My favorite album. Exquisite. The live choral version at the Union Chapel, Islington was unbelievable. The original with ?Roland D50 choral sounds is just as good!!

A must for all music lovers.

This is by far my favorite album of all time. When originally released, it may have been lost in the heyday of ambient albums, but it truly stands the test of time. This version, remastered by Mark Pritchard, sounds amazing; samples that were buried before emerge like hidden gems, and the warmth of the vinyl version finally comes through to be archived for future generations of chillers. Absolutely essential.

Not much that I can add to the plate with all these great reviews already here. What I will say is that the rumors are true... This CD is amazing and seems to be a hidden ambient/IDM gem from the 90s that not a whole lot of people know about. Even here in the time I write this (2006) Global Communication have still not released a proper follow-up to this album. I know the two have been busy with their own projects but sometimes I think they wanted to end Global Communication with this classic and have people remember this album as their sound.

Its hard to pick favorites here seeing how the album needs to be listened to as a whole... I could tell you about how 14:31 is a slow, ambient piece with a "tick-tock" sound running throughout the track. Or I could tell you that 8:07 has a dancey feel to it with what is either an amazingly real sounding synth line, or female vocals. I could tell you all these things.. But the only thing I want to say now is BUY THE ALBUM!

Its worth every penny.

Milestone in ambient music, yes. Perfect timing in every sound. Perfect echoing melodies. Pure soul in it that makes it timeless. It's not Brian Eno: it's futuristic, electronic, alive, gathering every influence from the ambient music before in a sinergistic manner. And not in the same league as "The Orb", but those like Jonah Sharpe (in his first days), Irresistible Force or Biosphere, but lighter, brighter and much more beautiful than those.

Another landmark in the Ambient era of 1993.This album simply is stunning. Nocturnal listening of the highest order with angelic soothing pads,ticking clocks,mutterings of different languages etc. The album opens like Close encounters' Opening credits,eerie,dissonant chords,heralding one of many nameless tracks(all tracks titled by their running times...GENIUS)Allowing the listener to make his/her own envisions of a truly better place 'No Matter where you are!'...A truly beautiful Aural painting..PRICELESS!

Milestone in ambient music? Sign me up! Except...no, it's crap. Don't get me wrong, I love my ambience, but this is almost completely devoid of quality. The only good track is the Orbital-style 9:25 which, by the way, is not ambient in the slightest. The rest of it seems to isolate the most annoying things about Eno (dated synth pads, overly crisp production), and ditch all the good stuff (interesting melodies, emotion). I read somewhere that 14:31 is regarded as one of the greatest, most original ambient tunes. Didn't Aphex Twin do almost the exact same track a few months previous on SAW II, complete with metronome/clock ticking? Now there's a quality ambient album, despite it's random noise interludes.

I can only assume that people who like this haven't heard the true pioneers of the genre - Eno, Stars Of The Lid, Aphex, and so forth. The sounds in 76:14 convey no emotion to keep you occupied when you are awake, and the percussive tracks make it impossible to sleep to. Pish.

Oh and it has a bonus disc full of what I imagine the chillout room sounds like at club hell. Boring.

Not dated so well, I fear. I know it's been re-released to keep down the crazy prices on ebay, and "14:31" is one of the all-time great ambient tracks, but there's a bit too much flab and not enough real meat on this, 12 years on.

Without a doubt this release is in a class all by itself. Brings to mind some of the immersive games I've played (Myst) with amazing clarity. One of my personal favs in the ambient genre. A positive vibe throughout, yet dark, mellow and involving. I can listen to this everyday, but don't so I won't wear out the feeling I get when I listen to it. Tom and Mark at their absolute best!

A quintessential masterpiece for the ambient genre. 76:14 is blissful electronica at its finest. Somber, quiet, haunting and minimal all in one from beginning to end (if there really is a start or an end now that I think of it). Almost like a primal calm or an in utero experience, the soundscapes create a field of sound like maybe what it's like to be in space looking down.

The additional bonus disc of remixes makes this edition an even better deal.

