va - baby godzilla (daly city)

'baby godzilla' is a new compilation release on daly city, the label that also released a nice full-length album by mochipet, who runs the label and is featured on this compilation with five tracks, of which, if i understand well, four are collaborations between mochipet and these artists: mikah 9, taiwankid, ray barbee and machinedrum. of all the artists that mochipet collaborates with here and of all the others on the compilation, i'm familiar with few of them: machinedrum (of merck records), daedelus, edit (planet mu) and bloodysnowman (who also has a full-length on daly city). all 20 tracks on this compilation have a very similar sensibility and sound, the instrumental (and in some pieces vocal) hip-hop sense of a more mellow kind is obviously present through the whole cd, then there are glitched-out drills and basses (in the tracks by edit, eustachian and bloodysnowman); and plus there's also a specific and refreshing jazzy sound (when there are acoustic instruments mixed with the electronics), characteristic mostly about the tracks by: daedelus, spaceheater (who uses a saxophone, a flute and a conga drum, combined very well with the amusing and moody instrumental hip-hop music), mochipet, delux, mophono and mitsakos. some different tracks by same artist (there are more tracks by one artist) sound diverse and are an intricate mix of jazzy, glitch and idm sensibilities. maybe the tracks sound similar and it's a bit lengthy, but the whole release is enjoyable, fun for listening and it's a nice and interesting contrast to the hype of minimal-techno, which is seemingly fading out. more various approaches to the music might bring more diversity in the sound of the compilation, or maybe even more of the jazz sound would break some of the idm-hip-glitch-hop (or break-hop) cliches. but nevertheless, the general atmosphere never crosses over into the harsher digital hard core territory and mostly stays safely and cleverly in the areas of the various jazzy-hop styles, that sound best in the tracks on this compilation. (br)