"Transient Travels" was initially conceived in 2004 as "a temporary travel agency" presenting different takes on digital music in the Sound Train during the Swiss World New Music Days; this cd now luckily documents the event, presenting six fairly long tracks by the involved artists. Most pieces seem to be obviously focused on the concepts of travel and time, and though it's frankly hard to find a red thread between, say, COH's sinewaves electronica and Ilios' brooding sub-drones, or AGF's contemporary composition and Hecker's diginoise, all of them offer very strong and convincing works. The generous length of the tracks allows the pieces to develop and build their own peculiar soundscapes, as in the case of the two Transient Travels curators' (Jasch and Marcus Maeder) pieces, both creating harsh and fascinating performances out of digitally fragmented instruments. An extensive booklet features writings from the rspective artists, which are always interesting to read when the music is that good. Surely one of the best compilations I've heard in a while.