Various – BiP-HOp Generation [v.3] compilation CD

Various – BiP-HOp Generation [v.3] compilation CD

"This is definitely the best installment yet in the Bip-hop Generation series. V. 3 feels more like an album than a loose collection of unrelated tracks.

Neotropic starts the compilation off with two tracks that remind me of Future Sound of
London’s ISDN. Bovine Life follows with four short tracks, clunky noodlings on an eighties keyboard.  Ardtalnaig is the best of the lot with its deep and provocative metallic beat. I
hadn’t previously understood what’s so great about Pimmon, but the dark atmosphere conjured up by the swarming loops in two of his three tracks here does have that something. French artist Zonk’t delivers the most impressive track on the CD, a 14 minute epic journey that could be the life story of an instectoid robot, with its rambling bass loop like the beating of some alien heart.  Atau Tanaka continues with the same kind of stumbling bassline, it complements sweeping white noise and high-pitched squeaks. Completing this musical tour around the world is russian Novel 23, who delivers two impressive tracks of classic,  Beaumont Hannant-esque electronic listening music as well as the annoyingly up-tempo last track. Ah well, all can’t be perfection." - Igloo Magazine

Track Listing:

1. Neotropic – My Head May Be Small, But My Heart Is Bigger Than Yours
2. Neotropic – High Fibre
3. Bovine Life – A Local Magnetic Anomaly
4. Bovine Life – Ardeonaig
5. Bovine Life – Ardtalnaig
6. Bovine Life – Cabin Fever
7. Pimmon – When Heddon Falls
8. Pimmon – Twilled 
9. Pimmon – Matthew Flinders
10. Zonk't – Artificially Amplified Raindrop Deepest Thoughts For Sale
11. Atau Tanaka – Bondage_2 
12. Atau Tanaka – Sv_vs
13. Novel 23 – N & R Theme
14. Novel 23 – There... Don't Know Where
15. Novel 23 – Leia's Charm