7 8 9" – 4:22

Side four

"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (Live Mix Mk 10)" – 18:47

Disc one

"Little Fluffy Clouds
Little Fluffy Clouds
"Little Fluffy Clouds" is a single released by the English ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in July 1990 on the record label Big Life and peaked at #87 on the UK Singles Chart. The Orb also included it on their 1991 double album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld...

" – 4:27
"Earth (Gaia)" – 9:48
"Supernova at the End of the Universe" – 11:56
"Back Side of the Moon" – 14:15
"Spanish Castles in Space" – 15:05

Disc two

"Perpetual Dawn
Perpetual Dawn
"Perpetual Dawn" is a reggae influenced track by The Orb from The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. It was originally released in 1991 and re-released in 1994 and features vocals by Jeffrey Nelson and Shola...

" – 9:31
"Into the Fourth Dimension" – 9:16
"Outlands" – 8:23
"Star 6 & 7 8 9" – 8:10
"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (Live Mix Mk 10)" – 18:49

Disc three

"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld [Peel Session]" – 20:14
"Perpetual Dawn [Ultrabass II]" – 7:12
"Little Fluffy Clouds
Little Fluffy Clouds
"Little Fluffy Clouds" is a single released by the English ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in July 1990 on the record label Big Life and peaked at #87 on the UK Singles Chart. The Orb also included it on their 1991 double album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld...

[Cumulo Nimbus Mix]" – 6:39
"Back Side of the Moon [Under Water Deep Space Mix]" – 8:42
"Outlands [Fountains of Elisha Mix]" – 8:39
"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (Aubrey Mix Mk 11)" – 7:13
"Spanish Castles in Space [Extended Youth Mix]" – 13:39

Track 3 mixed by Pal Joey
Track 4 mixed by Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...
Track 5 mixed by Ready Made
Track 6 mixed by Jimmy Cauty
Jimmy Cauty
James Francis Cauty is a British artist and musician born in Liverpool, England, in 1956...

& Dr Alex Patterson
Track 7 mixed by Youth

Instrumentation and samples

"Little Fluffy Clouds
Little Fluffy Clouds
"Little Fluffy Clouds" is a single released by the English ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in July 1990 on the record label Big Life and peaked at #87 on the UK Singles Chart. The Orb also included it on their 1991 double album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld...

":
- A vocal sample of John Waite
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  , presenter of Face the Facts
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  Face the Facts is a consumer affairs programme on BBC Radio 4, featuring investigative journalism, that has been running since the mid-1980s. Currently introduced by John Waite, cousin of the well-known humanitarian and churchman Terry Waite, it usually focuses on individuals or organisations...
  
  ("Over the past few years to the traditional sounds of an English summer, the droning of lawnmowers, the smack of leather on willow, has been added a new noise.")
- "A Conservation with Rickie Lee Jones" by Rickie Lee Jones
  Rickie Lee Jones
  Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.-Childhood:...
  
  , an interview from a promotional CD which came with some copies of her album Flying Cowboys
  Flying Cowboys
  Flying Cowboys is an album by Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1989 and produced by Walter Becker of Steely Dan.- Genesis :After the release of The Magazine in 1984, Jones retreated from the limelight...
  
  . This sample was the subject of litigation.
- "Electric Counterpoint
  Electric Counterpoint
  Electric Counterpoint is a minimalist composition written by American composer Steve Reich. The piece consists of three movements, "Fast", "Slow", and "Fast"...
  
  : III. Fast" by Steve Reich
  Steve Reich
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  , performed by Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
- "Man with a Harmonica" by Ennio Morricone
  Ennio Morricone
  Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
"Earth (Gaia)"
- Dialogue by Max von Sydow
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  and Peter Wyngarde
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  from the film Flash Gordon
  Flash Gordon (film)
  Flash Gordon is a 1980 British/American science fiction film, based on the comic strip of the same name created by Alex Raymond. The film was directed by Mike Hodges and produced and presented by Dino De Laurentiis. It stars Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Brian...
- Vocal samples of the Apollo 11
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  In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...
  
  moon landing from the documentary film For All Mankind
  For All Mankind
  For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film documenting the Apollo missions of NASA. It was directed by Al Reinert.Music for the film was originally composed in 1983 by Brian Eno and released as an album entitled Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks...
- Hendrick Van Dyke from the Family Bible Reading Fellowship reading Book of Amos
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  The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BCE during the reign of Jeroboam II, making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written. Amos lived in the kingdom of Judah...
  
  9:13-15
- At around 6:18 into the track, spoken text in Lithuanian; this, translated into English, is an excerpt about "signing a treaty with the communist party of Azerbaijan."
"Supernova at the End of the Universe"
- "Synthetic Substition" by Melvin Bliss
- Various flight instructions from Apollo 11
  Apollo 11
  In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...
  
  and Apollo 17
  Apollo 17
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  from the NASA documentary For All Mankind
  For All Mankind
  For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film documenting the Apollo missions of NASA. It was directed by Al Reinert.Music for the film was originally composed in 1983 by Brian Eno and released as an album entitled Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks...
  
