Lifetracks is the debut solo album by respected British

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 electronica

Electronica

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 artist Tom Middleton

Tom Middleton

Tom Middleton is a prolific British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ.A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with Richard D. James , co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the Analogue Bubblebath EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records...

, released in the UK on October 1, 2007 and the US

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 on November 6, 2007 (see 2007 in music

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). The title is a reference to representing different places, times, and people in the artist's life. The majority of songs on the album have appeared on compilations over the last ten years, under the moniker AMBA, which was Middleton's previous ambient project. The song "Shinkansen

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" refers to the Japanese bullet train of the same name. The song "St. Ives Bay" refers to an area in the artist's home region of Cornwall

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, England

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. Tom Middleton

Tom Middleton

Tom Middleton is a prolific British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ.A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with Richard D. James , co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the Analogue Bubblebath EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records...

 is notable for building a worldwide reputation as one of the most eclectic DJs on the dance music scene. He started his career in the early 1990s as the partner of Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin

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, then branched out on his own to form the electronica

Electronica

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 duo Global Communication

Global Communication

Global Communication is an electronic music act, composed of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard. Their debut LP, 76:14 is one of the most acclaimed albums from the ambient music genre and from 1990s electronic music in general....

, among others with fellow musician Mark Pritchard.

Track listing

All tracks written by Tom Middleton.

1. "Prana" – 4:47
2. "Beginning of the Middle" – 5:25
3. "Shinkansen" – 8:23
4. "Serendipity" – 4:24
5. "Sea of Glass" – 3:19
6. "Yearning" – 6:01
7. "Optimystic" – 6:32
8. "St. Ives Bay" – 6:25
9. "Margherita" – 6:15
10. "Moonbathing" – 8:02
11. "Astral Projection" – 4:43
12. "Enchanting" - 5:14