You Are Here, Banco de Gaia’s sixth studio album, was a meditation on how things were in 2004, the year of its original creation. From elaborate electronica to caustic commentary, its globally inspired series of soundtracks runs from mystic to manic and back again.

Alongside floor-filling booty-stompers like Tongue in Chic and Zeus No Like Techno (a staple in the Banco live show to this day) are the introspective Still Life and the hypnotic Not in My Name, while Jennifer Folker, the vocalist on Obsidian and Glove Puppet, returns for an extra-smoky performance on the elegant torch song Gray Over Gray.

The slightly delayed 20th Anniversary Edition comes with a second disc of standout remixes from the time, plus a handful of fresh versions.

Banco de Gaia - We Are Here (preview)

Banco de Gaia - Gray Over Gray (FutureLoopFoundation's Nightime Chanteaux Mix)(preview)

Banco de Gaia - Zeus No Like Techno (Overfunkt Remix)(preview)

Banco de Gaia - Not In My Name (preview)

Banco de Gaia - Tongue In Chic (preview)

Banco de Gaia - Waking Up In Waco (preview)

Banco de Gaia - We Are Here (S.O.N.A.T.I.O.N.'s In This Moment Remix)(preview)

Banco de Gaia - Not in my Name (Rob Bong Remix)(preview)

Banco de Gaia - Zeus No Like Techno (preview)

Banco de Gaia - Still Life (Andrew Heath’s With Glass Bowl Remix)(preview)

Banco De Gaia has been performing and releasing for over 25 years now, along the way becoming one of the music industry’s most maverick innovators. His legacy is as glittering as it is diverse, ranging from Hollywood film sound credits to the critically acclaimed ‘Last Train to Lhasa’, first released in 1995 to a rapturous reception. His live act still packs out venues and festivals all over the world, with audio-visual performances renowned for their explosive, cutting edge quality: from sampling wizardry fused with haunting vocals and poignant acoustics to genre-hopping musical instrumentals, all accompanied by socially engaged visuals.

Behind Banco de Gaia is artist Toby Marks. Starting out as a drummer in a metal band, he began using sampling kit to cut his own tunes after falling in love with electronica during the 1980s acid house era. By the early 90s, after winning respect for a clutch of credits on the Ambient Dub compilations, he was signed to Planet Dog Records and released ‘Maya’, in 1994, and then ‘Last Train to Lhasa’, in 1995.

Both albums featured an artfully arranged cocktail of textured samples and live instrumentals lifted from across the world. Both went straight to No. 1 in the UK Independent Charts as well as sweeping through the international electronica scene, making him, along with the likes of The Orb, one of the early pioneers of ‘chill out’. Both ‘Last Train to Lhasa’ and ‘Heliopolis (Eudopolis Dog Mix)’ notably featured on Sasha & Digweed's classic ‘Northern Exposure’ mix CD among myriad other compilations. 

Since then, he's released a further 6 studio albums, 1 live album, 1 live DVD and 15 EP’s and also runs his own label, Disco Gecko Recordings. He went back to basics in 2014 with a sold-out 20th Anniversary CD-only (no streams or downloads available) release of ‘Maya’, followed by similar 20th Anniversary editions of ‘Last Train to Lhasa’ in 2015 and ‘Live at Glastonbury’ in 2016.

Pink Floyd and psychedelia remain a constant influence: Banco’s cover of Echoes in 2007 helped shape the ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections’ collection in 2009 and Floyd’s legendary saxophonist Dick Parry was one of Marks’ special guest collaborators (alongside no-man’s Tim Bowness and Zero 7’s Sophie Barker) on his ‘The 9th of Nine Hearts’ album, which came out in October 2016.

“A continuation of the consistently high form Toby Marks has shown throughout a long and illustrious career” (Total Music Magazine), The Crack described ‘The 9th of Nine Hearts’ as full of “dubby loveliness that fuses psych, spiky rock, acid and ambient” while the Ambient Music Guide hailed it as “Banco's strongest album of new material in 15 years”.

Banco de Gaia - Zeus No Like Techno (Overfunkt Remix)(preview)

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