- Audio CD (Nov 3 1998)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Limited Edition, Import, Best of
- Label: Island
- ASIN: B00000DD0Z
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Orbital Dance Mix) | |||
| 2. Little Fluffy Clouds (Dance Mix 2) | |||
| 3. Perpetual Dawn (Solar Youth Mix) | |||
| 4. Blue Room (7'' Mix) | |||
| 5. Assassin (7'' Mix) | |||
| 6. Pomme Fritz (Meat 'N' Veg) | |||
| 7. Toxygene (7'' Mix) | |||
| 8. Outlands (LP Version) | |||
| 9. DJ Asylum (7'' Edit) | |||
| 10. Mickey Mars (7''Edit) | |||
See all 12 tracks on this disc
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Little Fluffy Clouds (Live From Washington DC '97) | |||
| 2. Perpetual Dawn (Ultrabass II) | |||
| 3. Pomme Fritz (Orb Remix) | |||
| 4. Toxygene (Ganja Kru Remix) | |||
| 5. DJ Asylum (The Soulcatchers Mix) | |||
| 6. Assassin (Chocolate Hills Of Bohol Mix) | |||
| 7. O.O.B.E. (Pool Mix) | |||
| 8. A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Radio Version) | |||
| 9. Blue Room (Ambient Mix) | |||
| 10. Mickey Mars (Red X Mix) | |||
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Product Description
From Amazon.com
This celebration of the British ambient-dance group's first 10 years is one for all electronic tastes. Whether you like your beats hard and fast or slow and gentle, U.F. Off has something for everyone, with each of the album's 12 compositions wrapped generously in the Orb's uniquely dubbed-out style. Orb aficionados will enjoy some new mixes of old favorites, such as "Little Fluffy Clouds" by LFC and "A Huge Ever Growing Brain..." by Orbital, while newcomers will be drawn by the timeless sunrise aura of "Blue Room" and "Pi (Part 1)." However, it is during the pulsating reggae throb of "Perpetual Dawn (Solar Youth Mix)" and the metronomic trance-floor classic "Assassin" that the Orb's richest identity shines. The first 15,000 copies come with a 12-song bonus disc containing further riches, rarities, and previously unreleased recordings. --Steffan Chirazi
Product Description
The title, coupled with a sleeve depicting an Apollo launch pad with a huge middle finger giving that gesture, summarises the ethos of former Killing Joke roadie Alex Patterson's The Orb. Their musical scale is gargantuan and fearlessly meandering, taking in ambient, reggae, techno and innumerable mutated samples. In order to pre-empt "prog-rave" tags or accusations of Pink Floyd-style pretentiousness, however, Paterson and his various collaborators always took a facetious, self-deflating approach to their work. In spite of the aura of silliness shrouding The Orb--as evinced on titles like "A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Underworld"--they can't puncture the delights of the freewheeling, orbiting "Pomme Fritz" or the intoxicating "Little Fluffy Clouds" with its ingenious sample of a Rickie Lee Jones interview. This compilation could either serve as an introduction to The Orb or as sufficient for those unwilling to follow them on some of their more extreme sonic excursions. --David Stubbs
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Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
Greatest hits
May 14 2004
Format:Audio CD
This is your typical greatest hits album. It didn't show me anything wonderful or new, but it has a bunch of 7" edits, which are great for mix cds. I like "Evergrowing..." much more when it is a straight ambient track, like it is on the album, but the mix is cool too. "Mickey Mars" is cool too, and the "Towers of Dub" mix is great. The second disc is a collection of remixes and rare mixes and stuff, great but not a must have.
A Three star album because I think it would be better to go buy all their studio albums instead of just this.
The Best of the Orb
April 17 2004
Format:Audio CD
This is the best of The Orb. It is an essential collectible for fans new and old. Since purchasing this CD in 1999 I have collected most of the main Orb releases, including the classic (unfortunately deleted) full version of Blue Room. I still come back to this CD often.
Here The Orb offers up its best; mixed perfectly. The CD includes rare tracks such as Assassin, Huge Evergrowing Brain, Blue Room, and Perpetual Dawn. The unreleased (and underrated) track Mickey Mars is only available here. The hidden Oxbow Lakes remix, at the end of CD1, is excellent.
