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| - Electronic dance music association fronted by Alex Paterson and supplemented by a rotating cast of characters. The Orb began as a collaboration between Paterson and Jimmy Cauty in 1988. The two, working mainly in the ambient and progressive house genres, issued singles and EPs and received some notice around the London club scene, with Paterson achieving residence status in the "chill rooms" of several London clubs. Meanwhile, beginning in 1989, Cauty achieved celebrity status for his role in The KLF. When The Orb was offered a recording contract by Big Life records in 1990, Cauty wanted their first album instead to be released on KLF Communications. Paterson feared that this would result in The Orb being viewed as a side project of The KLF, so at that point he and Cauty went their separate ways, with Paterson retaining the name The Orb. (Cauty took some material he had that he and Paterson had recorded, re-did Paterson's contributions, and released the material under the name "Space".) Paterson collaborated with fellow producer Kris Weston and guitarist Steve Hillage to produce The Orb's first album, The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Underworld. Over time and many record releases, The Orb pursued the same basic direction, although with various side trips (such as the atonal Pomme Fritz, or the hip-hop bits on Bicycles & Tricycles). The material at times borrowed heavily from 1970s electronic pioneers such as Brian Eno and Kraftwerk; live performances featured lighting effects often used by Pink Floyd, and The Orb was at times accused of having reinvented progressive rock. However, Paterson, who had spent time in Jamaica as a young man, also will insert influences from reggae, ska and dub. Paterson's cohorts over the years have included fellow producers Thomas Fehlmann and Martin "Youth" Glover (in the 1980s, Paterson had roadied for Glover's band Killing Joke), guitarists Robert Fripp and David Gilmour, jazz vocalist Juliet Roberts, and comedian Simon Day, to name a few. The Orb's music frequently revolves around science fiction and space exploration themes. However, Paterson tempers that with humorous, sometimes silly touches (e.g., the many whimsical song titles). The Orb, like The KLF and many other electronic dance music bands of its vintage, uses many samples of other artists' work, often without permission, and this has gotten them into legal trouble at times. As of 2015, The Orb is still active, having now released 12 studio albums and numerous EPs, singles and videos, plus remixes of other artists' works. The band's "Blue Room" holds the all-time record for the longest single ever to be listed on the Gallup UK Top 100 singles charts (it reached as high as #8), at 39 minutes and 57 seconds.
- The Orb is a Doctor Who comic strip. It has been printed through various publications.
- The orb is a useful ingame tool which allows a safe interface with many CAOS codes. Functions include:
* Activate/Deactivate Autonamer
* Activate/Deactivate Auto Exporter
* Activate all powerups
* Age nearby creatures to youth; i.e., increase age. Will not reverse aging.
* Clone Nearby Aged OS: Clone all nearby creatures having the same age as the original one but it's the opposite sex!
* Clone Nearby Aged OS WV: Same as "Clone Nearby Aged OS" but the resultant creature knows all vocabulary!
* Clone Nearby Other Sex: Same as "Clone Nearby Aged OS" but the cloned creature is a baby
* Clone Nearby Aged: Same as "Clone Nearby Aged OS" but the cloned creature has the same sex as the original
* Clone Nearby Aged WV: Same as "Clone Nearby Aged" but the resultant creature knows all vocabulary!
* Clone Nearby: Same as "Clone Nearby Aged" but the clone is a baby
* Activate Grendel Protection: Kill all grendels and put two grendels eggs in the pond ( unmovable )
* Disable Grendel Protection: Destroy all grendel eggs ( in other words: the two ones in the pond )
* Activate Ettin Protection: Same as the grendel protection but with ettins
* Disable Ettin Protection: Destroy all ettin eggs ( in other words: the two ones in the pond )
* Teach To Nearby Creatures: Teach all vocabulary to nearby creatures ( Same than Knowledge Stone )
* Quit To Windows: Directly quit to windows, without saving or passing by the world switcher. It's FAST :)
* Quit To World Switcher: Quit, without saving, to the world switcher
* Save: Save your game. Does not quit your game.
* Freeze Nearby Creatures: Freeze them TOTALY. They don't have a brain anymore, until you unfreeze them.
* Unfreeze Nearby Creatures: Unfreeze them.
* Freeze All Creatures: Same as "Freeze Nearby Creatures", but on ALL creatures in the world
* Unfreeze All Creatures: Will unfreeze all currently freezed creatures.
