Genre:
Electronica
Release Date: 10/14/2008
The perfect response to a music-scene swamped by what
Paterson himself called "lame ambient noodling for seventy minutes,"
Orbus Terrarum brings the mothership back to earth for a collision with some surprisingly harsh percussion and noisy synth. The melodies and dub lines of previous
Orb recordings are still in the mix, and the esoteric bent of
Pomme Fritz is muted somewhat.
Orbus Terrarum is definitely not the place to start, but it's still a worthy successor to
U.F.Orb. The final track
"Slug Dub" is an ambient epic with vocal samples taken from a children's story. [An expanded edition from
Island in 2008 added a bonus disc, including remixes of
"Plateau," "Valley," and
"Slug Dub."]
~John Bush, All Music Guide