Have you ever seen a hyetograph or those maps of weather forecasts with the distribution of rainfall over time? If so, you could have noticed that most of them show different coloured areas whose chromatic spectrum ranges between pale blue (normally representing light drizzle) and red or purple (associated to heavy thunder showers), but I remember a 3-years old boy who made me laugh after he asked myself if those maps meant to say the sky was going to become flushed with purple! When I read the title of this good selection on appreciated French label IM:Ltd, named after the first song by talented Berlin-based producer Es.tereo, I immediately thought about that funny and innocent remark and I cannot but fall into a reverie related to atmospheric disturbances, even if the amazing tracks which have been included in the selection could be meant to bring your imagination somewhere else! The clicks on frothy ambient and dub sounds, rushing percussive spurts and organic catches on the above-mentioned title-track easily flows in the following "Transition" by French dj and producer Stephane Vallini aka Gunston, who speeds this mental enzyme up by means of a nervous hi hat, a deep rolling bass, a suspensive sonic blasting gelatin and eerie vocals, while the second disc starts with "Ellipse", a contagious track by Ukranian lone wolf Hibea, who ensnares the listener with mindblowing sparse drumming, catchy claps and clocks and an entrancing mysterious atmosphere, and ends with the sentimental crystalline breeze of the breathtaking "Above Time" by the talented and (artistically) incontinent Russian producer Dmitry Kuzmin aka Nuage, that you could associate to a kiss under a downpour in order to reprise the previous meteorological reverie. After such a reprise, I could associate Gerwin's "Lonely" - the first of the two bonus tracks for buyers of the digital release -, whose vocals recalled Goldie's ones on his notorious masterpiece "Mother" to me, to extremely corrosive acid rains whereas "In This Life" by Belgian producer Atmospherix could be the perfect setting for a brisk walking over pools and puddles in search of the rainbow's ends!