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Concrete & Fog

@nadia· 12 entries · updated Jul 4

Records for empty warehouses at 6am — dub techno, tape hiss, and the long fade.

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Biokinetics

Porter Ricks · 1996

Chain Reaction's cornerstone. Every dub techno record since is a footnote to this.

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Pop

Gas · 2000

Voigt's forest at night. Kick drum like a heartbeat under wet leaves.

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Selected Ambient Works 85–92

Aphex Twin · 1992

Still sounds like it was beamed in from somewhere kinder.

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BCD

Basic Channel · 1995

Concrete turning to vapor, side after side.

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Hongkong

Monolake · 1997

Monolake build a city out of static and let it rain.

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Music for Nine Post Cards

吉村弘 · 1982

Kankyō ongaku at its gentlest.

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Through the Looking Glass

高田みどり · 1983

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Consumed

Plastikman · 1998

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Alcachofa

Ricardo Villalobos · 2003

10pos
Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Brian Eno · 1978

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Untrue

Burial · 2007

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Music Has the Right to Children

Boards of Canada · 1998

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@marcus · Jul 4

Untrue that low is criminal — that's a top five record. Otherwise flawless.

@kei · Jul 4

Nine Post Cards sneaking into a techno list is exactly right. It all breathes the same air.