Woob (the project of Paul Frankland) rose above the mass of neo-neo-neo-ambient acts with 1194 (Instinct, 1995), or more precisely with its opening track, On Earth, a half-hour of exotic, impressionistic electronics—the sonic equivalent of Gauguin and Rousseau’s paintings. The symphonic poem unfolds across four movements: the first ethnic, led by tabla and Middle Eastern chant; the second cosmic, with intergalactic electronics; the third tribal, driven by jungle rhythms and chants; and the fourth metaphysical, with the voice allowed to float in the stellar silences. The other pieces, such as Odonna (which lasts “only” thirteen minutes), breathed into a velvety cosmic mantra, Wuub, in the style of Jon Hassell’s electronic world music, and Strange Air, a collage of concrete sounds, tinker a bit with contemporary genres without achieving anything truly original.

Woob2 4495 (Emit, 1996), recorded by a four-piece ensemble, further refined their experiments of collage and ethnic appropriation. If the ethnic collage Pondlife is rather amateurish, the twelve-minute Woobed is a multi-stage creature: suspense created by a thin synth beat, an industrial drum'n'bass shuffle, a monster dance led by blues-rock guitar riffs. The nine-minute Creek is a collage of electronic sounds and ethnic drumming. The tour de force is the 25-minute Depart, which opens in gothic quasi-silence, then releases a flute prayer that ignites a tribal drumbeat (always Woob's weakest point), then pauses to let a monks' choir float in the air, which dissolves into celestial breathing and metallic chiming.

Paul Frankland then switched to a new project, Journeyman, whose National Hijinx (Ntone. 2003) continued Woob's program by incorporating just about every fashionable cliche' of the type.

Woob's Repurpose (2010) contains lengthy compositions such as Repurpose (11:38), Departure (19:33) and 85 Bit (17:03) that rework older compositions.

Woob returned with Unknown Quantity (2010) and the album Have Landed (2012).

Woob became a hyper-prolific project, releasing: Ultrascope (2013), which contains the two part Ultrascope for a total of 34 minutes, Ambient Disaster Movie (2014), which contains Ambient Disaster Movie (21:37) and Ambient Disaster Movie - The Original Prequel (14:26), the mini-album Light and Levitation [Epilogue] (2015), Adaption (2015), which is another humbler work, MXV (2015), which contains live performances and remixes, Death by Coin-op (2016), Overrun_exe (2016), Tokyo Run (2017), Shin Puroguramu/ New Program (2018), Tokyo Substrate Paradox (2018), Suripu Kenkyu Puroguramu/ Sleep Research Program (2018), Hypersleep 10 (2019), Suite 59201 (2020), 1001 (2020), Lost Metropolis (2020), Xvious_exe (2020), 5005 (2021), AD4PTION (2021), 7007 (2022), Drift 1194 (2023), AD4PTION : Permadeath (2023), 9009 (2023), Celluloid State (2024), Vooll (2024), etc.