Mountain High Candy flip

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Chill comp here on Candyflip records and jolly nice and relaxed it is too. Solar Fields open the proceedings and this is really, I mean really deep! Feeling like a summer meadow in spring with butterflies flitting and birds tweeting and all that. And some really nice squelchy bass synths! Vibrasphere are next and the feel is maintained beautifully. Think washing drying on the line on the side of a mountain then smell the inside of your freshly laundered pants and, well, you get the idea? Indiginus follows and by now we are comatose amongst the high grass when an inquisitive llama noses against us causing us to lose the half spliff we were cradling lovingly for when we woke up. Triac and Sharon (Traciieeee) are next and though Triac are better known for full paced technoid beats their heavy presence underneath and nice dynamic midrange and top end is sublime. Like mountains. They're sublime. Especially when they have streams running down them. And this tune has that, and fish swimming entincingly in the water too. J Viewz is next and blend ethnic goat vocals with more dubby beats and lovely wandering guitar riffs. Kick Bong are next with a stick of nag champa and stick on bhindis in the form of the eastern influenced Incense and the vibe is totally laid back. We have lost all sense of direction and instead float in a hazy mist above the wonderful smells of the bazaar. Nada are next and although their tunes on other compilations are among my favourite chill tunes ever written this offering lacks their dynamic vigour. Still a good tune but they have done better. Cell raise the intensity to about that of a hovering dragonfly with some tribal djembes and ooohh! a four-four kick. J Viewz (who is definitely in contention for the most psychedelic hip-hop rude bwoy gansta artist name) takes us back down again but maintains the hectic mental pace with stuttered beats a plenty. Aes Dana then are left to close this compilation and do so in abstract style as is their wont. So, all in all a fine compilation that goes places, travels here and there with you the comfortable passenger perched in the perfect vantage point on top of its overpacked rucksack. All tunes are good, and some are great, notably the Triac, and hang together in a nice way.