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… 🤪

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

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

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!

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 :)………..

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 🤣

😀 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. :)

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?

space released version is the version with the a.p parts removed. there is a version out there with the a.p bit in it, which is really how the album is supposed to sound, a much fuller production.

Gonna go with This Must be the Place (Naive Melody), by Talking Heads, specifically the live version from the Stop Making Sense live album. Lots of good memories with that song.

Need to give it a listen for sure! Number 3 brother 🕺

The Alchemist - E. Coli

it bangs

Number 16 🕺

Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack

It's a masterpiece

Thank you my bro 😎 take number 4

Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead

Always brings me back to my first LSD trip

Number 18 my friend 🕺

have to pick Layla by Derek and The Dominos! one of the greatest ever <3

Whole of the moon. The waterboys

Lucky number 5 bro 🕺

Lazyboy and Lee Scratch Perry - Penguin Rock

Number 6 my friend 🤞

The doors-Riders of the storm.

Number 7 👋

Spicy by Boris Brejcha

Number 8 my friend

A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation

Number 9 bro

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The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Number 10 brother

Bob Sinclar - Love Generation

Number 11 my friend

Corey Taylor- snuff 🤙🤙it’s always good to pick up my mood …. Cheers

Number 12 my ggg

Feed your head by Rick Stevens

Number 14 my friend

Rich men North of Richmond

Oliver anthony

Number 15 broo 🤩

The incredible String Band - Air.
Just cos.

Number 17 🤩

The old man- yom

Relaxes the mind

Thank you sirrr, lucky number 1 maybeee?

You Can Call Me Al.

Reminds me of my old man

Love that bro ❤️, number 2 for you my friend, best of luck

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That's not great. Don't think I could survive without parmesan or emmental cheese.

I’ll be sure to give it a listen!!

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Number 13 tho my friend :)

Big part of that album was Andy Weatherall god rest his soul. If it weren’t for him and his production they’d still be doing Byrds impersonations (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
It was perfect symmetry at that time and resulted in a groundbreaking record.
Oddly enough it wasn’t one of those albums we used to toke to very much, there were loads of far more ‘expansive’ records for those listening occasions one of which was the Orb’s ‘Blue Room’ track in its 45 minute entirety… Still got my primals original bus stop poster for the album and the original double vinyl both of which must be worth a few Bob now…..

I’m seeing them in the summer 🙏

Awesome album

Seen them live meany a time. A good few they were shite due to the fact Bobby Gillespie and mani were out there tits lol 😂 but what an album.

Still gets regular play time in TheDazzler house.

I still have the 12 inch of loaded kicking about somewhere 👌

Random coincidence. My mate bought Booby Gillespie’s childhood flat off bobby’s mum and she left him a framed signed photo on the wall of him as a moving in present 👌

Top album! I saw them last summer where they played it in it's entirety, was one the best gigs I've been to in a long time.

Yep spent many nights after being out raving/ clubbing smoking the spliff and listening to this in the background while some dodgy re-run of prisoner cell block h was running on the tv with sound turned down, spacing out on the come down….

Cell block H lol 😂 vinegar tits

One of my all time favourites. I was fortunate enough to see Arthur Lee play play the album in full in Liverpool about 20 years ago. I might have been a bit stoned stood at the front

The liverpool gig was with shack yeah??
I was real lucky too and caught the forever changes tour at the 02 with half orchestra, and stripped back in king tuts and queens hall with baby lemonade, absolutely amazing gigs.

Yes! Great recommendation.

Fantastic album one of the greats! Recently bought the Record Store Day release of unreleased tracks and outtakes 👍

If you’ve not already give Rodriguez’s Cold Fact a listen.
If you’re a fan of Love the you’ll probably like

I’ve seen the Rodriguez documentary “Sugar Man” well worth a watch if you haven’t seen it but don’t think I’ve heard the album. I will give it a listen.

His second album “Coming from Reality” doesn’t get the same praise but I’m a big fan of that too. Another one we’ll worth a little listen

A classic disc, there were significantly better albums in the 60s, but it’s top 25