  .
- Various NASA
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  samples
- A vocal sample of Slim Pickens
  Slim Pickens
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  shouting "Yahoo!" from the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...
"Back Side of the Moon"
- Various NASA
  NASA
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  samples
- A vocal sample from the album Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols
  Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols
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  by the Sex Pistols
  Sex Pistols
  The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
  
  .
"Spanish Castles in Space"
- "Spartacus Love Theme" by Bill Evans
  Bill Evans
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"Perpetual Dawn
Perpetual Dawn
"Perpetual Dawn" is a reggae influenced track by The Orb from The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. It was originally released in 1991 and re-released in 1994 and features vocals by Jeffrey Nelson and Shola...

"
- "Peppermint Twist
  Peppermint Twist
  "Peppermint Twist" is a song written by Joey Dee and Henry Glover, recorded and released by Joey Dee and the Starliters in 1961. Capitalizing on the Twist dance craze and the nightclub in which Dee performed , the song hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in early 1962...
  
  " by Joey Dee and the Starlighters
"Into the Fourth Dimension"
- A vocal excerpt from "Miserere
  Miserere (Allegri)
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  " by Gregorio Allegri
  Gregorio Allegri
  Gregorio Allegri was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die.-Life:...
  
  .
- An excerpt from the 2nd Movement of the "L'amoroso" Violin Concerto in E major, RV271 by Antonio Vivaldi
  Antonio Vivaldi
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  .
"Outlands"
- "Abu Zeluf" by Dunya Yunis
- "Blackboard Jungle Dub" by Lee "Scratch" Perry
- "A Conservation with Rickie Lee Jones" by Rickie Lee Jones
  Rickie Lee Jones
  Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.-Childhood:...
  
  , an interview from a promotional CD which came with some copies of her album Flying Cowboys
  Flying Cowboys
  Flying Cowboys is an album by Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1989 and produced by Walter Becker of Steely Dan.- Genesis :After the release of The Magazine in 1984, Jones retreated from the limelight...
  
  . This sample was the subject of litigation.
- "Autobahn
  Autobahn (song)
  "Autobahn" is a song by German electronic band Kraftwerk, composed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider of the band, with Emil Schult collaborating on the lyrics. It is co-produced by Conny Plank, and was the band's first track to use sung lyrics...
  
  " and "Trans-Europe Express
  Trans-Europe Express (song)
  "Trans-Europe Express" is the title track of Kraftwerk's 1977 album of the same name, and released as a single at the time, and reissued on CD in 1990. The music was written by Ralf Hütter, and the lyrics by Hütter and Florian Schneider. The track is ostensibly about the Trans Europ Express rail...
  
  " by Kraftwerk
  Kraftwerk
  Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...
  
  .
"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld"
- "Lovin’ You" by Minnie Riperton
  Minnie Riperton
  Minnie Julia Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from 1972 until her death in the summer of 1979. They had two children - music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya...
- "Slave to the Rhythm" by Grace Jones
  Grace Jones
  Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...

Dub
Dub music
Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...

-influenced ambience
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the sound effects units of the BBC, was created in 1958 to produce effects and new music for radio, and was closed in March 1998, although much of its traditional work had already been outsourced by 1995. It was based in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in Delaware...

soundtracks
70s ambient pioneers Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

, Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...

, and Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
Larry Heard's
Larry Heard
Larry Heard is a Memphis, Tennessee-based musician widely known for the Chicago-based house music he produced during the mid-1980s and continues to produce today. He was leader of the influential group Fingers Inc. and has recorded solo under various names, most notably Mr...

Chicago house

Musicians and engineers

Alex Paterson
Alex Paterson
Alex Paterson is an English musician and co-founder of the ambient group The Orb, in which he has worked since its inception....
Jimmy Cauty
Jimmy Cauty
James Francis Cauty is a British artist and musician born in Liverpool, England, in 1956...
Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...
Miquette Giraudy
Miquette Giraudy
Miquette Giraudy is a keyboard player and vocalist, best known for her work in Gong and with her partner Steve Hillage. She and Hillage currently form the core of the ambient band System 7.-Film:...
Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn
Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....
Andy Falconer
Thomas Fehlmann
Thomas Fehlmann
Thomas Fehlmann , is a Swiss-born composer/producer who currently lives in Berlin, and has been active in electronic music as far back as the 1980s. He is currently active on the Kompakt record label based in Germany...
Youth
Kris "Thrash" Weston
Kris Weston
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Guy Pratt
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Steve Lipson
Simon Darlow
Richard Rudolph
Eddie Maiden
Jeffrey Nelson
Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips
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of Prayerbox
Greg Hunter
dr tim russell
Tom Green (Another Fine Day)

Release history

Year	Type	Label	Catalog
2006	CD	Island/Universal	948 002-2
1994	CD	Big Life/Island Red	535005
1994	CS	Big Life/Island Red	535005
1994	CD	Big Life	BRDCD5
1991	CD	Big Life	314-511034-2
1991	CS	Big Life	314-511034-4
1991	CD	Big Life	511034
1991	CS	Big Life	511034

Recording details

the coach house, London.
do not erase, London
marcus studios, London.
soho, London.
mit cafe.
Berwick Street Studio, London.
Brixton
Brixton
Brixton is a district in the London Borough of Lambeth in south London, England. It is south south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London....

, southside.
outer space, inner space
Trancentral, London. Cautys/KLF studio

Citations

Critical attributions from CDUniverse
Sample attributions from Babylon and Ting
Release history from allmusic
Toop quote from David Hedges

External links

Adrien Denning review

Eamon McCucker review

Back Side of the Orb

Howard Shih interview (1997)

http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/orb/artist.jhtml

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