Little Fluffy Clouds - How Was It Made?

An in-depth breakdown of The Orb's seminal dance tune 'Little Fluffy Clouds'
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[@GyuBeats]

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[@AudioPervert1]

his sort of music production was exciting in 2005 or at best 2010.... Also how does this deconstruction of Pop music serve any purpose. Try deconstructing Venetian Snares or ATOM or something interesting, or worth learning. Adios!

[@manfromankle]

Me m

[@jmp01a24]

You say delay, but its a sort of echo or reverb yes?

[@BogusNoise]

Great video! The synth at 16:00 is probably a filtered and pitched down orchestral chord sample. Was a fairly common source back then, over the years learnt that some of my favourite sounds were made that way - Awesome 3 - Don't Go, Wood Allen - Airport 89, Orbital's remix of Kinetic... and this sound has a similar kind of texture. Where they got it from, that's a harder ask! The snare always reminded me of the Hot Pants break but don't think it's that.

[@encapsulated]

@@BogusNoise that sounds very similar to the one U96 used in the track "Tiefenrausch"

[@ericschwegmann7612]

To me this track is the pentacle, the moment that the wave crest and broke for the whole underground electronic movement in the early 90’s. It was a magical moment in time only witnessed by those of us fortunate enough to be around at the time. True bliss! Beautiful breakdown, you made my night

[@GyuBeats]

Ah thank you!

[@shaft9000]

I grew up in NorCal, so the scene didn't get going here until '91-92. There were many "Techno" CD compilations floating around the shops everywhere then, but it wasn't until we heard the Detroit stuff and The Orb that we were all like : "okaaay....enough if that grunge-oid business - it's time to go raving :)"

[@atomictraveller]

in tucson we were getting a lot of british records, the shamen being selected as theme for the superbowl ('93 iirc) was kind of that breaking moment ime. gen x kind of dumped that shit faster than america forgot about the mkultra child rape verdict on the same day as the oj simpson verdict. it's like pwei never existed. there's not too much shit after '92 that means much, windowlicker maybe. shortly afterwrds i was developing vst and not listening to anything except experimental synthesis. between that and all the fing masons in the music industry, i haven't been able to take any of this shit seriously for decades. cevin key can stick those plastic dolls up his ass.

[@DavidChristopher727]

I feel like it was the closest the world ever got to utopia

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

Well today I learned the word _pentacle._

[@NSW-ye3xw]

The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultrawotld is an absolute classic.

[@Zerbey]

You really do learn to appreciate the genius of this band when you hear the sheer complexity of each track. And, this is one of the simpler ones.

[@GyuBeats]

Yep 👍

[@hassroek]

can you do something from future sound of london next?? their sampling work is also insane

[@GyuBeats]

I'm working on it...

[@tomwhite916]

Lifeforms is my favourite album of all time

[@thetourle]

FSOL mmm yes!

[@nazauwu6431]

dead cities is completely insane

[@hrblsh]

Above all others fsol is my favourite music. The My Kingdom maxi single in particular.

[@StereoAnthony]

As a very long time Orb fan, and a musician, I am just floored at these elements, where they came from, and how it was put together. Just astonishing

[@rogerp6903]

That Methany loop is an amazing sonic tewxture and makes the song so much bigger

[@100mnts]

not really. not really at all.

[@ImWithBigRed]

This has to be the geekiest video I have ever seen and I loved every minute of it. Brilliant. Well done.

[@chromosundrift]

lucky you! I loved it too. Also, if you spend a little longer on youtube... the geekiness... it goes deeper

[@sampyannotti]

I just watched your video on the Aphex Twin track, and when you spoke about a track that felt like magic, this song immediately came to mind. This is unquestionably the most important song I’ve ever heard. I was a classical guitar major at uni, and thumb nosed the idea of sampling. By chance I was forced into a sound design class; where one day the lesson was on samples. I snarled at the lecturer until he put this track on. Almost immediately, I had to fight like hell to not cry hysterically as the track played through. After the class ended, I went home- smoked a joint (not the Purple Ohms everyone affiliates this song with, but close aha), listened to this song for 3 hours, and cried uncontrollably. This track changed my view on dance music, on production, and of course on sampling. I can’t imagine a universe where I can exist without this song. It still baffles me to this day how viciously Ricki Lee Jones came after The Orb after this was put out; and how to this day she still refers to them as “Those Fuckers”. Steve Reich was apparently so moved, that he didn’t sue. This was such a fantastic break down; thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video.

