# The Orb discography

The discography of European electronic music group the Orb includes seventeen studio albums, one live album, eight compilation albums, four remix albums, four mix albums, two video albums, ten extended plays, thirty-one singles and twenty-two music videos. Founded by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty in 1988, the group's first release was the extended play Kiss EP, issued in May 1989. The single "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld", which marked the group's first foray into the ambient house genre, was released in October 1989 on Adam Morris and Martin Glover's record label WAU! Mr. Modo Recordings. It was later re-issued by Big Life and peaked at number 78 in the United Kingdom despite sample clearance issues. Following Cauty's departure from the group, the Orb signed a long-term recording contract with Big Life and released their debut studio album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld in April 1991. It peaked at number 29 in the United Kingdom and has since been recognized as a seminal album of the ambient house genre. "Little Fluffy Clouds" and "Perpetual Dawn" were released as singles from the album.
The Orb's second studio album U.F.Orb was released in June 1992 and topped the United Kingdom albums chart. The album's second single "Blue Room" – at a length of 39 minutes and 57 seconds – became the longest-running release to enter the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at number eight. Following the success of U.F.Orb, the group signed to Island Records and released the live album Live 93 on the label. "Little Fluffy Clouds" and "Perpetual Dawn" were re-issued and became top 20 hits in the UK. The Orb's third studio album Orbus Terrarum was released in April 1995, charting at number twenty in the UK and producing the single "Oxbow Lakes". Orblivion followed in February 1997 and peaked at number nineteen in the United Kingdom; it also became the group's first album to chart in the United States, peaking at number 174 on the Billboard 200 chart. "Toxygene" became their first UK top five single and also charted at number 23 in Ireland.
The Orb's fifth studio album Cydonia was released in February 2001 following several delays, peaking at number 83 in the United Kingdom. The group subsequently left Island Records and released several albums on assorted labels: Bicycles & Tricycles (2004) on Cooking Vinyl, Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt (2005) on Kompakt, The Dream (2007) on Liquid Sound Design and Baghdad Batteries (Orbsessions Volume III) (2010) on Malicious Damage. Metallic Spheres, a collaboration with former Pink Floyd musician David Gilmour, was released in October 2010. It gave the group their highest-charting album in the UK since U.F.Orb, peaking at number twelve on the country's albums chart. Metallic Spheres also charted in several European countries, including Belgium, Greece and Ireland. The Orb then collaborated with Jamaican reggae musician Lee "Scratch" Perry on the albums The Orbserver in the Star House (2012) and More Tales from the Orbservatory (2013). More recently, the Orb have returned to their ambient roots, collaborating with Roger Eno and other musicians to produce Moonbuilding 2703 AD in 2015, COW / Chill Out, World! in 2016 and No Sounds Are Out of Bounds in 2018.

## Albums
### Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | UK | UK Dance | BEL | GER | GRC | IRL | NLD | US | US Dance | US Rock |
| The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld | Released: 2 April 1991 (UK) Label: Big Life, Mercury Formats: CD, cassette, LP | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| U.F.Orb | Released: 6 July 1992 Label: Big Life, Mercury Formats: CD, cassette, LP | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pomme Fritz | Released: 13 June 1994 (UK) Label: Island Formats: CD, cassette, 12" | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Orbus Terrarum | Released: 4 April 1995 (UK) Label: Island Formats: CD, cassette, LP | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Orblivion | Released: 24 February 1997 (UK) Label: Island Formats: CD, LP | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 174 | — | — |
| Cydonia | Released: 26 February 2001 (UK) Label: Island, MCA Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 83 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bicycles & Tricycles | Released: 3 May 2004 (UK) Label: Cooking Vinyl Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 107 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 22 | — |
| Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt | Released: 26 October 2005 (JPN) Label: Kompakt Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Dream | Released: 19 September 2007 (JPN) Label: Liquid Sound Design, Six Degrees, Traffic Formats: CD, digital download | 175 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Baghdad Batteries (Orbsessions Volume III) | Released: 7 September 2009 (UK) Label: Malicious Damage Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Metallic Spheres (featuring David Gilmour) | Released: 11 October 2010 (UK) Label: Columbia Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 12 | 3 | 34 | 95 | 21 | 65 | 40 | 73 | 3 | 23 |
| The Orbserver in the Star House (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) | Released: 28 August 2012 (UK) Label: Cooking Vinyl Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 93 | — | 134 | — | — | — | — | — | 23 | — |
| More Tales from the Orbservatory (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) | Released: 3 June 2013 (UK) Label: Cooking Vinyl, The End Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 191 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Moonbuilding 2703 AD | Released: 22 June 2015 Label: Kompakt Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 90 | 19 | 158 | — | — | — | 84 | — | — | — |
| COW / Chill Out, World! | Released: 14 October 2016 Label: Kompakt Formats: CD, LP, digital download | — | 9 | 116 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Released: 22 June 2018 Label: Cooking Vinyl Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 51 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Abolition of the Royal Familia | Released: 27 March 2020 Label: Cooking Vinyl Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 62 | 2 | 99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Prism | Released: 28 April 2023 Label: Cooking Vinyl Formats: CD, LP, digital download | 85 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |

