�Station� offers a kind of closure to previous compilations conceived by Ai , it�s not so much a concept album, more of an attitude - station as a place leading somewhere new, motion and stasis, at once urban and yet suggesting other destinations, new locations. A truly international base of artists bless each track with unique musical criteria and direction - from urban mind funk through electro to purest pop. From the new names on board head straight for Sinner DC�s awesome �Alice�, totally f**king awesome hybrid music that utilises the vocoders of Boards of Canada with a malladjusted, blue-lined squash of downtempo electroid beats and a totally unusual layering of effects. Mesmerising stuff.

Traject�s �Laroche and Dolson�, meanwhile, delivers icy icelandic precision to clanking machinery and future electronics, slow motion basslines bringing to mind robotic malfunction in that distinct glacial way. The detuned melodies of �Welk� from Steve Hyland�s Normal and Praveen's �Small Clues� deliver evidence of a generation reared on the shamanic pastoralism of the Boards of Canada, while Yellotone�s Simon Harding drops the Channel One influenced digital steppa Dubbly More, and Michael Manning runs it down with some Bola-esque percussive voodoo.

Italy�s Tin-Tole-Lata blur the divide between electronic and acoustic with aplomb, while Intonamori provides an unguent, welcoming lullaby for the synapses, and Ascoltare and Sofalofa achieve great things with chiming melodic vibes and deep acoustic drums, processed in their own inimitable style. Its left to Ai�s own puerto rican - miami connection, Chris Roman�s 214 project to bring the boom to this album - reared on classic bass, and it really shows, �From The Outside� asks listeners to submit to the get on down and party with a dose of classic Detroit inflection. Station provides a sense of the diversity this critically lauded label has made its watchword, never content with mere stasis - looking ahead for the next destination with what may be termed wanderlust. A concentrated dose of the right stuff." [boomkat]