VARIOUS – Headz Abstract Musical Science

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Be aware, in same cases pictures display here isn’t the same as the actually product. May be is a promo.

This is the album that put Mo’ Wax over the top and made Mo’ Wax a household name in the ambient/IDM communities as well. If you were paying attention, you already had eight of these tracks, so that’s a kind of letdown. But as for the new stuff, some of the newcomers are a little bland, but Palmskin delivers, going with a nice jazzy/electronic shuffle into a high speed almost junglistic pace at the end. The new Nightmares on Wax stuff is great, really relaxed dubby stuff, a taster for their forthcoming album “Smoker’s Delight”. The new RPM and Howie B. is good, as expected. The Olde Scottish track is really fresh sounding, with mostly conventional instruments, like real drums, with DJ Krush‘s scratching. And it’s nice to have the alternate version of In Flux, which mainly cuts out most of the vocal samples and works in a different part during the “interludes”. Of course there’s Tranquility Bass, which is a little out of place here, but still good, and the amazing Kool and the Gang – sampling “Lowride” by Autechre, snagged off the Incunabula LP. Overall, not 100% gold, but it’s still pretty good, and in the future we’ll look back and see it as a compilation that defined its time.