for ORANGE COMMUTATION (1994)

from ORGAN (UK, April 1996)

I think we've told you about ELECTRIC ORANGE's unique sound before. They're German and they warmly fuse that hard-edged Kraut-Rock forward movement with a deliciously crunchy Hammond organ that's blended into some liquid psychedelic techno... A fine blend of obtuse dimensions - like AMON DÜÜL meets TRANSGLOBAL meets ORBITAL meets NEU meets EAT STATIC. Mostly it's that distinctive Seventies German acid experimentation that gives it the edge... well worth you checking it out.

from ATOMIC (UK, May 1996)

The sticker announces TechnoKrautRockSampler & a more appropriate definition of this Germanic delight would be difficult to come up with. EO are a nucleus of Dirk Jan Müller & when not making yoghurts for mass UK consumption, he's coming up with delicious electronic excursions to celestial places where wolves howl on misty hills & dogs bark in response to their hereditary fathers swirling around a Tangerine dreamscape on the beautiful, Floyd inspired composition "The Return of Eugene, Be Careful (Murderous Mix)", or for more uptempo pleasant atmospherics of funky guitars & equally pleasurable danceable beats; the more energetic option on this budget price, 45 minute first half of a CD, direct your ears towards the impeccably & lengthily titled "Journey Through Weird Scenes Featuring Cows In Space (Cud Chewer Mix)" or even the orgasmitron of the last offering & when you've bought this essential artefact you can look forward to another two albums (one a reissue of the seminal classic self-titled debut & the forthcoming "Cyberdelic") from the psychedelically deranged Delerium stable.  Lizard 

from ULTRAMOTIVE (UK, May 1996)

Opens with sitar drones before pulsing bass vocal samples and the rhythms kick in. A real '70s meets '90s album: a collision of KRAUTROCK meets TECHNO. A measure of psychedelia and lashings of technology. One of my favourite albums of the year. Larmour-Jones 

from ECLIPSED (#24, Germany, Sept. 1998)

from THE PRISONER (#7, UK, Spring 1996)

Hailed as "Amon Düül & Neu meets Orbital & Eat Static". ELECTRIC ORANGE are a German 'underground' outfit that skilfully meld rave vibe with 70s German acid-rock producing a sound at once vibrant and dreamy. Cyberacid? Industrial trance? Psychedelic certainly. Techno definitely. Reviewed by IPC media-hags? Probably not, raising as it does the prospect of loads of people enjoying themselves without investing in tight tops or snowboarding and not equipped with student loans or rich parents this music is untouchable as far as the toilet-tissue media are concerned. To paraphrase Martin Millar, "...what's the point of getting a nice job (in music) only to talk about people poorer than you having a better time than you'll ever have?" Bloody excellent album, nevertheless. JR. 

from ACID DRAGON (UK, May 1996)

Call it what you want: psychedelic, space rock, progressive, even techno... I don't care. What it is, above all, is: good. Fun. Innovative. Like most of Delerium releases, by the way... ELECTRIC ORANGE was one of the best bands featured on last year's Delerium- compilation, Pick And Mix. And here is their first album. Almost purely instrumental, and as flabbergasting as Ozric Tentacles' debutes! In fact, in order to tell you of the joys of ELECTRIC ORANGE, I'll have to invoke the spirit of Ozric Tentacles and of Porcupine Tree, as well as of the so called 'trip-hop' movement, together with bits of Floyd, of Seventies British prog, of psychedelic... Oh, well, never mind. And the beat... the rhythm... This is a powerful trip! (AFR) 

from FACELIFT (UK, Feb. 1997)

In the midst of the current Krautrock revival comes a particularly fine CD from a band called ELECTRIC ORANGE. Now I can't claim to be a connoisseur of either the band or the movement (maybe the forthcoming book by the Freeman brothers will enlighten me) but this album will do just nicely. ELECTRIC ORANGE are bang up to date by merging their mellotrons, hammonds, tripped out guitars, flute and sitars with some contemporary electronic beats and some strong bass grooves. In truth the whole album grabbed me - there's not a duff moment, but 'The Return Of Eugene - Be Careful (Murderistic Mix) is as eerie, tense and ultimately scary as the Pink Floyd original, and the charging rhythms of 'Journey Through Weird Scenes Featuring Cows In Space (Cud Chewer mix)' (forgive me if I don't list the other titles), provides another highpoint. If, as I presume, these tracks are remixes of the band's earlier offerings, then this is one band who've moved with the times and made it work.

from MY WAY (#38, Germany, July 1996)