Tag: Orb
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Departure – Ibiza......a dream?
If you like 90’s ambient house such as KLF – Chill Out and The Orb, you’ll love this sunny breeze dream of Departure‘s latest album, Ibiza…a dream? Ibiza……a dream? by Departure I think it’s a remix/retake of 2022’s Ibiza Dreams and I especially love the organ and soulful operatic? singing on Europa Point, Isolation &…
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Conservative Apocalypse
I was wondering what Funki ‘It’s A Long Road‘ Porcini was up to after a friend posted a reference to the track that basically with The Orb rewired my post Brit Pop 90’s back to electronica, psych, lounge music, ambient, library music and yes even a bit of jazz. And in doing so I found…
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Original Space – KLF/Orb
I didn’t know this had leaked, the original demo of Space with the contributions of Alex Patterson still intact. The story goes* Jimmy Cauty and LX were the original Orb (hence ‘Loving You…’ having a credit to Jimmy) but Alex wanted to sign with Big Life as he didn’t want The Orb to seen as…
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Golden Clouds
Combining the themes of the last two posts there’s more clouds this time but happier and dubbier golden ones. The Orb have revisited the perennial fave ‘Little Fluffy Clouds’ (again?) but with a vocal from a different Lee, rather than Ricky Lee it’s Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry on the mic. Even more tripped out than the…
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Not drowning but raving – 50PoundNote rave mix
I’ve been on a 1992/rave/acid tip recently, and one of the things that inspired that is 50PoundNote’s new Rave mix. Where were you in 92? Really recommended – always good to hear that Prodigy remix of Art of Noise (payment for the ‘HEY!’ sample in a Prodigy track – Liam did a lot of mixes…