Global Communication

Initially released in 1994, the same year as Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II, Global Communication's 76:14 helped usher in a new era in ambient music. Slowly ticking clocks and waves of dub delay lend a sense of suspended animation to long, drifting synthesizer passages; elsewhere, cushioned breakbeats lend the barest hint of pop longing. Whether your destination is inner or outer space, this is the perfect soundtrack for the journey.