Disk 1:
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1. Solypsis: Great balance of sounds. Not too clever for its own good. Tough and reserved all at once.
2. Peter Z: Nice relaxed thing. Neat digital trills elevate this beyond walk-in-the-park introspection.
3. Edenflux: Gutsy but dance friendly. Good use of vocals. Something to get lost in on the arse end of a drug bender.
4. Cats Against The Bomb: Gritty and real. Are we a panicked eurotrash outfit? No we are hybrid Japanese punks who lost our distortion pedals at the airport. My name's Billy, not silly.
5. Hard Off/Alan Titmash - This is great! Like Stanley Clarke and a bunch of prog-rock hard heads playing a private party inside a tabletop version of Tron. But someone forgot to tell them a team of drunken bass drums had come along to jam and they found CATB's distortion pedals.
6. Broads From ffice:smarttags" / onload='javascript:showImageWidth(this,600,600)' class='AutoImageWidthTopic' style='cursor:poionter'>Canada: ?Grandma! Sally put the radio in the fish tank again'.
7. Harbour: When you pull a radio out of a fish tank and hang it over an open fire to dry, something like this happens. Some interesting sounds in that fire.
8. iivix: I keep expecting Geddy Lee to kick in, but Phil will do. Something about that synth line is very familiar but I can't place it.
9. Barbwire Handjob: There ARE still beatniks out there after all. They still have there bongos handy too.
10. Christopher Jion: Feedback will always have intensity on its side. Someone tell the boss the machine has sprung a leak.
11. DIH and friends: Time stretch makes jokes wobbly.
12. H-Kon: I hear gabber kick and toy-drum loop-a-rama but the intelligent break bit, I missed.
13. Dave Noyze: Great, quirky misappropriation of Men At Work standard. Goes to lots of unexpected places.
14. IIkae: What game am I playing? Whatever it is it's retro', Yo!
15. Moo Moo Cow Cow: Skipping hats, march along to that one striking synth note that kills anything that dares share it's space; A bold sound.
16. Turbo Lesbo: It's noisy. I've always wondered what a vibrator would sound like if it was leaking battery acid inside you.
17. UK Dragon: I told you never to take me to this club again. I'm gonna go do some coke off the urinal.
18. Alien Hand: Nice and "mongrel" until the midpoint breakdown. Comes back, after a breath or two, with some slutty sidekicks. (There is a lot of creepy-old-man vocal work on this comp).
19. Perp: More classy IDMish stuff. Thankfully this doesn't sound derivative, as much of this fare seems to.
20. Wyatt Gurp: Interesting cinematic sounding intro. Sometimes I wonder if glitches in beat-work add to a track or relegate it to confused experiments. The jury is out.
21. Shanks Pony: I think Timbaland are getting raped by freak-show carnies. The pinhead kids get a bit lost at times. Love the mood.
22. Sleeplessness: Nice bit of meditation inside your favourite air-conditioning crawlspace.
23. Protman: Sleepy gay cowboys dance like Oompa-Loompa's around the campfire as God babbles unintelligibly overhead. (bet you never expected a critique quite like that, eh?)
24. Hooray: Hooray for Hooray! The first disk we go four-on-the-floor purism. This time we get the warm drone of metal making love songs for a near-by windsock: fantastic.
Disk 2:
1. Idiot Lust: ???
2. Kid Time CD ROM Adventures: Slick and scuzzy beats. Great bass stabs and use of bass in general. I like this guy!
3. Datarapist: If I was a girl I would dance to it. It doesn't scare me like mum said it should.
4. Cock ESP: Chance meeting with a friend who's children incidentally stab you in the face ten times.
5. Big In Albania: Very likeable cut-and-paste job. Bit tricky to understand some of the lyrical gags in parts. Feels good'n'fun to me though.
6. Solypsis: I though this guy was a strict noise junky. This is clever and well weighted beatsmithing. Dare I say IDM? Ye Gods!
7. Anne Tandek: What I expected Solypsis's track to sound like; dense bristling noise.
8. Municipal: Checked it out. Also checked Reason out...
9. Oscillatorial Binnage: Matmos and Melt Banana have sex on morphine.
10. Sex Is For Parents: Disparate components somehow meet up and take a stroll towards and ending.
11. Stretch MC's: Laconic, moody number goes glitch-silly for a bit then reminds itself where it was going.
12. Mixomatosis: I don't give a fuck, heh; no... mashup's are employing longer and longer untouch samples these days. But stealing is pretty punk innit? This could potentially have been a Titties track too.
13. Harbour: Well produced atmospheric number builds evenly towards an ending that makes it seem like half of a good track.
14. Grideye: Even more subdued atmosphere; melancholy cloud formations.
15: M.A.N: Here come the cardboard planes punctuated against the lingering cloud formations of the previous track.
16. Oscillatorial Binnage: Aaaarrrggghhh... Play this to your mother when she has a hangover. Life is all about experience.
17. Raw Gash: Huge fun! Cutie gets killed and resurrected in the form of a demented DJ killer in legwarmers. I love it!
18. Big In Albania: Girls aren't likely to dance to this, which for my money, means a better track... yes I like to watch girls dancing, I don't know???
19. Jansky Noise: Spastic skewed metal for us hungry children. Fuck it up for your love.
20. Fuckrewindz: Bombaclat beats do what they done do.
21. 7U?: A sentimental moment of reflection and slow-burning nausea. Like giving birth through your mouth; all joy.
22. Junkshop Coyote vs Fast Lady: You know they are evil and probably didn't take singing lessons but you want to hold them tight and breastfeed them.
23. UK Dragon: Kids play computer games way too much and look what happens to them mum! They think in binary code, and they think out-loud.
24. Datarapist: If I had a sex-tourism experience like this I'd think my conscience had eaten my sense of reason.
25. DIH: It's clear we have arrived at the chin stroking section of this release.
26. Christopher Jion: Nicely overridden polyrhythmic exercise.
27. Anti Kati: A man of style and disposable amen income, hones his salsacore fixation with aplomb.
28. Mixomatosis: Maybe gets a spot on Sloppy Seconds comp' too? (extended version at 4 sec's)
29. Kid Time CD ROM Adventures: More skilful beat-work, neat production, measured arrangement, and my only gripe is it's too short.
30. DJ Rainbow Ejaculation: This is what NSW's sounds like when the racial tension has a nap and all the white supremacists go out looking for Asian prostitutes; bad dirty fun in other words.
31. Toecutter: There is about two seconds of generic Reason loop in this track. I think that is as much as you really ever need, and only for the sake of irony. If life is so cheap then maybe we should kill for our toilet paper whenever we have a significant movement?
Sorry to anyone who doesn't like my appraisal; I am a hack critic and only have bad taste to go on.
