Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt

The Orb | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 9, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kompakt Germany
• ASIN: B000BJF1IG
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,195 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Komplikation

2. Lunik Tm

3. Ripples

4. Captain Korma

5. Kan Kan

6. Rolo

7. Beatitude

8. Cool Harbour

9. Traumvogel

10. Because/Before (Sibirische Musik)

11. Tin Kan

12. Kompagna (Zandic Mix)

13. Falkenbruck

14. Snowbow

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remember the early 90s???, March 17, 2006

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Lou Bourbon. (Providence RI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt (Audio CD)

Orb was about the most inventive thing out there in Electronic music. Groundbreaking. Even the older generation of hippies knew what was going on with this stuff. You could use the Orb to either tune in OR tune out. Orb has always suprised me, most of the time in a very positive way but it was clear through the last few albums that Orb was more into production and big sound, perhaps trying to recreate the success that the song Little Fluffy Clouds brought them. Orbs best efforts sound like a far out musical stream of consciousness. It can be mello like Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld or Orbus Terrarium or hard edged and unnerving like Pommes Fritzes. Either way, the good stuff gets into your head.

Orbs' new album returns to the "organic" sound that their early albums had and relies less on production and MUCH more on effect AND cohesiveness. Definitely more analogue than digital. Definitely on the laid back side of sound.

What you dont get here is catchy tunes or memorable cuts that stick in your head forever. What you DO get from Okie Dokie is the blissed out sound that you welcome at the END of the night and from beginning to end you'll find that this is one of their better, musical concept albums, keeping you engaged no matter how much your pillow becons.

I dont think there is anything ground breaking about this effort...You've heard the genre before, but here, Orb proves that they are the modern masters of Electronic/Psychedelic music and are still capable of suprise without alarm.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Orb Is Back!, December 30, 2005

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Michael M. Johnsen "dj_monet" (Takoma Park, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt (Audio CD)

There are two recent Orb disks out- this one and Orb Sessions Volume 1. This is the better, more consistent collection, taking the tracks from the last several years Alex has been at the Kompact label. On Okie Dokie..., the sound is more ambient that other Orb disks- closer to the spacey Alex Patterson solo projects than the dub-oriented Orb of "U.F. Orb". Yet this album breaks new ground in creating an ambient dance sound. There is a subtlety that will engage the listener, making this a good iPod album. At one point, I thought I was listenting to an updated Tangerine Dream track called "Tangram," yet this is no throwback or copy-cat disk. Okie Dokie... satisfies my electronic ambient hunger that has developed over the last couple of Orb projects. Orbies will undoubtedly pick up both new disks, and Orb Sessions Vol. 1 has several must-have tracks, but over all I predict this one will spin in the player more often.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great addition to the Orb library, November 20, 2005

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C. Burnside "Jabba Jaw" (the same planet as you.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt (Audio CD)

I thought this album was pretty good. The first time I listened to Okie Dokie, I wasn't disappointed. After the let-down album "Cydonia", I felt that with "Bicycles and Tricycles" the Orb was on its way of getting back on track. Yet, there still is that track on "B&T" with some rapping (why?). Okie Dokie revives that cool characteristic sound that we know the Orb possesses. If you are a devoted fan, you know what I'm talking about. It's a great disc that shows the latest direction the Orb is taking with music. Great beats, soothing sounds, and awesome melodies can be found. It starts out with great beats and let's you down slowly. Okie Dokie is that disc which you can put in the player and just press play.

Gotta jet. Later.