[@sampyannotti]

With that being said, May I request Squarepusher’s “Theme From Ernest Borgnine” next? Probably the runner up to this track, on my “Tracks that have made me, me” list.

[@Jacob-2796]

Really powerful story, and I would never have imagined that the speaker of the sample could have a problem with this beautiful song

[@filled_soda]

I was a kid who worshipped the Sex Pistols and The Clash and was still into some hair metal in the very early nineties. One day, I was on the school bus and my best friend got on while wearing headphones. "What's that you're listening to?" "The Orb." "Give me a go." Mind blown. All my pocket money went on Orb CDs etc. Later I discovered Orbital and Aphex Twin. Another fanatical journey.

[@AirZeee]

Sound’s almost identical to my own musical awakening!

[@emulus4000]

Aphex Twin. I just can't get into his stuff

[@haro82]

Those were the days! Do you get that same excitement today? I have never been able to recreate it. Maybe it's due to age and everything being new.

[@filled_soda]

@haro82 I do occasionally get that excitement, yes. Maybe not with the same youthful energy, mind. I definitely continue go down musical rabbit holes and play nothing else for weeks. Nothing quite matches doing that in your younger days, though. Especially when you have much more free time to absorb the music and read every article you can find

[@gorancobanovic9075]

Same here. Are there parallel spectrums??!?

[@AKAtAGG]

One of the greatest pieces of music ever written. Still get goosebumps every time i hear it. edit: subbed immediately.

[@GyuBeats]

Yep 🙂❤🎵

[@fantasyproduct1042]

Same here

[@tunnocks]

Same here also. yt recommends something of genuine interest for a change.

[@JK_Sweden]

Same here, really impressive work, amazing piece of music. Thanks!

[@atomictraveller]

thank god for whoever was getting them enough weed

[@voltijuice8576]

Q: How was it made? A: Layering different sounds! (on top of each other)

[@Beos_Valrah]

😉

[@atomictraveller]

dang it, i've been layering the same sound on top of each other

[@kimasher]

Totally one of the most iconic tracks when I started university. This definitely cracked open things. I think a decade earlier we had Blue Monday which I thought broke normality, but Little Fluffy Clouds was such a tapestry of samples and midi and just felt like an acoustic sculpture that took you places. You broke it down so well. Thank you. ❤❤❤❤. Although I preferred Towers of Dub. Loved the vocal sample at the start of that, and then it just dropped so well into the music.😊

[@martinleggett3785]

Goosebumps when I hear that vocal sample... 30 years later

[@nobbystyles4807]

once upon a time in the west opening sequence is literally a masterclass of how audio underpins story telling in film. all of the heavy lifting of that scene is done by the audio track. its still used to this day in audio-for-film classes. the good ones at least.

[@dcall7830]

"layering different sounds, that's what we do" Great reconstruction! 👍

[@he-man5102]

Who the hell is unliking these videos? Good work man.

[@100mnts]

me.

[@bristolfashion4421]

I remember being as knocked out by my first hearing of LFCs as I was when I first heard New Order's Blue Monday... both once heard, never forgotten!

[@jon33.3]

I've been listening to this song since I was a child. I'm 33 now. my mother was addicted to ecstasy when I was a child. even though I had it weird - I do not regret the amazing music I've picked up throughout it all. this is the first song I dropped acid to. seeing the Florida sunrise on the beach while listening to this on repeat was the most colorful moment of my adolescence.

[@promethiousb1489]

Adventures in ultraworld,,One of the best chill out albums of all time,,,amazing piece of work..

[@Robin23576]

First Leftfield now The Orb. Feeling 18 again and can’t wait what’s next. Always wondered if I should recreate one of these tracks for fun, but glad that watching your dissection gives me the same joy without the trouble.

