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MagnetCydonia is a welcome return to the sensual, dubby, progressive trance that marked its best early work... [#50, p.102]
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RevolutionRecaptures the formula that once, a decade ago, made them great. [Apr 2001, p.111]
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Cydonia, like much of Orb's output, shows a dual inclination toward ambient backgrounds and melodic, Massive Attack-style foregrounds--a tendency no doubt encouraged by its additional collaborators, who range from a host of engineers to old friend Robert Fripp. However, considering how few electronic acts have translated the indulgences of studio tomfoolery into consistently great records, it's reassuring that Orb has weathered its unplanned hiatus and released another winner.
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With Cydonia, Paterson continues on the trippy trajectory he established in 1989 with his debut 22-minute single, "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld."
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Though Cydonia is far from being a dull, sequencer-heavy Namlook ambient release, it regrettably sounds irrelevant in today's climate.
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bosniatJan 10, 2004I think that the mormons are tied into the antichrist plan with mars and they hold religious beliefs like the cydonians did
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[Anonymous]Apr 29, 2003The best electronic album ever made!
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IanM.Aug 21, 2002FANTASTIC!! The orb never cease to amaze me! You are taken beyound the realms of normality to the place that can only be Ultraworld. Yeh......