The Orb, Towers Of Dub (original mix)

[doogstoos]

man this brings back memories...classic

[cjsnw1]

Wait... Ten minutes? The original is 15. WTF???

[cjsnw1]

I swear there's a remix of this on the Aunt Aubrie's Excursions Beyond The Ultraworld. Am I high or is there a similar sounding melody on those Comp's? It may also be some other same-sounding melody from Cydonia.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[rodd555]

orb live 93 best chillout album ever

[riv2012]

I love this tune. One of the best Orb tracks.

Thank you Orb for providing humanity with music from the stars.

Peace

[magnetofx1234]

the masters!

[greenfox23]

whoo who !

[liquid987654321]

3 people are trippin way too hard

[saidenyaw]

walton on the naze...

[AlexGyano]

What vocal sample is used?

[AlexGyano]

@AlexGyano Found it!

[ro25us]

BIG THANKS!

[BStoobs]

Oh, #TheOrb, how I've missed u. Great to rediscover this . . .

[greenfox23]

how good does the orb still sound 20 years later

[wezism]

WHAT AN AMAZINGLY FUCKED UP PIECE OF AUDIO ...I LISTENED TO THIS ON ACID ON MY OWN MANY OF TIMES ...ROCKING TO THE MELODY AND LOSING MYSELF IN THE MUSIC ....THE ORB KICK ASS - AND ID LOVE TO SEE THEM TOUR THE UK

[CosmicTDI]

I remember this from college. I worked at the radio station and one guy there would have acid parties and bring out HUGE Peavey speakers and play all of the Orb albums he had, and we'd drop and lay on the grass next to the lake where he lived just tripping our balls off. Great memories.

[wezism]

@CosmicTDI GOOD TIMES MAN : D

[1050ccTriumph]

Classic Orb track. I have the "Live Dog On The Mix" version here where they sample a dog and fuck about with the barking through the desk.

First saw the Orb in 1991... Everyone was just sat on the floor skinning up. You wouldn't get that these days!

[disjoinedchip2]

lol. name is nine cloud nine!

[Stev1ed]

@disjoinedchip2  hush your flabby yankee mouth, boy! lol

[rexeffektamatic]

Does anyone know where the samples are from? The one at the beginning about the plasma and the one at around 6 minutes with the two guys?

[wezism]

@rexeffektamatic type into youtube Hudson & Landry - Hippie and the Redneck - its all there matey : )

[rexeffektamatic]

@wezism thanks!

[sneakyuploader]

great

[deadmau5suckz]

deadmau5 is much better..

[Ultrajimballs]

@deadmau5suckz Much better at progressive house sure, this is such a pointless comparisson though

[exquisiteoath]

There are now a whole lot of people who can't even understand what the world would be like today if these guys hadn't done what they did. I remember vividly the first time I heard the Orb and I haven't been the same since. Neither has my experience of other music.

[rexeffektamatic]

I love this track

[Tron7two]

I'll never forget the first time I dropped acid in 91 listening to The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld album...

[Sozoheaven]

One of my biggest music inspiriations, incredible imagination and concepts... many thanks!

[Phunquay]

Wish I could produce music like this... thanks for uploading!

[GeorgeJuisce]

this is a classic. i recall buying this on tape. I read a review of it in Select. So I go to the shop and ask - What is the Orb like? employee didn't know. I said experimental techno. He said "yeah". became the bible of my college years.

[greenfox23]

right on boy carefull now you hear

[kalystovonsteuben]

Does anyone know if the dialogue in the middle of the song is original, or if it is from a movie? If the latter; what movie? Thanks.

[saidenyaw]

I dont know where you going boy but it aint gonna take you long to get there...

[suky1973]

awesome track, love it when the dub bassline kicks in at around 5 mins. Love the way The Orb experiment with music to produce some original tunes.

[superleofilm]

me gusto

[mmmuuufffiiinnnsss]

Tasty Dub, I like! Lots of beautiful, colorful flavors emit from this track. :D

[aaacidman]

If this kind of trackis just some loops then sir,you are completely missing the point.

