#7. Woob -- Woob. Em:t, the label on which this album appears, was a series of hit-and-miss releases. You'd have dull astract ambient hip-hop and whale noises one minute, and warm, organic mellowness emerging from the rainforest muck the next. This is in abundance with "Woob", sometimes spanning those extremes within the very same song. The 32-minute opener, "On Earth", takes forever to get going, but once it does, it's a storming dub bohemoth. Then it returns to ambient wibbling for a second dose of forever. It's long for the sake of being long, which is never a good thing.

"Odonna" is Woob at his baffling best, that is, when he wants you to freak out, not mellow out. It's confortable beginnings do little to forshadow it bizarre endings, with it's blaring keyboard washes ressembling a zombie choir singing beside your bed. Then he ruins the unsettling mood by going 1993 hippie ambient, with the soft tribal drums and faraway chanting of "Wuub". Later, he scares the crap out of everyone within earshot with the horror film samples and cold emptiness of "Strange Air", before descending into the disturbing, but quite anticlimatic, subterranean bowels of "Emperor".

The high points are undeniable, but the overall unevenness and all too often lapses into ambient cliche tends to muddle the flow of the record.