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What's a walking beat? Around 105 beats per minute, which is the beat that Howie B, Roger Eno and others dabbled with - and look what they produced. Featuring 17 tunes by 17 artists and mixed with mastery by Paul Gathercole and Bruce Bickerton, 'Walk 105' is a soundtrack that keeps your feet moving and your thoughts ticking.
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Based in sunny Sheffield, Animat are a DJ duo who specialise in downtempo. Hummingbird Highway drifts from theme to theme, providing a laid-back start to Walk 105.
With more of a beat than its predecessor, though still leaning to the ambient side of things, the very aptly named Amble combines strings and beats to great effect and is brought to you by Input Junkie, a music-meister and Londoner.
When not producing and working with artists like Björk, U2 and Tricky, Howie B likes to make a few tunes of his own. Short but sweet Walk About and its funky double bass will keep you on track to your destination.
Mixing vocals, chilled out bongo beats, synths and strings, Maja is brought to you by the Ibiza veteran DJ Phil Mison better known as Cantoma. Perfect for urban walking.
Prog-folk band Five Minute Pop Promo bring you a song called Steve Hawkins, not to be confused with Steven Hawkings, the groundbreaking physicist. With its sun infused vocals and upbeat, erm .. beat this cheerful tune should put a spring in your step even if you're plodding along in a deluge.
If you like drums, only drums, and absolute nothing else then this is the track for you. A drum solo at 105 beats per minute brought to you by Basement Jaxx drummer Tuggy. That's pretty much all there is to say.
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Hailing from New Zealand, Pitch Black are an electronica band, not afraid to experiment with instruments. Mixing country style guitars, Asian drums, a smattering of sitar with a dubby feel this is the perfect accompaniment to a laid-back stroll.
London based duo AGK, short for the Ackers and G Collective, bring you another chilled out number that will keep you cool, calm and collected and walking at exactly the right speed just in case you weren't already.
If you're starting to feel lonely on such a long walk the rhythmic sound of breathing and the prominent footstep-like beat featured in this little ditty should keep you company. If, like the song's title implies, you're suffering from a little thirst, we suggest you take a swig from your re-usable bottle of water.
Alucidnation is not a whole country but actually just one man. A man called Bruce who's been making music for 18 years now. Despite this ambient song's name we would argue that in walking the walk, rather than taking any other type of transport, you are in fact the very opposite of a lazy bastard. Well done.
A slighty more sombre affair, this piano-based piece is the offspring of a collaboration between musical stalwarts Lol Hammond and Roger Eno. A fine offering.
London-based musician Jake Bickerton brings us this more upbeat tune featuring a lovely sample of a gallic-accented tour of Wissant (a coastal resort in Northern France). The next best thing to a beach holiday.
Musician and film-scorer Jon Hopkins gives us the stunning Glasstop. If you're walking in the city it'll make you see the beauty in the concrete jungle and if you're walking in the country, well then it'll just make it even more beautiful!
Electro collective R.O.C. contribute the saxophone and banjo featuring Balloon. And like a helium balloon it will lift your feet and your mood. Perfect.
Another tune with breathy overtones, the appropriately named Walk to Work comes from the MIDI keyboard toting Laura B.
Made with love in Cornwall Blue Dream comes from another dynamic duo; Jez Jekyll and Chris Bagust who together become The Soundbeams.
Another Roger Eno contribution, Appollonius (an ancient Greek philosopher as it happens) is a fittingly relaxing warm down to your walk. You have reached your destination.
