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<h2 id="critical-reception">Critical reception</h2> Professional ratings<table><tbody><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Review scores</th></tr><tr><th scope="col">Source</th><th scope="col">Rating</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/AllMusic/Hb8cU8Fb">AllMusic</a></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td><i>Culture Shock</i></td><td>4/7<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td><i>Ink 19</i></td><td>Favorable<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td><i>Naked Truth</i></td><td>7/10<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i>Orbiting Cathedrals</i> 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."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="track-listing">Track listing</h2> <p>All tracks are written by Bill Leeb, except where noted.</p><table><tbody><tr><th scope="col">No.</th><th scope="col">Title</th><th scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th scope="row">1.</th><td>"Pheromne"</td><td>10:29</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">2.</th><td>"Erotic Ontology"</td><td>8:15</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">3.</th><td>"Thread Four"</td><td>8:45</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">4.</th><td>"Walls of Ice"</td><td>5:41</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">5.</th><td>"Recalcitrant"</td><td>6:32</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">6.</th><td>"Eros"</td><td>6:45</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">7.</th><td>"Communication" (Written and composed by Leeb and Chris Peterson.)</td><td>4:24</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">8.</th><td>"Re-Thread" (Written and composed by Leeb and Peterson.)</td><td>7:43</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="personnel">Personnel</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Bill_Leeb/XTTrMGfj">Bill Leeb</a> – electronic instruments, mixing</li> <li><a href="/facts/Chris_Peterson_(producer)/G61Ub2nu">Chris Peterson</a> – programming, additional sounds, mixing</li> <li>Carylann Loeppky – cover artwork</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Biographies". Unit187.com. Retrieved August 10, 2014. <a href="http://www.unit187.com/bios.php" target="_blank">http://www.unit187.com/bios.php</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Bahn™ (September 7, 2005). "Pro>Tech > History". Mindphaser.com. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130120072756/http://www.mindphaser.com/index.php?page_id=88" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130120072756/http://www.mindphaser.com/index.php?page_id=88</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Pro-tech: Orbiting Cathedrals at AllMusic. Retrieved August 10, 2014. <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/orbiting-cathedrals-mw0000258627" target="_blank">https://www.allmusic.com/album/orbiting-cathedrals-mw0000258627</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>sage (1998). "Pro-tech. Orbiting Cathedrals". Culture Shock. No. 5. Hackensack: Genocide Project. p. 52. ISSN 1093-1651. OCLC 36564457. Retrieved February 27, 2021. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cultureshocktransmission51998/page/n53" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/cultureshocktransmission51998/page/n53</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Sever, G.D. (August 27, 1998). "Pro>Tech - Orbiting Cathedrals". Ink 19. Retrieved August 10, 2014. <a href="https://ink19.com/1998/08/magazine/music-reviews/protech" target="_blank">https://ink19.com/1998/08/magazine/music-reviews/protech</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>!Dubs!. "Pro-tech - Orbiting Cathedrals". Naked Truth (9). Archived from the original on October 25, 2007. Retrieved August 10, 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071025134531/http://www.mindphaser.com/index.php?page_id=354" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20071025134531/http://www.mindphaser.com/index.php?page_id=354</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>sage (1998). "Pro-tech. Orbiting Cathedrals". Culture Shock. No. 5. Hackensack: Genocide Project. p. 52. ISSN 1093-1651. OCLC 36564457. Retrieved February 27, 2021. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cultureshocktransmission51998/page/n53" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/cultureshocktransmission51998/page/n53</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>