OK, my review may sound like I've been in a deprivation tank (ala Altered States) too long but it's the closest thing that I can think of. ;-)

I found this release to be very relaxing, melodic, and pleasant. The second track is my favorite, with lots of reverb and echo. However, if I must say this, I shall be punished, because I like Reload and The Jedi Knights. Tracks 6,7, & 8 sound all too familiar to Tangerine Dream's Risky Business theme. "Oto no baitai wo tooshita kandouteki na hyougen," or something like that is Japanese for "through the breakdown of sound, an emotional expression" amongst an array of what is probably the same phrase in other tongues. I wish there were titles though.

Inside the cover, we can read : 'Use your imagination. Numbers are chosen to identify separate tracks because 'names' tend to bias the listener by pre-defining images, places and feelings. This gives the listener the freedom of imagination to derive whatever he/she wishes from the music'.

Although, it was the earlier cosmic housey sound that really got me into Global Communication. It didnt take me long to discover and fully appreciate the superb quality of this album. In addition to being one of the most technically sounding albums Ive ever heard, the layout and synths are out of this world. 7:39, 8:07, 9:39 are amazing! A MUST for any collection.

Just like Substrata (Biosphere), 76:14 is an ambient classic from the mid-90's that still sounds very great. With windy waves, icy drones, epic analog sweeps, delayed whisperings and mysterious choirs, it's offers many blissful moments. And if you'd like to hear what might have been an updated version of the 76:14 style, you could try out Nothing Down-to-Earth by Galerie Stratique.

This is a fantastic album from the era when ambient was at its peak, rank this alongside works like The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, KLF's Chill Out. Those who know of Tom Middleton will probably know of his work as Cosmos (spacey lovely house), Jedi Knights (nu-school breaks which inspired the likes of Adam Freeland) and his Sound Of The Cosmos mix (which is a blinding exercise in breaks, house and downtempo spread over 3CDs) ... or perhaps the even later Global Communications tracks The Way / The Deep which explored funky cosmic house. This, however, is as far detatched from the housey Middleton as possible. 76:15 follows the 'swirling ambience' template, beatless, seamless and atmospheric ... taking you on a journey from one end of the CD to the other. Take 9:39 for example, full of deep space cosmic bleeps, a hypnotic 'warrooooooom!' bass pulse, and eerie choral synths. Definately swirling ambience. There are some astoundingly beautiful moments on here too. 14:31 is plain gorgeous, a slowly ticking clock keeps the beat of the track while lush orchestral synths create a gorgeous uplifting mood. Its not all totally beatless, 9:25 has a gentle break that helps the track move along. Think Orb's Supanova At The End Of The Universe and you're pretty much there. 7:39 features almost Plaid-y Warp style synths, while 8:07 and 5:23 work hypnotic keys over deep pulsing Sasha style bassline stabs. 12:18 finishes off the album with more dramatic orchestral synth action like in 14:31 ... a top closer.

As you can tell, the entire album is named after the sum of its track times, with each track named after how long it is. Apparently to stop the listener having preconceptions about how the music sounds before they listen to it. A nice idea, this is an album you make your own concept for, your own story ... as opposed to The Orb's journey from Earth to the Ultraworld.

This is a great album right up there With Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Which seems to be the pinnacle of Ambient music). Some stand out tracks for me are 14 31, 9 25 and 7 39. At first when I bought this Album I was expecting and hoping for another of Reload's A Collection Of Short Stories (By the way if you don’t have this go out and buy it ASAP.), which is also a GREAT piece of Ambient work by Middleton/Pritchard. But I was disappointed at first. The only track that really stood out was 7 39, but eventually I listened, and both 14 31 and 9 25 caught me by surprise they were such a great tracks and I totally missed them! Then I listened to the album as a whole and it was like a new book was opened. I started to appreciate Ambient music a lot more including this Album! If you don't have this pick it up now along with Reload's A Collection Of Short Stories today!

The best ambient album I've heard so far. Excelent melodies, amazing production skills... Brilliant ambient album!
Track 2 is also known as 14:31 (Ob-Selon Mi-Nos)
Track 5 is also known as 7:39 (Mark's Birthday Retake)
Tracks 7 & 8 are known as 8:07 (Mayden Voyage) and 5:23 (Mayden Voyage).

Even though, the album is entitled "76:14", my CD player says that the total length is 76:17... :)

very good ambient,alot of people pump this up as one of the best ambient albums ever but i don't hear it.didn't make my top 10 list of all-time ambient collections(forum)

Also catalogued as 61702-44014-2. An incredible album and a must have for anyone who loves ambient music.