Nettwerk Records -- Various Artists -- Wild Planet

1. Download - Toooly Hooof (remix)
2. Aduck - Quackerz (revision)
3. PlatEAU - Three Years
4. Doubting Thomas - Steps
5. Skinny Puppy - Rodent (remix)
6. Tear Garden - Things That Go Bump In The Night
7. Twilight Circus - Ultra Binghi (brain melter mix)
8. Philth - Sanity Shovel
9. Floatpoint - Foundflap
10. cEvin Key - I Still Ate Her
11. Lustmord - Infinite Domain
12. Off and Gone - Decaying Orbit
13. Legendary Pink Dots - Fates faithful (punchline version)
14. Dead Voices on Air meets Dropstar - Rijn

We have yet another tasty treat out of Nettwerk Records via Cevin Key/Subconscious Communications and associates with "Wild Planet". Every track on this release is incredibly good. The title has nothing to do with the wild creature television show, but more with an 80s magazine review section [The Wild Planet] by Dave Henderson's "Sounds Magazine" where 'hard to find music' of the era was digested and released in the vein of experimental/noise, "Elephant Table" being one such release.

The "Wild Planet" is one such release encapsulating some of the best tracks from artists in the genre[s]. Anyone who is a fan of the artists on this release should pick this up. If you aren't familiar with the bands on this CD, I'd suggest to start picking up any works you can find by them.

Hiwatt Marshall's track Rodent sounds pretty similar to the Puppy Remix release off Nettwerk, but the ending is a bit different with a slow wind-down. Otherwise each track is unique, ranging from phat beats and spacey electro with Download, Hiwatt, and Doubting Thomas, to the more gentle approach with LPD, Dead Voices On Air, Teargarden, and PlatTEAU. Two extra-terrestrial space tracks of Twilight Circus and Philth adorn the release. Off and Gone is an excursion into high energy electro-ballistics and Floatpoint is an experience in crunching bass beats with a twisted eastern flair.

Last but certainly not least is A Duck (Dwayne R. Goettel r.i.p) with his ingenius work on track "Quackerz" [revision]; a whacked out fast paced electronic barrage of beats, cinematic blurbs, sampled hip-hopish vocals and trance-edge rhythms.