disc one: Abduction (A Sweaty Stack of Pancakes)
01. EVP
excerpts from Breakthrough & “When Robots Have Ghosts”
Muhr: “Le Second”
Nine Inch Nails: “25 Ghosts III”
Carbon Based Lifeforms: “World of Sleepers”
Genesis: “Ravine”
02. Area 51
radio phone call from a former employee of Area 51
The Dust Brothers: “Single Serving Jack” (Fight Club OST)
Peter Gabriel: “Troubled” (Passion: The Last Temptation of Christ OST)
tripod sound from War of the Worlds
03. Blade Runner
excerpts from the film Blade Runner
Biosphere: “Thermal Motion”
Biosphere: “Freeze-Frames”
Biosphere: “City Wakes Up”
04. HAL-9000
dialogue fr. 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: Odyssey Two
Biosphere: “Mir”
SleepResearch_Facility: “2.4”
05. Moon
radio transmissions from the first moon landing
John Murphy: “The Surface of the Sun” (Sunshine OST)
06. Magnolia
excerpts from Magnolia
Nine Inch Nails: “1 Ghosts I”
Amiina: “Rugla”
07. David Lynch
David Lynch: excerpts from commentaries on the
Inland Empire and Eraserhead DVDs
Bill Evans: “34 Skidoo”
Jon Brion: “Overture” (Punch-Drunk Love OST)
Jon Brion: “Punch-Drunk Melody” (Punch-Drunk Love OST)
Mark Mothersbaugh: “Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op”
(The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou OST)
08. Steve Zissou
dialogue from the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Jon Brion: “Tabla” (Punch-Drunk Love OST)
09. What’s He Building?
Tom Waits: “What’s He Building?”
J.G. Thirlwell: “Brock Graveside” (Venture Brothers OST)
Polmo Polpo: “High Breathing”
SleepResearch_Facility: “2.2”
John Zorn: “Nightscape”
Radiohead: “Mk 2”
unknown Chinese ensemble: “Jiao Shao”
10. Who’s Afraid?
Scholastic’s “Who’s Afraid?”
Biosphere: “Phantasm”
Biosphere: “Miniature Rock Dwellers”
Biosphere: “Grandiflora”
Amiina: “Lúpína”
Polmo Polpo: “Mid Breathing”
Nine Inch Nails: “5 Ghosts I”
Carbon Based Lifeforms: “Artificial Island”
David Lynch: “Mansion Theme” (Inland Empire OST)
Brian Eno: “Markgraph”
Biosphere: “Mestigoth”
11. Addicted
excerpt from a Joe Frank radio program
The Dust Brothers: “What is Fight Club?” (Fight Club OST)
Isan: “Cubillo”
12. Hunter
spoken excerpt from Hunter S. Thompson & Johnny Depp reading excerpts from Hunter S. Thompson’s writing
Jon Brion: “Le Petit Chateau” (Punch-Drunk Love OST)
The Dust Brothers: “Corporate World” (Fight Club OST)
Dejan’s Orig. Dixieland Jazz Band: “Over in the Glory Land”
In Dark Trees: “Birds at 30,000”
Jon Brion: “Alleyway” (Punch-Drunk Love OST)
Tom Waits: “Gospel Train (orchestra)”
13. Hell
excerpts from the BBC Radio 4 programme “In Our Time”
on the subject of hell
Harold Bud / Hector Zazou: “Gorgon’s Anxious Pansy”
Brian Eno: “Tal Coat”
Isan: “Phoeb”
Biosphere / Namlook: “The Fires of Ork I”
Peter Gabriel: “The Promise of Shadows” (Passion: TLTOC OST)
14. Apocalypse Now
dialogue excerpts from Apocalypse Now
Biosphere: “Vibratoire”
Robert Rich: “Temple”
unknown Chinese ensemble: “Chu Shang”
Biosphere: “Med Ural Til Ural”
15. There Will Be Blood
excerpts of dialogue from There Will Be Blood
excerpts of Jonny Greenwood’s There Will Be Blood OST
Biosphere: “Inverse”
Biosphere: “Houses on the Hill”
Eluvium: “After Nature”
Biosphere: “Heat Leak”
Jonny Greenwood: “Convergence” (Bodysong OST)
In Dark Trees: “Deaf Mute Heart”
Brian Eno: “A Clearing”
Harold Budd / Brian Eno: “The Silver Ball”
Brian Eno: “Lizard Point”
Monolake: “Frost”
Eluvium: “Everything to Come”
Harold Budd: “Campanile”
Ludovico Einaudi: “Eros”
Boguslaw Schaeffer: “Klavier Konzert” (Inland Empire OST)
Ludovico Einaudi: “Zhivago”
Georg Friedrich Handel: “Sarabande” (as used in Barry Lyndon)
Johannes Brahms: “Violin Concerto in D Major”
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disc two: Adduction (The Sugar Shits)
01. Alan Watts
spoken excerpt from an Alan Watts lecture
