The Orb - Orbs Adventures Beyond... 1991 [FLAC] Kitlope

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Torrent Hash: 7FF54BFE77C16308B39001086BF52C7F6F6D46FB
File Size: 578.41 MB
Year: 1991
Label: UK version: Island Records
Catalog #: IMCD 234/847 963-2


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From Wiki:

The Orb are an English electronic music group known for 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. Its early performances were inspired by ambient and electronic artists of the 1970s and 1980s, most notably Brian Eno and Kraftwerk. Because of its trippy sound, the Orb developed a cult following among clubbers "coming down" from drug-induced highs.[1] The Orb has maintained its drug-related and science fiction themes despite personnel changes including the departure of Cauty and other Orb members Kris Weston, Andy Falconer, 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 and, later, with Killing Joke's Martin "Youth" Glover and Tim Bran of Dreadzone.[2]

Alex Paterson prides the Orb on manipulating obscure samples beyond recognition on its albums and during its concerts; his unauthorised use of other artists' works has led to disputes with musicians, most notably with Rickie Lee Jones[3] and Steve Reich. During its 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 performance method, the Orb maintained its colourful light shows and psychedelic imagery in concert. These visually intensive performances prompted critics to compare the group to Pink Floyd.[4]

The Orb's critical and commercial success in the United Kingdom peaked in the early 1990s with the albums The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and U.F.Orb, the latter of which reached #1 on the British album charts in 1992. This success led to its infamous appearance on Top of the Pops, where the group showcased its quirky style by playing chess (an interest of Paterson's since his early youth) while the group's single "Blue Room" ran in the background. The Orb's mid-1990s albums were met with mixed reactions from British critics; however, its work received praise from American publications such as Rolling Stone. The group experimented with vocalists on its next two albums, which critics generally described as bland and uninspired. The Orb then shifted gears to a minimal techno style spearheaded by member Thomas Fehlmann, releasing its new material on the record label Kompakt.







The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld 1991


The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld is the seminal 1991 ambient house-concept debut album by the electronic music collective The Orb. The album's framework is of a two-hour psychedelic trip through music genres and studio electronics, produced to "push the threshold" of live stage performance. The double album is a continuous progressive 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. release and a 182:05 minute UK Deluxe Edition reissue that was released in mid 2006.


The Orb have always primarily been composed of one individual, Alex Paterson, along with numerous and varied individuals assisting throughout the group's recording career.[1] Paterson's late 80's and early 90's chillout dj sets in Paul Oakenfold's "Land of Oz" night in the club Heaven are thought of by those involved as legendary.[2] and included collaborations with another ambient house pioneer Jimmy Cauty. Paterson said of these events:

ΓΓé¼┼ô "We'd build melodies up by overdubbing and mixing multiple tracks and then take an eight track (or was it a twelve track?) into Heaven, just linking it up to three decks ([turntables]), loads of CD players, loads of cassettes... we used to keep it very, very quiet. We never used to play any drums in there. It'd be, just like, you know, BBC sound effects, really... four or five hours playing really early dub reggae... For All Mankind [a documentary of NASA's Apollo missions, with a soundtrack by Brian Eno]. We had white screens so we could put up visuals as well. We had home movies of ducks in the park. We'd go for everything. It was all layering on top of each other. "[3]
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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"),[4] Paterson and Cauty started work on their first album.[5] Cauty left in 1990 to pursue another band, The KLF, with Bill Drummond,.[6] Paterson moved on to his next collaboration "Little Fluffy Clouds" in Autumn 1990 with Killing Joke's Youth. The track was recorded by an 18 year old studio Engineer and future Orb collaborator Kris "Thrash" Weston.

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 radio sessions.[7] 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.

The two covers are primarily distinguished by the outing of the Floydian 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: ian, dave, nick, micheal & vanessa
- Battersea Power Station photographed by richard cheadle and treated by dr/chromagene
- cumulonimbus clouds over the congo basin (challenger 1 April '83)

- Melody Maker (12/91) - Ranked #22 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991[10] - "...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.'[11]

- 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..."[citation needed]

- Spin (9/99, p.160) - Ranked #82 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."[12]

- Muzik (2/02) - Ranked #7 in Muzik Magazines Top 50 Dance Albums if All time[13]

- 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"[14]

- Slant Magazine (2003) - Ranked #4 in Slants The 25 Greatest Electronic Albums of the 20th Century



Tracks:




Disc 1

1. (earth orbit one) "Little Fluffy Clouds" (A. Paterson/Martin Glover) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 4:27
2. (earth orbit two) "Earth (Gaia)" (A. Paterson/K. Weston) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 9:48
3. (earth orbit three) "Supernova at the End of the Universe" (A. Paterson/S. Hillage/M. Giraudy) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 11:56
4. (lunar orbit four) "Back Side of the Moon" (A. Paterson/S. Hillage/M. Giraudy) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 14:15
5. (lunar orbit five) "Spanish Castles in Space" (A. Paterson/J. le Mesurier/G. Pratt) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 15:05





Disc 2


1. (ultraworld probe six) "Perpetual Dawn" (A. Paterson/E. Maiden) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 9:31
2. (ultraworld probe seven) "Into the Fourth Dimension" (A. Paterson/A. Falconer/P. Ferguson) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 9:16
3. (ultraworld probe eight) "Outlands" (A. Paterson/T. Fehlmann) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 8:23
4. (ultraworld nine) "Star 6 & 7 8 9" (A. Paterson/Tom Green/Hugh Vickers) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 8:10
5. (ultraworld ten) "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (Live Mix Mk 10)"(A. Paterson/J. Cauty/M. Riperton/R. Rudolph/S. Darlow/S. Lipson/B. Woolley/T. Horn) ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 18:49





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