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From the Archives, Volume 1
Electronic · 2007 · 17 tracks · 1h 6m

From the Archives, Volume 1

The Future Sound of London

A deep dive into the vault of electronic pioneers. Murky, organic soundscapes where field recordings of birds and gongs meet dusty, submerged breakbeats.

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It's like a nature documentary filmed inside a broken mainframe.

A deep, immersive sense of isolation within a lush, synthetic ecosystem.

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Forest+1.8σ

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

Tracklist · 17 Tracks · 1h 6m
01
Lizzard Crawl
5:19
02
Hallucination
7:42
03
Field of Flowers
5:21
04
Enviroments – Birds
0:15
05
Still Flowers
5:16
06
Enviroments - Gong
0:35
07
Woodland
4:48
08
UU
0:51
09
Turn Around
7:23
10
Is This Real
1:48
11
Mouth Muse
2:30
12
Hazey Day Girl
4:21
13
Wet Pavement
0:38
14
Head Hunter
7:05
15
Arrived
3:03
16
Pale Moon
4:15
17
Nuru Device Send
5:23
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition from the hyper-detailed bird recordings of Environments into the heavy, rhythmic pulse of Still Flowers.
The way the bass in Hallucination seems to breathe, expanding and contracting like a living organism beneath the synth wash.
The sudden, jarring clarity of the gong in track six that resets the listener's spatial awareness before plunging back into the murk.
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