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The compilation shows their quality control is as stringent as ever. "Paralysis" by Gregor Samsa opens impressively with ghostly voices wafting through a structure sketched out by beginner's piano. International Peoples Gang, meanwhile, return to the label fresh from remixing Beth Orton. "Fireworks", however, is an atomised pop song menaced by unpredictable bleeps of rogue technology, before it ends with a layered concrete section and an English country garden ambience of uneasy tranquillity. But the standout "Alabama" by Beatsystem, who first recorded for the label in 1992. Over its loping beats, a rootsy vocal sample vies for space with waves of varispeed vocal babble - close, in fact, to the style Moby premiered on Play, only considerably more imaginative