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Listen: Ben Zimmerman's The Baltika Years

June 2015

Ben Zimmerman and friend

Ben Zimmerman and friend

Listen to the entirety of Ben Zimmerman's The Baltika Years album, released on Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never's Software label

Ben Zimmerman - Phyllis 0:21:47
Ben Zimmerman - For Mimi Pt 1 0:01:50
Ben Zimmerman - For Mimi Pt 2 0:00:25
Ben Zimmerman - For Mimi Pt 3 0:01:57
Ben Zimmerman - For Mimi Pt 4 0:02:37
Ben Zimmerman - For Mimi Pt 5 0:02:09
Ben Zimmerman - The Scream 0:00:48
Ben Zimmerman - Housed! 0:01:45
Ben Zimmerman - Tropical Den 0:00:11
Ben Zimmerman - 99th Street 0:00:57
Ben Zimmerman - The Space Jack Hummer 0:05:20
Ben Zimmerman - Grumble Grumble 0:00:32
Ben Zimmerman - Reverse Me 0:01:10
Ben Zimmerman - 75000multicolouredorgasmaticballoons 0:00:40
Ben Zimmerman - Crystal Lake 0:01:55
Ben Zimmerman - Redecorated Proto-Computations 0:03:36
Ben Zimmerman - Da Chopp 0:02:15
Ben Zimmerman - Yellow Daffodil (Burning) Against A Grey Sidewalk 0:01:39
Ben Zimmerman - Chants 0:01:39
Ben Zimmerman - Reso 0:01:18
Ben Zimmerman - Mazer 0:00:20
Ben Zimmerman - Life Without Liz 0:03:36
Ben Zimmerman - One-Liter Plastic Bottle 0:00:30
Ben Zimmerman - F-Trip 0:01:07
Ben Zimmerman - Now I Am Numb 0:00:21
Ben Zimmerman - Pausebreak Pt 1 0:03:43
Ben Zimmerman - Pausebreak Pt 2 0:02:03
Ben Zimmerman - Pausebreak Pt 3 0:03:45
Ben Zimmerman - Pausebreak Pt 4 0:02:24
Ben Zimmerman - Pausebreak Pt 5 0:02:05
Ben Zimmerman - Pausebreak Pt 6 0:02:56

Ben Zimmerman's The Baltika Years is a collection of recordings made between 1992–2002, mostly using a Tandy DeskMate computer bought from the budget American electronics shop Radio Shack. It was curated by Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never and will be released on 9 June on Lopatin's Software label.

Read an article by Emily Bick about Zimmerman and his music here

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Wow. Such a thrill to hear his inevitable discovery of jungle at 26.

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