### Live albums

List of live albums, with selected chart positions and certifications :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | UK | Certifications |
| Live 93 | Released: 22 November 1993 (UK) Label: Island Formats: CD, cassette, LP | 23 | BPI: Silver |
| Further Adventures Beyond Dark Matter | Released: 2 September 2014 (UK) Label: Abbey Road Studios Formats: CD, DVD, MP3 | — | |
| The Orb's Further Adventures | Released: 21 February 2016 (UK) Label: Live Here Now Formats: CD, DVD, LP, audio and video downloads | — | |

### Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | UK |
| U.F.Off: The Best of The Orb | Released: 2 October 1998 (UK) Label: Island Formats: CD, LP | 38 |
| Orbsessions Volume One | Released: 18 October 2005 (UK) Label: Malicious Damage Formats: CD, LP | — |
| Orbsessions Volume Two | Released: 4 June 2007 (UK) Label: Malicious Damage Formats: CD, LP | — |
| The BBC Sessions 1989–2001 | Released: 10 September 2008 (UK) Label: Island Formats: CD | — |
| Impossible Oddities from Underground to Overground: The Story of Wau! Mr. Modo (with Youth) | Released: 25 October 2010 (UK) Label: Year Zero Formats: CD, LP | — |
| History of the Future | Released: 7 October 2013 (UK) Label: Island Formats: CD/DVD | 190 |
| History of the Future Part 2 | Released: 16 February 2016 (UK) Label: Malicious Damage Formats: CD/DVD | — |
| Orboretum: The Orb Collection | Released: 8 November 2024 Label: Cooking Vinyl Formats: CD | — |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |||

### Remix albums

List of remix albums :
| Title | Album details |
| Aubrey Mixes: The Ultraworld Excursions | Released: 27 December 1991 (UK) Released and deleted on the same day Label: Big Life Formats: LP, CD, cassette |
| Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty | Released: 13 August 1996 (UK) Label: Deviant Formats: CD, cassette, LP |
| Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty Part 2 | Released: 4 September 2001 (UK) Label: Deviant Formats: CD |
| Orbserving the Star House in Dub (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) | Released: 13 May 2013 (UK) Label: Cooking Vinyl Formats: CD, digital download |
| Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond The Call of Duty pt.3: The Orb Remix Project | Released: 4 December 2020 (UK) Label: Liquid Sound Design Formats: CD, digital download |

### Mix albums

List of mix albums :
| Title | Album details |
| Back to Mine | Released: 27 January 2003 (UK) Label: DMC Formats: CD, LP |
| I'll Be Black | Released: 15 October 2007 (UK) Label: Trojan Formats: CD |
| Tundra and Sunflakes Vol. 1 | Released: 20 May 2011 (UK) Label: Ketama Formats: CD, digital download |
| Tundra and Sunflakes Vol. 2 | Released: 9 September 2011 (UK) Label: Ketama Formats: CD, digital download |

### Video albums

List of video albums :
| Title | Album details |
| The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures | Released: 1992 (UK) Label: Big Life Formats: VHS |
| C Batter C | Released: 11 November 2011 (UK) Label: Malicious Damage Formats: DVD |

## Extended plays

List of extended plays, with selected chart positions :
| Title | EP details | Peak chart positions |
| Title | EP details | UK |
| Kiss EP | Released: May 1989 (UK) Label: WAU! Mr. Modo Formats: 12" | — |
| In Dub | Released: 1991 (UK) Label: Big Life Formats: 12" | — |
| Peel Sessions | Released: 1 July 1991 (UK) Label: Strange Fruit Formats: CD, cassette, LP | — |
| The Peel Sessions | Released: 28 March 1996 (UK) Label: Strange Fruit Formats: CD, LP | — |
| Daleth of Elphame | Released: 22 July 2002 (UK) Label: Badorb.com Formats: CD, 12" | — |
| Kompassion | Released: 6 January 2003 (UK) Label: Kompakt Formats: 12" | — |
| Komplott | Released: 15 November 2004 (UK) Label: Kompakt Formats: 12" | — |
| Battersea Shield (with Meat Beat Manifesto) | Released: 22 November 2004 (UK) Label: Malicious Damage Formats: CD | — |
| Komfort | Released: 7 June 2005 (UK) Label: Kompakt Formats: 12" | — |
| Alpine | Released: 4 March 2016 (UK) Label: Kompakt Formats: 12" | — |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |||

## Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Title | Year | UK | IRL | US Dance | Album |
| "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld" | 1989 | 78 | — | — | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld |
| "Little Fluffy Clouds" | 1990 | 10 | 17 | 13 | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld |
| "Perpetual Dawn" | 1991 | 18 | 16 | 13 | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld |
| "Blue Room" | 1992 | 8 | 28 | 46 | U.F.Orb |
| "Assassin" | 1992 | 12 | — | — | Non-album single |
| "Oxbow Lakes" | 1995 | 38 | — | — | Orbus Terrarum |
| "Toxygene" | 1997 | 4 | 23 | — | Orblivion |
| "Asylum" | 1997 | 20 | — | — | Orblivion |
| "Once More" | 2001 | 38 | 50 | — | Cydonia |
| "Aftermath" (featuring MC Soom-T) | 2004 | 103 | — | — | Bicycles & Tricycles |
| "Vuja De" | 2007 | — | — | — | The Dream |
| "DDD (Dirty Disco Dub)" | 2009 | — | — | — | The Dream |
| "Golden Clouds" (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) | 2012 | — | — | — | The Orbserver in the Star House |
| "Soulman" (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) | 2012 | — | — | — | The Orbserver in the Star House |
| "Ball of Fire" (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) | 2013 | — | — | — | The Orbserver in the Star House |
| "Doughnuts Forever" (featuring Jah Wobble) | 2018 | — | — | — | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds |
| "Rush Hill Road" (featuring Hollie Cook) | 2018 | — | — | — | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds |
| "Wolfbane" | 2018 | — | — | — | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds |
| "Pervitin (Empire Culling & The Hemlock Stone Version)" | 2019 | — | — | — | Abolition of the Royal Familia |
| "Hawk Kings (Oseberg Buddhas Buttonhole)" | 2019 | — | — | — | Abolition of the Royal Familia |
| "Daze (Missing & Messed Up Mix)" | 2020 | — | — | — | Abolition of the Royal Familia |
| "Toi 1338b" (with Sedibus) | 2021 | — | — | — | The Heavens |
| "Afterlife Aftershave" (with Sedibus) | 2021 | — | — | — | The Heavens |
| "Whippersnapper" (with OSS) | 2021 | — | — | — | Enter the Kettle |
| "Disco Bombing" (with OSS) | 2021 | — | — | — | Enter the Kettle |
| "Wow Picasso!" (with OSS) | 2021 | — | — | — | Enter the Kettle |
| "No Speed Limit" (with OSS) | 2021 | — | — | — | Enter the Kettle |
| "Living in Recycled Times" (solo or featuring Rachel D'Arcy) | 2023 | — | — | — | Prism |
| "Prism" | 2023 | — | — | — | Prism |
| "Cracking Kraken" (with Chocolate Hills) | 2023 | — | — | — | Yarns From the Chocolate Triangle |
| "H.O.M.E (High Orbs Mini Earth)" | 2023 | — | — | — | Prism |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||

## Remix work

List of remixes produced by the Orb for other artists, showing year released and album name :
| Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album |
| "Money $" (Orb Clubmix) | 1989 | Fischerman's Friend | "Money $" single |
| "Lily Was Here" (Space Centre Medical Unit Hum) | 1989 | David A. Stewart, Candy Dulfer | "Lily Was Here" single |
| "Hotel California" (Orb in Cali Mix 1) | 1990 | Jam on the Mutha | "Hotel California" single |
| "Hotel California" (Orbitally Ambient Mix) | 1990 | Jam on the Mutha | "Hotel California" single |
| "Sirtaki on Mars" (The Orb vs. High Frequency Bandwidth Remix) | 2011 | OMFO | "Sirtaki on Mars" single |

### 1991

* Pato Banton - "Beams of Light"
* Big Audio Dynamite II - "The Globe"
* Fortran 5 - "Groove"
* Front 242 - "Rhythm of Time"
* Love Kittens - "What Goes On?"
* Primal Scream - "Higher Than the Sun"
* Sun Electric - "Red Summer"
* Suzuki K1 >> 7.5cc - "Satellite Serenade"
* System 7 - "Miracle"
* System 7 - "Sunburst"
* Time Unlimited - "Men of Wadodem"
* Wendy & Lisa - "Staring at the Sun"
* Wir - "So and Slow It Grows"
* Zodiac Youth - "Fast Forward the Future"

### 1992

* Blue Pearl - "Mother Dawn"
* Mystic Knights - "Ragga-nam-poiser"
* Mike Oldfield - "Sentinel"
* Lisa Stansfield - "Time to Make You Mine"
* System 7 - "Altitude"
* Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Tong Poo"

