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Bicycles & Tricycles (Enhanced CD)Album Notes
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| This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. |
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| The Orb: John Roome, Alex Paterson, Simon Phillips. |
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| Ever since its double album ADVENTURES BEYOND THE ULTRAWORLD defined the "ambient house" genre in 1991, the Orb has had a serious legacy to uphold. U.F.ORB and LIVE 93 helped maintain that legacy, but the Orb struggled at times to keep pace with younger, more cutting-edge IDM acts of the '90s and 2000s. 2004's BICYCLES & TRICYCLES finds the group, masterminded by producer/mixologist Alex Paterson, with one foot planted firmly on its early innovations (which resemble the offspring of Brian Eno and a sleepy Chicago house DJ) and the other on the pulse of contemporary techniques. |
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| "Hell's Kitchen," for example, features the lilting melody one expects from the Orb's chill-out ethos, but covered with an almost industrial beat. The dub-influenced "The Land of Green Ginger" and "Tower Twenty Three" give some heady space to the insistent 4/4 that usually dominates the ensemble's tracks. Elsewhere, the Orb is up to its old tricks of techno-touched ambient with floating vocal samples and synth washes, as on the jazzy "Gee Strings." BICYCLES & TRICYCLES proves the knob-twiddling skills of this early electronica act are still significantly up to snuff. |
Album Details
| Album Title | Bicycles & Tricycles |
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| Number of Discs | 1 |
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| Producer | Simon Phillips; Alex Paterson; Nick Burton |
| Mono/Stereo | Stereo |
| Studio/Live | Studio |
| Label | Sanctuary (USA) |
| Catalog Number | 84707 |
| Release Date | 07/13/2004 |
| Import | No |
| UPC | 060768470422 |
Artist/Group
| Overview |
| With lunar-landing samples, a Pink Floyd-inspired album cover, and a 22-minute single, the Orb was perfectly suited to the drug-fueled raves of the early-1990s London acid house scene. The Orb's debut was the closest thing to an auditory hallucinogen imaginable. Shifting from the shimmering, celestial opener, "Little Fluffy Clouds," through joyous reggae and dreamy ambient soundscapes, ADVENTURES BEYOND THE ULTRAWORLD combines '60s psychedelia with the arm-whirling euphoria of the '90s. |
| Definitive Albums |
| Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld |
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| U.F.Off: The Best of the Orb |
Also See
| Performers |
| 777; Beatles (The); Bowie, David; Davis, Miles; Dr. Alex Paterson; Faust (Kraut Rock); Hendrix, Jimi; Meat Beat Manifesto; Neu!; Riley, Terry; Velvet Underground (The) |
| Albums |
| Battersea Shield |
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