The Orb

The Orb is a British electronic music band known for pioneering the genre of ambient house. The Orb is heavily influenced by dub music, and much of its output has consistently been in the electronic dub category, more so than ambient house.

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The group was formed in 1988 by Dr. Alex Paterson (full name Duncan Robert Alex Paterson) and Jimmy Cauty (who had played in Brilliant with Youth and June Montana, and later gained fame as one half of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and The KLF with Echo & the Bunnymen's ex-manager Bill Drummond). The Orb's first release, the acid house anthem Tripping on Sunshine.

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Ambient house: Ambient house, a mix between house music and ambient music is a music style that describes itself as dreamy, chill out and quiet music. Ambient house usually has no beats but can have an underlying rhythm. Pioneering work was done in the 1970s and 1980s by people like Brian Eno and Klaus Schulze. In...

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