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A blend of taut, patiently unfolding instrumentals and warm, exploratory textures follows the wizards’ search from Unseen University toward the strange, arid expanses of Fourecks. Repeating rhythms provide a steady focus, while more open, playful passages suggest Rincewind’s misadventures and a land where the familiar keeps turning unexpectedly strange.
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40 songs
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Djed
Tortoise · Millions Now Living Will Never Die
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TNT
Tortoise · TNT
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Glass Museum
Tortoise · Millions Now Living Will Never Die
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Ratts of the Capital
Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People
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Halcyon (Beautiful Days)
MONO · Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra
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Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)
MONO · Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra
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Everlasting Light
MONO · Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra
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Cipater
Autechre · Chiastic Slide
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Bike
Autechre · Incunabula
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Telephone And Rubber Band - Remastered 2008
Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Penguin Café Orchestra
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Perpetuum Mobile
Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)
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Air À Danser - Remastered 2008
Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Penguin Café Orchestra
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First Snow
Emancipator · Soon It Will Be Cold Enough
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Minor Cause
Emancipator · Dusk to Dawn
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La petite fille de la mer - Remastered
Vangelis · La petite fille de la mer
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Pulstar
Vangelis · Synthesizer Greats, Vol. 3 (REMASTERED 2023)
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Alpha
Vangelis · Albedo 0.39
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Asian Dream Song
Joe Hisaishi · PIANO STORIES II ～The Wind of Life～
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The Sheltering Sky
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing The Piano
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Held
Kiasmos · Kiasmos
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Oxygène, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre · Oxygène
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Equinoxe, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre · Planet Jarre
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The Syncopated Clock
Leroy Anderson · The Future of Easy Listening: Leroy Anderson's Modern Orchestra
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Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition & Night on Bald Mountain
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Nuages
Django Reinhardt · Nuages
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Mojave Plan
Tangerine Dream · White Eagle (Deluxe Version / Remastered 2020)
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Clouds
Balmorhea · Clouds (Extrait de la bande originale du film Un homme pressé)
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Masollan
Balmorhea · Stranger
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Clear Language
Balmorhea · Clear Language
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The Restless Waves
Dirty Three · Ocean Songs
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Blue Mountain
The Necks · Unfold
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Le moulin
Yann Tiersen · Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Bande originale du film)
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Twilight - New Moon: The Meadow
Alexandre Desplat · Movie Themes on Piano
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A Walk
Tycho · Dive
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Dive
Tycho · Dive
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Hours
Tycho · Dive
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Rise
The Necks · Unfold
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Great Waves
Dirty Three · Cinder
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Fatal
The Necks · Chemist
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Rain Song
Dirty Three · Toward the Low Sun
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