[@minigrande1939]

The album was so ahead of its time.what an epic album a Psychedelic journey of pure class

[@person.X.]

This track is probably the most evocative ever for me of that period at the beginning of the 90s. Hearing it always brings back a lot of memories. I would say this and Papua New Guinea by Future Sounds of London.

[@mvashton]

FSOL were fantastic and are so evocative of that time and space! Here is the track for anyone who has forgotten of this masterpiece! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3LZeZ2lgd2rnpo

[@QuantumElectricians]

Also Orbital - Halcyon on and on .

[@joeblow26]

I made a lot of my own music back in the 1980s and the fun of it was coming up with your own sounds that you made yourself and not sampled from someone else's work like the Orbs and many others did during that time. I think it's harder to have to look around to find the exact source where all of these parts from the song came from then to just make something on your own. I guess to each its own but I like the feeling of knowing what I made is mine and accomplished something!

[@hittitecharioteer]

Loved this track. So interesting, and clever.

[@citruslimonum1]

I discovered this track from Don Letts' show on 6 music, back in 2017 and thanks to you for revisiting this! and remaking it

[@Bthelick]

My gcse music teacher at high school got me into Steve Reich's different trains. At some later point in school I also picked up some dance/chill compilation that had little fluffy clouds on, and it was one of my favourite tracks for a while but I never made the link back then. Funnily enough when the internet became a thing the first sample i really wanted to know was who the girl's voice was I just presumed the arp was theirs, and of course I then find out it was also the counterpoint sample what an incredible coincidence.

[@GyuBeats]

I love stuff like that! Thanks for sharing 🙂👍

[@dopeyvulture]

The Orb are one of the biggest influences on my music, Bahbiss Cobb. They had/have such a great mix of good electronics and dub. So great!!!! Great job recreating.

[@DonSolaris]

I exchanged more than few emails / messages with Kris Weston. The man behind most of early Orb works. He at one point mentioned the source of the loop at the Gearspace forum, but eventually asked us to take it down (the whole Q&A with him). The loop info was there. And no this is not some prank type of comment. In fact Kris mentions me in one of his blogs. And I know that he knows the loop source. He also sent me some recent audio works. It is beyond fantastic. He requested me to destroy that audio recording. Which I didn't, but eventually HD fell of the table and it got destroyed. I can't reach him nowadays or maybe I can...dunno we haven't spoken in yrs. I wish you could hear that music of his... no comparison to anything.

[@GyuBeats]

Wow I'd love to hear that. I don't suppose you can help me recreate the strings from FSOL Papua New Guinea? (I know you're a top sound designer) 🙌🎚🎛

[@TimesOfTheSines.official]

I wish I could make music with Kris.

[@100mnts]

@@TimesOfTheSines.official are you any good ? :)

[@100mnts]

hey don man good to see you! yeah hit me up bro! ah how do you send PM

[@100mnts]

ah i cant find a way of PMing. im 100mnt on twitter 100mountains or something on bsky or Krustian Weston on facefuck

[@bsways]

So much great music in that period late 80s to 90s when everyone was sampling without being sued. It encouraged a lot of creativity.

[@jangelbrich7056]

I used to think that too of the old days, but what I did not know until today, is that Rickie Lee Jones did not appreciate this at all: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Fluffy_Clouds. They "settled" it outside the courts, or whatever. Wikipedia did not exist in 1991 so we knew nothing. Instead there were rumors that the _woman_ in this track was maybe "stoned" or "high" on drugs, kinda, because of the way she talked about fluffy clouds. But I find nothing on that at all today.

[@GyuBeats]

I totally agree - i hope those days will come back

[@bsways]

@@GyuBeats I dont think it will ever come back but Im so glad I was there to experience it in my youth 🙌. Cheaper technology has put music production into the hands of so many more people today which is good in one way but imo music quality has deteriorated as a result. Record companies no longer nurture talent. They sign those with the largest social media following. You always had to wade through an ocean of crap to find the gems but now the ocean is a billion times larger and the gems far rarer. Needles in a haystack is the term that comes to mind.

