Past is Prologue

by Tycho

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andyofnewie22 I first heard Tycho on a chill radio station (SBS Chill in Australia) and from that first listen, I felt his music really stood above 95% of the other music on that station. After hearing one of his tracks, I'd have to find out who the artist was: I kept finding out my favourite tracks were always by Tycho! This was about six years ago, getting deeper into him as time goes on.

Lui Lainez Best album I had listened to before I listened to techno.

lolohim This album started a whole phase of music for me. And this track will never get old. Favorite track: From Home (Mux Mool Remix).

This is how I found you, when this album was literally IT. I've been a fan ever since.

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1.	From Home 06:31	buy track
2.	Sunrise Projector 03:04	buy track
3.	Dictaphone's Lament 05:10	buy track
4.	PBS 04:40	buy track
5.	Send And Receive 04:53	buy track
6.	Brother 01:42	buy track
7.	A Circular Reeducation 05:26	buy track
8.	Past Is Prologue 05:50	buy track
9.	Cloud Generator 04:21	buy track
10.	The Disconnect 06:11	buy track
11.	Cascade 03:58	buy track
12.	Phoenix 01:26	buy track
13.	A Circular Reeducation (Dusty Brown Remix) 05:42	buy track
14.	Send And Receive (Chachi Jones Remix) 05:57	buy track
15.	Sunrise Projector (Nautilis Remix) 03:55	buy track
16.	From Home (Mux Mool Remix) 03:59	buy track

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Tycho’s Past Is Prologue has a storied history. The tracks began as Sunrise Projector, Tycho’s 2004 full-length debut on Gammaphone records; the record was then expanded and reissued in 2006 as Past Is Prologue on Merck records; and now, Ghostly International is reissuing Tycho’s original masterwork, re-introducing graphic designer / producer Scott Hansen’s musical universe: a lush, expansive imaginary landscape of sepia-toned keyboards, warm downtempo beats, and mile after mile of sun-dappled beauty. Scott Hansen’s alter-ego is as graphic designer ISO50, and his visual work and musical creations share a similar aesthetic: saturated, faintly nostalgic tones, artfully arranged compositions, with a complex internal rhythm and color-outside-the-lines joy that’s both easy on the eyes/ears and tremendously addictive. Past Is Prologue is an ideal point of entry into Tycho’s world: “Dictaphone’s Lament” is an anthemic rush of melody and rhythm with cross-panned, dueling basslines and a gauzy, late-afternoon feel; “Send and Receive” sounds like a music box designed by Brian Eno, a fine mesh of melodic plips and plops and brisk, skittering hi-hats. The title track is a low-level stunner, splitting the difference between Rhodes-heavy ambient and drum ‘n bass—both laid-back and frantic. Past Is Prologue also includes remixes from Dusty Brown, Chachi Jones, and Nautilis, as well as a new remix of “From Home” by Mux Mool, in which the Brooklyn producer expands the modest ambient swell of the original into a bass-heavy beat symphony. As its title implies, Past Is Prologue is only the beginning. In the years since its initial release, Scott Hansen has been refining his approach, woodshedding new material and buffing it until it shines like polished brass. For Tycho, the past is prologue to a limitless future.

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released June 1, 2010

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