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Nine tracks by talented an fresh producers, just like nine layers of a birthday cake. The cake base starts with mesmerizing vocals and a lover boy bass line in Schnitthart’s “Die Blume.” Anastasia Zems hits all the right buttons with “A Week Before,” a timeless erotica piece. Her seductive broken beats are in lingerie, leaving you with no option to resist. Tadan’s “Window To Your Soul” is a fine example of super clean electro, shared from a spaceship to a spaceship in the future voyages of humankind. John Patter serves an impeccable oriental-infused dish in “Ealamiun.” Something you’ll hear in Korben Dallas’s taxi one day as he flees from the police of the future. Who else to inject a bit of venom in all of this but WPD’s Jaroška? Dirty as hell, “Revelations” come with sharp blades, shredding all in their way. It’s a type of dance for smashing glass in the club. Fakundo + Ed put an entire TV show in one song. Flirting with Country a bit, then turning the wonky way around the corner, “Макаревич” is fun, brave, and unpredictable. Its sounds are precise. “Your Bird Can Sing,” says Sintaro Fujita, and it better be singing when we arrive at track number seven. This high contrast between spoken word, tension, deadly contemporary beats, and an occasional backspin makes Fujita’s work one of the toughest on the compilation. SUICIDO brings treats for the cassette dirt lovers. Shout, shout, let it all out in “Er En Ti.” Smoke and ashes. Dungeon funk. Clinton Van Arnam generously closes the compilation with a choir chanting something that could be a Tibetan prayer over gentle guitars and a Badalamenti-worthy atmosphere.