[@kaitlyn__L]

When you think about how much baroque and classical composers copied each other, and how much jazz musicians cribbed off each other, but evolving every time... copyright generally seems to get in the way of musical experimentation. Hell, the Real Book was illegal for a long time because the jazz musicians who wrote those chord charts didn't pay for copyright. Recently, game composers sampling ROMpler sounds into games have been sampled back out of the games and used in new ways... These are tensions that most musicians, and fans of music, are happy to exist. Yet whenever I see anyone suggest that copyright should be reworked to acknowledge the changed context since the late-19th and early-20th century, to both protect recording artists AND allow creative remixing, etc. I generally see two responses: A) that's impossible, or B) Creative Commons already exists so what's the problem? And both of those responses, I think, bely a real lack of imagination.

[@lazytruckers43]

Huge Metal Head here and this Album had a huge intact on my life back in 91 this got me into likes of Eat Static, Speedy J, Underworld and Secret knowledge plus many more. But listening to this on MM was a experiance I will never forget.

[@bluntpuncture]

15:49 sounds like an orchestral hit from a Fairlight or EMU which has been pitched down and had its envelope shaped.

[@ECLEKTIKMAN]

HI from France. I came across your channel by chance and it's pure happiness because a lot of memories came back. And cool to try to redo the tracks and understand their structure. for this one I would have liked the Orbital Dance Mix version.😊 As a result of all these memories, I will buy back the albums from these wonderful years. I don't say thank you 😅😋 But thank you for the work done for each video 🙏

[@dokma_eu]

It's a bit weird to my ears hearing "Little Fluffy Clouds" on mastering-level headphones (DT-1990 PRO) and with pure undistorted digital new sounds of 2022, because that song I mostly remember listening in after-parties, while driving in cars, usually off the tape or from a CD on some shitty speakers. Much progress in the quality of the sound in the last 30 years is clearly audible. I love what you're doing, found you via your Leftfield reconstruction and now this! Keep doing it, it'a fantastic and it makes me go back in years to the fondest memories of my youth!

[@GyuBeats]

Yes, I know what you mean about sound quality. Thanks so much for the kind words 🙂

[@9877joseph]

It got me too!

[@AdamElteto]

"after-parties, while driving in cars, usually off the tape or from a CD" Hey, you have to proof mixes/masters in various listening environments, right? So you were doing your due diligence!

[@followtheboat]

I suspect the drugs had something to do with it too 😉

[@dokma_eu]

@@followtheboat little fluffy doves :)

[@tr606]

The tribal break could have been from one of those early e-Lab sample cd's. The amount of samples that The Prodigy took from them is nuts

[@paradoxworkshop4659]

It's funny, The Prodigy came up today at work, and I remembered the look, and the feel, but after trying to listen to a few tracks at lunch, I didn't recognize ANY of their actual music...

[@suitandtieguy]

Rewatching this while getting ready for my first house music gig in 6 years and I think what blows me away the most is the Pat Metheny playing Steve Reich sample. Makes me want to go to the score and actually recreate the notes themselves.

[@spidericemidasiosmusicprod1309]

Wow! This one brings back memories! ❤️ At the time, I never truely realised or appreciated just how much work and creativity went into making this track. Such interesting sources of samples. Can’t believe Harry Nielson is in there! Lol. Impressive job on this one, there’s a lot going on in there! Sounds super close to the original. 👍👍

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks very much - yeah I find it really fascinating to dive deep into these tracks and see what makes them tick :)

[@philwildcroft1764]

I saw them play on Saturday. They actually played the whole of U.F.Orb (it being the 30th anniversary) but the first song in the "Orb classics" section at the end was of course Little Fluffy Clouds.

[@joshtrent7945]

man, I randomly searched for this track after finding your channel with the hopes you broke it down and mostly if you uncovered the source of the elusive vocal sample. Thank you so much!

