A mixed compilation release by independent electronica artists from the twoism.org messageboard.

01 Hiflier - Warm Waves
02 Simulate Televangelist - Sanctum
03 Bocuma & Shane Anthony - Drifting
04 Twilight Interface -Thunderbird
05 Synthetrix - Sequestered Sonata Above the Grass
06 Scyye - девять
07 Bearhead - Keep You Here
08 Sweguno - Swallow Illusions Whole
09 Sadsic - Clocke
10 Sadsic - Danger Planet
11 SEVEN - Airplane
12 [MIIIIM] - Nawb Vrida
13 MotorRad - Systems 2
14 TTK - High and Low
15 Olaf Olson - Interlude 2
16 Island Near the Clouds - In Parallel
17 Polar Sky - Antaku-3

Artwork By, Paul Rabe & Wesley Cathon
Microsite By, Mark Gallagher
Mastered By, Christopher Leary
Compiled By, DJ Mix By, Grim on Mbient

Review by John Dinsdale:
Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you get to be in on something special, very early. In the know. Ahead of the pack. On even rarer occasions, you get to be involved, even obliquely, in something very special, very early. Those moments are few and fleeting and when they come, you’d better hope you’re ready. Will you recognise the signs? Will you hear the siren call? Or will the dawn chorus fade into noise all too quickly? From small turquoise acorns…

So here we are. An awful lot has changed in the almost three years since the collective talents of Twoism.org released their last bedroom-studio opus in 2012. An Arab Spring rose and fell, Aphex Twin sprang into action like a once barren desert wadi suddenly bursting with life at a pace we couldn’t keep up with, and strange probes landed on distant comets or performed drive-by’s on exo-planets billions of miles from the Hexagon Sun. Heck, even Boards of Canada deigned to release a new album. Rumours of ice ages passing or hell freezing over went unconfirmed.

Was Twoism.org’s own mix-meister general, aka Grim on Mbient, ‘Perfecting Sound Forever’, or just sounding forever perfect when he announced the new record would be with us shortly while we huddled in corners against the darkness of 2015’s winter months? Thankfully, it would seem that lessons have been learned from BOC themselves – if not directly in terms of sound (although clearly there are moments of outright homage. This is a Twoism.org release, lest we forget) then certainly in terms of quality control, attention to detail, refusal to compromise. 

Let me be crystal clear from the outset – for there can no doubt whatsoever - this is by some distance the strongest OOT release so far. Nothing else you’ve heard before even comes close. The difference here is so marked it’s actually difficult to go back and listen to those early works, good though they are. This is a true watershed moment.

So how does it sound? Huge. Ominous. Dark. Fragile. Playful. Beautiful. All this and more. Listening to the record over the past few months, from an initial rough mix, right through to the brilliantly mastered final cut (Ochre, take a bow) it’s become clear that while each of these tracks are masterful in their own right, collectively this is so much more than the sum of its parts. All killer, no filler? Too bloody right mate.

One of the criticisms I’ve sometimes levelled at previous releases was that they could be a little lengthy, a little ‘flabby’. Sure they were fun and well produced, but I’d always find my attention wandering after a while. None of that can be said this time. This is a leaner, meaner, HUNGRIER OOT. It’s a honed Mexican prize fighter of a record, a pitbull with an attitude and it’s going to earn your respect, whether you know it yet, or not.

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The Weathermonger - An Equal Reaction

The Weathermonger - Fourier

The Weathermonger - Through The Honeycomb Window

The Weathermonger - Reservoir Dreams

The Weathermonger - Figures In The Snow

The Weathermonger - Slipstream Fiction

The Weathermonger - Infinite Mirror

The Weathermonger - Ready Brek Kid

The Weathermonger - Dekatron Memories

Established in 2007, the Twoism Records netlabel is the official home of the One on Twoism mixed compilation series and single artists releases since 2018. 

OoT features exclusive new music from the independent artists of twoism.org, an unofficial but highly respected Board of Canada forum. Keeping with a collective ethos, all releases are free to download, or to purchase as a high quality physical release for a very reasonable price of $2,50 per CD.

Back in 2006, twoism.org member, Boards of Dublin, had the idea to create a compilation of BoC remixes. This idea quickly evolved into a BoC inspired compilation, where artists from the forum could contribute new work. 

Almost at once, the idea became a popular part of the IDM subculture and it quickly became clear that a second volume wasn't so much an ‘if’, but more of a ‘..how soon’? The number of tracks submitted grew almost exponentially and so the strategy had to grow too. Member Aesthetics, who already mixed the first volume as Grim on Mbient, became curator in chief, hand picking songs which best fitted the release. This proved a difficult task as the quality of tracks offered became higher and higher in standard. But did they still fit the flow of the entire release? Herein lay the rub, and the craft.

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