Can any Orb fans help a fella out?

Doctor? wrote: I know there's a couple of Orb heads who frequent this place, and was wondering if any might have some certain bootlegs.

Basically I was looking around my Orb stuff and looking on Youtube, to suggest some recommended listening for bonoshed (tho I never did manage it Sorry dude), and I was reminded of my frustration at the loss of my Soundcity 95 boot.

I'm really looking for the soundcity gig broadcast by radio1, on soulseek and all, I can only find the first broadcasr, of OOBE and 2 other tracks, and can't find the second one with Oxbow Lakes, Plateau and Towers of Dub, all with crazy live band accompaniment.

Anyone have it? Or any other audios or even videos from the "live band" tours? On p2p, all I ever find are Ultrworld era gigs, millions of em.

Doc! , delving into my attic tonight , inspired by watching Portishead on Later and motivated to track down their first 2 albums on cassette ,one of which i found (Dummy), the other no luck so far ,i found my old Orb cassettes.I have Radio 1 Bristol Sound City 1995 , Glastonbury 1993 and a Radio 1 session from 1998.PM me an adress and i'll send some copies over to yers.Also found a cassette of Orbital at Alexandra Palace NYE 1996/97 and even a one of Chemical Brothers, Conemelt and Daft Punk at Tribal Gathering 1996.

Listening to Orb at Bristol Sound City 95 now.First track ' O.O.B.E' has that same African chant sample that New Order used on Angel Dust

And in we go to HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY HAPPPY HAPPY JOY

Intro to Glastonbury 1993 gig is a classic- sampled conversation with the guy about being cured of his disability

You need to play that Happy Happy Joy Joy intro REALLY loud, for the trademark VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBb rumbling as soon as it's finished. It's like "I wonder what time the Orb are o.VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBBB, ah right"

It's the second half of Bristol I'm after......Plateau, Oxbow Lakes, Towers of Dub, all with the live band giving it plenty.

If you have it, you could make a grumpy old cunt very happy :D

Nah i don't appear to have Plateau, Oxbow Lakes or Towers of Dub, Doc .I have basically O.O.B.E and various ambient doodlings and pissing about and another track form Orbus Terrarum which could be either Occidental , White River Junction or Montagne D'or.Can't remember which is which of those tracks and can't check by playing my CD of Orbus Terrarum because it's knackered amd will no longer play.When were the other tracks from Bristol transmitted then? The remainder of the Sound City broadcast i have on the tape is Jesus & Mary Chain and Radiohead.Both of which don't sound at their best.Introduced by a very young and naive sounding Jo Whiley

I have Plateau on the Glastonbury 93 cassette - actually 2 years from when it eventually surfaced on Orbus T.Not sure what else is on the Glasto cassette.Will listen later.Sure Towers Of Dub is on it actually

Actually , going through these hundreds of old cassettes i could do well to get some of them transferred to the PC.Many rare gigs , rare mixes and remixes from many diffrent artists.Thought about transferring my vynyl to the pooter but there's no much that i couldn't simply download from Soulseek if i wanted a digital version.I'd do better to get some of these many cassettes transferred.So , you know what's coming next, Doc..... what do i need to buy / get to do the jobby?

You need a USB cassette deck, tempted to get one myself. Think svp.co.uk have them.

Funny, the soundcity gig was broadcast in two halves, the second half was the one I got first, and now it's the one that nobody has. I have other versions of plateau and all, but they went MENTAL that night, and just rocked out with the live bass and drums.

Eg, plateau is normally a long pointless noodle with bugger all drums, but that night they played it like a fuckin Rhumba track or something.

I'm sad now:(

USB Cassette Deck here - I actually bought one last month, but haven't unpacked it yet... :)

I'm off to see The Orb on May 1st in London - hopefully Tim Bran and Youth should join the good DR (Duncan Robert) Alex Paterson!

As for live tracks, I'll try and dig out some stuff - got loads hidden somewhere in this tip of my room...

Nick King wrote: USB Cassette Deck here - I actually bought one last month, but haven't unpacked it yet... :)

I'm off to see The Orb on May 1st in London - hopefully Tim Bran and Youth should join the good DR (Duncan Robert) Alex Paterson!

As for live tracks, I'll try and dig out some stuff - got loads hidden somewhere in this tip of my room...

Nice one Nick , cheers

but times change and the thought of waiting an eternity for a C90 to rewind or untangling a twisted C90 is about as appealing as listening to Chico duetting with Slipknot.

Yep!

This has to be one of the most balanced and friendly threads of all time.

I salute you Cambo!