One of the best chill out/ambient albums of all time. Also the KLF made ‘Space’ which is another ambient lp based around….the theme of space.
I’ve got both of them on OG vinyl. And if you like those then the Orb’s first release ‘a huge ever growing brain that rules from the centre of the ultraverse’ is in a very similar vein considering they all knew each other and worked together on different projects. There’s also the FFWD album which is Fripp, the Orb and Thomas Fehlman, that album is also along the lines of the above. Lastly the KLF ‘last train to trancentral’ remix twelve had a longer segment from ‘chill out’ that wasn’t on the original record, and same goes for ‘3am eternal’ which had a remix twelve with another ‘chill out’ outtake remix. Welcome to the rabbit hole :)………..

Used to have both on vinyl too back in the day, along with stuff from the eighties like Whitney Joins the Jamms etc which I sold when I needed the readies :-) Also was an 'early-adoptor' of the Orb, seeing them on their first UK tour when their backdrop was a sheet with Orb written on it. Lots of stuff on EG Editions which predated the 90s ambient dance is worth listening to. Eno, Penguin Cafe Orchestra etc. and nowadays there is almost too much choice!

EG was Eno’s label Alex Patterson was a talent scout for them before the Orb and a roadie for killing joke prior to that.
Plenty of great ambient and classical/minimal stuff on EG for sure. ‘The Pearl’ by Harold Budd and Eno being one of my faves.
First time I saw the Orb was in the chill out room at Paul Oakenfold’s The Trip or Labyrinth club/s one of those, I think it was at Heaven, London back in-the day and they were playing sheep noises over Doobie Brothers, Debussy and Steve Hillage 😄shame the clubs these days are so homogeneous that you’d not get anything like that now, House and Techno alongside Balearic stuff with a chill out room. Totally open minded dance floors.
Amazing times…

Beautiful selection! ⭐

Its obscurity can be partially explained by their decision to delete their entire back catalogue when they split up. Probably wise, due to the amount of uncleared samples / interpolations going on with some of those tunes.

Still sounds magical to these ears, and so much better than the official "cleared" versions on Spotify etc.

Thank you for sharing.

Definitely, these are the records I’d highly recommend that everyone should listen to if inclined to KLF/Orb axis, in no particular order-

Orbus Terrarum - The Orb - LP
FFWD - LP
Chill Out - KLF - LP
Space - KLF - LP
A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld - The Orb - original Mix 12”
Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb - original 12” mix
3AM Eternal - KLF - Remix 12” with extended ambient ‘Blue Danube’ mix
Kyle Said To Jason - KLF - 12” b side ‘Pure Trance’
Last Train To Trancentral (remix) - KLF - 12”
The Blue Room - The Orb - 45 minute mix - Ltd CD edition
Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld - The Orb - Ltd edition - 12” and LP

All of those loosely feed into each other sonically and have patchwork bits of audio and samples running through them from the start of both acts careers and are ambient/chill out/whatever you want to call it.
These are to me, the pinnacles of what those two acts achieved in that ambient genre and were as close as possible to what they played out when performing chill out rooms at various Acid House/ Balearic clubs at the very start.
Enjoy! 😀

I remember when KLF burned a million quid as some sort art piece.

Seemed like a good idea at the time I guess.... 💡👍 Cocaine is one hell of a drug!

No regerts 😉

(Good group though).

Cheers BB 🤣

As I understand it they really regretted it later :-) There is a movie about it and, I think, a book.

😀 I met Jimmy Cauty but not Bill Drummond decades ago when they were just going big it was around the time of the ‘chill out’ album.
Neither were into drugs at all surprisingly!
Jimmy now runs the K2 foundation and still makes loads of art which he flogs online.
Both of em are as antiestablishment as you like and used to just do things on ‘gut instinct’ and then think about it afterwards 😮
To be fair they generated a huge amount of press and made some number one hit records along the way, kerching.
There’s a book by Mick Houghton that details all of that era and I’d a great read, I can’t recall the title off the top of my head though….

This is one I still listen to quite frequently. Discovered mid nineties along with the orb and FSOL. I still don't know the individual tracks, it is to be enjoyed in full in one sitting, just tooting away I reckon. :)

Agreed, you have to listen to it all. Same with Space which is also a very enjoyable trip.

I just knew you would mention this !! There is also an Alex Paterson version out there with the Jimmy Cauty parts removed which makes it more ambient by the simple fact of having silent parts! There was also a huge limited remix of the KLF catalogue including Space (hour plus if I remember) a few years ago. This Is Not The KLF - I believe it was called. Martin somebody?

Remember seeing them a couple of times, also at Glastonbury (and maybe Reading 92?). The song I liked most by them was a cover of Public Enemy's '(She Watch) Channel Zero' if memory serves. Think I got a free 7" copy as it was given out at one of the gigs.

