The album works strongly as something someone with a passing interest in experimental music could get into, acting as an entry point of sorts. There is everything from the all-out electronic noise attack of Individual Distortion; Big Geoffrey’s cinematic soundscapes; Logic Lost’s spaced-out electro-acoustic nuance; Takahiro Mukai’s abstract blips; To Die’s tortured (or torturous) wailings; Inner Travel’s retro-futurist soundtracking; Celladore’s instrumental hip-hop, and many other kinds of musical variety. Read more...

As you’d expect from fifty different tracks, For Headspace #1 takes in an astonishing number of sounds and styles – ambient, deep techno, drum ‘n’ bass, violent noise (this one really stands out, its rattlesnake-hissing of static artillery ripping apart the very fabric of reality), experimental music in the shape of bedroom programming, hip hop, acoustic folk…and that’s just grazing the surface. If you were to sweep the music up into a single genre you’d have to tag it as experimental, but a detailed review of the music would kind of miss the point. Read more...