Dead Vent 7 is the first full length album by

Single Cell Orchestra Single Cell Orchestra is the performing name of Miguel Angelo Fierro, a San Francisco-born musician who has worked for many years in the electronic music scene. His first successful single was "Transmit Liberation", an underground ambient music hit ...

. It was released in 1995 on Reflective Records. This album closely resembles a

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, with a variety of actors voicing the roles of a deep-space military crew involved in an Alien-like

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. This tale of spaceships, an unseen enemy, and the participants' eventual demise features narration by Miguel A. Fierro and his friends, as well as Fierro's synthesizer-based bleeps, drones, and rhythms.

Track listing

#"The Portal" #"Approaching DSS-723" #"Comsat" #"Dimea Battlestation" #"Science Officer Porter to Team Recon" #"Silo Master Control" #"Access Seraphim Flight Log"

Plot

In the distant future, a military team is sent to investigate the disappearance of a Dead Vent 7 operative in a vessel that has been overrun by an alien presence.

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* {{Authority control 1995 debut albums Ambient techno albums Single Cell Orchestra albums