I love this set! It's an excellent overview of what's beautiful and exciting
in ambient.
Here's a track listing:
Disc 1
Terre Thaemlitz - Trucker (KLF-style road trip ambient)
Sub Dub - The Calling (deep dub)
Adham Shaikh - 11:11 Window (Old-school ambient with rumbling bass)
Omicron - Positron (Repeating keyboard patterns over a trippy beat)
Sub Dub - Liquid Mantra (Scrunchy liquid noise)
Facil - Some Place (Repeating keyboard lines with sampled voices)
Adham Shaikh - Spectrum (Long rumbling passages with chirpy noises and
voices)
Human Mesh Dance - Winter Orbit (Good, "traditional" ambient)
Disc 2
Deep Space Network - Eleven Bars (Finally, a "real" beat!)
Mysteries of Science - Chaos Pleasures (A beautifully catchy piano ditty)
Terre Thaemlitz - Meditation Of The Mountain Oyster (Droning, raga-influenced
melodies with tabla rhythms)
Omicron - The Surface Of A Young Planet (Intense Japanese-influenced noise)
Seti - Beacon 05 (Another "traditional" ambient piece)
Facil - 89-16 (A very slow build to a cool beat)
Evolve Now - Ethereum (The only clunker: a new age-y "whoosh" piece)
Seti - Photish (Richard James-type stuff with a spooky melodic line over it)
Mysteries Of Science - In Fevered Dreams She Come To Me (A long, slow build
again.)
If anyone wants to chip in with more technicalreview, I'd love to read it!
-Phil