"Pioneer" is an appellation that's thrown around in the music industry without the thought it deserves, but underestimate The Orb's work bringing synthesised music to the mainstream at your peril. Specifically melodic, ambient electronica, which they developed by removing heavy drum loops from their dance tracks and replacing them with samples from, well, everywhere.

McCarthy-era speeches, science fiction plays, Jean Michelle Jarre - nothing and nobody is safe. Speaking to Keyboard magazine in 1995, co-founder Alex Patterson says that he finds "beauty and cleverness" from using unlicensed samples without people recognizing it. So expect the band's latest, available to stream exclusively from GQ, to be full of them.

How many can you spot from their latest pioneering record, Moonbuilding 2703 AD?

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