Orang

Having spent a decade performing together in the influential British band Talk Talk, bassist Paul Webb and drummer Lee Harris established a studio they named the Slug one year after the group's concluding album, the critically acclaimed Laughing Stock released in 1992. With the space fully operational, the pair extended invitations to assorted musicians for improvisational collaborations, repurposing those sessions as raw material for the tracks that appeared on .O.Rang albums. The project's first release was the 1994 EP Spoor, followed by the full-length efforts Herd of Instinct in 1995 and Fields and Waves in 1996. Echo Records handled the initial issues of these recordings, after which the 1997 collection Remixes appeared. Across their catalog, Webb and Harris contributed to an array of instruments while integrating dub rhythms, assorted percussion, and densely layered atmospherics, resulting in a form of avant-rock that received strong praise from publications such as The Wire, The Times of London, and Melody Maker.