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From the Archives, Volume 5
Electronic · 2008 · 13 tracks · 53m

From the Archives, Volume 5

The Future Sound of London

A seamless hour of unreleased 1990s experiments. Murky, biological soundscapes that feel like navigating a high-tech swamp at midnight.

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It’s like finding a lost tape of 90s ambient gold that sounds like it was recorded inside a glowing coral reef.

A deep, submerged sense of wonder mixed with a slight, late-night urban paranoia.

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Midnight saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 53m
01
Sendero Luminoso
5:53
02
A Sweltering Heat
1:57
03
Exploded Funk
3:13
04
Private Psyche and Inner Life
5:41
05
The Exhibition
4:23
06
Yashica
4:19
07
Tif Feetal
2:53
08
Distant Memories
4:06
09
Darkness at Noon
3:25
10
Vacuum
0:57
11
Fat Spat
2:39
12
Tokyo Travel
8:29
13
Water Hole
5:42
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition into Tokyo Travel where the rhythm dissolves into a sprawling eight minute aquatic drift
The sudden emergence of distorted funk breaks in track 3 cutting through the humid ambient fog
The way Sendero Luminoso establishes a dense biological atmosphere using layered environmental field recordings
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