VARIOUS ARTISTS - 25 YEARS OF DiN [2CD]

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: DIN86
Barcode: 5028423240860 
Release Date: 19 Jul 2024
Genre: Electronic

Limited to 555 copies Digipak Double CD with 8 page booklet
 
All tracks unavailable anywhere else
 
142 minutes of new unreleased tracks from the likes of Polypores, Field Lines Cartographer, Ian Boddy, Scanner, Benge, Chris Carter and more
 
This is certainly a milestone release for the DiN label as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. Needless to say, this is quite an achievement for a niche, independent label that has relentlessly ploughed its own path for quarter of a century. Its catalogue and release schedule has been carefully curated over all these years by label boss Ian Boddy, who launched the imprint way back in the spring of 1999. It is perhaps a reflection of his own musical identity which, whilst grounded in the Berlin School of the 1970s, has continued to evolve and grow to cover ever widening areas of electronic music, where sub-genres can be mixed and matched at will.
 
There have been plenty of compilation albums released on the DiN label in the past, most notably the iNDEX sampler albums, of which there have been eight to date. These cover tracks from existing albums and are certainly a great showcase for the label.
 
However, this double album is different, in that Boddy invited the majority of the musicians who have previously been released on the main DiN catalogue to compose new pieces. Spread across two discs, this amounts to 142 minutes of sublime, varied and thoroughly original music. Ranging from beautifully ambient to dark brooding soundscapes, via cinematic electronica through to old school Berlin School sequencer workouts, “25 Years of DiN” is a wonderful distillation of the DiN label.
 
Presented in a stunning six panel fold out Digipak double CD package with 8-page booklet featuring an essay by Neil Mason (Moonbuilding), this release is a must-have for collectors of the DiN labels output. 
 
Disc One
 
01 Benge - Shadow - The Rest Of Light   05:06
02 Dave Bessell - All Is Now   08:36   
03 Bluetech - Broken Prisms Still Refract Light   05:39   
04 Erik Wøllo - Emergence   06:56
05 Lyonel Bauchet - A Perfect Day For Uncertainty   07:16
06 Robert Rich - Ornament Drift   05:38
07 d’Voxx - Vila Madalena   06:29   
08 Parallel Worlds - Some Space   06:59   
09 Ian Boddy - Small World   07:07
10 Polypores - Viridescence   07:37
 
Total Time: 67:38
 
Disc Two
 
01 Markus Reuter - Albatross   06:01
02 Field Lines Cartographer - Sea Of Grass  07:53
03 Scanner - Now There Was Nowhere  06:29
04 Chris Carter - Consonance  03:17
05 Bernhard Wöstheinrich - On The Cusp Of Lucid Dreaming  07:02
06 Radio Massacre International - Flying Colours  07:14
07 Surface 10 - Psyche Dio  07:59
08 Nigel Mullaney - There Is No Dark  06:14
09 Node - Rewind  10:08
10 ARC - System Six   11:33
 
Total Time: 74:09

More From This Artist: ARC Benge Bernhard Wöstheinrich Bluetech Chris Carter Dave Bessell d’Voxx Erik Wøllo Field Lines Cartographer Ian Boddy Lyonel Bauchet Markus Reuter Node Parallel Worlds Polypores Radio Massacre International Robert Rich Scanner Surface 10 - Psyche Dio 07:59 08 Nigel Mullaney