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Jazzy urban coolness bolsters the delicate electronics of Manitoba's "Anna and Nina". Snappy drumbeats, soft bass excursions and elastic synthsounds adorn "Unteracherting" by Druckwelle.
Susumu Yokata unfurls the cymbal-tattooed tapestry of droning e-symphonic gorgeousness "Fancy Flavour", bespeckled with sparse piano twinkles and radiowave warbles.
As if flitting and emitting from an overgrown music-box, tinkling piano arpeggios hyperactivate through "Two Movements From 'Symphonies of Wind-Up Instruments'" by Rob Ellis. Rothko's triple bass lineup provides a deep resonant bed upon which lazily luxurious "Suddenly Becomes Light" stretches.
"Neckermann Dub" (1:55) is a crackly cut-n-paste arrangement courtesy of Beige.
With cartoonish tribal flavors, Freeform's "Spandoe" features a quirkily clattering bamboo-xylo sound and bouncy basslines. With much thrashing of cymbals, "Roman Bones" swirls through an atmosphere of twisting choirsounds, spattering snares and impending menace, from Broadway Project.
Angular drones of brass and strings screech through layers of obtuse orchestral hums and kettledrum thumps when Bass Communion performs its avant meanderings of "Quantico". Bird chirps, sporadic string-powered plunks, faraway radiance and nearby ripples become "Air Conditioning" (9:12), a leisurely aural fantasy from Oskar
Other artists include Nacht Plank, 310, Keiron Phelan & David Sheppard, OP:L Bastards, Sore and Steal and B. Fleischmann. Included in the interestingly designed liner notes are each artists' favorite soundtrack composer, director, actor and film (though small white-on-eggshell type is difficult to actually read.)
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