[@LittlePixelTM]

Plane flyovers and a million other sounds / bleeps / atmospheres you'd recognise from this and the rest of the Ultraworld LP are all from the Digiffects CD Sound Library - (Disc 'J' being the biggest source). Astronaut samples mostly from '"For All Mankind" documentary (1989), 'Bobby and Betty got the Moon' LP and the NASA Gemini mission recordings. I have Disc J if you're interested :)

[@GyuBeats]

Wow! Nice one! Yeah I'm interested 🙂👍

[@LittlePixelTM]

@@GyuBeats Cool - I've sent you an email - hope spam filters haven't lost it :)

[@DonSolaris]

@Littlepixel Wow! I have been looking for Digiffects for quite some time. Where did you found them? I got a "couple" of sample CD's as well. Interested in "digital" exchange? :)

[@erkbrc]

Where do you get the NASA/astronaut samples please mate?

[@LittlePixelTM]

@@erkbrc ​ @erik bruce Most of them are on a 1989 National Geographic documentary called 'For All Mankind' (not the current Apple TV Show') - it's on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWTSoaucZr1mmpY - you can use JDownloader to extract the audio. Fun fact - the music is Brian Eno and was composed specifically (and used on his Apollo Textures LP)

[@rainydayloops]

Just found your channel today. These are some great breakdowns. Love this track and how you explain. Thanks!!

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheUnfinishedSynth]

I love your studio. I like lots of light and natural materials in the studio. Plus, the trees swaying outside the window… a very inspiring environment.

[@Kung_Fu_Jesus]

So much love and respect for The Orb, and you have done a great job in trying to get close to the original. Respect.

[@GyuBeats]

Appreciate that

[@nelsonofpilipinas]

Wow! Mate this is epic work and a tribute to The Orb! Kris Weston on those knobs made history! Iconic indeed! Really enjoyed this! Thanks so cool to follow when you know the track so well! xx

[@juanjo_sound]

This is really incredible content man

[@barryhinselwood665]

Nice ... You can also find the beat you are missing on the Akai sample CD XXL Beats Vol 1 (also contains the stabs for Papua New Guinea) ... I've owned the whole range since the S950 was around ... East West is the company that was producing those sample CDs way back when :) You can also use a Juno Alpha / 106 / 60 or even an SH-202 or a Behringer Deepmind for the lead line ... The synth stab towards the end is an Oberheim OB-X or use the VST free plugin ... OB-X ... I own a slew of classic synths (Z1 / AN1X / D50 / Oberheim-X / Oberheim 12 / 303s / 909s / 808s / Alphas / Junos and a lot more - I'm a collector and user) :)

[@GyuBeats]

Knowledge! Thanks so much for the comment - I'll hunt for that break 👍

[@mk1st]

Sublime. I noticed new things in the track from your dissection. 👍

[@natmankelow7132]

This is brilliant - I've always thought KLF's Chill Out (1990), a seminal moment in ambient music/post-rave, deserves analysis one day too!

[@twelvepetaledlotus1721]

Spot on, F. S. O. L, orb and klf where doing the business back then.

[@bjornursajansson6554]

@@twelvepetaledlotus1721 Well, technically Jimmy Cauty (half of The KLF) was initially part of The Orb, even though I think he’s only credited on a handful of tracks released under that name. From what I understand though, most of the album Space (released by Cauty under the name Space on KLF Communications in 1990) contains material originally made with Alex Paterson as The Orb (meant to be their debut album) but with all of Paterson’s contributions removed. Apparently Bill Drummond (the other half of The KLF) was also somewhat involved in the early formation of The Orb, along with Youth, during a period when they were doing a lot of live experimentation at London nightclub Heaven. The split happened mainly due to different views on signing a deal with Big Life vs releasing their material themselves on KLF Communications

[@Dullbedsitblogger]

I love the fact that electronic dance music has matured enough now for people to be doing cover versions.

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

Also, back in the 90s you'd need a bunch of bulky and expensive gear like samplers to do this. Now anyone can do it on a computer, and screencast the creative process with a clear graphical representation.

[@scottd9448]

This is fantastic! A very important piece of music at a key point in my youth.

