personally, the dream sounded more like a Dreadzone album than an Orb album to me...
...and i was never that fussed about Dreadzone in the first place.
OOPA? sounds like something they had sitting on a hard-drive/DAT somewhere, that they couldn't be bothered to finished, and when someone asked for a track for a compilation - bingo. "will this do?"
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
cheers,
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Smiley
From: Ramon Vink <ramonvink@hotmail.com>
To: gelsol@yahoo.com; orb@mailman.xmission.com
Sent: Saturday, 14 February, 2009 14:58:24
Subject: Re: [Orb] OOPA for everyone
The Orb MUST go back to their roots. And these roots are NOT psychedelic or abstract at all, but pure fucking DUB. Nothing more, nothing less. I think they should not move into that minimalistic crap IMO. They have been doing that for a while now and it bores the crap out of me.
Also The Dream is a failure to me. Don't get me wrong, i used to listen a lot to Tim Bran's Dreadzone but this is not fun at all. Overproduced i would call it allmost.
Sorry for my rant....
R