Benge - "Shadow - The Rest Of Light"
Dave Bessell - "All Is Now"
Bluetech - "Broken Prisms Still Refract Light"
Lyonel Bauchet - "A Perfect Day For Uncertainty"
Robert Rich - "Ornament Drift"
Parallel Worlds - "Some Space"
Ian Boddy - "Small World"
Polypores - "Viridescence"
Markus Reuter - "Albatross"
Field Lines Cartographer - "Sea Of Grass"
Scanner - "Now There Was Nowhere"
Chris Carter - "Consonance"
Bernhard Wostheinrich - "On The Cusp Of Lucid Dreaming"
Radio Massacre International - "Flying Colours"
Surface 10 - "Psyche Dio"
Nigel Mullaney - "There Is No Dark"
Review: Second time around for DiN Records' 25th anniversary compilation, which lands on CD for a second time - in limited numbers, of course - with an inverted cover design. The set itself is superb, with founder (and regular musical contributor) Ian Boddy inviting artists who have released on the label to contribute new, previously unreleased works. Rooted in ambient, IDM and gentle electronica, the 20-track set simply oozes quality from start to finish. Highlights come thick and fast, from the bubbling electronics and lilting pedal steel motifs of Erik Wollo's 'Emergence' and the sparkling, toe-tapping shuffle of D'Voxx's 'Vila Madalena', to the ghostly beauty of 'Now There Was Nowhere' by Scanner, the psychedelic ambient exotica of Chris Carter's 'Consonance', and the spaced-out ambient jazz of Nigel Mullaney's 'There Is No Dark'.
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