Title: Does Time Affect Memory?

Author/Artist: Various

Publisher: Amanita

Media: Music CD

Reviewer: Pan

This double CD spans weirdo music from across Europe and the States, most of it be people and bands I’ve never heard of. It’s standard left-fields stuff, from guitar driven industrial, to jazz tinged experimentation to deranged electronics. The danger with this kind of compilation is that the dross outweighs the good stuff, making the collection either tedious and worthy or else unlistenable after a couple of plays, in this case though the mixture of styles makes the whole thing listenable again and again. There are outstanding tracks from Phased 4º (formerly Mercury 4º), Fin de Sciecle (remixed by Bourbonese Qualk), Trottel, Keukhot and Pest. Also worth a mention are tracks by Headbutt and Feuhler. Best title goes to the Splatter Trio for their tracks ‘Base Five Curly Motherfucker’. All in all this definitely worth a listen - though the cover sucks.