Members: Paul Frankland.
Genre: Ambient, Darksynth, Downtempo, Electronica, Instrumental, Synthwave.
Biography:
Woob is the stage name of Paul Frankland, an English ambient musician who started recording in the early 1990s. Woob’s albums combine elements of ambient, downtempo and space music, with samples from field recordings, movies and television. Frankland has also recorded under the names of Journeyman and Max & Harvey. After a period working in the advertising industry, he started releasing new material as Woob in 2010.

AllMusic described the first two albums, “Woob 1194” and “Woob2 4495” as ‘among the most praised and encompassing documents of post-rave ambient of the last several years’, while the Ambient Music Guide describes them as ‘among the most refined, subtle and innovative examples of the meeting between electronics and live instruments that flowered in the ambient environment of the 1990’

More than 15 years after it was released, “Woob 1194” still appears on lists of best ambient albums, along with artists such as Brian Eno, Biosphere, The Orb and The Future Sound of London. The original CDs are sought after by ambient music collectors and regularly sell for many times the original price.

With the release of “Return to the City” in November 2011, the Electronic Music Guide described Woob as ‘an ambient music genius’. The guide rated the new album 9.9 out of 10 and stated that it was contender for ‘soundtrack of the year’. The 2013 release ″ULTRASCOPE″ was included in the Ambient Music Guide’s selection of Best Albums of the year, alongside work by Boards of Canada, Steve Roach, and Banco De Gaia.

Albums:

  • Woob 1194 (1994)
  • Woob2 4495 (1995)
  • Repurpose (2010)
  • Return to the City (2011)
  • Have Landed (2012)
  • ULTRASCOPE (2013)
  • ULTRASCOPE: Time Paradox (2013)
  • Lost 1194 (2013)
  • Ambient Disaster Movie (2014)
  • Light and Levitation (2015)
  • Adaption (2015)
  • Death by Coin-Op (2016)
  • ULTRASCOPE (2016)
  • Overrun_exe (2016)
  • Tokyo Run (2017)
  • 新 プログラム (2018)
  • スリープ 研究 プログラム (2018)
  • Tokyo Substrate Paradox (2018)
  • Suite 59201 (2020)
  • 1001 (2020)
  • 3003 (2020)
  • Monochrome 3003 (2020)
  • 2002 (2020)
  • Lost Metropolis (2020)
  • Xvious_exe (2020)
  • Monochrome Xvious_exe (2020)

EPs:

  • EP1 (2009)
  • Paradigm Flux (2010)
  • Mass Distraction (2015)
  • Tales of Arcadia (2016)