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Interestingly, some of the artists were familiar with Gentle Giant's original works, while others had no previous experience at all. As a listener in the latter category, I wonder how differently this might sound to someone more well-versed with the source sounds, though I'm quite sure they've been rather radically reworked overall...
Colongib spews out busy, mutant jazzforms with "Agent Tingle"
Jack Schaefer's lively "Here" ripples as energetic quirkpop. With "Steppin On The Green Giant", Legion of Green Men capture the prog spirit and inject it with a freshness of their own.
Kid606's " Over and Under (TNK) " (8:34) is threaded with spacy effects and backed by a throbbing beat.
Cavernous drones, stuttering drumbeats, jazzy basslines and rollicking guitar say "In My Way Did I Use You" according to Under The Big Tree. Chuck Miller's chaotic "1K Mix" gets pretty overbearing with hyperactively assaultive grunginess. Twittering electrons, e-beats and a considerable noise factor weave through "Impasto Beard" by Phthalocyanine, as does a more moody development. Electric Company's "Tangle Tinge" begins as a more electronic/minimal track, then becomes noisier and more overtly musical, through still thoroughly disjointed... one of my favorite tracks actually.
Dntel renders "Holmes' where the heart is" as a blend of the soft-and-smooth with the harsh-and-beaty, becoming more faint and buzzy. Sweet!
With "MMT8 Rearrangement", Lexaunculpt unleashes an all-out transmogrification ("rearrangement" is an understatement!) which reduces the sounds into oddly arranged, micro-xylophonic patterings and a continually changing lineup of freaky buzzer noises. eM's bleep-and-bass "Gently Gigantic" (gotta love that title!) becomes a microjazzfunk organ riff laced with mechatribal percussion and spooky atmospherics. Thermal's work is more subdued, though still swirling with strange musical energies; his "Gengi Monogatari" wafts in a lovely murk from which assorted tantalizingly spectral entities emerge. Blectum From Blechdom closes the proceedings with "Rumpfed Runyon (excerpt)", a gritty miasma which emits fractured sitar sounds amongst the digital shrapnel.
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