5oFoF: Five Years Of Friends Of Friends CD

The Los Angeles-based Friends of Friends label is naturally elated to have notched up five years in the dog-eat-dog world of independent music. Naturally, they wanted to mark the occasion properly, so have put together this 36-track double CD opus, featuring a mix of popular hits (see Shlomo's "Places" and Salva's "Wake Ups", for starters), B-sides, rarities and unreleased cuts. There's much to admire across the two discs, which gleefully flit between styles - experimental hip-hop, fragile synth-pop, grandiose pop-house, crystalline IDM, ambient and two-step, amongst other things - whilst retaining an open-minded sense of fun. Look out for a previously unheard jam from Shigeto and Kyson, as well as admirable remixes from Machinedrum, Bondax and Nicolas Jaar.