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The Orb's combination of ambient music and sampling from lower fidelity audio sources often creates a "fuzzy texture" in the sound quality, depersonalising the Orb's music. [31] The Orb are lauded for their " Monty Python -esque levity" in their use of audio samples, [ 38 ] though NME asserts that Paterson "sabotage[s] his majestic soundscapes ...
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.
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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.
The Orb also included it on their 1991 double album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. "Little Fluffy Clouds" was re-released several times with different B-sides, with its 1993 re-release reaching number 10 in the UK. It ranked number 275 in NME's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [1]
"Blue Room" is a single by English electronic music duo the Orb. It was released on 8 June 1992 on Big Life Records.The full 39-minute version features a number of samples, including a small portion of the beginning of "Mysterious Traveller" by Weather Report and a damaged portion of "Happy Birthday to You" by Marilyn Monroe at the end.
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 ...
U.F.Orb is the second studio album by English electronic music group the Orb. It was released on 6 July 1992 as their last work with record label Big Life. [1] Upon its release, the album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart. The music database AllMusic described it as "the commercial and artistic peak of the ambient-house movement." [2]