From: J.R.Binks@sysa.salford.ac.uk


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  [ From the press info sheets that accompanied US promo copies of the Orb's ]
  [                   "Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld" CD.                 ]
 
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                                     The Orb
 
 [ mercury logo ]                                                   August 1991
 
   Please engage your imagination:
 
   You're deep inside your headphones.   A cool breeze is blowing over your
   body as you soar through space.  Your guide book:  The Orb's "Adventures
   Beyond The Ultraworld."
 
      Dr. Alex Paterson ("The Orb")  teams  up with  Youth (Blue Pearl,
      Killing Joke)  and  remixer/engineer  Thrash  to  create an album
      which will take you on  a  trip  through uncharted black-holes of
      musical exploration.  The adventure begins in Arizona, with Rikki
      Lee Jones describing the "Little Fluffy Clouds" of her childhood,
      and ends with  "A Huge  Ever  Growing  Pulsating Brain That Rules
      From The Centre Of The  Ultraworld",  complete  with  snippets of
      Minnie Ripperton's   "Loving You".  Drawing  its  influences from
      House, dance,  new age and even the hallucinogenic sounds of Pink
      Floyd and Roxy Music,  The Orb  stands  poised at the edge of the
      unknown,  ready to break down all  the  walls and take America by
      storm.
 
         Release Date: August 27, 1991 on Big Life/Mercury Records
 
      For information, please contact:                    Bruce Hartley
                                                      Mercury Publicity
                                                           212.333.8151
 
 Mercury Records        Telephone: (212) 333-8000
 Worldwide Plaza
 825 Eighth Avenue
 New York, NY 10019
 
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                                   the orb
 
 
Prepare for a trip that will make you re-examine your perceptions of dance
music.
 
With the awakening cackle of a rooster that clocks the beginning of a new
day, you will be lifted from the world as you know it and propelled into a
new musical realm.  It is a realm where unique rhythms will stir your body,
and swirling melodies will soothe your soul.  You have started an adventure
beyond the ultraworld.  You have encountered The Orb.
 
_Adventures_Beyond_The_Ultraworld_ is the full-length debut by The Orb on
Big Life/Mercury Records.  From the subversive reggae undercurrent of the
first U.S. single, "Perpetual Dawn", to the syncopated hip-hop of the
ethereal European club smash  "Little Fluffy Clouds",  The Orb's musical
mastermind, Alex Paterson, consistently strives to broaden and twist the
boundaries of music.
 
The evolution of The Orb can be traced back to London, 1988.  Paterson, whose
history includes stints as a club DJ and roadie, met musician Jimmy Cauty in
a recording studio while Cauty was programing tracks.  A musical synergy was
generated between the two, and the result was the underground club favorite,
"Tripping On Sunshine".  Before Cauty departed to form The KLF, the duo
created an acclaimed independent EP, The Kiss, which received extensive
exposure on the John Peel radio program in the U.K.
 
 
Carrying The Orb name on his own, Paterson expanded his palette of dance
activities to include remixing and producing.  Among his credits are projects
with Primal Scream, Paradise 10, Art Of Noise, and Erasure.  Such projects
were a mere interlude before launching into the Ultraworld.
 
Although some have tagged the music of The Orb as "ambient house", such
categorization is too narrow.  Songs like "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating
Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld:Live Mix MK 10" and
"Outlands" deftly interweave elements of the techno age with baroque and
classical music, and are covered with mind-altering vocal sonnets and
sound effects.
 
"I go for sounds that are very familiar to people's ears, but ones they
wouldn't think of using", Paterson says.  "House rhythms, sound-effects:
waves, dolphins, what have you."
 
>From a groove perspective, the beats stray outside the confines of House.
The Orb tests the creativity of DJs by varying the beats - and occasionally
dropping them out altogether.  The Orb's _Adventures_Beyond_The_Ultraworld_
is an aural experience that enlivens the senses and proves that music does
not require a pounding beat to seep into the spine and move your body.
 
 
 
 
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