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Number 99 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century20th Century

Last Train to Lhasa

Banco de Gaia

1995 · ambient · IDM

Planet Dog · 540 361-2

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Why it's here

Tibetan field recordings over breakbeats; the ethical questions came later

Last Train to Lhasa layers Tibetan field recordings and samples over breakbeats until place itself becomes part of the arrangement. Banco de Gaia use that material to build a wide, cinematic atmosphere with real emotional pull, though the sampling carries questions that became harder to ignore with time. Atmosphere does more here than composition. Its scene produced nothing finer.

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Tracklist

  1. 1-1Last Train To Lhasa11:43
  2. 1-2Kuos6:56
  3. 1-3China (Clouds Not Mountains)7:30
  4. 1-4Amber7:34
  5. 1-5Kincajou6:47
  6. 1-6White Paint6:06
  7. 1-7887 (Structure)14:17
  8. 2-1Kuos (Gnomes Mix)11:19
  9. 2-2Kincajou (Duck! Asteroid)36:09
  10. 2-3Eagle (Small Steppa Mix)12:33