Mosaic Volume I

Various Artists
General | Feb 2011

Reviews

Rasmus Rygaard
Reviewed 2011-03-06
Compilation from Exit Records with a solid serving of dubstep, drum’n’bass and some jungle-ish elements. Expect plenty of bass and the newest sounds from the likes of Skream, Scuba, Instra:Mental, dBridge, and Autonomic. Very little wobble, if you’re into that kind of stuff, but plenty of deeeep bass to keep Studio A rattling.
FCC: Clean
Try: Disc 1: 1, 5, 10 Disc 2: 6, 1, 9, 4

Disc 1:
1) * 4:46 Slow, swinging bass and pads. Dramatic female vocalizing.
2) 6:50 Laid-back, loungy feel. Dusty bass sounds and clicks.
3) 4:39 Half-tempo drum’n’bass with retro gritty synth
4) 6:48 Heavy kick with a laidback feel and horn-synths.
5) * 5:23 Skipping d’n’b with simple, melodic theme.
6) 5:23 Grainy, repetitive synth melody. Slow-burning drums.
7) 5:19 Slow, circular. Western-ish occasional guitar strumming
8) 7:26 Starts out slowly pounding. Warped and haunting
9) 4:54 Shy d’n’b kicks in after about a minute. More haunting stuff
10) * 4:36 Weird, robotic stuff in the background. Complicated texture.
11) 8:22 80s-teinted bass and keys soundscape

Disc 2
1) * 5:29 Strong, crunchy drums. Primal drive with soundtrack-ish vibes
2) 5:31 Fragmented feel. Reverb-drenched percussion, rumbling bass. Jungly. Squeaky vocals
3) 6:50 Slow, ambient feel. Lots of rumbling behind the airtight percussion.
4) * 4:12 Raw, gritty and slow dubstep. Trippy, delayed synth break.
5) 6:40 Industrial feel, monstrous and metallic. Gets even more haunting with rushing hi-hats.
6) * 5:24 Fast, schizophrenic Skream track. Percussion rushing while the bass is pumping along underneath.
7) 8:28 Fast, minimalistic. Smooth bass pattern, some noise samples.
8) 5:20 Wobbly dubstep-elements on a drum’n’bass foundation
9) * 6:52 Long intro leads to sharp, funky bass experiments. Hectic.
10) 5:41 Grainy bass, washed out synths and hi-hats. Some EQ tweaks
11) 5:38 Staccato rhythm, strangely manipulated vocals. Unlike anything else on the compilation

Recent airplay

In_2
lost and found — May 08, 2011
Chasm
Scene 3
lost and found — Apr 24, 2011
Open Arms
Panorama Barbeque — Apr 20, 2011
Scene 3
lost and found — Apr 17, 2011
City Section
Panorama Barbeque — Apr 13, 2011

Charting

2011-03-06 — 2011-05-08 Electronic
Week EndingAirplays
May 1 2
Apr 24 2
Apr 17 2
Apr 10 2
Apr 3 1
Mar 27 3
Mar 20 6
Mar 13 3

Track listing

1. In_2
2. Pushed
3. Fading
4. Forgot What I Needed To Forget
5. Open Arms
6. Rendezvous
7. Nu Este Roz
8. Decayed
9. Splinter
10. Modular Concepts
11. Invisible Cities
12. City Section
13. Time
14. Stepping Stones
15. Scene 3
16. Another World
17. Motorway
18. Further Searching
19. Chasm
20. Essence Of Time
21. Observation Point
22. Vertigo