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Electronic pulses and spacious, carefully layered instrumentals evoke Murderbot’s surveillance, the expedition’s alien-world dangers, and its gradual, unwanted attachment to the humans it protects. The final three vocal tracks shift toward the uneasy questions of identity, personhood, and connection at the heart of the book.
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20 songs
1
Xtal
Aphex Twin · Selected Ambient Works 85-92
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2
Bike
Autechre · Incunabula
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3
Rez
Underworld · 1992 - 2012
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4
The Sunshine Underground
The Chemical Brothers · Surrender
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5
Winter Linn
Clark · Clark
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6
Silhouettes (I, II & III)
Floating Points · Elaenia
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7
Cern
Monolake · Momentum
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8
Eyen
Plaid · Double Figure
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9
Mos 6581
Carbon Based Lifeforms · Hydroponic Garden
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10
Sol
Solar Fields · Movements
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11
Everloving
Moby · Play
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12
Belfast
Orbital · Orbital
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13
#3
Aphex Twin · Selected Ambient Works Volume II
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14
Monday - Paracetamol - 2019 remaster
Ulrich Schnauss · A Strangely Isolated Place
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15
La femme d'argent
Air · Moon Safari
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16
The Robots
Kraftwerk · 3-D The Catalogue
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17
Everything In Its Right Place
Radiohead · Kid A
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18
Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Telefon Tel Aviv · Fahrenheit Fair Enough
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Sea Island Murders
Loscil · Sea Island
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