Name: Touching the Void (Smells Like Salvation)(preview) by Banco de Gaia
Duration: 2 min 18 s
Description: (Orig. The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia; 1999)

one of my all time fav Banco tracks. Tnx Toby!!!

This is a smooth and floating perfect compositon! A legendary piece of Banco de Gaia! Miss only the "I wish it could be forever" sample. Where is it gone?

the original version from "the magical sound" was realy great, but this one is simply beautiful !

Trauma, my first album since 2016's The 9th of Nine Hearts, is an expression of stress and of suffering while also a celebration of overcoming and of hope.

This juxtaposition is explored over the course of the album: a craving for peace in Mir; a simple bee sting in A Bee Song; loss and grieving in Draig Ddu; the wish for things to be otherwise in War; greed and abuse of power in My Little Country; AI’s potential for good and/or bad in Electric Sheep; a yearning for something greater and purer in Mo Dhia; the unbearable weight of relentless suffering in Endure; and the resignation, acceptance and surrender of The Dying Light.

The creation of the album was informed by both family and global issues: declining health in both my parents was overshadowed by ongoing wars around the world, inducing trauma in millions of people (be they defender, aggressor, or innocent) while the growing environmental crisis inflicts damage on the very world we inhabit, cracking the fabric of our survival systems.

Despite all of this, Trauma seeks and finds light in the darkness, and great beauty and joy in the midst of despair. The album is ultimately a celebration of the acceptance that in this huge universe we can dream of better and transcend our travails.

Nietzsche wrote “What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger”. Perhaps that is what truly makes us human?

Banco De Gaia - Endure (preview)

Banco De Gaia - The Dying Light (preview)

This mix was created to celebrate the release of "Mir", the final single before the new BANCO DE GAIA album drops on September 6th. For over three decades, Toby Marks, aka Banco de Gaia, has been redefining world electronica, leaving an indelible mark on the global music scene. He has energized countless dancefloors and inspired many musicians. Renowned for blending acoustic and electronic sounds, Toby integrates themes and techniques from diverse cultures and traditions. He has collaborated with a range of talented musicians and producers, including Pink Floyd’s Dick Parry, Natacha Atlas, Tim Wheater, and Hawkwind, among others.  From cinematic ambience to pounding dancefloor fillers, Toby's music defies genres and draws from a rich array of musical sources and styles. His background in jazz and rock, combined with his passion for dance and world music, results in a glorious, uplifting, and at times, mesmerizing sound.

The Grid - Floatation
Banco de Gaia - Apollon (Kaya Project Remix)
Coldcut - Stop This Crazy Thing
Underworld - Bruce Lee
Dragonfly Trio - Up (Animat Remix)
Banco de Gaia - Mir (Darkly A.M. Remix)
The Mallet Men - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Banco de Gaia Remix)
Si Begg - Airports
Leftfield - Song of Life
Klems - unknown track
Temple of Sound - Saturday Night Shiva
Original Rockers - Push Push (Remixed by Fabi Paras)
Lil’ Loius - French Kiss (Original Underground Mix)
Jon Hopkins - Second Sense
Ott - Smoked Glass and Chrome
Banco de Gaia - Mir

http://soundcloud.com/bancodegaia | https://soundcloud.com/discogeckorecordings

BANCO DE GAIA | Disco Gecko Recordings Series EP. 31 | 18/08/2024

(Orig. The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia; 1999)

Touching the Void (Smells Like Salvation)(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”.

Touching the Void (Smells Like Salvation)(preview)

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