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Matt Webb sent this to me a while back, it's the Cliff Martinez soundtrack to the George Clooney version of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris. The soundtrack is instrumental, spooky, and calming.

1. Is This What Everybody Wants
2. First Sleep
3. Can I Sit Next To You
4. Will She Come Back
5. Death Shall Have No Dominion
6. Maybe You're My Puppet
7. Don't Blow It
8. High Energy Proton Accelerator
9. Wear Your Seat Belt
10. Wormhole
11. We Don't Have To Think Like That Anymore

Also apropos of nothing, the Alan Parker edition of The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds.

Even though they haven't released anything worth listening to since Dwayne Goettel died in 1995, Skinny Puppy has been a favorite band of mine since I first heard them 15 years ago.

Most of the ice-cold music I've posted here in the past has been, to my ears, directly descended from Skinny Puppy's 1984 EP, Remission. It's a perfect example of self-confidence absent the inflated expectations of a demanding fanbase, a trait also found in early Orbital records and Skinny Puppy's later albums Bites and Mind: T.P.I.

1. Smothered Hope
2. Glass Houses
3. Incision
4. Far Too Frail
5. Film
6. Manwhole
7. Ice Breaker
8. Solvent
9. Sleeping Beast
10. Glass Out
11. ...Brap

Two Minilogue tracks doing it for me today:

• Inca (26.9MB)
• Certain Things About Us, Part 1 (15.2MB)

This is also not half bad:

• Audion: Fire (14.9MB)

Monolake, Live at Frigid Sydney: part 1, part 2. 60 minutes, minimal techno, very icy.

Banco De Gaia's album Last Train To Lhasa (1995) is a monumentally beautiful sound sculpture, especially track #7: 887 (Structure). Every time it comes up on shuffle, I have to stop whatever I'm doing and sit back for a few moments. It sounds like the city at night, from a distance.

"If the potato cannot survive out of the earth's sphere of influence, then I would be very, very cautious if I were concerned with the total problem of sending man out into outer space until I had found out what it was that the potato lacked in order to permit it to survive out there."