### 1993

* Electrot'ete - "I Love You"
* Front 242 - "Crapage"
* The Grid - "Crystal Clear"
* Haruomi Hosono - "Laughter Meditation"
* Material - "Mantra"
* Maurizio - "Ploy"
* U2 - "Numb" (unreleased)
* Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Technodon Remixes II"

### 1994

* Saxophonettes - "Secret Squirrel"

### 1995

* Innersphere - "Out of Body"
* Pop Will Eat Itself - "Home"
* Spectre - "Spectre Overseas"
* Yello - "You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess"

### 1996

* The Cranberries - "Zombie"
* Gut/Lane - "Firething"
* Killing Joke - "Democracy"
* Penguin Cafe Orchestra - "Music for Found Harmonium"
* Prong - Rude Awakening
* Rick Wright - "Runaway"

### 1997

* Audioweb - "Faker"
* Can - "Halleluwah"
* Dolls Head - "It's Over, It's Under"
* Gong - "A PHP's Advice"
* Meat Beat Manifesto - "Radio Babylon"
* Nine Inch Nails - "The Perfect Drug"
* Tangerine Dream - "Towards The Evening Star"
* Tubeway Army - "Jo the Waiter"

### 1998

* Anaesthesia - "Dirty Kiss"
* Mindless Drug Hoover - "The Reefer Song"

### 1999

* D-Kiku - "Primitive..."
* One True Parker - "Singing Ringing Tune"

### 2000

* The Damage Manual - "Sunset Gun"
* Ayumi Hamasaki - "Monochrome"
* Denez Prigent - "Heart of Black Hole"
* Semisonic - "Secret Smile"

### 2001

* Another Fine Day - "Scarborough Fair"
* Electric Chairs - "Barbie Girl"
* Electrical Lovers - "Nijyu Rasen"
* Ayumi Hamasaki - "End of the World"
* Keith Hudson - "I'm Alright..."
* Suns of Arqa - "Children of Jumma"
* Witchman - "Angel Art"
* Yasuaki Shimizu - "Morocco Mole"

### 2002

* Creature - "Stuffed Hostage"
* Indochine - "Mao Boy"
* Serge Gainsbourg - "Requiem Pour Un C..."

### 2003

* Mika Nakashima - "Find the Way"

### 2004

* Ulf Lohmann - "Because Before"
* Hybrid - "Higher Than a Skyscraper"

### 2005

* Headcount - "Die Monkey Die"

### 2008

* Infadels - "Circus of the Mad"
* Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World"
* Transit Kings - "The Last Lighthouse Keepers"

### 2009

* Transmission - "Dance Alone"

### 2010

* Coldcut & Hexstatic - "Timber"

### 2011

* Shrubbn! - Echos

### 2018

* Space - Magic Fly

## Music videos

List of music videos, showing year released and director :
| title | Year | Director(s) |
| "Little Fluffy Clouds" | 1992 | Simon Maxwell, Marion Waldorf |
| "Earth (Gaia)" | 1992 | Simon Maxwell, Marion Waldorf |
| "Towers of Dub" | 1992 | Simon Maxwell, Marion Waldorf |
| "Perpetual Dawn" | 1992 | Simon Maxwell, Marion Waldorf |
| "Star 6 & 7 8 9" | 1992 | Simon Maxwell, Marion Waldorf |
| "Outlands" | 1992 | Simon Maxwell, Marion Waldorf |
| "Outro" | 1992 | Simon Maxwell, Marion Waldorf |
| "Blue Room" | 1992 | Simon Maxwell, Marion Waldorf |
| "Assassin" | 1992 | Simon Maxwell, Marion Waldorf |
| "Pomme Fritz (Meat 'N Veg)" | 1994 | Tony Hill |
| "Oxbow Lakes" | 1995 | Ian Bryers, Mike Lipscombe |
| "Toxygene" | 1997 | Benjamin Stokes |
| "Asylum" | 1997 | Benjamin Stokes |
| "Once More" | 2001 | Vito Rocco |
| "From a Distance (Blast Master v. The Corpral)" (featuring The Corpral) | 2004 | Ukawa Naohiro |
| "Vuja De" (version 1) | 2007 | Katsura Moshino |
| "Vuja De" (version 2) | 2007 | Katsura Moshino |
| "Hymns to the Sun" (version 1) (featuring David Gilmour) | 2010 | Gavin Elder |
| "Hymns to the Sun" (version 2) (featuring David Gilmour) | 2010 | Stylorouge |
| "Hold Me Upsetter" (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) | 2012 | — |
| "Golden Clouds" (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) | 2012 | Volker Schaner |
| "Soulman" (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) | 2012 | Volker Schaner |