Various Artists - My Favourite Things

This compilation from Mule Musiq's ambient and experimental offspring lacks the power of its parent's 12"s and presents a couple of diamonds among a few too many other forms of carbon. The usually reliable DJ Koze fluffs it as Adolf Noise and produces a track that sounds like a high-school recorder quartet trying to jam with Kieran Hebden's floppy discs. Though each sound may have taken hours to produce, it's a pretty thin and flimsy affair. Kuniyuki Takahasi turns in a dubby ambient number under the Koss moniker, but it's a simplistic piece of Eno-esque wallpaper that hardly introduces anything new. Koze redeems himself on his remix of Lawrence's Rabbit Tube and creates a piece of driving minimalism that shuffles along with the inexorable force of Frankenstein's monster, whilst Guido Schneider and Florian Schmeiser indulge a passion for eighties electro that turns out to be surprisingly successful. It's their track as Glowing Glisses that hints at great things for Mule's future, though Minilogue's Ghost, available for the first time on CD, demonstrates that Mule can compete with the big boys in both club and experimental music.