Winter time - compilation time #2: A requiem release... For all of you out there who still haven’t heard the horrible news, but the included 24-sides long booklet to this compilation reports, that the famous and international renowned German label Dependent will close their doors during summer 2K7. Maybe this is the reason why this comp comes in a totally black designed jewel case. Anyhow, a stop of all business activities of this giant label is a hard slap against the international Electro/Industrial scene. I was shocked as I received this compilation – and I nearly had to sit down to realize and to believe what I had to read - I’m still shocked! I somehow wanted to present the booklet text here in this review, to give you the official literally word-by-word text by label chief Stefan Herwig, but for some reason I couldn’t find it on their site and also not in their forum. To cut a long story short, Herwig names reasons like the lack of sales of physical CD releases and the obviously higher rates of illegal downloads through Eastern European piracy websites. Also the lack of a clear statement to copyrights through the German government is a valid point Herwig argues here. I somehow think that this problem is only the top of an ice mountain, a lot of business frustration may comes along, too. Anyway, the text is worth a reading and if it will published completely somewhere else, I’ll gonna bring it on here in the news section. "Thanks" to this awful news, the content and this compilation generally have been moved a bit out of recognition. The second part of this compilation series holds again some goodies and special recordings of all main artists on board. It’s really hard to find any better opener for this comp than this marvelous "alternate version" of SEABOUND’s "The Promise" – this is perfect composed and played Electro/Futurepop music. Rather energetic and with some guitar-support comes then MINDLESS FAITH with an unreleased track. ROTERSAND offer the interested audience a new remix work on their classic "Merging Ocean", while Lukas Schneider aka AUTOAGGRESSION returns with a rather noisy and fast-forward pounding track "Speed". No club hit of SUICIDE COMMANDO, you’ll get instead a limited b-side, the instrumental piece "Second Death". MIND.IN.A.BOX preset with "Give Me My Life" a track you maybe already know, if you have visited their website. Last but not least, STROMKERN offer with "Hindsight" in its Extendet version the main track of their current download-only single release. Several nice pieces are on here, especially for those who aren’t the hard-stuff collectors which can purchase all limited editions of some release. But the smell of death lays over this compilation...

01 Seabound - The Promise (Alternate)*
02 Mindless Faith - Independence Day (Precursor Mix)*
03 Fractured - Cold Eyes (Reprise)*
04 Pride and Fall - Adored*
05 Rotersand - Merging Oceans (2007 re-work)*
06 Edge Of Dawn - Damage (Forma Tadre Remix)*
07 NNN feat. Dismantled - We Were*
08 Flesh Field - Swarm*
09 Ivory Frequency - Clock Is Ticking Fast (Demo Version)*
10 Autoaggression - Speed*
11 Insekt - Bambifucker (Remix Version)*
12 Suicide Commando - Second Death**
13 mind.in.a.box - Give Me My Life**
14 Stromkern - Hindsight (Extended)**

* Unreleased
** Rare