* Space Invaders: Get ready to fight! Some mere words, and no more CAOS to access it!
* Make Nearby Fertile: This makes nearby creatures SO fertile that if both the male and the female were fertilized, next kiss IS a baby! :)
* Make Nearby Unferitle: This will assure you that the next kiss won't mean a baby, but their sex possibilities still get higher with time.. Best use of this function is if a norn is sick and you don't want a baby from him/her now...
* Generate Life To Nearby: Every nearby creature will live longer! ( But that won't mean they will be one lifestage younger! )
* Generate Much Life To Nearby: Every nearby creature will live MUCH longer! ( But that still don't mean they will be one lifestage younger! )
* Duplicate Nearby: Just like the in-game duplicator! Can duplicate multiple objects at the same time, if they are all near The Orb!
* Auto Cure Once: Got a few sick norns but don't want to help them all the time? Use this and they will be cured. For now..
* Auto Cure Nearby Once: Same as "Auto Cure Once" but only cures nearby creatures.
* Recreate Power-Up: With that, you'll be able to get those twice; ever wanted a creator at 200% power? :)
* Age Nearby To Adult: Will age nearby norns to the adult stage of life
* Teach To All Creatures: Will teach all the vocabulary to all the creatures
* Export All Creatures: Want to destroy a world, the GUI is broken or you are just fed-up with this one? This will export all your norns in one command! Fast, and effective :)
* Hatch All Eggs: Augh! DS makes eggs hatching process slow! So what about hatching ALL your eggs really fast? :)Note however that it will not hatch more eggs if the population limit is at his maximum
* Hatch Nearby Eggs: Same but only on nearby eggs
* Maximize Bioenergy: Want to have that nice little 1000 bioenergy number? There you go!
* Make All Fertile: Fast way to make all your creatures fertile! Let's get babies! Note that this is only temporarly!
* Make All Unfertile: Don't want babies anymore? Then unfertilize your creatures. Note that this is only temporarly!
* Kill Nearby Creatures: This will kill nearby creatures... Evil, but fast.
* Destroy Nearby Eggs: This will destroy nearby eggs. All and simply. ( *Nearby means touching The Orb )
* Destroy All Eggs: This will destroy all eggs in the world. All and simply.
* Many more The Orb was created by Uttar for the website: Creature Creations The Orb can be downloaded from Creatures Unlimited.
- The Orb is ?
- The Orb is casing for the Power Stone of the Infinity Stones.
- The Orb es un grupo de música electrónica inglés conocido por desarrollar el género del ambient house. Fundado en 1988 por Alex Paterson y el miembro de KLF Jimmy Cauty, The Orb comenzaron como DJs de ambient y dub en Londres. Sus primeros conciertos estaban inspirados por artistas de ambient y música electrónica de los años 1970 y 1980 como Brian Eno y Kraftwerk. Su sonido psicodélico les granjeó un seguimiento de culto entre clubbers que escuchaban su música en pleno "bajón" del viaje inducido por el consumo de drogas. The Orb ha mantenido siempre una temática relacionada con el consumo de drogas y con la ciencia ficción a pesar de haber sufrido cambios personales en su configuración, incluyendo la salida de Cauty y otros miembros como Kris Weston, Andy Falconer, Simon Phillips y Andy Hughes. Paterson es el único mienbro permanente del grupo, siguiendo trabajando como The Orb junto al productor suizo-alemán Thomas Fehlmann y, posteriormente, con Martin "Youth" Glover de Killing Joke's y Tim Bran de Dreadzone. El éxito de crítica y ventas de The Orb llegó hacia comienzos de los años 1990 con los álbumes The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld y U.F.Orb, el segundo de los cuales alcanzó el puesto #1 en las listas de éxitos británica en 1992. Este éxito llevó al grupo a su famosa aparición en el programa generalista Top of the Pops, donde el grupo mostró su estilo estrafalario jugando al ajedrez miebtras el sencillo del grupo "Blue Room" sonaba de fondo. Los álbumes de The Orb de mediados de los años 1990 fueron criticados por la prensa británica. Sin embargo, si tuvieron buenas reseñas en Estados Unidos de medios como Rolling Stone. El grupo pasó a experimentar con vocalistas en sus siguientes dos álbumes, lo que la crítica describió como insulso y poco inspirado. The Orb entonces cambió y se acercó al minimal techno abanderado por su mimebro Thomas Fehlmann, publicando nuevo material en el sello Kompakt.
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