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№ 29 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century

Blue Room went top ten as a 40-minute single; the charts briefly lost their minds

U.F.Orb sent a forty-minute ambient house record into the UK top ten, and for a moment the charts genuinely lost their minds. 'Blue Room' has no business being a hit single and was one anyway, all dub space and slow-building drift. It's the Orb at their most commercially improbable and their most self-assured. Adventures did the same thing first and slightly better. This is the one that broke through.

№ 16 on The 10 Best Progressive House and Rave Albums

Blue Room is forty minutes long and was a top ten single, which is the most absurd fact in this canon. Tighter than Adventures and less inexhaustible.

Also ranked

Dancefloor
№ 198
Influence
№ 69
External poll
№ 6

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Tracklist

  1. A1O.O.B.E12:51
  2. A2U.F.Orb6:08
  3. B1Blue Room17:34
  4. CTowers Of Dub15:00
  5. D1Close Encounters10:27
  6. D2Majestic11:06
  7. D3Sticky End0:49