[doctor42o]

omg wtf is this shit is all fiw fiw fsngisnel erigneiee gignigrn this is some shity music my friends

[gixer111]

@doctor42o Here listen mate, You start of your comment with "omg"

Enough said !!!

[macshane]

@doctor42o your tears satisfy me. fail harder and go buy more justin bieber.

[astralplane47]

@doctor42o ha ha ha ha you say bad shit about the orb, you'll get your head ripped off and fucked with a broomstick

[Waxthumper]

@doctor42o You toxic waste of life

[jayteebeatbros]

@doctor42o oh music guru ...

[Zack10063]

@doctor42o you been smoking crack mate

[rEMINEMTGR]

yeah, you don't have to take drugs to enjoy this song, I mean it's pretty buzzy as is... but there's just something about wandering through a forest fucked off your tits listening to the orb

[sentient001]

This reminds me that I am of god. And so are you!

4th Dimension here I come.

[buubonic]

the orb is magical. the orb is like nothing else. ahh so many memories and astral projected out of body time traveling living past lives in the future further and faster experiences. So mind bending that words only confuse and cannot possibly explain or define what can never really be defined. The unspoken word not foudn in any library or dictionary. this is the ORb. The Orb is...in a word....amazing! absolutely beautiful music. definitely try fsol, coil, orbital and others if you like tihs.

[KrillLiberator]

Somewhere along the way, I fell out of love with music - that new hairstyle, the kinda TV shows it started to watch that I just didn't get, I don't know what it was.

Then, recently, I bumped into music again and it looked just like the Orb I'd fallen in love with when we were both young. And now I'm smitten again. I really think this could be the real thing this time...

[o1ogy]

grass man.. grass!!

[gtaska]

one of my faves what a bass line best to hear it live

[rangatang100]

aye man ..one loop HAHAHAHA ye great huge turnip heeded twat

[affieyusuf]

@THE HARLINATOR - THE ORB INFLUENCED A LOT OF PRODUCERS IN THE ELECTRONIC FIELD YOU PLANK - now go try make it on your iphone/PSP/DS you TOOL....Ok i am gonna go power up my Analogue/Digital MONO/COCK motherfucker of a studio and carry on what we do.... Sorry for the language folks...;-) Peace Love and Untited Riddim to all - X

[sixstringsod]

@theharlinator For one thing this album was released in 1998, and it's a best of, the actual track was first released in 1992, so it's hardly "today" is it.

Secondly, I defy you to recreate this, it's not just "some loops" you clearly know nothing of electronic music production.

[toreaxe]

This is a gem. Great voyage. That's what it's all about, you don't get the voyage you won't like it. Instead if you dddooooooo....

[ericdbq]

We were triping and listening to this 15 years ago. Great music for the mind!

[herbhaloo]

This always remonds me of Magic Mushrooms,melting into the sofa in a state of bliss...

[freudastaire]

tangerine dreamish towards perfection

[mountainherring]

how much acid have i done listenig to these amazing sounds!!!!

[kayozz13]

Perhaps some plasma will help?

[ricardo2323]

"just some loops" is like comparing t*ttenham to barcelona..

when i saw them in brixton, the mixing desk was the size of a small aircraft carrier and dr alex and "youth" (if memory serves) had the many arms of vishnu..

can't believe this is almost 20 years ago

[TheEndlessNote]

Excellent track. Makes some people critisising (mega fault). Looks like it's not the music they used to listen. Open your mind so you can feel your heart.

Thx upldr

[subwoofer61]

raise your right hand and sell your soul fools!!!!

[theharlinator]

Wow... some loops. I guess anything will keep the kids happy today he he...

[sentient001]

To many, The Orb is much more than "some loops"

Many have discovered personal , secrets and traveled far propelled by the momentum of The Orb. So take you ignorance elsewhere please and thanks.

[Hakon275]

@sentient001

Well put mate.

[oldcollins]

@sentient001 well said dude could not agree more, its certainly taken me places other tunes have not.lsd.

[badboyrhythmdub]

theharlinator what age are you, 90? This song was made nearly 20 years ago so i doubt you could say its what the kids are listining too now.

[theharlinator]

@badboyrhythmdub LOOPS!

