The Orb's 'Little Fluffy Clouds' turns 20
source: http://www.spin.com/articles/orb-look-back-20-years-little-fluffy-clouds
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Gee, I'm old lol!
I remember where I was when I first heard this record. As a matter of fact, I didn't even hear this record before I bought it.
I bought the record simply because it had such a cool cover and and was a UK import and figured that it must be cool.
Turned out to be not only a great record, but one of great classics in dance/rave history!
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In the early '90s, "What were the skies like when you were young?" was the new, "Can you pass the acid test?" — the question that separated the turned-on from those left behind. Britain's 1988 Summer of Love and acid house's ascent as the soundtrack the English anti-mainstream updated hippie-spiritualist concepts for an increasingly digital generation.
But the Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" took this druggy-cum-artsy utopian outlook, fed it through new technological methodology, and came out with a masterpiece. It not only framed it’s own epoch, but continues to successfully soundtrack everything from yoga classes and James Campbell readings to Animal Collective rave after-parties.
I remember where I was when I first heard this record. As a matter of fact, I didn't even hear this record before I bought it.
I bought the record simply because it had such a cool cover and and was a UK import and figured that it must be cool.
Turned out to be not only a great record, but one of great classics in dance/rave history!
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In the early '90s, "What were the skies like when you were young?" was the new, "Can you pass the acid test?" — the question that separated the turned-on from those left behind. Britain's 1988 Summer of Love and acid house's ascent as the soundtrack the English anti-mainstream updated hippie-spiritualist concepts for an increasingly digital generation.
But the Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" took this druggy-cum-artsy utopian outlook, fed it through new technological methodology, and came out with a masterpiece. It not only framed it’s own epoch, but continues to successfully soundtrack everything from yoga classes and James Campbell readings to Animal Collective rave after-parties.
