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Songs of a Dead Dreamer is an electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

album by DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky

Paul D. Miller , known by his stage name DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics or his fans as "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, a producer, a philosopher, and an author...

, released on 2 April 1996 (see 1996 in music

1996 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.-January:* January – At the trial of two American teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, for the murder of Bassett's parents and young brother, defense lawyers attempt to lay the blame for the murders on the fact...

). It is based on Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Songs of a Dead Dreamer is a 1986 short story collection by horror fiction writer Thomas Ligotti. It has been acknowledged as one of the seminal collections of modern weird horror fiction by peers such as Ramsey Campbell. Many of its stories show the influence of Ligotti's literary idols of horror...

, the story collection by horror fiction

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

writer Thomas Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His writings are unique in style, have been noted as major continuations of several literary genres – most prominently Lovecraftian horror – and have overall been variously described as works of...

. The album was a critical success, though popular acceptance was lukewarm. Widely regarded as one of the first examples of illbient

Illbient

Illbient is a term allegedly coined by DJ Olive to describe the iconoclastic music being produced by a community of artists based in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York in 1994...

music, Songs of a Dead Dreamer was, at the time, a virtually-unique fusion of electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

and hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

Track listing

"Intro" – 1:02
"The Vengeance of Galaxy 5" – 1:12
"Phase Interlude" – 3:23
"Galactic Funk (Tau Ceti
Tau Ceti
Tau Ceti is a star in the constellation Cetus that is spectrally similar to the Sun, although it has only about 78% of the Sun's mass. At a distance of just under 12 light-years from the Solar System, it is a relatively close star. Tau Ceti is metal-deficient and so is thought to be less likely to...

Mix)" – 6:48
"Hologrammic Dub" – 7:05
"Dance of the Morlocks" – 1:00
"Juba" – 5:24
"Thoughts Like Rain" – 5:41
"Anansi Abstrakt" – 11:35
"Grapheme" – 10:52
"Phase Interlude, Pt. 2" – 1:06
"Nihilismus Dub" – 4:13
"The Terran Invasion of Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus...

Year 2794" – 6:32
"Time Out of Joint" – 1:06
"High Density" – 6:31
"Outtro" – 0:20

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