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The Orb
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It's hard to believe the Orb's longtime leader (Alex Paterson) once dragged amps and axes for Killing Joke. After all, he left that roadie gig for the "Land of Oz" chill-out room in Paul Oakenfold's Heaven club. It was there where he tested out the ambient house template of the Orb, from its effects-laden Eno references to its unpredictable strings of shrewd samples. Take the towering single "Little Fluffy Clouds": aside from its infamous use of a dazed-and-confused Rickie Lee Jones interview, the song swipes a harmonica from Ennio Morricone, a dense guitar piece from Steve Reich, and drums from a track Paterson [i]still[/i] won't divulge. Which is fine with us — we're more than happy being swept up in the Orb's madness, whether it's in a super-club context (the sensory-overload songs of [i]Live 93[/i]) or with a pair of headphones (see the rewarding returns of nearly everything the Orb's written).