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with slope for the dark side of the sound

This is a Google translation of a German review for the new Orb LP, which everyone should rush out and buy.

Dr. Alex Paterson and its illustre crowd at fellow combatants, to which an ex palace foam castle member is to be counted exactly the same like Killing Joke Bassist Youth, wrote in the early 90's with their epischen and chilligen interpretation of Techno history. David Bowie and Aphex twin soon already belongs to the avowed The Orb Fangemeinde. ", first after Studioalbum three-year Abstinenz, The Orb proves Bicycles & Tricycles "once more than sensitive Collagisten with slope for the dark side of the sound.

The Orb never sheared themselves around categorizations or other drawer thinking. How otherwise could they have established ausufernde sound worlds like "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre OF The Ultraworld" or "Blue Room", itself somewhere in the schnittmenge of Acid, Ambient , House and which white I to still move?

The eklektizistische character of The Orb remains also on "Bicycles & Tricycles", and so Shoom T may over the Beats of Paterson & CO black horse on "Aftermath" MC, while "The country OF Green Ginger" orbsches sound understanding in pure culture zelebriert. Vocalsamples bevels itself on deep groovende bass LINES, to which a melody carried by surfaces associates to the side. There it does not surprise any longer that findige Schreiberlinge for The Orb invented the category Ambient House sometime.

But everything does not have to be lovely, which Ambient is called. That suggests the title of "Hell's Kitchen" already. Of dark and ponderous Beats hell from the loudspeaker leaves durchzogene TRACKS wummern with its klaustrophobischen sounds. Into a similar notch the schwermuetige "Kompania" strikes, which would also make itself prima on a Coil plate. But The Orb would not be The Orb it to the listeners not in the next instant with a friendly House number without dark Untertoene openly would completely flatter.

"L.U.C.A" gives itself to recognize with its heavily rolling Downbeats as the legitimate inheritance from Leftfield to. "Africa Shox" is here no longer far, only the preference for concise Vocalsamples makes the TRACKS a The Orb Song. This distinguisher is missing with the Electrodub of "Tower Twenty Three". Leisurely the Groove raises, before a Offbeat sticks the label Dub over the TRACKS and with strong resounds occupied Vocals the impression still strengthens.

Here The Orb of history tribute must zollen. Before fifteen years they gave the clock for a whole row other volume. Today they cannot maintain this requirement any more in its absoluteness, what does however no abort to the quality of the album. Completely in the opposite, never The Orb were as human and native as on "Bicycles & Tricycles".

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