[@Rabx_4]

Oi oi geezer

[@MatONeill]

Wow, what a fantastic reproduction! The version I became obsessed with as a kid started at ''what were the skies like''... so I never even knew there was anything before that. Fascinating insight :) thanks for a great video.

[@afx7696]

Gosh i need to go listen to this again

[@readventurekids]

So, so, so, so, sooooo many memories come flooding back with every sound. My gosh. The fields of the southwest in the summer sun... Take me home, country roads! Not putting things in on the grid I find was part of the charm of some early Hardcore tunes. Absolute hell to mix, but it really gave tunes an edge and unique and memorable sound. Really enjoying this video btw!

[@fiercelaststand]

Just discovered your channel through your Leftfield video - subscribed. Please do more of these - they are superb!

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks! I definitely will 👍

[@TheValueOfN]

I'm here for the exact same reason.

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

You got your name from a Smiths song. Nice one.

[@fiercelaststand]

@@wavelengthrecords-1 aha! Good spot! No one’s noticed that before. 🙂

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

@@fiercelaststand Well, I Wonder why? 😉

[@jedibasschoke8909]

Amazing job. Great video!

[@dutchflyingpilot]

15:56 might be a sample from A Day in the Life by Black Riot (1988-Todd Terry). Listen to the sample in the original record at 1:10.

[@NathanJayMusic]

Ah man I just spent hours figuring this out and was about to comment the same thing!

[@zitozentinel]

This classic never fails to give chills for me, I appreciate greatly this informative examination, thank you very much!

[@GyuBeats]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching 🙂

[@92spaceboy]

Oh mAN!! this is so nice to find here. Legendary!! fairplay to you, serious research work all the same. I am going to enjoy checking these out.

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks!

[@Disco_Breakin]

Wonderful video of a beautiful song. Thabk you

[@paulwood927]

When I started listening to this I thought what's the point ? Telling us all about a classic we all already know note by note, beat by beat by creating a pretend version but I now hate myself for thinking that. This is a brilliant enlightening and utterly delightful odyssey. Kudos to You Good Sir, Wonderful 🙏😌🙏

[@AnalogueInTheUK]

Awesome work, pal. I adore this album - The soundtrack to a really special time of my life.

[@tommymclaughlin-artist]

This is awesome, subscribed. Would love to see more of these types of videos for 90s dance tracks, I think you've hit on something really cool here.

[@richardhayes9919]

I know nothing about music and love this video. There's definitely a bit of magic about it - fantastic work!

[@GyuBeats]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@wildcat189]

Awesome!!! I'd love to hear some more Orb deconstructions!!

[@leighjones5551]

Iconic for Arcam 5 amp and B w speakers this tune was a night night for me . The break down is incredible

[@electro-soma]

Great job. An absolute classic. A work colleague introduced me to this album back in 1992. It's quite interesting reading about these artists and how intertwined many of them were. The KLF's Jimmy Cauty being a founding member of The Orb for example. Speaking of which, I keep meaning to check out Cauty's Space album from 1990 which was intended to be the Orb's debut release.

[@defaultoperation7986]

Jimmy Cauty's Space album is brilliant. I especially love how minimal the production is, which makes sense considering that he practically made the album in less than a week. It's very quiet and subtle, perfectly capturing the atmosphere of outer space. It's quite a shame that Cauty's discography is very small because his music has made a massive impact on electronic music and the whole rave scene. I could see him making some killer goa trance/psytrance tracks considering his stuff as The KLF with the Pure Trance singles and It's Grim Up North were the stepping-stones of those genres.

[@electro-soma]

@@defaultoperation7986 Sounds interesting. I was hoping we'd see the Space album re-released on streaming platforms as we have with other KLF releases this past couple of years.

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks :) Yeah it's really interesting. Yes I hadn't heard of that Space album. I need to check it out too :)

[@Si_G]

I’d pick the original Chill Out over Space tbh.

[@TheValueOfN]

Jimmy's excellent Lord of the Rings poster has adorned a wall of mine for over 30 years. He's a man of many talents.

