Album Artwork JPEGElectric Orange - Orange Commutation

Cat No: DELEC CDS 036

Release Date: 10th June 1996

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  1. Electripity Chapter 99 - 5:16 (D.J. Müller)
    • D.J.M. - Beats, Samples, Organ, Vibes
    • Robert Moorman - Sitar, Guitar, Bouzuki
    • Paul - Bass
  2. Journey Through Weird Scenes Featuring Cows In Space (Cud Chewer Mix) - 7:18 (D.J. Müller)
    • D.J.M. - Beats, Tapes, Organ, Leslie
    • MTP Schriner - Guitar
    • Öslem - Voice
    • Tina - Vocals
  3. The Return of Eugene, Be Careful! (Murderistic Mix) - 9:58 (D.J. Müller)
    • D.J.M. - Beats, Samples, Organ, Farfisa, Leslie
    • Budgie - Guitar
    • Tina - Voices
  4. Back in Strange World (Forbidden re-Mix) - 11:10 (D.J. Müller)
    • D.J.M. - Beats, Synthesiser, Rhodes, Hammond
    • Budgie - Guitar
  5. Reflections of 2072 and Everywhere (Mirror Mix) - 10:35 (D.J. Müller)
    • D.J.M. - Hammond, Rhodes, Clavinet, Samples, Beats
    • Budgie - Guitar
    • Uta Minzberg - Flute
    • Öslem - Voice

Go to TopCredits

"Electripity Chapter 99" recorded March 1994 at the Funny Farm. Mixed by Dirk Jan Müller and Rudolf Heimann. Produced by D.J.M.
Other tracks recorded June 1993 at the Funny Farm. Remixed September 1994 by Dirk Jan Müller and Rudolf Heimann. Produced by D.J.M.

Orange design & construction by James Grassick
Photography by Clive Pittman.

Go to TopPress Reviews

Ultramotive May 1996

Opens with sitar drones before pulsing bass vocal samples and the rhythms kick in. A real '70s meets '90s album: a collision of Krautrock meets techno. A measure of psychedelia and lashings of technology. One of my favourite albums of the year. Larmour-Jones

Acid Dragon May 1996

Call it what you want: psychedelic, space rock, progressive, even techno... I don't care. What it is, above all, is: good. Fun. Innovative. Like most of Delerium releases, by the way... Electric Orange was one of the best bands featured on last year's compilation, Pick And Mix (a double CD sampler issued by Delerium, including over two hours of great psych music - a 'must have' that we're guilty of not reviewing before!). And here is their first album. Almost purely instrumental, and as flabbergasting as Ozric Tentacles' debutes! In fact, in order to tell you of the joys of Electric Orange, I'll have to invoke the spirit of Ozric Tentacles and of Porcupine Tree, as well as of the so called 'trip-hop' movement, together with bits of Floyd, of Seventies British prog, of psychedelic... Oh, well, never mind. And the beat... the rhythm... This is a powerful trip! (AFR)

Atomic May 1996

The sticker announces TechnoKrautRockSampler & a more appropriate definition of this Germanic delight would be difficult to come up with. EO are a nucleus of Dirk Jan Müller & when not making yoghurts for mass UK consumption, he's coming up with delicious electronic excursions to celestial places where wolves howl on misty hills & dogs bark in response to their hereditary fathers swirling around a Tangerine dreamscape on the beautiful, Floyd inspired composition "The Return of Eugene, Be Careful (Murderous Mix)", or for more uptempo pleasant atmospherics of funky guitars & equally pleasurable danceable beats; the more energetic option on this budget price, 45 minute first half of a CD, direct your ears towards the impeccably & lengthily titled "Journey Through Weird Scenes Featuring Cows In Space (Cud Chewer Mix)" or even the orgasmitron of the last offering & when you've bought this essential artefact you can look forward to another two albums (one a reissue of the seminal classic self-titled debut & the forthcoming "Cyberdelic") from the psychedelically deranged Delerium stable. Lizard

Organ 23rd April 1996

I think we've told you about Electric Orange's unique sound before. They're German and they warmly fuse that hard-edged Kraut-Rock forward movement with a deliciously crunchy Hammond organ that's blended into some liquid psychedelic techno... A fine blend of obtuse dimensions - like Amon Duul meets Transglobal meets Orbital meets Neu meets Eat Static. Mostly it's that distinctive Seventies German acid experimentation that gives it the edge... well worth you checking it out.

The Prisoner Issue 7, Spring 1996

Hailed as "Amon Düül & Neu meets Orbital & Eat Static". Electric Orange are a German 'underground' outfit that skilfully meld rave vibe with 70s German acid-rock producing a sound at once vibrant and dreamy. Cyberacid? Industrial trance? Psychedelic certainly. Techno definitely. Reviewed by IPC media-hags? Probably not, raising as it does the prospect of loads of people enjoying themselves without investing in tight tops or snowboarding and not equipped with student loans or rich parents this music is untouchable as far as the toilet-tissue media are concerned. To paraphrase Martin Millar, "...what's the point of getting a nice job (in music) only to talk about people poorer than you having a better time than you'll ever have?" Bloody excellent album, nevertheless. JR.

Plastic 2000 Issue 7, Spring 1996

Opens with sitar drones before pulsing bass vocal samples and the rhythms kick in. A real 70's meets 90's album; a collision of Krautrock meets techno. A measure of psychedelia and lashings of technology. One of my favourite albums of the year.

Facelift Feb 1997

In the midst of the current Krautrock revival comes a particularly fine CD from a band called Electric Orange. Now I can't claim to be a connoisseur of either the band or the movement (maybe the forthcoming book by the Freeman brothers will enlighten me) but this album will do just nicely. Electric Orange are bang up to date by merging their mellotrons, hammonds, tripped out guitars, flute and sitars with some contemporary electronic beats and some strong bass grooves. In truth the whole album grabbed me - there's not a duff moment, but 'The Return Of Eugene - Be Careful (Murderistic Mix) is as eerie, tense and ultimately scary as the Pink Floyd original, and the charging rhythms of 'Journey Through Weird Scenes Featuring Cows In Space (Cud Chewer mix)' (forgive me if I don't list the other titles), provides another highpoint. If, as I presume, these tracks are remixes of the band's earlier offerings, then this is one band who've moved with the times and made it work.

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