Could it have been Reading '94? There was a metal/rap crossover thing going on back then. I used to like messing with people on the street by cranking it up in the car stereo. "What was that? Sounds like that rapping tripe but also that head banging nonsense? I say..."

Probably looked like a right dick but hey, youth and all that...

That rings a bell. 94, same year as the Chili Peppers, Cypress Hill and Henry Rollins?

Yeah, I actually found a gig flyer from 94 buried in my ‘man’ drawer and the last day lists Soundgarden and Special Guests. After the festival I crossed out Soundgarden (didn’t turn up) and put Therapy? in place. I also ticked the bands I could ‘remember’ seeing (Lemonheads has ‘bit’ next to it, actually over exaggerated as can’t recall who, what or how they sound!)

What I find funny is the lack of ticks. Mainly due to Whisky for breakfast each day and copious amounts of weed!

Good festival last week.
What festival?… oh is that when I was shitting in a Pringles tube instead of those godawful sewerage tardis sweat boxes?
Yep, that was it!

Ahhh, those were the days… 🤪

Sorry, never saw this! I must be wrong as I only went to Reading in 92, mainly to see Public Enemy and Nirvana. Never really considered it a "festival", more of a 3 day gig. Must have been Glasto then as I went every year it was on from '85 to '96 when I decided it was no longer a fabulous freak show that they were trying to shut down every year and instead had become an "event" on the social calendar for the middle classes desperately pretending to be bohemians for a weekend and bookable only by credit card. Used to be that the police weren't even allowed on site and they buzzed us with helicopters! Changed days indeed.

Next week on "old man shouts at clouds" listen whilst old punks decry the death of "real music" and call for the death penalty for producers and artists who use auto-tune in every single feckin' one of their 'music as painting-by-number' songs...

wow now i really want a time machine. its funny their stuff sounds like it could be 2000s mash up or even today's post-rap punk revival

Ha! There was lots of stuff like this around in the early/mid nineties and beyond. Tons of great tunes in all sorts of genres fusing, boppin' and giving your noggin' a floggin'. Here's a couple more for you but there are so so many to choose from. Nothin' new under the sun children ;-)

thank you levi an overlooked gem

Hi Leviathan

Actually I forgot to mention the elephants in the room (can they both fit? ;-) ) RATM and Red Hot Chilli Peppers!

There even is a wikipedia entry about Rap-Rock:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rap_rock

But then again there is a wikipedia entry about EVERYTHING in the Universe.

Cheers

loved senser, mummys in the back room breaking up rocks daddys in wandsworth sittin inna box

Hi Ghetto Bikes

That album really was a product of its times which is why it's such a 90s throwback.

Rap-rock was definitely enough of a thing to get named as such in Guitar Player magazine back then.

The Judgement Night oundtrack was mentionned on LB lately but one of my fave was the Dutch band Urban Dance Squad. Also Rollins Band Weight is a classic as well as ICe T's Bodycount plus a few obscure one like this one:

https://www.google.com/search?q=shooting+grooves+respect&client=firefox-b-d&ei=SvfMY5NryYnyAoTXn5gL&ved=0ahUKEwiTuNTC5Nr8AhXJhFwKHYTrB7MQ4dUDCBo&uact=5&oq=shooting+grooves+respect&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIFCCEQoAEyBQghEKABOgoIABBHENYEELADOg0IABAWEB4QDxDxBBAKOgUIABCGAzoHCCEQoAEQCkoECEEYAEoECEYYAFDqBFjJDmCMEGgBcAF4AIAB1QKIAdgKkgEHMi40LjEuMZgBAKABAcgBCMABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e26cacfe,vid:KYjLMs_NrzY

Cheers

This Album brings back some amazing memories, had it on constantly at the time, seen them a few times too, brilliant band.

bigg up

A couple more for good measure :-)

Shootyz Grooves El Sol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkmiMy4LLzo&list=PLw61QP72ZySiYb_fNZ-kRNoVmibObKO1H&index=9


And one of the best 90s Fusion Rock bands: UDS!

And the classic four note motif from Shine On You Crazy Diamond by David Gilmour comes in about 124 years time.

Brilliant, he never even needed Stimpy

from what i understand stimpy was an idiot

Love Ren, so much talent, amazing voice and songwriter, telling stories through his music

https://youtu.be/TYAnqQ--KX0?si=l_yJgvY0DVozFtRC

Been a fan for a few years, tons of good songs!

Ren is just sublimely great and clearly likes his bud. Great lyricist , performer, musician and a really decent guy. Chalk outlines my fave i think but i love all his work

He really is talented, I think my favourite of his is Hunger!

Ren - Fire in the Booth

Timeless artist 🙌

But you reminded me of Post Modern Jukebox.

If you've got a swang-thang, you're in for a treat...

And I was into this, first time around...

And this is my favourite: vid was shot in one take!

Love stuff like this... Have you heard these guys, think they were on that Postmodern Jukebox a few times.

