 The Orb U.F. Off - The Best Of IN STORES: November 3, 1998 SELECTION #: 314 524 599 2 CD (Limited Edition) 314 524 565 2 CD (Standard Edition) From noodling around in a south London squat to headlining countless all-nighters and festivals the world over, The Orb have remained at the cutting-edge of contemporary music since their earliest boundary breaking experiments over a decade ago. And as the Orb swings through its tenth year, it leaves a trail of music that has continually excited and questioned, evolved and progressed. Its seen a variety of line-ups, but each new partnership or collaborator just sends founder Alex Patterson off on another adventure. With few guidelines, but seemingly infinite ideas, they have created unique soundtracks of our lives that have stood the test of time, reaching out to an ageless listenership with their unique blend of everything. And this is what "U.F. Off", The Orb's imminent greatest hits album, is celebrating. Ten years of this constantly contorting band that has crossed the great divide of generic pigeon-holing, of a band that read the rulebook and then walked away, laughing.
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