The title of the album was intended to correspond to the record's total running time in minutes and seconds, though the actual runtime is shorter. Likewise, each track on the album is correspondingly titled after its respective length. The duo has stated in the sleeve notes that this was intended to avoid implying any specific meaning to the music, thus leaving the listener completely free to interpret the music according to their own imagination. The song "14:31" was originally released on The Cyberdon EP by Mystic Institute (Paul Kent and Mark Pritchard) under the title of "Ob-Selon Mi-Nos (Re-Painted by Global Communication)"; in the liner notes, "ob - selon mi - nos" is printed in small letters overtop of "14:31". On vinyl, "0:54" appeared after "5:23".
In 2005, the album was reissued with a bonus disc featuring singles released before and after the album, as well as enhanced packaging and new liner notes from the group and notable fans of the album. Notably, the bonus tracks are more in the vein of house and jazz-influenced techno than the more ambient, mostly beatless album. The songs "Incidental Harmony" and "Sublime Creation", included on this re-issue, originally appeared as a bonus 12" single given away with original pressings of 76:14 on vinyl.
76:14 is featured in The Guardian's1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die list, where it is described as an "unfathomably beautiful out-of-time masterpiece."[12] In 1996, Mixmag ranked the album at number 11 in its list of the "Best Dance Albums of All Time".[13]
The track "14:31" was performed live in 2007 with a vocal chorus, and Tom Middleton on piano, and released as "Lament" on Tom Middleton's Excursions EP (2009).
The track "5:23" is included in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV and appears on the soundtrack album The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV. In the digital release it is listed as "Maiden Voyage". This track is very similar to, but does not credit, the song "Love on a Real Train (Risky Business)" by Tangerine Dream from the Risky Business soundtrack. They had remixed the song for a then upcoming Tangerine Dream remix album but had their effort rejected so released it as 5'23 instead.
The track "9:39" uses a sound clip from the movie THX-1138byGeorge Lucas, and is referred to as both "9:37" and "9:39" on the CD packaging.
^"Global Communication: 76:14". Mojo. 2005. p. 120. [A]nchored by between-song sampled voices and other familiar sound effects, it's a meditative gem of Radox-bath warmth and vast inter-stellar expanse.
^"Global Communication: 76:14". NME. 16 July 1994. p. 38.
^"Global Communication: 76:14". Q. 2005. p. 120. Early 90s ambient bliss, handcrafted in Somerset...
^"Global Communication: 76:14". Uncut. 2005. p. 128. A genre landmark, there's a timelessness about much that's here...
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