The double CD offers music unavailable elsewhere including a 1997 live version of Little Fluffy Clouds and the Mickey Mars Red X remix. There are also rare gems including the fantastic Soul Catchers remix of Asylum. Side two is mixed well and is presented symmetrically to the first CD and makes the collection nearly complete.
Older fans may want more. The "Chocolate Hills" remix of Assassin is trimmed down to a minute and a half from fourteen. The edits of Blue Room are good, but fail to catch the majesty of the original that sent the standard for Ambient House music. Still, this album is a good representation of the group's body of work up to 1997. If are new to the Orb fan this CD might be the place the start and finish with The Orb.
A good introduction to The Orb
April 17 2004
Format:Audio CD
I love techno music. I have been a techno fanatic for some time now. It really irritates me when people who don't like techno music has to criticize the music and try to shove their music down other dance fans like myself. A reviewer here wrote that he didn't understand why people listened to this sort of music. Well I like it because I love listening to music that doesn't get played on the radio. I also love to dance to this sort of music. I will pass on Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton. That sort of music bores me to death.
Back in college I had a roommate who was even a bigger techno fan than I was. He helped shape my taste in music by unwittingly introducing me to Moby, Orbital, Leftfield and Delerium. Another techno act he exposed me to was The Orb. Their music was nothing that I haven't heard before. It was a good mixture of techno and reggae, especially on "Perpetual Dawn" (my personal favorite song by The Orb). I bought "U.F.Off: The Best of The Orb" to familiarize myself with their music. It was definitely different from Moby, Orbital, and Leftfield to say the very least. Another favorite song of mine by The Orb is "A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating..." which takes a sample from the old Minnie Ripperton song "Loving You". Good use of sampling as opposed to any song by Poofy (my nickname for the former Puffy/P.Diddy). All the songs on both disc one and two are cool. I more akin to the first disc though. For people who want to check out The Orb's music but never have, I strongly suggest checking out their best of cd. It is a good introduction.
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Most recent customer reviews
PI + 4:48 (Tr. 12) is THE reason for this comp.
A mix that covers -very lightly- a catalogue of tracks formented from the Land of OZ & beyond, it spectacularly hits the mark at 'PI'- Four minutes & Fourty-Eight seconds... Read more
Published on May 29 2003 by "quikstyx1"
Discovering the Orb
I had heard of the Orb before, basically from the "Hackers" second soundtrack, and I finally got the guts to pick up an Orb CD. Read more
Published on Jan 23 2003 by Chris Bray
Great Work.
Its a great piece of work. Very nice to listen to in the background. Well thought out pieces.
The only downside was a few of the tracks tend to be too repetetive like the fluffy... Read more
Published on Dec 27 2000 by Chad Stratton
who to f... off?
why don't the orb just f... off themselves and leave us alone... what is the point of their music? is somewhere there a hidden message? 'cause i don't seem to notice it anywhere... Read more
Published on Dec 20 2000 by Vedran Dinter
The Best Of The Orb
Thats exactly what it is. This is the first Orb album I bought, it has some good remixes of their best songs, if you haven't heard The Orb yet, let this be your first.
Published on Aug 7 2000 by Nick Martinez
THIS CD IS AWESOME
The first CD was all the 7" edits you could want and some rare tracks. Towers of Dub ambient mix is only available elsewhere on 12" and the mix of Oxbow lakes at the end... Read more
Published on May 28 2000 by Suzanne Jane Chapin
ohhhawwwwohhhhawwwww (Blue Room)
I have always 'liked' The Orb but did not love them. I saw them in concert once and LOVED the music. Read more
Published on Dec 21 1999
Orb = Creativity + skill +patience
This is easily some of the most incredible music I have ever heard, full to the brim with creativity and skill. Read more
Published on Nov 18 1999
Virtuosos a la Aphex Twin
These guys are definately masters of their domain. I don't like this as much as Aphex Twin or Orbital or Tricky, another three distinctive styles, but if you like (a) dance songs... Read more
Published on Oct 6 1999
great singles CD
Though most of the trcks are short for the Orb they are all super none the less. definitly get the double CD, it is much better. Read more
Published on Jun 13 1999 by jburr19@hotmail.com
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