Orbiting Cathedrals
{{Infobox album
| name = Orbiting Cathedrals
| type = studio
| artist = Pro>Tech
| cover = ProTechOrbitingCathedralsCover.jpg
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| released = {{Start date|1997|10|7}}{{AllMusic | class=album | id=orbiting-cathedrals-mw0000258627 | label=Pro-tech: Orbiting Cathedrals | access-date=August 10, 2014}}
| recorded = Cryogenic Studios, Vancouver
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| genre = Techno,{{cite magazine |author=sage |year=1998 |title=Pro-tech. Orbiting Cathedrals |url=https://archive.org/details/cultureshocktransmission51998/page/n53 |magazine=Culture Shock |publisher=Genocide Project |location=Hackensack |issue=5 |page=52 |issn=1093-1651 |oclc=36564457 |access-date=February 27, 2021}} drum and bass,{{cite journal |url=http://www.mindphaser.com/index.php?page_id=354 |title=Pro-tech - Orbiting Cathedrals |author=!Dubs! |issue=9 |work=Naked Truth |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025134531/http://www.mindphaser.com/index.php?page_id=354 |archive-date=October 25, 2007 |access-date=August 10, 2014}} ambient
| length = {{Duration|m=56|s=34}}
| label = Dossier, Hypnotic
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Orbiting Cathedrals is the only album by Pro>Tech, a side project of Canadian industrial musician Bill Leeb with the help of industrial musician Chris Peterson.{{cite web |url=http://www.unit187.com/bios.php |title=Biographies |work=Unit187.com |access-date=August 10, 2014}} The project was launched in 1997 in the wake of the release of the album [FLA]vour of the Weak from industrial band Front Line Assembly, which at the time consisted of Leeb and Peterson. Orbiting Cathedrals is supposed to be a musical twin of [FLA]vour of the Weak.{{cite web |url=http://www.mindphaser.com/index.php?page_id=88 |title=Pro>Tech > History |author=Bahn™ |work=Mindphaser.com |date=September 7, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120072756/http://www.mindphaser.com/index.php?page_id=88 |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |access-date=August 10, 2014}} The album was released through German label Dossier and re-released in 2000 by Hypnotic. Tracks from Orbiting Cathedrals also appeared on Cryogenic Studios and Cryogenic Studio, Vol. 2, compilation albums with songs from Front Line Assembly and related projects.
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = Culture Shock
| rev3 = Ink 19
| rev3score = Favorable{{cite web |url=https://ink19.com/1998/08/magazine/music-reviews/protech |title=Pro>Tech - Orbiting Cathedrals |last=Sever |first=G.D. |date=August 27, 1998 |work=Ink 19 |access-date=August 10, 2014}}
| rev4 = Naked Truth
}}
Orbiting Cathedrals was met mostly with positive reviews. However, Culture Shock in their mixed review called the album "an amalgam of the various styles of techno in 1996/7" and considered the album mostly "pretty unobstrusive, and therefore nothing all that interesting."
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Bill Leeb, except where noted
| title1 = Pheromne
| length1 = 10:29
| title2 = Erotic Ontology
| length2 = 8:15
| title3 = Thread Four
| length3 = 8:45
| title4 = Walls of Ice
| length4 = 5:41
| title5 = Recalcitrant
| length5 = 6:32
| title6 = Eros
| length6 = 6:45
| title7 = Communication
| note7 = Written and composed by Leeb and Chris Peterson.
| length7 = 4:24
| title8 = Re-Thread
| note8 = Written and composed by Leeb and Peterson.
| length8 = 7:43
}}
Personnel
- Bill Leeb – electronic instruments, mixing
- Chris Peterson – programming, additional sounds, mixing
- Carylann Loeppky – cover artwork