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ATOI - Mystery School bookends the tracks on this comp with brief pieces, beginning with "Devotion (intro)" which segues into the swirling essence of "l'ivresse des profondeurs" by
Jaïa; synth bleeps and phantasmal vocal drifts twirl in kaleidoscopic patterns, gradually picking up light percussive accents. Asura (whose Vincent Villius mixes the entire project) sets his "Amber rain" (7:39) afloat on choral waves, sputtering synth sequences, radio voices and tribalized rhythms.
By the time Toires' somewhat middle-eastern-flavored "Lâalam" slides into earshot, the now-trancier beats are regularly thumping amid synth arpeggioes and atmospheric drifts.
Hol Baumann gives "Another" a dose of electric energy into its angelic cloudstreams and old-school keyboard-noodling. Hip-hoppier rhythms flavor
"Outlined surfaces by " Solar Fields, while electro-funk elements blend with synth-ethereal qualities.
Entrancing ethno-blends and bouncy bass imbue
Chi-A.D's "Slide (limited version)" with a rubbery groove. Whorling indigenous flutesounds from
Aes Dana simmer into the hovering drones of "Skyclad (high frequencies version)"; radio voices, birdy chirps and gradually-increasing percussion and synth bring even more energies to play. Eagle cries and whispers are "In the sky", drifting over the shifting sands and primitively pounding drumskins of Mystical Sun.
Inerlaced with fluty spirals, dense-though-shimmering fogbanks flow beatlessly through
Craig Padilla's tuneful washes of sound, "Beyond Beta (original mix)". Timothy Leary occasionally speaks into the prettily warbling, piano-driven soundspaces of True Frequencies' "New Indigenous Religion" which picks up a low-tempo bass and beat.
ATOI's "Devotion (extract)" (1:14) closes the disc in flatly streaming hues of speech-tinted resonance.
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