Rotator - "An Introduction To Intention" (3:45)
Letters From Mouse - "Yesterday's Sun" (2:58)
Cub/Cub - "Sustainer" (2:35)
Orbury Common - "The Scouring Of The White Horse" (2:54)
Onepointwo - "Throbbing Motor Lifeforms" (3:41)
Giants Of Discovery - "Heralding The Dawn" (4:24)
Wonderful Beasts - "Sage" (2:43)
Dogs Versus Shadows - "And They Named Him When The Sun Stands Still" (3:52)
Counter Silence - "All Of Us, Under The Sun" (3:03)
Transient Visitor - "Midsummer Men" (3:27)
Simon Klee - "The Sun-Stone" (3:38)
Rupert Lally - "First Rays Of The Summer Sun" (3:28)
Review: It's arriving a little late, given the Summer Solstice was late-June, but when an electronic compilation is as strong as this you can forgive the little things. Fittingly, this is a very UK sounding affair, with some tracks almost feeling like Bob Moog has walked into a maypole dance in some strange corner of the British Isles where detectives go missing. On the whole, though, things are much deeper and cosmic, which is where the whole celestial link clearly comes from.
To call it all ambient would be pretty reductive, but the label is useful for much of what's here. In actual fact the collection spans strange downtempo broken beats ('And They Named Him When The Sun Stands Still'), building grooves ('Throbbing Motor Lifeforms'), hypnotic drone ('All of Us Under The Sun') and atmospheric ethereality ('Heralding the Dawn').
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