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Even stronger than the first Flatline compilation, this release provides even wider range of music styles for everyone. There are synthpop, aggro-industrial, ebm, electro, power noise, and experimental musicians throughout both cds.

The first disc deals with more industrial/electro/synthpop artists throwing in some familiar ass-kicking tracks from numb, fla, download, snog, and Imperative Reaction, just to name a few. And the rest lies in exclusive and unreleased tracks from many others.

For those fans of Cleen's last release, we are presented with a nice groovy mix of "Freak" which has more emphasis than the original. Individual Totem presents a nice mid-paced electro track titled "Reflexion." XPQ-21 feat. Jeyenne presents a spacey-electro-funk track called "Grumpie's return" that has an actual sixties feel to it (Jim Morrison goes Goth/Industrial?!?) Newcomers System Der Dinge throws an awesomely orchestrated electro-noise piece at us titled "Mindfire:Brainstorm" remixed by E.C.M. And lastly, another new artist, Spies, gives us a taste of intelligent trance with hypnotic synthetics called "les ailes du desir."

Disc 2 deals mainly with experimental power noise/ambient artists. Converter pummels your mind with and enduring mix of "I Died Today." Winterkälte assaults you with the complex track "Rebound effect" taken from the latest album "Drum n' Noise." NKVD gives us a taste of his violent ravenous behavior on the track "Barbarians." Gridlock slides the extraordinary "edit364" in, taken from the limited 5.25 cd. And Voltaic closes with and nicely layered introspective piece titled "v-form:formic 1.0."

These are just some of the strongest appearances on this comp, but there is much more to offer. This one shouldn't be passed up.