[@krugsmatedan5373]

wow, so glad to have found your channel, this song has been such a big part of my life to see how you've reconstructed it is amazing. thankyou

[@kayserlein]

Great job! And thank you for highlighting the pure craft that went into these tracks!! Pre-21st century tech. We struggled...

[@Topher737]

Spot on investigation of " fluffy cloud's " best I've heard!

[@baggy79]

Wow.. that's amazing. My favourite ever tune by miles. Thanks for that pal. Incredible. Wonder what Alex would think👍🤣

[@trippymchippy8586]

I am deeply envious of your man shed! :)

[@MayitoGMOD]

0:14 Over the past few years to the traditional sounds of an English Summer, The Drone of lawnmowers, The smack of leather on Willow, Has been added a new noise...

[@DjNikGnashers]

Brilliant. Real skills and knowledge required to do this, fantastic job.

[@marchall-f2v]

Orb are on tour this year, im going to see them in may

[@valentinroche7636]

Incredible track, very interesting deep dive in the production loved it !

[@simontate1262]

adventures beyond the ultraworld is in my top 5 for sure. I loved watching your breakdown thank you.

[@naomifromm4331]

Great video. Love the song and it’s great to see it assembled bit by bit. Nicely done.

[@PremiumHillBilly]

Kris Weston (orb 88 - 93ish) the engineer side of the duo then was the man that glued this tune together from what he was given at the time is my understanding. Love it

[@GyuBeats]

Yeah I think that's right. I've read a lot of what he has to say about it and I think he played a major role

[@Battledrone]

Anyone even more geeky than me when it comes to admiring tracks like this one deserves a big fat like. Well done. 15:44 sounds like some kind of time stretched version of the reese used in Human Resources' Dominator which came out one year later. "Jump Into the Fire" has some strumming going on as well. Possibly by using a detuned delay of the original break midi notes or using a delay on some of the percussion elements only.

[@tuc5987]

Love the "how was it made" series, fun!

[@LittlePixelTM]

As someone who's had a lengthy go at covering / deconstructing this myself- you really have delivered a superb effort - especially with the recreation of the synth line (which defeated me so I made a fun 303 line in the same key instead) Bravo!

[@TheValueOfN]

I'm loving your breakdowns so far. I was introduced to music creation via OctaMed on the Amiga 600. I've realised that the effort and the process that are required to find and manipulate suitable samples were what I fell in love with. Now that I have Live, Reason and FL Studio, I find myself in a new world where anything is within my grasp. Getting the calculator out and working out how many milliseconds are in a 16th resulted in so much satisfaction when my cracked copy of SoundForge 4.5 produced a perfectly-synched gate effect in Making Waves. Samples are hard to work with! I miss working with shitty samples that are ripped from Amiga games and whatever sources were available pre-internet. Anyone who analyses tunes from this era in such an intricate way gets a sub from me.

[@johnselekta]

Also from the days of OctaMED, on a 500 and 1000, that sampler with the really bad slider was plenty back then :)

[@jamiesmusic]

I also started with a 600 and octamed, had so many sample and demoscene disks. Also I remember recording 2 sides of a 90 minute tdk with just this song repeated on both sides and gave it to one of my friends to irritate him. Also, also, I'm sure I know that drum loop from somewhere, a hip hop tune maybe. But they could have just beefed it up with midi anyway.

[@theNomadz]

Cool, so glad I caught this and your channel... always think of Little Fluffy Clouds when we have a hot summer.

[@videosvideos6243]

The song seemed futuristic when i first heard it in the 90s and now the production of the song is archaic.

[@PendelSteven]

16:00 I think it's the Fairlight Orchestra Hit played on low register. Maybe filtered a bit.

[@StevenNorgate75]

The faint countdown at 3:44 (LP version) is from Listen, Move And Dance No.4 - Moving Percussion And Electronic Sound Pictures track B9 Journey Into Space. It was created by Desmond Briscoe of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with Vera Grey of BBC School’s, whose voice it probably is. You can hear the clang after the countdown too.

