While 1994 saw the rise of Britpop, a rather more cerebral electronic music scene ran parallel to it: one where Orbital, not Oasis, were the most important band at Glastonbury and Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton, a couple of chaps in thrall to Detroit techno, made an album while looking out over a field of cows in Somerset. The result was 76:14, which became a landmark in ambient music. Its primary influence seems to be Vangelis's Blade Runner soundtrack, albeit mingled with neo-classical techno.
After a decade, the palette of sounds, from falling water to ominous hissing, is still absorbing.
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