[gixer111]

What are you doing listening to this if you think its " Just some Loops ". Ya Tosser, Fuck off

[mcveigh2k]

@gixer111 whoever shaid just sum loops should tryingh writing dance music

[ironman9]

@mcveigh2k i know, elctronic is very very easy to dj or mash up but try producing SOMETHING OF QUALITY. Different strory

[mcveigh2k]

@ironman9 i write and produce dance music but nothing like the quality here

[sixstringsod]

@theharlinator For one thing this album was released in 1998, and it's a best of, the actual track was first released in 1992, so it's hardly "today" is it.

Secondly, I defy you to recreate this, it's not just "some loops" you clearly know nothing of electronic music production.

[affieyusuf]

@theharlinator @THE HARLINATOR - THE ORB INFLUENCED A LOT OF PRODUCERS IN THE ELECTRONIC FIELD YOU PLANK - now go try make it on your iphone/PSP/DS you TOOL....Ok i am gonna go power up my Analogue/Digital MONO/COCK motherfucker of a studio and carry on what we do.... Sorry for the language folks...;-) Peace Love and Untited Riddim to all - X

[affie909]

@affieyusuf agreed the fruity loop tossbag

[EXetoC]

@theharlinator If it isn't yet another elitist trying to insult people who like certain genres.

[BooMeRLiNSKi]

@theharlinator This song came out in 1992 you muppet.

[boxofz]

@theharlinator obsolete music perception

[liuchaquan]

@theharlinator pfft.

[astralplane47]

@theharlinator hmmmmm ths was released in 1992....awsome track we was all high on acid and pills....go fuck off

[matmonkglover]

i am reminded of laying in darkened rooms coming down after free party's and floating away in to space to the orb.. them was the days

[sentient001]

I hear that my friend.

[sentient001]

@matmonkglover Brother I hear that. Just travelling the sound waves in pure bliss.. Them was the days...

[natasxeslived]

i love falling a sleep to the orb

[Darkja]

PJ SHOOTER!!!

[joelface]

CAN NOT WAIT FOR PIXELJUNK SHOOTER ON DEC. 10!!!!

great song, this one is. What beautifully-intense reverberatingly-trippy uplifting sounds.

[melliemel991]

I'd forgotton just how good the Orb are, this one is so mesmerising and you float off out of this world for a bit. Dub rules! Big Chill rules too!!

[dazza912]

reading other comments me and my ex g/friend used to brew magic mushrooms and play uforb and ultraworld on repeat..one time we put the vynal uforb issue on and it got stuck, we didnt realise until we were comming down and it was still awesome..hallucigenics and the orb come as one most of the time

[dazza912]

ive seen these 5 times glast cardiff but the best was in sheffield for the miners appeal with primal scream....it was like my body had left me and my head wanted to stay unbelievable..

[vpmonchi]

tom dissevelt is soo cool.

thanx.

Anne Thrope lovexxx

[davidturynsky]

I miss 90s..to have a courage to be stoned all the time..:)

[irena7777777]

Try Orbital, better than FSL.

[killuminati7777777]

XD

sure thing

[captaintugwash]

The most beautiful intro. I want it to go on for hours. Big Chill 2009, Hexstatic threw this on with a video of some tripping puppets and samples to boot. And The Orb themselves played it the year before. The hairs on my neck are standing just hearing this tune. Awesome.

[Tron7two]

Yes Yes!,man this tune takes me back,thanks :)

[cheekymonkey1979]

And check out 'You' by Gong. And some King Tubby! Spliff up!

[meatymouldia]

water dub and surrounded by dread in the arena 1974 to be precise.

[cheekymonkey1979]

Hell yes! Nail, meet head!

[somaton643]

also if u like this tangerine dream book of dreams is worth a listen

[tilerman]

Wow, its exactly what i was thinking. Anyone who listens to the Orb should definately give Tangerine Dream a listen. Tangram and Cyclone are 2 off my most favourite albums. Nice one!

[meatymouldia]

hello i made this track (with two other dudes) i dont agree - i think tangerine dream sucks. if you want to listen to electronic music (old) listen to tom dissevelt song of the second moon 1957 or some bernard parmigianni.

