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TL;DR - Not really. I totally went overboard with this reply but I fucking love Tim Hecker and I want everyone else to love him too. Listen to In The Fog (all parts) from Ravedeath 1972. [Here's a Spotify playlist] (http://open.spotify.com/user/vapidtask/playlist/3noVXeLLp6PuK4smBN0oRq) of everything below. --- The first tracks which come to mind are all parts of Through the Fog, but Hecker's sound varies so much from album to album that it's kind of difficult to name a few tracks as examples. Having said that, I'll do my best. In an ideal world I'd just have you listen to a few of his albums from start to finish, rather than just giving you specific tracks to listen to. His work is much better when listened to as a whole. These aren't really albums you can dip in and out of (but you're going to do exactly that so whatever), you have to [put in work](https://youtu.be/Es0sDqWnAZY?t=1m37s). I'll go back from his most recent album to his early work, only the stuff that's really worth investing any immediate time in, you can pick up more of his music if you manage to get to the end of this list without hating him completely. * From Love Streams, listen to Obsidian Counterpoint, Music of the Air, and Castrati Stack. Together you'll get a real sense of how he works with samples and manipulation, structure, layering, and continued thematics. Check out Bijie Dream and Voice Crack. * From Virgins, listen to Virginal I and II - these tracks evolve beautifully. Live Room Out is a great example of how subtle and intricate he can be with just a few audio tracks. Black Refraction teases a narrative. Stigmata I and II remind me of Ravedeath 1972 in their texture and play on amplitude, but they continue with the traditional instrumentation theme of the album in a pseudo-organic way. I recently heard Live Room played at a Hecker gig and it was one of the loudest things I've ever heard. * Listen to all of Dropped Pianos because it's **brilliant** (and also some of the source material for the next album (okay *fine* if you're absolutely pressed for time then Sketch 4, 7, and 9)). * From Ravedeath 1972, listen to In the Fog I, II, and III. As far as I'm concerned they're all one track and should be listened to as such. Here you'll come across yet more theming, a great display of how he builds up and pulls back tracks, how the mood shifts across playtime - it's probably the best example of Hecker I can think of, for me this is kind of his signature sound. Analog Paralysis, 1978 is a great example of how he works pads and drones to great effect, keeping them interesting and engaging throughout. In The Air I, II, and III gives us a lot of the Dropped Pianos content but in the scope of an album work, much more heavily processed, far more intense into the second movement, yet still retaining detail and texture. * From An Imaginary Country, listen to 100 Years Ago then Where Shadows Make Shadows, then 200 Years ago bearing in mind that these bookend the album. Borderlands sounds like the audio equivalent of waves ebbing and flowing on a distant shoreline. Utropics sounds like ghosts of the Soviet Union. Currents of Electrostasy is a lovely little ambient piece. * From Harmony in Ultraviolet, listen to Rainbow Blood, the Palimpest II and listen to the rest of the album from there. It might take a bit of time to get through it but the final half of the album is *stunning* in its structure, soundscape, and power. There's quite a bit of drone toward the end so YMMV depending on how much you're into that kind of sound. I feel as though a collaboration should be about avoiding more of the same insofar as the whole should be greater than the sum of its parts. I'd love to hear Hecker's manipulation of instruments, the way he sculpts pads and textures, the way he rearranges and blends sound to destruction then reconstruction, coupled with BoC's sampling skill and approach to rhythm sections, song structure, and album concepts/thematics. To have Bjork singing over it all would be, I think, the icing on the cake. For me their styles blend together rather well and it seems like an obvious choice to make. I can't imagine the end result sounding like a BoC album, or a Hecker album, or a Bjork album. It'd just be *different*. I wish I could quantify my feelings on this to a greater extent but I'm not a writer. Oh and also I'd want an instrumental album.
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