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Artist: ORB
Album: The Dream
Label: Six Degrees Records
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/Orb-The-Dream/release/1385254
Catalog#: 657036 1149-2
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: US
Released: 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Ambient
Credits: Artwork By – Mike Coles
Programmed By [Additional] – David Nock
Written-By, Performer, Producer – Orb, The
Notes: The Orb [this week] are Alex Paterson, Youth and Tim Bran.
Codec: FLAC

All tracks were written, performed and produced by The Orb at the Dreaming Cave Studios, South London. Additional Programming and Instrumentation by David Nock.

Track 11 carries the note “Thanks to Dr D”.

Tracklisting:
1 The Dream (The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix) (6:26)
2 Vuja De (5:45)
3 Something Supernatural (0:36)
4 A Beautiful Day (6:48)
5 DDD (Dirty Disco Dub) (5:03)
6 The Truth Is… (6:43)
7 Phantom Of Ukraine (0:30)
8 Mother Nature (6:30)
9 Lost And Found (6:19)
10 The Forest Of Lyonesse (1:09)
11 Katskills (5:55)
12 High Noon (6:03)
13 Sleeping Tiger & The Gods Unknown (1:09)
14 Codes (8:13)
15 Orbisonia (5:47)

The Dream is the eighth studio album released by ambient techno group The Orb in September 2007(U.S. release 17 June 2008). The album features somewhat of a return to the earlier sound of the Orb (notably, “The Truth Is…” features the same vocal sample as the group’s early-90s single, “Blue Room”), and shares much more in common with their 2004 album Bicycles and Tricycles than with their minimal 2005 release, Okie Dokie It’s the Orb on Kompakt.

The Dream was released in Japan in 2007 and the following year in the US and UK. Orb member Thomas Fehlmann was absent on the album and Paterson was instead reunited with Martin Glover and joined by Tim Bran of Dreadzone. The album features more of a return to The Orb’s sounds of the early 1990s, with peculiar vocals and playful samples. The Orb also brought in jazz and house music singer Juliet Roberts, guitarist Steve Hillage, and Aki Omori, who had worked with The Orb on Cydonia.