Complete BBC Sessions [Box set, Single, Dual Disc, Enhanced, Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import, Live, Ringle, Soundtrack]

The Orb | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 2, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Box set, Single, Dual Disc, Enhanced, Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import, Live, Ringle, Soundtrack
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Island
• ASIN: B001DMAZKO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,903 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered BBC in Session tracks hand picked by Alex Patterson with sleeve notes containing Alex'es recollections of his time in the BBC studios. Tracks, A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Loving You) (John Peel Session 1989),Back Side Of The Moon (John Peel Session 1989),Into The Fourth Dimension (John Peel Session 1989),O.O.B.E. (John Peel Session 1992),No Fun (John Peel Session 1992),Once More (The Evening Session 2001),I Am The Red Worm (The Evening Session 2001),EDM (The Evening Session 2001),Plateau (Mark Radcliffe 1995),Oxbow Lakes (Mark Radcliffe 1995),Towers Of Dub (Mark Radcliffe 1995),Montagne D'Or (Der Gute Berg) (John Peel 1995),Perpetual Dawn (Lamacq Live 1998),Egnable (Lamacq Live 1998),Assassin (Lamacq Live 1998),Toxygene (Lamacq Live 1998),Little Fluffy Clouds (Lamacq Live 1998). Universal. 2008.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great album, not SACD, November 21, 2008

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J. Davis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete BBC Sessions (Audio CD)

I just want to say that this is a really good album! But my review isn't to tell you how awesome The Orb is, but to WARN you that this isn't a SACD that is being advertised. There is no SACD icon on the CD jewel, and my SACD player doesn't pick up an SACD layer on the disc. So there you have it. If you want the album for the SACD layer, you won't be getting it. It still sounds good....but it isn't what I thought I was ordering. Just keep this in mind. Awesome music, and I love Little Fluffy Clouds.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a find!, January 31, 2009

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Larry Bouchard (Prospect, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete BBC Sessions (Audio CD)

I was a huge fan of the Orb in the 90's. Live Orb 93, Orbus Terrarum, Adventures etc were the pinnacle of electronica for me. Fun, trippy, demented, upbeat, druggy, groovey - what a thrill they were in the day.

With Orbus Terrarum I felt they reached the pinnacle of their genre - but sadly couldn't figure out where to go from there. Each disc after Orbus for me was just progressively worse than the last.

But for all us fans of the old Orb, here are the moldy oldies and more freshened up to sound new again. All this wonderful old school Orb music on MP3 for under $10? What a find - what a gas! I haven't had this much fun with a music purchase in a long time. Buy this, get your best headphones on and get ready to trip like it's nineteen ninety uh, pick your year. A little tonic for the soul in these menacing times.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars so close yet, December 7, 2008

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Allan K. Osmand (Woonona, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete BBC Sessions (Audio CD)

The version of Montagne D'or isn't as brilliant as the version on the second Peel Sessions ,should have dumped No Fun and added Valley from that session also. Anyway buy if you dig the early Orb music