I've been impressed with Germany's left field jazzy club orientaded label Compost's releases since listening to some of the earlier Future Sound Of Jazz collections, which have been in a more chilled elctronica jazz to nu jazz with breaks and rhythms field, howeverI found Future Sound of Jazz 8 a dissapointment in more of a drum and base direction. For volume 9 , Michael Reinboth has compiled a chequered collection of dance predominantly veering to other areas of dance .Hirds's opening track is the collections premiere track featuring the satin vocals of Japanese Yukimi Nagano who sang on Koop's Waltz For album and I found this track the perfect insite in to future jazz;an electro cool backing tracks mid tempoed chilled and excellent vocals, the rest of the set is more diverse with soulful house sounds of Season , the gyrating latin backing beats and rhytms of Stateless, Glasgows finest Joseph Malek's mix of Futuristica is interesting, even Triplane's techno drum and base mid tempoe number grew on me. Kowalaski and Yellowtail's tracks I found drum and base break and technoe orientated disasters ! Dntel's track is laid back and haunting more electro pop sort of Clanad vocals and New Order backing track but it works , there's even a couple of electronic jazzy down beats for those like me that preferred the earlier FSJ collections and ,at least to try and salvage the title of jazz in Julius Kammerl , Monassa and the beauty of Savath and Savalas almost sounds like The Cinematic Orchestra.All in all Compost records have not dissapointed with this collection , only problem is the 85% lack of any jazzy ingredients !! I think this one should simply be titled Future Sonds Of Dance.
