Various Artists – 25 Years of DiN (2CD)

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Release date 19th July 2024

Disc One

01 Benge – Shadow – The Rest Of Light 05:06
02 Dave Bessell – All Is Now 08:36
03 Bluetech – Broken Prisms Still Refract Light 05:39
04 Erik Wøllo – Emergence 06:56
05 Lyonel Bauchet – A Perfect Day For Uncertainty 07:16
06 Robert Rich – Ornament Drift 05:38
07 d’Voxx – Vila Madalena 06:29
08 Parallel Worlds – Some Space 06:59
09 Ian Boddy – Small World 07:07
10 Polypores – Viridescence 07:37

Total Time: 67:38

Disc Two

01 Markus Reuter – Albatross 06:01
02 Field Lines Cartographer – Sea Of Grass 07:53
03 Scanner – Now There Was Nowhere 06:29
04 Chris Carter – Consonance 03:17
05 Bernhard Wöstheinrich – On The Cusp Of Lucid Dreaming 07:02
06 Radio Massacre International – Flying Colours 07:14
07 Surface 10 – Psyche Dio 07:59
08 Nigel Mullaney – There Is No Dark 06:14
09 Node – Rewind 10:08
10 ARC – System Six 11:33

Total Time: 74:09

This is certainly a milestone release for the DiN label as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. Needless to say, this is quite an achievement for a niche, independent label that has relentlessly ploughed its own path for quarter of a century. Its catalogue and release schedule has been carefully curated over all these years by label boss Ian Boddy, who launched the imprint way back in the spring of 1999. It is perhaps a reflection of his own musical identity which, whilst grounded in the Berlin School of the 1970s, has continued to evolve and grow to cover ever widening areas of electronic music, where sub-genres can be mixed and matched at will.

There have been plenty of compilation albums released on the DiN label in the past, most notably the iNDEX sampler albums, of which there have been eight to date. These cover tracks from existing albums and are certainly a great showcase for the label. However, this double album is different, in that Boddy invited the majority of the musicians who have previously been released on the main DiN catalogue to compose new pieces. Spread across two discs, this amounts to 142 minutes of sublime, varied and thoroughly original music. Ranging from beautifully ambient to dark brooding soundscapes, via cinematic electronica through to old school Berlin School sequencer workouts, “25 Years of DiN” is a wonderful distillation of the DiN label.

Presented in a stunning six panel fold out Digipak double CD package with 8-page booklet featuring an essay by Neil Mason (Moonbuilding), this release is a must-have for collectors of the DiN labels output.