BeautifulMonday, May 02, 2005
Although for the life of me I can never remember the title of these songs if you were to push me, I still think that this album is fantastic. It has a few lightly paranoid edges to it being that the supposed concept was about a world going mad. I've also got a bootleg concert from around this era on cassette. And if you thought that Orblivion was good - this was insane. The tracks were mutated into something else. But to get back to the point, if you're looking for a modern psychedelic trip, then this is the album for you
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Just for the record, I'm not crazy, nor on drugs.Wednesday, December 22, 2004
As I was listening to the last song, which is stated to be 6 seconds long, kept going after so. Waiting for what I had a feeling would be coming on, I opened the CD case just a crack, the smallest bit, and peered inside. A big clearing with the part that held the CD in the middle. This reminded me of the front of the case, which features famous buildings, whether it be from our earth or other worlds, in a star formation. I pictured the middle of the clearing in the CD case a vast city scape, and with the ideas and inspiration still from the CD this is what spawned from it:
A furturistic city, with phsycadelic pulsing skies which represented the catchy beats.
Drifting essences, spirits of those who lived underground, which represents the awesome ambience.
And all that existed represented the melodies.
And, I thought to myself, please let me try living in this city- at least one day. Then, the secret track began- and my thoughts were answered.
MASTERPIECE!!!
Turn On The Youth of America.......Tuesday, December 14, 2004
One of the Ultimate Tab Down...Lights off...Candle Lit...Earphonez on...Eyez closed....Head swirling albumz I have ever had the pleasure of Experiencing. I give Thanx to ORBlivion and Albert Hoffman for being such an important part of my youth.
The Orb - 'Orblivion' (Island)Thursday, December 02, 2004
This twelve track disc is a tad better than their 'Orbvs Terrarvm' CD(see my review).For this record,the band has been stripped down to just two members,former Killing Joke roadie Alex Peterson and Andy Hughes.My prefered cuts are the first two,"Delta MK2" and "Ubiquity" in which I notice in the credits for these two listed is Steve Hillage(Gong,Khan,Arzachel).Hillage must've have co-written the two songs with Peterson and Hughes.I also sort of liked "Passing Of Time" and the extremely far-out sounding "72".A good title,if you enjoy electronic music
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Trippy musicTuesday, June 08, 2004
From 1997 comes this Orbdelicious delight that I recently resurrected after a friend returned my copy. Well to use a cliche phrase from the 60's I'd have to say "What a trip!" That pretty much sums up this disc that I find to be not as good as the excellent "U.F. Off. The Best of the Orb." I love the Orb, it is music that is spacey, groovy and upbeat. Without going to much into the individual tracks suffice to say that the disc is like one continous pendium where the music infiltrates your mind and won't let go until you've heard it all. This is music to move to. Personally I find it the best music to listen to while rollerblading, moving along with the breeze cutting through your hair and the music slicing and dicing images in your brain. Any moving activity will do be it biking, driving a car or walking; it will make your trip a little more pleasant but dangerous as the sounds creep in and out through your ears. "Asylum" is a song that could be just as comfortable at a night club now as in a hippie-era dancehall with strobes and fluid liquid imagery bouncing off the walls. Beeeeeeuuuuuutiful baby! There are moments of dark pessimism like in "S.A.L.T." where an apcalyptic sermon delivered between the electronic wizardry can leave you feeling like the seven seals of Revelation have been broken. "Secrets" has a bit of a Middle Eastern flair as does "Bedouin" but the intangible likeness is blurred and rearranged in electronic madness. This is a conceptual disc that paints a surreal world of tommorrow, that came yesterday before there was tommorow, lost somewhere in the here and now of today. It is music to take a journey on, let your mind be your guide as you listen to the Orb opening up the passages. Recommended music for the head.