Basil Hardhaus - "Breezin'" (Compiled By Benjamin Frohlich) (4:35)
The Abstract Eye - "I Feel It In My Forehead" (5:34)
Jex Opolis - "Mt Belzoni" (4:28)
Tee Mango - "Into The Wild" (8:37)
Claude Rodap - "Hiwa" (3:23)
Jose Padilla - "Lollipop" (I:Cube Casiotone reprise mix) (4:54)
David Goldberg - "Part Bells" (Benjamin Frohlich remix) (7:05)
Marvin Horsch - "Pace" (5:51)
Matt O’Brien - "Flourish" (5:58)
Aubrey - "Dot 3" (Russ Gabriel remix) (7:00)
Marcellus Pittman - "A Mix" (7:38)
Move D - "Beyond The Machine" (Compiled By Tom Bioly) (5:24)
Pierre Bastien - "Snide Dins" (2:48)
Vanishing Twin - "Under The Water" (2:38)
Yussef Kamaal - "Ayla" (0:47)
Roman Flugel - "Song With Blue" (6:24)
Luke Abbott - "Dumb" (1:41)
Machine Woman - "I Can Mend Your Broken Heart" (Kassem Mosse remix) (10:18)
New Jackson - "Let The Freak Come Out At Night" (5:50)
Albinos - "Palazzo" (4:32)
The Stowaway - "A Suspicious Passenger" (5:29)
Isolee - "In Our Country" (6:55)
TB - "Unskinny Dub" (6:18)
Slowdive - "Sugar For The Pill" (Avalon Emerson Gilded Escalation) (9:15)
Cobblestone Jazz - "Midnight Sun" (6:17)
Sirconical - "Jambon Mama" (4:35)
Review: It's all change on the 14th edition of Compost's long-running Future Sounds of Jazz series, with the baton being passed to two new curators: Permanent Vacation bosses Benjamin Frolich and Tom Bioly. It was perhaps a wise move, because the duo - compiling a side each - have taken a much more liberal approach to "jazz" as a concept. The result is a hugely entertaining two-disc trawl that variously takes in immaculate deep house (Isolee, Marcellus Pittman), inspired electronica (The Abstract Eye), acid-flecked jazz-funk/house fusion (Tee Mango), hypnotic techno and spacey tech-house (Matt O'Brien, Aubrey, Herzel), synth-Balearica (Jex Opolis, I:Cube remixing Jose Padilla), ambient (Move D, Luke Abbot) and, of course, proper contemporary jazz (Yusuf Kamaal, Roman Flugel).
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