The sonic and chemical weirdness of the rave era can sometimes seem like it was all a distant dream – but it was very real and on a big scale: this deeply peculiar record, for example, entered the UK top 20 albums. This was The Orb settling in for the long haul after the huge success of their first two albums, and it really feels like a spaceship setting a course out in deep space. Less happens in the way of dramatic samples and big riffs than on those early records, but that’s great – here you get to luxuriate in Dr Alex Paterson and crew’s unique ways with arpeggios, echos and unexpected drips and splashes of sound.