The Orb are an English electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty. Known for their psychedelic sound, the Orb developed a cult following among clubbers "coming down" from drug-induced highs. Their influential 1991 debut album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld pioneered the UK's nascent ambient house movement, while its UK chart-topping follow-up U.F.Orb represented the group's commercial peak.
Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann of the Orb at Culture Box in Copenhagen in 2005
Paterson and Fehlmann at a 2006 performance at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
James Francis Cauty, also known as Rockman Rock, is an English artist and musician, best known as one-half of the duo the KLF, co-founder of the Orb and as the man who burnt £1 million.
James Cauty artwork Operation Magic Kingdom bombed onto billboard in Old Street, 2007
James Cauty Smiley Riot Shield, acrylic on appropriated ex-police riot shield, 2014