I was cycling down the the front tonight listening to E2-E4 and thinking what a perfect piece of music it is for a long ride, or run, or just to bliss out to while you’re working or something. And then I was thinking, previous artists were limited by format, so why aren’t there more hour-long pieces of contemporary/electronic music now? Or do I just not know them?
https://youtu.be/ys0HyevZpQg
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at least half of the fax releases qualify! here’s one of my all time faves:
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Lots of minimalism (the classical not the dancey kind) comes to mind:
https://youtu.be/ILpCKQlDmhc
https://youtu.be/ajJYZKDhHfo
https://youtu.be/7xXFn6kcBs0
First got into Steve Reich after finding that the Orb sampled this
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This might fit the bill - loved it on release but it’s been a minute
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It’s not electronic or that contemporary but you could try Sleep’s Dopesmoker, it’s basically the same riff for 63 minutes. It’s a great riff though…
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Bunged it on, banged out a whole proposal for a client. Just what I needed, thank you
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Cheers, funnily enough I was listening to the Grandfather Paradox while I was doing the washing up last night The Grandfather Paradox | Discogs
Would fully recommend a couple of CFCF albums for this purpose - to be fair they are multiple tracks stitched together but they are definitely designed to be listened to as a whole.
First one channels a Windham Hill vibe:
Second tips the hat to Dreamcast era drum and bass:
Both are 
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glad it worked out x
one more that came to mind - Mike CFCF did a lovely longform piece a few years back I have on a Japanese CD - content warning: pan pipes
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I can’t believe I forgot to include this hour-long recording of someone sleeping
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Love this one from vladislav delay
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The drum and bass version of this album is super good too.
These guys are great. I saw them live in Iceland, their album is a great long listen - although there are separate tracks, it really works listened thru from beginning to end.
I think you could probably stick this in here as it runs as a whole:
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This is so WTF I can’t actually process it!
I used this to get me in the right headspace for my half marathon at the weekend. Kind of between a sequenced album and a continuous piece, was just what I needed, with enough emotion and motion to propel me along.
(01:48, thanks for asking)
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