It occurred to me today that the Orb's little 'Hah, bet you didn't see this coming' album - for stretches, at least - sounds less like a musical composition unto itself and more like the weird stuff that they typically pop quite low in the mix of their tracks to make you blink and go 'What the bloody hell was that?'. The difference is that it's stripped of a contextual, conventional track and left relatively bare. It's like a corpus of Orby weirdness, almost like a sample CD of sorts, or a smattering of sheer Orb oddness laid bare, or a radical dub mix of some track that never found fruition where only the earperking sounds came through. More Gills Less Fishcakes and especially We're Pastie To Be Grill You in particular seem to follow this trend of just being weirdness, though Bang 'Er 'N Chips turns the proceedings away from the steepest weirdness.
Anyone else ever wondered if the weirdest parts of Pomme Fritz could serve as something of an instruction manual or example set for those who want to take after the Orb musically?
(Holy shit, is that a sample of Donald Duck at about 315 in 'We're Pastie to be Grill You' in the middle of that weird loop?)
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