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This playlist moves between the lonely sweep of the Kent marshes, the eerie intimacy of Point Mote, and the mechanical wonder of its automata. Uneasy strings, shadowed electronics and spare piano reflect Bodkin’s strange powers and uncertain origins, while the vocal songs touch on electricity, ghostliness and the pull of a haunted home.
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20 songs
1
Balthus Bemused By Color
Harold Budd · The White Arcades
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2
Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
Steve Reich · Music for 18 Musicians
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3
The Great Below
Nine Inch Nails · The Fragile
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The House of the Rising Sun
The Animals · The House of the Rising Sun: Best of The Animals
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846
Johann Sebastian Bach · 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould: The Sound of Genius (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel): II. The Old Castle
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition
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On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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Electricity
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark · The Best Of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
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The Ghost In You
The Psychedelic Furs · Mirror Moves
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Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Act II, 7, In the Hall of the Mountain King
Edvard Grieg · Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23 (Excerpts) - Sony Classical Masters
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Charlie
Loscil · Plume
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12
Melancholia I
William Basinski · Melancholia
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13
Articulate Silences, Pt. 1
Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline
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14
Sur le fil
Yann Tiersen · Voyage
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Opus 17
Dustin O'Halloran · Marie Antoinette (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Nest
Kammarheit · The Nest
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A Place to Call Home
Atrium Carceri · Ptahil
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18
Repetition
Max Cooper · Yearning for the Infinite
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Constant Fear
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Black Earth
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