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23. The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (1991)

One of the 1980s British dance scene's most eclectic characters, Alex Patterson had a love for punk, dub, world music, progressive rock and spacemusic and had listened extensively to Eno's Ambient records as well. As a DJ in chillout rooms in London clubs, he would integrate older spacemusic with contemporary dance tunes. This 1991 release displays a DJ's sense of collage and layering, combining unlikely samples into surreal soundscapes. This was a new type of ambient music, incorporating dance rhythms and absurd humor, yet ultimately creating the same effect as Eno and Satie had described: useful music, in thiscase designed for chillout rooms where ravers would relax, talk, sleep or dance, experiencing the music on several levels. This double album yielded two of the enduring anthems of the rave/ambient scene: "Little Fluffy Clouds" built around a sample from a Rickie Lee Jones interview, and "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Center of the Ultraworld," featuring the plaintive voice of Minnie Ripperton, sampled from her hit "Loving You."



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