Orb
U.F.Orb

In this context, Alex Paterson creates his musical project that is more of an alliance between DJs who make music: first, at the end of the '80s, with Jimmy Cauty of the KLF, then with studio technician Kris Weston, Thrash to his friends. The Paterson-Thrash duo produces two albums in 1991 and 1992 that remain the best works by the Orb. The second of these albums, "U.F.Orb," is released in July 1992 and shoots to no. 1 on the UK charts.

The revolution has begun: the Orb assert themselves with their works published by a small independent label. A coincidence? No, because the Orb interpret the situation and invent a musical genre, chill out: from the oppressive rhythm of house music to ambient house, where electronics and samples coexist in massive doses in long tracks in perpetual evolution. "U.F.Orb" is thus a masterpiece both from a sociological and musical point of view: because it reflects the times in which it was born, and for the innovative use of electronics that goes beyond the practical purpose for which chill out music was created.

Divided into six tracks plus a brief conclusion, the album is a continuum that for 74 minutes pours its visionary load onto the listener: it begins with an out-of-body experience, "O.O.B.E" (acronym for out-of-body experience), spots an unidentified celestial body ("U.F.Orb"), reaches the blue room of the Wright-Patterson Air Force base ("Blue Room"), where someone whispers that evidence of UFO existence is stored, it's finally time for close encounters ("Close Encounters"): with the Orb, E.T. is among us.