And almost twenty years later, however, the first records of the Orb personally never cease to amaze me. What was initially conceived and designed as a music rest post-rave became a phenomenon in its own right and in fact it was the end. Patterson and his impromptu team coined a new form of electronic blended with fantasy so many things: cosmic couriers, psychedelia, dub, techno-trance, musique concrete, ambient pioneer Eno. What I like best, even today, is the obvious irony and playfulness of these tracks, mesmerized and wanting to travel with the mind, but with an implicit sense of humor anything but English.
In this episode devoted to them permanently outside of Albion, I prefer environments less rhythmic and more trippy as OOBE (a nebula of sauerkraut synths, bleeps and flutes sand), Blue Room (suite underwater concrete to destabilize slashing), Towers of dub (the title says, but the approach was quite different from the standard).
A breath of fresh air "outside" ....
Orb - UF Orb (1992)
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