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Orboretum: The Orb Collection is the fourth compilation album by the Orb released on 8 November 2024 on Cooking Vinyl. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Alex Paterson 's words, the compilation is "a sort of director's cut, reframing our output, making new neuro pathways, and new juxtapositions."
The Orb's second studio album U.F.Orb was released in June 1992 and topped the United Kingdom albums chart. [6] The album's second single "Blue Room" – at a length of 39 minutes and 57 seconds – became the longest-running release to enter the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at number eight.
The album saw a return to the Orb's sounds of the early 1990s, with peculiar vocals and playful samples. [72] [73] The Orb also brought in jazz and house music singer Juliet Roberts [74] and guitarist Steve Hillage. [71]
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The Times described it as "generic ambient music" [10] and The Guardian said it was a low point for Paterson's creativity. [11] [12] Rolling Stone gave the album a more positive reception: naming it their album of the month, and citing its symphonic flow coupled with the Orb's "uniquely British wit". [5] The record reached number 20 on the UK ...
Andy Hughes (11 November 1965 – 12 June 2009) was an English electronic music producer. He is best known for his work with the Orb, where he helped mix and produce Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion, and Cydonia, as well as the Orb's singles from this period. Hughes left the Orb during the production of Cydonia, which
Kristian "Kris" Weston (a.k.a. Thrash) (born 1972) is a British electronic musician, record producer and remixer best known for his work as a member of the Orb.Around the beginning of his career, he worked with Andrew Weatherall on remixes of Meat Beat Manifesto, remixed for Primal Scream, Saint Etienne, U2 and others.
U.F.Off: The Best of the Orb is a greatest hits album by the Orb released in 1998 by Island Records. There is both a double disc and single disc version, the latter being the first disc of the former. The second disc contains alternate mixes of many of the tracks on the first.