David Parsons: “Varuna Deva”
David Parsons: “Lahaul Valley”
02. Telephone Preacher
excerpt from a Joe Frank radio program
Michael Andrews: “Carpathian Ridge” (Donnie Darko OST)
Michael Andrews: “The Tangent Universe” (Donnie Darko OST)
Sigur Rós: “Veröld ny og óo”
J.G. Thirlwell: “Mississippi Noir” (The Venture Brothers OST)
Amiina: “Sogg”
Jonny Greenwood: “Prospectors Arrive” (T.W.B.B. OST)
Harold Budd / Andy Partridge: “Hand 20”
Kronos Quartet: “Mini Skirt”
J.G. Thirlwell: “Descension” (The Venture Brothers OST)
Burial: “Wounder”
Tom Waits: “Carnival”
03. Gospel
excerpts of sermons by Southern preachers
Moby: “Memory Gospel”
04. The Spirit
excerpts from Joe Frank radio programs
David Parsons: “Gurla Mandhata”
John Foxx: “Revolving Birdsong”
Carbon Based Lifeforms: “Central Plains”
Peter Gabriel: “In Doubt” (Passion: TLTOC OST)
Harold Budd / Hector Zazou: “Pandas in Tandem”
Peter Gabriel: “Lazarus Raised” (Passion: TLTOC OST)
Ludovico Einaudi: “Yerevan II”
05. Thich Nhat Hanh
excerpts from a talk on being mindful by Thich Nhat Hanh
Peter Gabriel: “Open” (Passion: TLTOC OST)
Robert Rich: “Supplication”
Amiina: “Glámur”
06. Protestants
dialogue excerpt from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Les Baxter: “Hong Kong Cable Car”
Daniele Luppi: “Jet Set”
Antonio Carlos Jobim: “Favela”
Martin Denny: “Mau Mau”
07. Nixon
spoken excerpts from President Richard M. Nixon (on the end of the Vietnam War, on the Watergate tapes, and on his resignation)
David Lynch: “Rabbits Theme” (Inland Empire OST)
Jon Brion: “Healthy Choice” (Punch-Drunk Love OST)
W. Carlos/R. Elkind: “Theme fr. The Shining” (The Shining OST)
The Dust Brothers: “Hessel, Raymond K.” (Fight Club OST)
The Dust Brothers: “Commissioner Castration” (Fight Club OST)
J.G. Thirlwell: “Thunder-Bro” (The Venture Brothers OST)
The Dust Brothers: “Who is Tyler Durden?” (Fight Club OST)
John Williams: “The Imperial March” (The Empire Strikes Back OST)
08. The Conqueror Worm
Ken Nordine: “The Conqueror Worm”
Biosphere: “Rotation”
Biosphere: “Ancient Campfire”
Biosphere: “Moistened and Dried”
09. Triumphal
excerpt from a Joe Frank radio program
Sigur Rós: “Untitled 3”
10. Sonnets
Helen Vendler reading William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30
and an excerpt from Sonnet 146
Harold Budd: “Bell Tower”
John Foxx: “Luminous and Gone”
Brian Eno: “Under Stars”
11. Jean-Paul
excerpt from a Joe Frank radio program
Daniele Luppi: “Jet Set”
Les Baxter: “The Ancient Galleon”
Martin Denny: “Tune from Rangoon”
12. Hooligans
standup by Bill Hicks
The Dust Brothers: “Jack’s Smirking Revenge” (Fight Club OST)
13. The Female
excerpts from the educational film Sexual Pleasures
Daniele Luppi: “Fashion Party”
J.G. Thirlwell: “Spag” (The Venture Brothers OST)
Daniele Luppi: “Nightclub”
The Beatles: “Flying”
Sean O’Riada: “Women of Ireland” (Barry Lyndon OST)
Sven Libaek: “Shark Attack Theme” (T.L.A.w Steve Zissou OST)
Antonio Carlos Jobim: “Desafinado”
April March: “Mon Petit Cowboy”
Martin Denny: “Bali Ha’i”
Les Baxter: “Pool of Love”
14. Submarine Voyage
spoken voiceover from the Disneyland ride "Submarine Voyage"
Les Baxter: "Busy Port"
Les Baxter: "Sunken City"
Isan: "Autolung"
In Dark Trees: "The Aquarium"
Bill Evans Trio: “Gloria’s Step (take 2)”
Aphex Twin: “Blur”
Les Baxter: “Tahiti: A Summer Night at Sea”
Les Baxter: “Taboo”
Martin Denny: “The Enchanted Sea”
15. Autumn
reading of the first half of Charles Baudelaire’s “Chant l’Automne”
Harold Budd: “The Room”
Mark Mothersbaugh: “Rachel Evans Tenenbaum (1965-2000)”
(The Royal Tenenbaums OST)
Andy Partridge / Harold Budd: “Great Valley of Gongs”
John Foxx: “Stillness and Wonder”
Brian Eno: “1/2”
Eluvium: “Area 41”
plus
Patton Oswalt recreating the open mic set of “Dr. Pepper”
The Field: “I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet”
