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A vast and sprawling compilation—many tracks, and many many artists. Without actually reading anything about this release or where it comes from, I popped it on and spent several sessions listening to it and came back amazed at how coherent this compilation is for something that seems like a community effort. We often forget that Autechre, Aphex Twin, Warp Records, and the other prolific masters of our age, do not exist in a vacuum, and that in-fact as much as everyone draws on them for inspiration, they themselves are a part of a larger community which in-turn inspires them. Many of the things we hear in the most popular works have themselves bubbled up slowly through a scene, to later be distilled into their commercial essence. This is a great snapshot of the output of such a community, and while common threads of influence run throughout Applied Sociolinguistics, making it coherent, everyone brings their own style to the table here. The music itself is great, I enjoyed all the tracks, to a greater or lesser degree, in total they seemed to touch on every variation of what I would call modern, progressive IDM music, weaving together a vast array of influences from across the decades. But taken as a whole, as a document of this splinter of the IDM scene, it’s also fascinating to see how each individual artist has brought their own musical leanings to bear. Different schools of thought, from industrial noise experimenters to advanced DSP mathematicians. all come together to form a consistent and spectacular showcase of where we may be going in the future, as a genre. The common thread is sonic exploration, aggressive and dark vibes blended seamlessly with bright optimism, an intense focus on technical sophistication, and trying not to do what’s already been done before.
(Igloo Magazine)
Tracklist
01 - 0N4B — K_ErC_+
02 - Aaron Karnov — Pareidolia
03 - Aevin — Meeting Xantos
04 - Anthropos Mekhane — Mesh_1
05 - Ap Hel — Irrelevance (With Rodney Perez)
06 - c0ma — I See Them Now
07 - Chris Weeks — The Grey Ghost
08 - Drojji — Rid
09 - Durant — Duhka
10 - Nima Ikki - Fuego (Durant Rmx)
11 - Eigenheimer — You Make Me Calm
12 - exm — Chill Session 23A
13 - Abadir - GhEL_Man (Fausto Mercier Rmx)
14 - Fausto Mercier — Doppelgänger
15 - Floating Spirits — Between Lines
16 - Foresense — Incrementality
17 - Franz Rosati — Age Of Intrusion
18 - Fugenn & The White Elephants — Filling Up
19 - Generate — Fracture
20 - Glanko — Grains
21 - Grischa Lichtenberger — 0717_12_lv1_rnd …
22 - GRÜN — 24 01
23 - JFrank — Navigation Simulator
24 - JFrank — The Looking Glass Looks Back
25 - Jon E Alpha — New Era
26 - Kero — Balcochill
27 - Kingbastard — KBOK
28 - LODSB — manic_spacefuckers_freeze2
29 - Maka — Beyond Language 03:08
30 - Marius Chwalek — Meta 03:51
31 - Michael Valentine West — Ice Cream
32 - Min-Y-Llan — Lot-E
33 - Mitoma — Envel Oped
34 - Vortex Count - SC.Type.III (Mitoma Rmx)
35 - Mtch — Prot Sip
36 - Mtch — Slp Repetr
37 - Mtch — VBTorynt2
38 - Nonima - Negative Space (Datassette Rmx)
39 - Nuanae — Hypostatic Abstraction
40 - Qebo — JIC 03:49
41 - Ralp — Prophase
42 - Rand Weiss — by_do05_vect
43 - Rand Weiss — cy_id03_v24-02-03
44 - Roberto Memoli — Wrong Night Sky
45 - Roel Funcken — Manifold Force (+B. Boysen)
46 - Room of Wires — Flux Stator
47 - t.e.s.o. — Outiox_164
48 - Translucere — Slowlight
49 - V. Drakes — Have the courage to shed …
50 - Versafile — Path2f8-1
51 - vic:remasci — Exuviae
52 - Vortex Count — Polyurethane
53 - Weldroid — Unprintable
54 - Wirewound — IPX Connector
55 - wk[es] — Graphitized
56 - XZICD — Arpsychodd
57 - Yaporigami — Scarlet Eye
Format
/ Data DVD (Limited)
/ Digital
Credits
Written & Produced by the respective artists
Mastered by Felix Foerster
Design by Daniel Glaser
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