Category Archives: The Orb

A Brief Overview of Jonah Sharp’s Spacetime Continuum

Let’s speak in Tongues. Spacetime Continuum is an ambient project from Jonah Sharp, serving as his longest running solo project. This is perhaps the one that most folks might be familiar with, especially if they were either active ambient fans … Continue reading

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The Birth of UK Ambient House: the KLF, Space and the Orb

As the name suggests, ambient house combines elements of house (particularly the beats and symth bits) and ambient (lush atmospheres, textured instruments and samples). House was rather popular in the UK around the late 80s and so was its offshoot, … Continue reading

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Purr – Float On 12″

Artist: PurrTitle: Float OnReleased: 1995Label: NtoneGenres: Ambient, downtempo Released as a 12″ and serving as the only release under this project, Purr offer up a sweet ambient gem. Three tracks are featured here with the longest being the title track, … Continue reading

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FFWD>> and Their Only Album

Artist: FFWDTitle: (self titled)Released: 1994Label: Inter-Modo, Discipline RecordsGenre: experimental, ambient One cannot run a blog about ambient music without covering the ambient supergroup, FFWD and their only album. Robert Fripp joins Dr. Alex Peterson (the Orb), Thomas Fehlmann (3MB, the … Continue reading

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