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Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld,The Orb

- Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
- - 30,102 plays
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The Orb
Released 1991

Little Fluffy Clouds
04:27
7,986 plays

Earth (Gaia)
09:48
3,713 plays

Perpetual Dawn
09:32
3,347 plays

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- 1
- Little Fluffy Clouds
- 04:27
- 7,986 plays

- 2
- Earth (Gaia)
- 09:48
- 3,713 plays

- 3
- Supernova At The End Of The Universe
- 11:56
- 2,505 plays

- 4
- Back Side Of The Moon
- 14:14
- 2,281 plays

- 5
- Spanish Castles In Space
- 15:06
- 1,977 plays

- 6
- Perpetual Dawn
- 09:32
- 3,347 plays

- 7
- Into The Fourth Dimension
- 09:15
- 2,051 plays

- 8
- Outlands
- 08:32
- 2,201 plays

- 9
- Star 6 & 7 8 9
- 08:10
- 2,350 plays

- 10
- A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld
- 18:48
- 1,691 plays

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album review

Much like the early Orb-related project recorded as Space, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld simulates a journey through the outer realms -- progressing from the soaring ambient-pop of "Little Fluffy Clouds" and the stoned "Back Side of the Moon" (a veiled Pink Floyd reference) to "Into the Fourth Dimension" and ending (after more than two hours) with the glorious live mix of "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain." A varied cast of samples (Flash Gordon, space broadcasts, foreign-language whispers) and warm synthesizer tones provide a convincing bed for the midtempo house beats and occasionally dub-inflected ambience. With a clever balance of BBC Radiophonics Workshop soundtracks, '70s ambient meister-works by Eno, Hillage, and Floyd, plus the steady influence of Larry Heard's sublime Chicago house, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld is the album that defined the ambient house movement. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide