Bassist
Paul Webb and drummer
Lee Harris were bandmates for a decade in the influential British band
Talk Talk. A year after the band's final release -- 1992's critically acclaimed
Laughing Stock --
Harris and
Webb built a studio that they dubbed The Slug. Once the studio was up and running, the duo allowed all sorts of musicians to come in and improvise with them, using the resulting music as source material with which to create the music heard on
'O'Rang's albums. The band's recorded debut was the EP
Spoor (1994) followed by two full lengths,
Herd of Instinct (1995) and
Fields & Waves (1996). The recordings were originally released on Echo Records and later picked up and reissued (except for the EP) in 1997 by Chicago's Hit It! Recordings, followed a year later by the new
Remixes.
'O'Rang features
Webb and
Harris on a variety of instruments, incorporating dub rhythms, various percussion, and thickly layered atmospherics to create a rock music that has been highly praised by U.K. publications such as The Wire, The Times of London, and Melody Maker.
–
Joslyn Layne, Rovi