Various Artists - My Favourite Things, Vol. 2

Mule Electronic is a small and indeed electronic label based in Japan, bringing an array of global techno sounds to the Far East while ensuring that the rest of us hear about it as well. This compilation, the label's fifth birthday celebration, clocks in at an expansive 78 minutes and is packed to the outer limits. While the roughly translated press release does little to explain the faces behind the bleeps and beats, there is material here to merit for casual interest. The sterling tribal chants and tippy-tappy clicks of the Swedish techno duo Minilogue, with My Teenage Gang, sound heatedly exotic, as the meaty filters of Portland's Strategy echo a wet Robert Hood, alongside KaB's dark jingles. Label boss Koss pops up with a pair of tracks, repping for the East, but, as this compilation clearly demonstrates, generic techno tends to sound the same wherever it comes from.