The Orb is an electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty. Their early performances were inspired by electronic artists of the 1970s and 1980s, most notably Brian Eno and Kraftwerk. The Orb’s performances became most popular among weary DJs and clubbers seeking solace from the loud, rhythmic music of the dancefloor. Their sixteenth studio album, Abolition of the Royal Familia, was released on 27 March 2020 by Cooking Vinyl.
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The Orb is an electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and The KLF member Jimmy Cauty. Their early performances were inspired by electronic artists of the 1970s and 1980s, most notably Brian Eno and Kraftwerk. The Orb’s performances became most popular among weary DJs and clubbers seeking solace from the loud, rhythmic music of the dancefloor. Their sixteenth studio album, Abolition of the Royal Familia, was released on 27 March 2020 by Cooking Vinyl. The group has been involved in a number of disputes with musicians, including Rickie Lee Jones and Minnie Riperton, over unauthorised use of their works. They have also worked with Swiss-German producer Thomas Fehlmann and, later, with Martin \”Youth\” Glover, bassist of Killing Joke. Their first release was a 1988 acid house anthem track, \”Tripping on Sunshine\”, released on Youth’s compilation album Eternity Project One. The following year, the Orb released the Kiss EP, a four-track EP based on samples from New York City’s KISS FM, which they created out of a desire to maintain financial independence from larger record labels. For its release as a single on record label Big Life, The Orb changed the title to \”A Growing Pulsating Brain of the Ultraworld\”. Upon the release of the single’s release, Big Life’s management forced the first-week-week press release to remove the unlicensed vocals from the original single, which was used from a subsequent press release. The track was largely largely improvisational and featured a wealth of sound effects and sounds from science fiction radio plays, such as Minnie’s “Lovin’ You” The Orb have maintained their drug-related science fiction themes despite personnel changes, including the departure of members Kris Weston, Andy Falconer, Simon Phillips, Nick Burton, and Andy Hughes.
The British music press later labelled the music ambient house. Because of their psychedelic sound,. the Orb developed a cult following among clubbers \”coming down\” from drug-induced highs. These visually intense performances prompted critics to compare the group to Pink Floyd, whose guitarist, David Gilmour, collaborated with them on the album Metallic Spheres in 2010. 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. Most often, the group played dub and other chill-out music, which it described as ambient house for the E generation. Though the group used a variety of samples, they avoided heavy rhythm and drums so that the intended ambient atmosphere was not disrupted. The Orb, along with Youth, developed a music production style that incorporated ambient music with a diverse array of samples and recordings. Paterson began his music career in the early 1980s as a roadie for the post-punk rock band Killing Jokes. In 1986 Paterson became an A&R man. The duo decided to abandon beat-heavy music and instead work on music for after-hours listening.
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