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Mika Vainio's sophomore album first landed in 1996 and laid down a new blueprint for minimal techno that has rarely been bettered since.

The album is also a fine summation of the Finnish artist's sublime and singular style - icy ambient tundra that are vast in scale but minute in detail, warped synth oscillations that sound at once futuristic but also somehow like field recordings from a lonely part of the arctic circle, and brain melting sine waves that lock you in a trance. Essential.