Delerium Records: Electric Orange

Electric Orange - Cyberdelic

Cat No: DELEC CD 041

Release Date: 7th April 1997

[Track Listing] [Credits] [Reviews]
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Track Listing

Cyberdelic / Unaffected Fruit - (Dirk Jan Müller)
- D.J.M. - Beats, Bass, Hammond, Leslie, Synthesizer
- Dirk Bittner - Vocals, Speak, Leslie
- Tunay Meyveli - Guitar
A Vaporized Dance - (Dirk Jan Müller)
- D.J.M. - Beats, Bass, Drums, Tapes, Hammond, Leslie, Mellotron
- Dirk Bittner - Voice, Vocals
Funny in the Bathroom - (Dirk Jan Müller / Dirk Bittner / Tunay Meyveli / Robert Moorman)
- D.J.M. - Beats, Rhodes, Tapes, Samples
- Tunay Meyveli - Guitar
- Dirk Bittner - Trumpet, Vocals, Leslie
- Joost - Drums
- Robert - Bass
Kirschen - (Dirk Jan Müller)
- D.J.M. - Tapes, Farfisa, Bass
Sweet Absurd - (Dirk Jan Müller)
- D.J.M. - Beats, Synthesizer, Samples, Tapes, Hammond
- Dirk Bittner - Voice
B-Movie - (Dirk Jan Müller)
- D.J.M. - Beats, Bass, Samples, Hammond, Leslie
- Dirk Bittner - Guitar, Leslie, Voice
Steal no Egg - (Dirk Jan Müller / Tunay Meyveli / Robert Moorman)
- D.J.M. - Drums, Samples, Rhodes, Farfisa, Hammond
- Dirk Bittner - Vocals, Voice, Leslie
- Tunay Meyveli - Guitar
- Robert - Bass
Mother's Cake - (Dirk Jan Müller)
- Dirk Bittner - Vocals, Leslie
- D.J.M. - Beats, Bass, Synthesizer, Samples
- Tunay Meyveli - Guitar
- Joost - Drums
Tartisma Zemini - (Dirk Jan Müller)
- D.J.M. - Beats, Bass, Hammond, Samples, SW
- Tunay Meyveli - Saz
- Dirk Bittner - Darbuka
She-Wah - (Dirk Jan Müller)
- D.J.M. - Beats, Samples, Synthesizer, SW
- Dirk Bittner - Slight Guitar
More End / Cyberdelic - (Dirk Jan Müller)
- D.J.M. - Loops, Tapes, Farfisa, Synthesizer
- Dirk Bittner - Breathe

Credits

Produced and mixed by Double D at the old Brickyard, December 1995 / January 1996.
Recorded May to December 1995 at the old Brickyard and Dirk's home.
CD mastered at Battery Studios, London.

All lyrics by Dirk Bittner.

Greetings to: Damien, Delta Lab, Al Ginger, Andre, Gotsch, Frank Dope, Öslem, Ela, Vera, Britta, Index, Emma, Mrs. Kappertz, Dieter, Gisela, Sylvia, singing Elpi, Timothy, Mental Rape, Edgar, H.G. Blondie, Peter, Rufus, Gila, Brenda, A.F., Nik, Klaus.

High Mum - D.B.

Press Reviews

The Big Issue, April 1997.
The Davy magazine, 1997.
Rockerilla, April 1997.
Guilfin, April 1997
The Organ, Issue 51
Rock 'n' Reel, Issue 28 Spring 1997

The Big Issue

The Electric Orange offering is a real treat. It's nice when something completely different comes along, isn't it? This German duo are certainly different. It's trip hop with the emphasis on tripping - blending dub, space rock ambience, Amon Düül-esque vocals, hippity hoppity beats and even drum and bass into a column of swirling electronic smoke. One minute it's all mellow and lovely like the tripped-out Mother's Cake, then it's the howling Krautrock of Steal No Egg. Definitely one for fans of everything that's a bit out of the ordinary.

The Davy Magazine

On this recording Electric Orange keep both an eye in the past and a look for the future. An album that confidently asserts a deep lyricism by Dirk Bittern and guitar arrangements on most tracks by Tunay Mey Veli, plus a wider range of instruments including Synthesizer, Hammond organ and Leslie as on the opening Cyberdelic / Unaffected Fruit, and the 70's funky beat prevailing all over Funny In The Bathroom. Sample effects and wit applied to illuminate the general via the the specific on Kirshen, and sweet portraits of musical individualism like B Movie, are the real reasons to believe this is an album which flourishes neat track by track, punctuated with clear arrangements, confirming this German outfit as one of Delerium's best potential.

Rockerilla

Electric Orange offer a short term comeback after their accomplished low budget collection of remixes called "Orange Commutation". The receipt of "Cyberdelic" doesn't change too much, essentially consisting in picking up timbres and atmospheres from '70s kraut rock classics (Amon Düül II and Kraftwerk primarily) and garnishing them with a free-flowing variety of techno rhythms. The said receipt gives its more juicy fruits in the krautnoise of "Kirschen" and even more in the anarchial "Steal No Egg", rich in psychedelic shades. Sometimes enticing detours explore more distant co-ordinates, such as the ineffable krautdub of "A Vaporised Dance", the Middle Eastern house of "Tartisma Zemini", or the excursion in full acid jazz territory of "Funny In The Bathroom", demonstrating that Electric Orange's real intents are directed to tracing hypotheses for the future and not to nostalgically recall the past days, although glorious.

Guilfin

Take a seventies psychedelic collection plus dance beats, a touch of ethnic rhythm, samples from all over the place - put it all in a blender and this is the end result. Original, like having a huge record collection on one album - but completely different from anyone else's. Despite my opening remarks a lot ot thought has gone into this, and a lot of listening pleasure comes out.

The Organ

The best bits sound like a more mellow, blissed, stoned, relaxed, late night Daft Punk with it's laid back forward mix of fusion and kraut-funk... you could call it a cyberdelic sound. Analogue delight, their finest release to date, yeah, definately a psychedelic Daft Punk with an occasional eastern rhythm.

Rock 'n' Reel

German duo Electric Orange continue their journey into the next stage dance wave of modern psychedelia on 'Cyberdelic', taking their starting position from their German underground godfathers Neu!, Can and Amon Düül, and adding a whole playing field full of influences that sees them incorporating and accepting with open arms a variety of contemporary dance influences as well as obscure soundbytes, a nod to industrial soundscapes and some truly wierd shit seventies viewed from their own perspective. Uncompromising and sometimes heavy going, Electric Orange have created an album that utilises a world of underground sounds and should see them making new friends on the burgeoning crossover circuit.

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