Chapterhouse! I've still got two of their cds. Loved that band. Their second album came with a cd of remixes that was just awesome. "We Are the Beautiful" both mixes of that song are wonderful. Was Primal Scream part of that scene? Or more a product of it. I think it was the remixes of bands like Happy Mondays and Chapterhouse and Curve that really turned my ear towards electronica. So much of what was out there at first was for the X-munching gay dance crowd (read extended mixes of the worst of the worst of the disco era), at least in New Orleans. I always loved the quirky, though. I listened to a lot of Brian Eno, Tomita, ELP, Genesis, other ambient and "new age" artists I can't remember, and "world" music in the 70's and 80's (I didn't start collecting music myself until I was a teen but I had a music addict uncle who turned me on to tons of stuff from the time I was four or five). I think listening to and playing jazz in my teens also left me really open to the ambient collage stuff. What were your influences pre-Orb? I gather from a lot of the first time listening answers that many of you weren't even vaguely familiar with electronica or ambient before finding the Orb. Institute for Psychic Reform Change your Mind www.psychicreform.com