{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt | type = Album | artist = the Orb | cover = Okiedokie.jpg | alt = | released = 8 November 2005 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = {{flatlist| * Electronic * IDM * minimal techno * trip hop }} | length = 56:15 | label = Kompakt | producer = {{flatlist| * Alex Paterson * Thomas Fehlmann }} | prev_title = Bicycles & Tricycles | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = The Dream | next_year = 2007 }} '''''Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt''''' is the seventh studio album by English electronic music group the Orb, released on 8 November 2005 by Kompakt.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/okie-dokie-its-the-orb-on-kompakt-mw0000259990|title=Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt - The Orb &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=Jun 16, 2019}}</ref> It features new material in addition to new versions of their previous Kompakt releases.<ref name="amg-okie">{{cite web|last=Kellman |first=Andy|title= Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt Review |publisher= Allmusic |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r807246|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=2006-10-10}}</ref>

==Critical reception== {{Album reviews |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="auto"/> |rev2 = ''Pitchfork'' |rev2score = 7.3/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6029-okie-dokie-its-the-orb-on-kompakt/|title=The Orb: Okie Dokie, It's the Orb on Kompakt|website=Pitchfork|access-date=Jun 16, 2019}}</ref> }}

The Orb's music on Kompakt featured Thomas Fehlmann as the primary creative figure, "inhibiting Alex Paterson's whimsical impulses".<ref name="amg-okie"/> Because of this, the album was considerably more focused, even, and less "goofy" than ''Cydonia'' and ''Bicycles & Tricycles''.<ref name="amg-okie"/><ref name="miami">{{cite web|last=Beta |first=Andy |work=Miami New Times |date=2005-11-10 |title=Okie Dokie Its The Orb on Kompakt |url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/Issues/2005-11-10/music/rotations4.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911165916/http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2005-11-10/music/the-orb/ |archive-date=2011-09-11 }}</ref> Fehlmann's trademark hypnotic loops and delays made him the center of ''Okie Dokie'' production and, according to ''Pitchfork Media'', made it "difficult to say where [Paterson] is in the picture".<ref name="pfmedia-okie">{{cite web |work=Pitchfork Media |last=Sherburne |first=Philip |date=2005-12-02 |title=Okie Dokie, It's the Orb on Kompakt Review |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/20614/The_Orb_Okie_Dokie_Its_the_Orb_on_Kompakt |access-date=2007-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520140312/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/20614/The_Orb_Okie_Dokie_Its_the_Orb_on_Kompakt |archive-date=2007-05-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Besides Paterson and Fehlmann, ''Okie Dokie'' featured Ulf Lohmann as a co-writer on a track as well as Schneider TM performing vocals for another.<ref name="365mag-okie">{{cite web |work=365mag |last=Cybana |first=Ariel |date=2005-11-11 |url=http://www.365mag.com/index.php?pg=murw&recnum=2241&Title=The+Orb+%2F+Kompakt+on+365MAG+International+Music+Magazine |title=Okie Dokie Its The Orb on Kompakt |url-status=dead |access-date=13 January 2007 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225557/http://www.365mag.com/index.php?pg=murw&recnum=2241&Title=The+Orb+%2F+Kompakt+on+365MAG+International+Music+Magazine }}</ref> The Orb's releases with Kompakt gained the Orb back much of their musical credibility with the press and showed that the Orb could "age gracefully".<ref name="miami"/><ref name="365mag-okie"/>

==Track listing== # "Komplikation" – 3:55 # "Lunik TM" (featuring Schneider TM) – 5:50 # "Ripples" – 5:51 # "Captain Korma" – 4:13 # "Kan Kan" – 4:43 # "Rolo" – 2:36 # "Beatitude" – 2:43 # "Cool Harbour" – 5:11 # "Traumvogel" – 6:24 # "Because/Before (Sibirische Musik)" (featuring Ulf Lohmann) – 4:40 # "Tin Kan" – 4:31 # "Kompagna (Zandic Mix)" – 3:53 # "Falkenbrück" – 3:29 # "Snowbow" – 2:16 # "Edelgrun" – 5:52

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