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The Complete BBC Sessions

The Complete BBC Sessions
The Orb

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Loving You) - Jimmy Cauty, The Orb
  2. Back Side Of The Moon
  3. Into The Fourth Dimension
  4. O.O.B.E.
  5. No Fun
  6. Once More
  7. I Am The Red Worm
  8. EDM

Disc 2:

  1. Plateau
  2. Oxbow Lakes
  3. Towers Of Dub
  4. Montagne D'Or (Der Gute Berg)
  5. Perpetual Dawn
  6. Egnable
  7. Assassin
  8. Toxygene
  9. Little Fluffy Clouds

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #34659 in Music
  • Released on: 2008-09-10
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Formats: Box set, Live
  • Dimensions: .24 pounds
  • Running time: 151 minutes

Editorial Reviews

CD Description
The proliferation of electronica artists throughout the 1990s and 2000s may make it easy to lose sight of the genre's founding fathers, but this compilation of the Orb's BBC sessions, recorded between 1989 and 2001, will rectify that mistake. Forerunners of IDM and ambient house, the Orb's pulsating, psychedelic grooves were tremendously influential, thanksin part to the support of John Peel, who recorded several excellent sessions with the group over the years.
The two-disc set opens with the 20-minute track "A Huge Ever GrowingPulsating Brain That Rules from the Center of the Underworld (Loving You)" is a highlight, but classics like "Back Sideof the Moon" and their signature "Little Fluffy Clouds" also stand out. Digitally remastered, this collection is as essential as any studio album in the Orb's catalogue.

Customer Reviews

Great5
Not another Orb album I hear you cry, but wait. This one is actually quite good. It is a compilation of the live BBC sessions they did between 89 and 01 and is probably more of a companion to "Evil Orb" than any studio album.

The Orb were always an inventive live act, mixing up samples and bass lines, and some of the tracks here are so different as to be better than the album versions. That is just my opinion though.

Hilights are the liner notes by Kirs Needs, the cover of the Stooges "No Fun" and a great "Towers of dub".

its about time4
wow.what can i say ,this is truly an amazing album.any orb fan cannot go without this .this is great from start to finish.go on treat yourself