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SFT's disc-opening "Hole Entry" (0:29) is a brief spoken statement amid quietly isolating resonance. With stirring strings and ringing bells, Future Pilot A.K.A. Vs Two Lone Swordsmen throw wide "The Gates to Film City" (7:25)... rousing cinematic soundscenes provide a grand stage for strutting bass and beats to enter.
Several tracks are similarly impressive, though in cool jazz-electronic crossbreeds... particularly dream-lounge "Sway" from Vertical Cat, standup-bass-driven "Wells World" by Solo and the plucky "Guanxi" of Scanner vs DJ Spooky.
Rimbaud's own scannerfunk persona interweaves dense slowly-rippling layers of warm chords in "Cosy Veneer", speckled with sparse pips of static then overtaken by more-energetic emissions.
Softer moments include
David Abir/Infant Reader's phantasmal orchestral gaseousness of
"Lesson One: Movement A, Study 33 (excerpt)" which gains in substance as it develops and Ashley Wales' tonally contoured puffs of "landscape" which meets all criteria for "ambient" and "music". Unexpected rap (and more) stylings emerge with funky/creepy "Mirror Image" from Dstar with m.c Stainless Steele.
Other artists in the 14 tracks include Jeef Noon & David Toop, Stephen Vitiello, Sukyaneer and Future Pilot A.K.A Vs kim Fowley.
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