German musician Dirk Jan Müller has had an interest in 70s German underground music since 1988 and his passion for bands such as Neu, Amon Düül, Guru Guru, Tangerine Dream, and Can has resulted in a large collection of synthesisers, keyboards, amps and various classic pieces of 70s musical equipment. This large arsenal of sounds has been the backbone of his experiments to combine analogue and digital sounds with the wealth of current dance music languages.

In the early 1990s, working from his home studio, he released a couple of underground tapes of electronic music which began to circulate on the cassette network (Octopus' Garden and Time Signals). Dirk then began work on the debut Electric Orange album bringing together a number of other musicians to exorcise his passion for the '70s German rock genre. The result was released on Manikin Records as a CD called simply "Electric Orange" and using modern production combined with '70s instrumentation it explored the avenues of '70s German psychedelic space rock, nodding to numerous influences on the way. Badly distributed it rapidly became a cult item (it has since been re-issued on Delerium packaged with a bonus CD of extra material) - however, by the time Electric Orange were more well known, Dirk had become bored with the past and wanted to fuse his favourite analogue sounds with more contemporary experimental music.

By 1994 Dirk had become fascinated by the wealth of styles that had flourished as part of the ambient and experimental dance movements. This interest resulted in a remix of the first album (not released until 1996) and a new live band consisting of himself (sampler, hammond, synths etc.) with Dirk Bittner (vocals), Robert Moorman (guitar, sitar and percussion) and Apeiron (guest percussion). This band played in a small club in Aachen using a quadrophonic PA on January 15th 1995. The gig was so successful that by the bands second gig, later in the year, they were pulling over 300 people to a multi-media trance/dance event in a disused bunker in Aachen. Electric Orange were featured on a number of compilations through 1994 to 1996, the most notable being the CD that came with the August 1995 issue of UK musicians magazine Future Music, who described the band as "Euro rock guitar and hammond distractions driven by tablas, shuffling hi-hats, Asian chants, house-loops and anything they can find."

With another new line-up of Dirk (sampler keyboards), Dirk Bittner (vocals, guitar, percussion, trumpet) and Tunay Meyveli (guitar and saz), Electric Orange began work on their second full length album in early 1995. In October, Delerium released their Pick And Mix compilation which featured the 1994 recording of Nindia and in March of 1996 Delerium released Orange Commutation, a budget price mini album of the 1994 remixes of the bands first album. This release marked the mid point of the bands metamorphosis from the old sound to the new and was followed by a dance heavy promo 12" white label Coop/Hortest/Wurley.

Cyberdelic - the bands second album proper - finally saw a release in April of 1997 and is the result of Dirk's combination of digital dance and analogue styles. A unique fusion of Kraut rock, Rap, Jungle, Trance, World Music, Easy Listening and Trip Hop it is an amazing concoction that is stamped throughout, with originality and syle - a release which despite it's diversity remains fully focused...