for CYBERDELIC (1996)

from THE BIG ISSUE (#44, UK, March 1997)

The ELECTRIC ORANGE-offering is a real treat. It's nice when something completely different comes along, isn't it? This german duo are certainly different. It's trip hop with the emphasis on tripping - blending dub, space-rock-ambience, Amon Düül-esque-Vocals, hippity hoppity beats and even drum and bass into a column of swirling electronic smoke. One minute it's a mellow and lovely like the tripped-out "Mother's Cake", then it's the howling Krautrock of "Steal no egg". Definately one for fans of everything that's a bit out of the ordinary.

from GUILFIN (UK, April 1997)

from DAVY MAGAZINE (UK, 1997)

On this recording ELECTRIC ORANGE keep both an eye in the past and a look for the future. An album that confidently asserts a deep lyricism by Dirk Bittner and guitar arrangements on most tracks by Tunay Meyveli, plus a wider range of instruments including Synthesizer, Hammond organ and Leslie as on the opening Cyberdelic / Unaffected Fruit, and the 70's funky beat prevailing all over Funny In The Bathroom. Sample effects and wit applied to illuminate the general via the the specific on Kirschen, and sweet portraits of musical individualism like B-Movie, are the real reasons to believe this is an album which flourishes neat track by track, punctuated with clear arrangements, confirming this German outfit as one of Delerium's best potential. 

from THE ORGAN (#5, UK, 1997):

from Rockerilla (UK, April 1997)

ELECTRIC ORANGE offer a short term comeback after their accomplished low budget collection of remixes called "Orange Commutation". The receipt of "Cyberdelic" doesn't change too much, essentially consisting in picking up timbres and atmospheres from '70s kraut rock classics (Amon Düül II and Kraftwerk primarily) and garnishing them with a free-flowing variety of techno rhythms. The said receipt gives its more juicy fruits in the krautnoise of "Kirschen" and even more in the anarchial "Steal No Egg", rich in psychedelic shades. Sometimes enticing detours explore more distant co-ordinates, such as the ineffable krautdub of "A Vaporised Dance", the Middle Eastern house of "Tartisma Zemini", or the excursion in full acid jazz territory of "Funny In The Bathroom", demonstrating that ELECTRIC ORANGE's real intents are directed to tracing hypotheses for the future and not to nostalgically recall the past days, although glorious. 

from NUCLEUS (#2, Germany, Summer 1997)

from DARK STAR AUDIO

If marks were awarded for cheesy packaging then ELECTRIC ORANGE would be nudging a 10. The sleeve and booklet look like they were put together by a trendy club flyer designer: photo montages of extremely 70s scenes with the two band members cut and pasted into them. But I think ELECTRIC ORANGE are guilty of some miss selling techniques. With that name, an album title like Cyberdelic, a back sleeve full of computer equipment and synthesizers, I was expecting a trippy, psychedelic take on electronica. In fact, this is more like some psychedelic form of easy listening, with its laid back jazz funk guitars, flutes, "bah, bah, dah" vocal harmonies, Eastern chanting, and hammond organs. 

Most of the eleven tracks are instrumentals and the insane screaming vocals on Steal No Egg give me a sense of relief that this is the case. It rambles badly at times, some tracks wandering from one to another, but this is contrasted by some great entries. Highlights are the slow, slightly spacey groove of A Vaporised Dance and Funny In The Bathroom which would make ideal driving music when cruising around in a big and bouncy 70s Cadillac. Kirschen is closer to what I was expecting from this album with a very open, almost tense arrangement coming across like a piece of incidental film music. Altogether not bad for what it is - just don't ask me what it is. 6/10 

Rob Dyer

from ROCK 'N' REEL (#28, Spring 1997)

German duo ELECTRIC ORANGE continue their journey into the next stage dance wave of modern psychedelia on 'Cyberdelic', taking their starting position from their German underground godfathers Neu!, Can and Amon Düül, and adding a whole playing field full of influences that sees them incorporating and accepting with open arms a variety of contemporary dance influences as well as obscure soundbytes, a nod to industrial soundscapes and some truly wierd shit seventies viewed from their own perspective. Uncompromising and sometimes heavy going, ELECTRIC ORANGE have created an album that utilises a world of underground sounds and should see them making new friends on the burgeoning crossover circuit. 

from ECLIPSED (#21, Germany, Oct.1997)

from House of Music and Entertainment:

Tutto ciò che si può prendere dagli anni '70 mischiato con i suoni e i ritmi della dance generation dei '90. 

