Tom Middleton is focused on the future in many ways. His new alias GCOM is an all-new, 21stcentury redesign of his original Global Communication concept and collaboration with MarkPritchard.

The new album E2-XO is some of the most advanced music he has ever made, both in soundand concept. signifying a technological, creative and philosophical evolution into the new era;from planetary communication and understanding to Galactic Communication.

A decade in the making, inspired by themes surrounding anthropocene humankind’s impact onclimate, what we’re doing about it, conscious AI, and the acceleration for interplanetary travelbeyond the Moon, to Mars, and eventually intergalactic in search of potentially habitableexoplanets, the story of the hunt for Earth 2.0.

As he continues to expand his sonic horizons, Tom has been concurrently exploring visionaryapplications of astrophysics, AI, cosmology, cube-sats and rocket science, alongside moreesoteric ideas about the nature of the Universe and the human condition.

E2-XO is an audio movie, a space opera, a psychic investigation of the human mind in space. Itis a fully immersive experience, with all the dynamics that such an imagination-stretching voyageimplies. Listeners will hear echoes of Tom’s whole creative life; from his childhood absorbingVangelis and Tomita, through the white heat of discovery alongside Richard D James, MatthewHerbert and friends, right through to his collaborations with technological innovators today andhis current research into neuroscience and sound design. E2-XO acknowledges the past, butmake no mistake whatsoever: This is the future...

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  • 1. Noctis Ultimus (91 Mix)
  • 2. Xo Transmission #1
  • 3. Anthropocene
  • 4. Ocean Dreams
  • 5. The Last Rains
  • 6. Starship Launch

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  • 1. Noctis Ultimus
  • 2. Beyond the Singularity
  • 3. Helix Nebula
  • 4. Noctis Reprise (For Qebrus)
  • 5. Xo 1 (Luyten B)
  • 6. Xo 2 (Kapteyn B)
  • 7. Xo Transmission #2

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  • 1. Xo 4 (Wolf 1061c)
  • 2. Xo 6 (Lhs1723 B)
  • 3. Xo Transmission #3
  • 4. Planet B Awakening
  • 5. Xo 7 (Teegarden B)
  • 6. Midnight Shore
  • 7. Beyond the Milky Way