Purposely deceptive and thrillingly mysterious. This Avatar/OHM Edition release might be an individual artist, or a collective, or possibly some captured alien broadcast signals that have been reverse-engineered.

An involving escapade of aural stimulation overload. Compost 2 quickly transforms any presumption of stasis or predictability into a laughing joke.

However, it’s far from something that you can smugly shrug off, for this assemblage of experimental compositions will pique your curiosity while ingeniously entertaining your ears with a fantastic array of electroacoustical enlightenment. (insert speechless gasp here)

From drowning drones to flippant fanfare, the thirty tracks that are presented here not only in texture but in their mood presentations, complexity and erratic instrumentation.

Like driving with your eyes closed, you’re never really sure where these enigmatic sounds will lead you — perhaps down an easy stretch of road, or maybe into a bitter sharp curve. In some ways, it can be perceived as a spastic explosion of noise, but upon careful inspection, Compost 2 may be the experimental CD that will change your perception of puzzling, puisant manipulation of esoteric sounds into music.

~ Andrew Magilow, Splendid!

Purposely deceptive and thrillingly mysterious, this anthology of electroacoustic compositions does not easily reveal it’s origins.