Global Communication - 76:14

Aged to perfection at 31 years young, 76:14:00 is described as "unfathomably beautiful out-of-time masterpiece“ in The Guardian's ‘1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die’ list. Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, the duo behind Global Communication and other aliases, stated in the sleeve notes that this was intended to avoid the implication that there was any specific meaning or subject mater to their compositions, leaving the listener free to interpret it according to their own imagination. And as the record is a certified classic of 1990s ambient and electronic experimentalism (clearly influenced by greats like Vangelis and Brian Eno), sweetly melodic, soothing and largely beatless, it is almost impossible to listen to it without eliciting extreme relaxation and flights of mental fancy.