Cyberdelic è la terza fatica a lunga distanza degli ELECTRIC ORANGE, duo tedesco che nel kraut-rock ha le sue maggiori influenze. In verità, nei settanta minuti di Cyberdelic si ascolta un po' di tutto, assecondando la tendenza di fine millennio di realizzare album non catalogabili/ingabbiabili in un unico genere e secondo la pratica di modernizzazione della musica del passato.
La ricetta degli ELECTRIC ORANGE è la seguente: ogni brano deve essere diverso dall'altro e ogni brano deve, allo stesso tempo, ospitare suoni e e strumenti d'annata in armonia con le diavolerie degli anni '90. Le dosi sono sempre le stesse: 50% kraut-rock e 50%, di volta in volta, acid jazz, techno, easy listening, space rock, psichedelia, jungle, trip hop, dub e musica mediorientale. Il tutto sempre tenendo ben presente la lezione dei Kraftwerk, dei Can e dei Neu!. 
Pur preferendo la più semplice miscela di space rock, elettronica e psichedelia che caratterizzava il lavoro precedente, Orange Commutation, rimaniamo piacevolmenti sorpresi da questo Cyberdelic che, seppure con qualche piccola divagazione di troppo, riesce sempre a sorprendere. Cyberdelic non si presenta come una semplice operazione di nostalgia verso la musica che fu, ma come un disco che cerca (e spesso trova) nuove strade per la musica elettronica, nel rispetto della musica del passato. La differenza è sottile ma c'è. 
Di discorsi, poi, sul revival della musica psichedelica riveduta e corretta in chiave elettronica ne sono stati fatti già tanti. Secondo noi non è il caso di lanciare gridi di allarme come hanno fatto i puristi dell'uno o dell'altro genere; la musica o piace o non piace, o è buona o che cattiva, ma quello che più conta è che o provoca o non provoca emozioni. 
Le contaminazioni degli ELECTRIC ORANGE si rivelano ben riuscite; Cyberdelic è un bel disco che non mancherà di emozionare tutti coloro a cui basta la musica per lasciarsi andare, sia verso derive mentali che verso dolci pulsazioni dance.

found on the Internet:

Cyberdelic" Delerium Twórczość DIRKA JANA MÜLLERA, lidera ELECTRIC ORANGE, jest dobrym przykładem na to jak ewoluuje świat kwaśnych dźwięków. ELECTRIC ORANGE powstało na poczštku lat 90. z MÜLLEROWEJ fascynacji krautrockiem. W takim też klimacie utrzymane były pierwsze płyty grupy. „Cyberdelic" to już jednak nowa jakość i nowe myślenie. Nie odrywajšc się od swoich korzeni MÜLLER spenetrował rejony trance’u, jungle, dubu, trip hopu i world music. 9 z 11 utworów na „Cyberdelic" to próba pogodzenia nowoczesnej technologii techno z klimatami starego space i krautrocka. Próba zresztš udana, o czym może świadczyć ochrzczenie przez prasę stylu E. O. mianem technokrautu. Pozostałe dwie kompozycje z „Cyberdelic" to czysta gitarowa psychodelia na analogowych brzmieniach i z analogowymi szumami oraz medytacyjno-transowy industrialny prepar. MANIAC

for HÖRTEST (Maxi 1996)

from RAVELINE (8/96, Germany)

from BEAM ME UP (6-7/96, Germany)