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These Humble Machines
These Humble Machines is a compilation album by American electronic musician BT, composed of edited versions of songs from his album "These Hopeful Machines". Released on April 26, 2011, the album was released with the intention of making the album more accessible for newer listeners while still displaying the same technical prowess found in its predecessor. The album features some radio edits ("Suddenly", "Always") while also liberally using splice editing and fade-outs to edit down songs ("The Emergency
as a single-disc version with shorter tracks, titled "These Humble Machines". In addition, the album would later spawn a double disc remix edition titled "These Re-Imagined Machines", also featured as a "Limited Collector’s Edition Box Set". With great reception from the critics, the album was nominated for the 2011 Grammy Awards under Best Electronic/Dance Album.
Background.
On June 9, 2009, the first part of the single "The Rose of Jericho" was