[1] Incorporated dub elements are melodic basslines, deep reggae roots and producing techniques like dynamically adding extensive echo, reverb, panoramic delay, and occasional dubbing of vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version or other works.
Incorporated psytrance elements are low-bass frequencies and hypnotic melodies[2] and the use of samples.
Those samples mostly contain references to drugs, parapsychology, extraterrestrial life, existentialism, out of body experiences, dreams, science, time travel, spirituality and similar mysterious or unconventional topics.
[3][4] Several tracks on their first album "The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld", released in 1991,[5] already sound a lot like contemporary Psydub.
[1] Most notably is the song "Vapour Rumours", released in 1996 and produced by the band Shpongle,[6] consisting of Simon Posford a.k.a.