The Orb often used bizarre imagery, such as for their live album Live 93 (Island Records, 1993), the cover of which with the sheep over the Battersea Power Station parodied Pink Floyd's Animals album cover. The Orb are an English electronic music group known for popularising chill out music in the 1990s and spawning the genre of ambient house through the use of a diverse array of samples and recordings. The Orb's critical and commercial success in the UK peaked in the early 1990s with their albums The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and the track "Little Fluffy Clouds" (incorporating samples from Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint and vocal clips from an interview with Rickie Lee Jones in which she recalls picturesque images from her childhood), and U.F.Orb, which reached #1 on the UK Albums Chart in 1992. This success led to their infamous, "legendary avant-garde" appearance on Top of the Pops, where they showcased their quirky style by playing a game of chess (an interest of cofounder Alex Paterson's since his early youth) in space suits, while footage of dolphins and an edited version of the group's single "Blue Room"
ran in the background.
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