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Homeland Soundtrack - Star (long)

From the album Farewell Ferengistan which was released in 2006, this track captures the essence of Toby Marks project Banco de Gaia as it walks serenely into the first decade of the 21st century.


Banco de Gaia - Ynys Elen

Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Headshotboyz Remix)

Live recording of Last Train to Lhasa.
Recorded by Alex from Tarquin's Live at Sankey's Soap, 27 October 1997.
Mastered by Banco de Gaia.

To get the full live set for free, please go to bancodegaia.bandcamp.com

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Banco de Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa (Live at Sankey's Soap 1997)

The Power Of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Placebo - Special Needs

I am off to Australia for the Eclipse 2012 festival this weekend, and to celebrate have made a special mix of a track from my new album.

New album, "Apollon", is due for release Spring 2013 - this is possibly the most upbeat of all the tracks on there.

Banco de Gaia - Eternal Sunshine (Ozclipse Mix)

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Gabrielle Aplin - The Power of Love (AZEDIA remix)

English Producer "JAM3S K3NN3DY" x Tokyo Renown Producer "Kato"  

Backstreet Boys - Everybody (JAM3S & Kato Remix)

Homeland Soundtrack - Dying A Thousand Deaths

From the upcoming City and Colour album, The Hurry and The Harm, available June 4, 2013 on Dine Alone Records.

Download "of space and time" for FREE: http://bit.ly/ofspaceandtimedl

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The Hurry and the Harm

Of Space and Time

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Vocals by Zhenia Mahdi-Nau
Track originally written for the Anicent Skies project
www.ancientskies.info

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Banco De Gaia - Lamentations (edit)

Banco De Gaia -  Eternal Sunshine (edit)

Banco De Gaia - For Such A Time (edit)

Amber (preview)

B2 (preview)

Big Men Cry (preview)

Farewell Ferengistan (preview)

Sheesha (preview)

Banco De Gaia - Hu! (edit)

Tempra (preview)

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

Touching the Void (Smells Like Salvation)(preview)

Banco De Gaia - Oreia (edit)

Banco De Gaia
Last Train To Lhasa RMX - Banco de Gaia - (Bimbamatic Remix)
Written by Sandy Hoover & Toby Marks
Copyright Control
Produced by Sandy Hoover
Remix by Bimbamatic
Mixed by David White
Guitar by Merlin Rhys-Jones
(p) 2005 The Copyright in this sound recording is owned by Sandy Hoover / Banco De Gaia.
Licensed courtesy of Sandy Hoover with permission from Banco De Gaia.


Last Train to Lhasa RMX - Banco de Gaia - (Bimbamatic RMX)

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”.