Honestly?

I didn't know this was a cover, until now!

Not all that on the vid tho. Perhaps...

The AI vid is trippy I know, had the best audio though.

Detroit on vacation in JA...

1) Monster bass, rock solid throughout: I briefly imagine remaking Barry Lyndon/The Harder They Come using this as the recurring theme...

"Barry Biggs and the Dragonaires"

With a name like that, you know what to expect...

Look me in the eye and tell me that if Boris called, you wouldn't answer...

[bonus EP track]

Definitely is, check out the 'previously unreleased alternate' version on the hendrix yt page

🔦

Mm bop, Hansen,
The album it’s off is a little pop jewel

fuck all you biggaz im hansen proud

😂

Absolute tune! Deffo a guilty pleasure…

Mine 100% Glenn Medeiros, Nothings gonna change my love for you, if you haven’t already watch the video lol.

That cliff top and billowing clothes! Fuck, I'd forgotten about this too! Add that and Peter Cetera's solo career to my list, and Chicago.

ok so i have 2 now :)

You’re winning Frizzy lol

First record I ever bought as 9 year old was T. rex ride a white swan, second was Rolf Harris !
If you want really embarrassing, first ever gig I was 15 and got asked by bunch of friends to go to a cliff richard concert, not a cliff fan but went as fancied a girl. Two songs in realised it was a religious tour, no devil woman tonite.
Still cringe at memory of everyone holding hands and singing allehluya.

No, just no.....

I gave that album away lol

I have electric 6s gay bar on vinyl, doesn't represent who I am or even my favourite genre of music, I just think it's a tune. It does raise questions when someone notices it for the 1st time, especially if they've not heard it, because I then feel the need to make them hear it and agree it's a tune

It is a great tune. Ignore the haters!

Electric 6 were good
Gay bar is a tune too but they had better tracks

Forgot all about gay bar ☝️😂

Let’s start a war!

Start a nuclear war!

I've got something to put IN YOU!

I was afraid someone would take it there

Lol, I'm surprised that I was the first! Couldn't resist, too funny

Unbelievably good live. Saw them play a Barfly not long after they'd released that single. Amazing band. Have the album on vinyl.

Jolene - Dolly Parton. Love it.

On other end of my collection is Ready or Not, DJ Hype Remix.

I'd say my record collection is a bit "eclectic"! Haha.;)

Cheers BB

Gotta love dolly, a clever funny sexy woman.
Her blue grass albums are superb.

Lil bit ashamed to say, but that’s a fucking tune pal ! !

Jolene is never embarassing, well at 104db past a funeral precession maybe other than that Jolene is part of every good collection.

exactly why dolly has the highest q score

Jolene is a classic! Try play it on 33 speed sounds Evan better!

Need to try this

Big love for Hype’s remix of the Fugee’s classic ❤️

Barbie girl

good one

wake up now

please keep this between us

this is why i value pseudonymity

Wilson Phillips - Hold On

dayam

I'm told by others that it's this. If it comes on the radio though you are having Tiffany sung at you full blast, possibly slightly out of tune, and I don't care.

Not in my collection per say but definitely listened to it more than I’d like to admit back in the day 😂 who remembers princess superstar bad babysitter😂😂😂

Saw her live about 20ish years ago. Was great. Have a limited edition Frank Kozik poster (photo added) advertising one of her New York shows. Love Kozik's work from around that time. Had an awesome one advertising a show by The Oblivians (if you don't know them, look them up) too, but that's not near mint like the PSS one as it spent a lot of time on walls in various houses.

Fuck, he died in May. 61. No age at all.

Its only on my playlist because I listened to it as a joke, now its on loads :D

id like to see someone beat this

boom boom boom boom by the vengaboys probably

Vengaboys were awesome, there's a great remix of vengabus floating around.

This?

No, this

Do you know they're actually still doing live performances in Ibiza and shit? Well they were before covid anyway

Incredible, screw covid

Screw the overblown reaction to it that tanked the economy and sunk small businesses.

When I was 6 the first ever song I bought was Jimmy Somerville, mighty real. In my defence I just liked the cassette art. No excuses however when I purchased the Hamster Song. I was old enough to know better.

Doo da Dee da Dee Dee dodo, Dee da do do do! That was too catchy.

I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
Heard the line “Go, walk out the door, don’t turn around now, you’re not welcome anymore” more than a few times in my house, even the kids sing it to me !!!

Probably Kylie - Locomotion!

But to dig me out, recently listen to a mash up mix of Kylie and Danni ...😂

Not so embarrassing but this gets some funny looks when friends have looked through my vinyl collection

Whigfield saturday night
Guilty ✌️😁

Bee gees

Love em

Cheers BB 💚

A little bit alexis - actually downloaded it (schidts creek)

I am a lineman for the county…

And I drive the main road…

Wichita Lineman, RIP Glen 🤠