[@StevenNorgate75]

Here kzbin.infoUgkxadHs5rqKNyDi5G-O_xWZgM-bRJ652Dul

[@JammyGit]

Aaah, this takes me back to my mushroom years during the early 90s 👀 I used to own a live cassette of The Orb & Steve Hillage doing a gig together which was a great recording. As much as I loved The Orb at the time, having Hillage playing with them took an already mind blowing set to a whole nother level of tripped out music, which hardly sounds believable when you listen to Little Fluffy Clouds. I probably lost that tape and I have no idea if it was an official recording or a bootleg, but if that recording is available then I'd recommend getting it 👍 Edit - that tape of The Orb & Steve Hillage IS actually on KZbin would you believe.....it's called @ Brixton Academy 1991. Have a listen to that 😉

[@mrvertigo73]

I was at that gig!! Used to go see Ozrics, Village, Michael Dog, Eat Static, Ozrics etc. at Brixton a LOT! Lots of acid and mushrooms and lots of dancing. Absolutely love Steve Hillage (I'm a guitarist) so to see him with them, and playing with System 7 and Eat Static was insanely good. Got me in to Gong, Daevid Allen and loads more. Green by Hillage is still one of my favourite all-time albums

[@AdamJnsn]

I’ve been listening to the orb for years.

[@DJSweep75]

The break you couldn’t find is from Twin Hype‘s „Serious Attitude“.

[@NathanJayMusic]

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!

[@danjelvantijnintellijel756]

This is it for sure! Nice one.

[@DJSweep75]

We used that break too, on our 1997 jelly & Fish album, In Too Deep. That was an easy find 🙈. You‘re welcome. 😉

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

This is superb content. Well done sir.

[@GyuBeats]

Thank you kindly

[@jedgould5531]

Outstanding reproduction of a track very important to my history at KROQ. I was a huge fan of Alex’s, helped him get booked all over California as I was the only DJ who played him for years. And for some reason he was always rude to me! Still one of my all-time favorite artists.

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

Hi Jed! I met you in the KROQ studio in '97 while in LA for the first Smiths Convention in Pasadena. Got a pic with you and the cleaning guy who was standing there lol. You're so silly. Love ya man! Don from Oklahoma City

[@andersrabenhansen5017]

You actually made my jaw drop. Remember this song when it was released.

[@Lincoln_Bio]

Fun fact new year's eve 1999 I hosted a millennium party on acid where the only music was this track played on repeat all night. It truly never gets old.

[@GyuBeats]

Really?!? That's awesome

[@janekschaefer]

Made me smile a mile reading that 👌

[@Lincoln_Bio]

@@GyuBeats True story haha :D

[@followtheboat]

Oh boy, that guitar sample sends shivers down my spine. The whole track brings back so many happy memories it's almost sacrilege to hear it deconstructed... but you do a superb job and bring a new appreciation of a masterpiece. Nicely done 👌

[@windmill1965]

Hah! Nice to see that besides sailing, and making videos about it, you find time to watch (and enjoy) these kind of music videos!

[@followtheboat]

@@windmill1965 hehe, fancy seeing you here! TBH all my time on KZbin is spent watching non-sailing videos.

[@windmill1965]

@@followtheboat Which is fully understandable. Fair winds and stay safe!

[@johnfloydman7735]

One of the best 🙂... The orb is my favourite group of the nineties. Love them since the first ep.. the roof is on fire back in 89.. Thanks for covering this track 🪬🙏👍

[@thesameoldsouls]

The wild west days of sampling. Great video 📹 👍

[@paulis7319]

This is great information for anyone who enjoys figuring out how original songs were done! It would be interesting to hear from the person or team who put this original song together. It's definitely an iconic masterpiece!

[@deviousdame]

Only just found your channel from the Bukem/Atlantis video. You sir have some serious production skills! I love the orbs ultra world album so was pleased to find this vid next, can’t wait to look through the rest of your channel. Cheers

[@GyuBeats]

Welcome aboard!

[@johnlloyd8109]

This is fantastic, chap - absolutely fascinating. Thanks for making the video!

[@adamore8371]

Damn, this is fascinating piece of reverse engineering of a song that is a classic;) So enjoyed watching this!! Amazing job!

[@st1rjool]

Really interesting. Thank you.