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01. Roni Size/Reprazent – Morse Code
02. Spacer feat. Alison Goldfrapp – Contrazoom
03. Alpha feat. Martin Barnard – Sometime Later
04. UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke – Rabbit In Your Headlights
05. Everything But The Girl – Corcovado
06. Alpha feat. Helen White & Martin Barnard – Delaney
07. Ollano feat. Helena Noguerra – Latitudes
08. Stereolab – Brakhage
09. Portishead – Strangers
10. Stereolab – Diagonals
11. Alpha feat. Wendy Stubbs – Rain
12. Coldcut feat. Janis Alexander – Autumn Leaves
13. Red Snapper feat. Anna Haigh – The Paranoid
14. UNKLE feat. Richard Ashcroft – Lonely Soul
15. DJ Cam – Twilight Zone
16. UNKLE feat. Alice Temple – Bloodstain
17. Paul Weller – Wildwood (Portishead Remix)
18. Portishead – Roads
19. Portishead – Theme From “To Kill A Dead Man”
20. Cazuza & Bebel Gilberto – Preciso Dizer Que Te Amo
This was an idea that I had for a soundtrack to a fictitious James Bond-type movie; and yes, I straight up jacked the title from a Portishead song and short film of the same name.
Between 1996-1999, there were many groups that fit this particular musical genre, and there were also a lot of different styles of music that did this sort of stuff (e.g., Trip Hop, Acid Jazz, Lounge, Drum & Bass, Rock, etc.). I put in a bunch of ambient interludes between the songs (taken from various Future Sound Of London and DJ Spooky albums), slapped everything together, and voila!
For more music of this era, check out my “Fantasy Realm” and “Nocturnal Emissions” posts!