Monday, October 5, 2009

The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld [Deluxe Edition] (1991, U.K.) Ambient House


This is the guy that got me properly into electronic music. I was instantly won over by the lovely enchanting sounds of the opening classic 'Little Fluffy Clouds' - spacey, dreamy beautiful, shiny and really in a word pleasant. The rest of the tracks are an electric jam through space with warm pads, interesting and intelligent samples and intelligent production. It's amazing chill out music that just seems very deep and purposeful to me and indeed is rated as one of the all time electronic classics and supposedly helped spawn the ambient house genre.

I was always waiting for something like this to shatter my stereotypes and misconceptions about electronic music and I'm very glad it came along and blooded me into this vast genre, I think you'll be glad too. Lie down, grab your depressant of choice, drift off somewhere distant and enjoy it.

Track List:

1-1 Little Fluffy Clouds 4:26
1-2 Earth (Gaia) 9:48
1-3 Supernova At The End Of The Universe 11:56
1-4 Back Side Of The Moon 14:15
1-5 Spanish Castles In Space 15:06
2-1 Perpetual Dawn 9:30
2-2 Into The Fourth Dimension 9:16
2-3 Outlands 8:23
2-4 Star 6 & 7 8 9 8:10
2-5 A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Live Mix Mk10) 18:43
3-1 A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Peel Session) 20:14
3-2 Perpetual Dawn (Ultrabass II) 7:12
3-3 Little Fluffy Clouds (Cumulo Nimbus Mix) 6:39
Remix - Pal Joey
3-4 Back Side Of The Moon (Under Water Deep Space Mix) 8:42
Remix - Steve Hillage
3-5 Outlands (Fountains Of Elisha Mix) 8:39
3-6 A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Aubrey Mix Mk 11) 7:13
Remix - Dr Alex Paterson* , Jimmy Cauty
3-7 Spanish Castles In Space (Extended Youth Mix) 13:39

The Orb [1991] The Orb [312.47MiB]

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