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The Orb is tagged as: ambient, electronic, chillout, electronica, idm

The Orb (sometimes credited as simply Orb) is a British electronic music band known for pioneering the genre of ambient house. The Orb is heavily influenced by dub music, and much of their later output has been in the electronic dub category, more so than ambient house.
The group was formed in 1988 by Dr. Alex Paterson (full name Duncan Robert Alex Paterson) and Jimmy Cauty (one half of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and later The KLF). The Orb’s first release was the acid house anthem “Tripping on Sunshine”.
In May 1989, the Orb released the “Kiss EP”, which was heavily influenced by New York’s KISS FM. Paterson began DJing around London, England at this time when he met Paul Oakenfold. At Oakenfold’s behest, Paterson began DJing at Land of Oz, the chill-out room at Heaven.
Paterson mixed samples of BBC nature recordings, NASA space broadcasts and everything in between into the music of ambient pioneers such as Brian Eno. Around this time, Paterson met Steve Hillage and Hillage later contributed guitar to the Orb’s “Blue Room” single. In return Paterson worked on Hillage’s System 7 project.
In October 1989 the Orb released the 22-minute single “A huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules from...
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Top 10 The Orb Songs
Little Fluffy Clouds
Earth (Gaia)
Perpetual Dawn
Toxygene
Spanish Castles In Space
Back Side Of The Moon
A Beautiful Day
Outlands
Blue Room
Towers Of Dub
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Top 10 The Orb Albums
The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
The Dream
Orblivion
Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
U.F.Orb
Cydonia
Orbus Terrarum
The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld - Deluxe Edition
U.F. Off : The Best Of The Orb
Bicycles & Tricycles
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