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310's "Nod" (8:09) opens with a dense, though dream-like, swirl of beats, fluttering electrons, neo-ethno adornments and sound sources aplenty.
beige spreads "The Rhythm! The Message?" through this beat-driven, vocally interjected, dancefloor-ready mix.
Resonantly lilting piano notes climb up and down through the subtly wafting rhythm of "Morino Gakudan" by Susumu Yokota.
Eardrum's energetic "Swarm" pounds with islandic drumbeats, blaringly jazzy inflections, wild e-distortions and assorted other aural occurences. 310 reappears with "Jet Pack Time", a buzzing, surging, echoey electrotrip.
"The Sonar Song" by The Sons of Silence is quite the little fun-time ditty... a sassily buoyant samba number with cheesy keys, barking dogs, hazy xylo-tones and a special "boink-boink". Four Tet's soft bell-like swirls and glitchy e-haze are counterpointed by skillfully placed beatronics in "Cload".
Hold on to your head... bass, xlyo and trumpet give a moodily regional zest to "El Mariachi Loco (The Siesta)" (2:14), a Mexicana-flavored (though unfortunately brief) preview of A Small Good Thing's upcoming Slim Westerns II... I'm giddy!!
Gorodisch offers a relatively "mature" breed of electronica with "Omaha"; a bit more down-tempo than most if its counterparts, it's alive with slithery cymbalism, a grooving bass and occasional string sections... very nice!
Backed by odd ruffling noises, Richard Thomas' lo-fi "Pienso Que" sounds like a ukelele/organ jam session with an inebriated trumpeter.
"As Usual" wins one for the Gripper with a dreamy, electro-torch song, entwining female vocals with rousingly sultry bass'n'beats.
Stick around for the amusing poke at Fatboy Slim which appears as a hidden track following the closing track (a second piece from Susumu Yokota).
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