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Tales of the Drift
Electronic · 2005 · 15 tracks

Tales of the Drift

Hermitude

Dusty turntable scratches meet jazz-inflected boom bap. A cinematic, late-night journey through urban soundscapes and organic electronic textures.

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It’s like a jazz club in a rainy city where the DJ only plays the smoothest, dustiest beats.

A sophisticated, nocturnal wanderlust that balances dusty hip-hop grit with airy, jazz-inflected melodies.

Tales of the Drift · vs · Hermitude
Storytelling+3.9σ

The writing leans far further into storytelling than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks
01
You Got Soul
1:32
02
Tapedeck Sound
6:06
03
Can’t Stop
5:38
04
Music From the Mind
3:16
05
Nightfall’s Messenger
4:36
06
Plunge
1:50
07
Observation Deck
5:07
08
Zacktor
5:09
09
Galactic Cadillac
3:53
10
Fallen Giants
4:19
11
Dub’s Theme
4:09
12
Madness in G Minor
4:23
13
Ruffwon
5:38
14
The Drift
4:32
15
Mystical Herm’s
4:02
Moments Worth Waiting For
The intricate interplay between the live flute melodies and rhythmic turntable scratching on Nightfall’s Messenger.
The sudden shift into a heavy, head-nodding boom bap groove during the mid-section of Tapedeck Sound.
The way the atmospheric field recordings of city life bleed into the opening bars of Music From the Mind.
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