[harleybushmonkey]

Only just started listening to The Orb today... they kick ass...

[gixer111]

Well my friend the world has definitely changed for you.. If you like this type of music,check out some Future Sound of London stuff..

[somaton643]

fsol are amazin got a few ov there albums respect to u gixer111

[10000Monkeys]

@harleybushmonkey Try 'blue room' - it's awesome.

[fleshofdanny]

ahhhhhhhh!....this song!

This song goes good with any state of mind.

very good stuff.

[gmfmusic85]

"Hello, I'm Greg..."

[LtSurge659]

where does that come from?

I know the first bit(on UFOrb) is Victor Lewis-Smith pranking London Weekend Television, but idk what this is.

[WannaTradePants]

@LtSurge659 Hudson and Landry: "The Hippie and the Redneck"

[goblinrogers]

@WannaTradePants what was the first sample from?

[WannaTradePants]

@goblinrogers I think it's some sort of SNL skit--or at least I remember reading that somewhere (if it's the "plasma" dialogue you're talking about)

[goblinrogers]

@WannaTradePants yeah that's it

[WannaTradePants]

@goblinrogers It also might be from the album "Tested on Humans for Irritancy" by Victor Lewis-Smith, according to some sources, but I didn't really check it out. That seems more plausible though.

[goblinrogers]

@WannaTradePants I just figured it out. it is from the hudson and landry. it is a skit called the doctors

[LtSurge659]

@WannaTradePants

Thank you :)

[feginfegin]

i used to listen to the orb as a kid.....acid was usualy involved

[VoxAcies]

I recall having this track on repeat for DAYS. This and another version which was a bit longer if memory serves.

[zorbazoo]

mmmm yummy

[INSTITUTEofUNKNOWN]

It shud've been more strengthened taht bass......but of course...this number is killin'

[johnsilencez]

this is one of my most favorite song ever

its so light and powerfull too

lovely melodies and amazing bass/beat

[joSSka]

You're right!

This is the powerful song.For me the best way, how to relax...

[AMBERXABSCiSSiON]

ye man the early nineties im glad i was there to experience it all travelled the whole country raving when they were big events remember converging on malvern hills golden days and people were much nicer then i agree the scene today is shit compared. peace

[Golddigga8860]

did a Snowdrop to Orb 19yrs ago,calm-spritual opening of my mind in a hay field, wow people were so lovley then. Mellow man.

[adidasfella]

i think everyone was on drugs when this came out. good days

[theblunted]

That's a safe bet. :P

[subatomicmantra]

what about the marcus garvey intro..?

[MattTheRedd]

i agree! what about the marcus garvey intro? that version is powerful

[gixer111]

What about the Marcus Garvey intro ?????. its a different fuking version.. This is the original.. Its completely different...

[davidsan01]

Where or what did the intro come from and the general chatter that goes on through parts of the record?

[JebusGeist]

"Where or what did the intro come from and the general chatter that goes on through parts of the record? "

The intro is "The doctors" by Hudson and Landry.

The rest i don't know, you might be able to find the source on google if you type out exactly what's said in the sample, depends tho, sometimes samples are just way to obscure and even the artist can't remember (or possibly prefers not to say) what the source was.

[frasermoo]

whoa. someone needs to listen to the orb and chill out..

[1977JFish]

@MattTheRedd see BMS1974 posted Towers of Dub also. Yes its definitely powerful mate!

[utrapzab]

why leave the dog out?????

[moby6002]

amazing!

[tehf00n]

i did drugs to this. im cool. seriously tho. i did drugs to this !

[greenkakapo]

you're my hero...

[DamienNeverwinter]

mine too

[bkf192MarekNowinski]

and beauty orginal mix

[bkf192MarekNowinski]

Towers of dub cooll.Uff orb classic beauty album.Alex Paterson rulez.Nice orginal track

[jaydabaron]

oh boy what fun i had listening to these tunes in the damp months of the eariy 90s wat tricks they played on the ol brain lol they were very good live too

[mistressgoddessa]

umb horse ...what do i do?

[emartransformo]

Thank you for posting this! great track!

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