''Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt'' is the seventh

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by English

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group

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, released on 8 November 2005 by

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. It features new material in addition to new versions of their previous Kompakt releases.

Critical reception

The Orb's music on Kompakt featured

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as the primary creative figure, "inhibiting

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's whimsical impulses". Because of this, the album was considerably more focused, even, and less "goofy" than ''

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'' and '' Bicycles & Tricycles''. Fehlmann's trademark hypnotic

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s and

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s made him the center of ''Okie Dokie'' production and, according to ''

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'', made it "difficult to say where atersonis in the picture". Besides Paterson and Fehlmann, ''Okie Dokie'' featured Ulf Lohmann as a co-writer on a track as well as

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performing vocals for another. The Orb's releases with Kompakt gained The Orb back much of their musical credibility with the press and showed that The Orb could "age gracefully".

Track listing

# "Komplikation" – 3:55 # "Lunik TM" (featuring

) – 5:50 # "Ripples" – 5:51 # "Captain Korma" – 4:13 # "Kan Kan" – 4:43 # "Rolo" – 2:36 # "Beatitude" – 2:43 # "Cool Harbour" – 5:11 # "Traumvogel" – 6:24 # "Because/Before (Sibirische Musik)" (featuring Ulf Lohmann) – 4:40 # "Tin Kan" – 4:31 # "Kompagna (Zandic Mix)" – 3:53 # "Falkenbrück" – 3:29 # "Snowbow" – 2:16 # "Edelgrun" - 5:52

References

External links

* The Orb albums 2005 albums Kompakt albums {{2000s-techno-album-stub