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I’ve tried with this one a lot, but I can’t help but find it completely underwhelming. One of the problems is that there’s a hell of a lot of it – a doublepack with the artist album proper flanked with a CD of remixes.

The essential difference between BBE’s production here and on their debut album is that they use more noises: the sound is busier, at times becoming too cluttered. The clutter then dissipates, and you get a breakdown, before the clutter comes back again.

Their ideas suffer from being underdeveloped: The Sun Sets has some good melodies, whicy for some reason have been twisted and detuned so that what could be a strong, dreamy prog track becomes wonky and awkward. Basslines repeat themselves and have little evolution: more to the point they are recycled, so Epitomizing The Samba doesn’t have much to differentiate it from Dream Weaver.

Misty Morning / Voices In The Mist has an interesting progression running through it, but the closing section just has too much going on in it – as though the layers have been forcibly pushed together rather than left to organically grow. So Close, Yet So Far Away is probably the strongest track in terms of its cohesive tightness, but a very misplaced and slapdash vocal break takes away from otherwise-solid tribal hypnotism.

BBE’s own remixes of Perfect Stranger’s Hyperdrive and Wombat’s Ride Control are better; it’s as though when BBE add “what they do” to someone else’s work, the product is more robust in virtue of its balance.

We then get a whole motherload of remixes by other people of BBE’s earlier output. And this is where things get interesting, albeit slightly. Zen Mechanics’ rework of Rumble In The Jungle is utterly wonderful; Holm & Andersen do well with a Detroit-thru-a-Gameboy interpretation of Sunshine; Sun Control Species’ take on Excerpt From Dreams is what progressive music should all be about. Lunar Spice’s take on Brumbasse sort of makes the whole point for me: BBE have good ingredients, but their add-everything approach doesn’t create the gliding flow that other producers in the genre thrive on.

For the most part though, even the remixes are pedestrian, sedentary stuff. I must admit I just can’t see the attraction here. So much of the artist album is unlistenable, and so many of these remixes are superfluous, it’s hard to find a way to recommend this release. With so many better progressive releases out there, your cash would be much better off diverted elsewhere.