13 Degrees of Reality

by The Heliocentrics

13 Degrees of Reality cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 April 2013
  • Label: Now-Again
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 50:16
  • Community rating: 3.31/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

After years of backing artists like Mulatu Astatke and DJ Shadow, the London-based collective returned with a wildly eccentric, standalone instrumental project. The album seamlessly blends analog Krautrock rhythms, cinematic funk, and psychedelic free-jazz improvisation, deeply immersed in a retro-futuristic, sci-fi aesthetic.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, rhythmic, sampling

Tracklist

  1. Feedback (Intro) (4:14)
  2. Ethnicity (1:38)
  3. Public Safety Broadcast (Interlude) (0:23)
  4. Mysterious Ways (1:33)
  5. Dreams (Interlude) (0:45)
  6. Collateral Damage (4:04)
  7. Outtake (Interlude) (0:16)
  8. Freeness, Pt. 2 (2:30)
  9. Wrecking Ball (7:43)
  10. Mind Readers (Interlude) (0:39)
  11. Descarga Electronica (2:30)
  12. A Musical Conspiracy (Interlude) (0:46)
  13. Eastern Begena (3:58)
  14. Hall Of Mirrors (Interlude) (1:35)
  15. Mr. Owusu, I Presume? (3:41)
  16. The Abstract And The Absolute (Interlude) (0:53)
  17. Black Sky (3:24)
  18. Prepare For Lift-Off (Interlude) (0:59)
  19. Path Of The Black Sun (2:34)
  20. Calabash (3:42)
  21. Vibrations Of The Fallen Angels (Outro) (2:18)

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