Released

76:14 is often placed in all time greatest ambient album lists, with very good reason.From the grandfather clock ticking that starts the record off, to the album and track titles referring only to durations, this record is about time — and the suspension of time. It’s the absolute epitome of the sound’s early-mid 90s interzones: hidden backrooms in the rave, the after-party that has gone on past all the clocks stopping, the country hillside just before dawn. Everything hovers, drifts, rotates slowly in space. You can hear older music’s influence — Tomita, Vangelis, Steve Hillage — and you may hear the future beckoning, but when it was made it was about that total immersion in the moment. And still, if you give yourself up to it, its arpeggios, ticking clicks, low down throbs can still bring you right into the heart of the present.

Joe Muggs

Suggestions
The Number of Magic cover

The Number of Magic

Richard H. Kirk
Around the House cover

Around the House

Matthew Herbert
Honeycomb cover

Honeycomb

Mr Beatnick
Under the Sun cover

Under the Sun

Mark Pritchard
Maar cover

Maar

Miryam Solomon, Rosie Turton
Chronicles I cover

Chronicles I

The 7th Plain
Tara Clerkin Trio cover

Tara Clerkin Trio

Tara Clerkin Trio