Various - Megasoft Office 2005

Label:

F Communications, Play It Again Sam [PIAS]

Catalog#:

F 229 CD, 137.0229.020

Format:

CD, Compilation, Digipak

Country:

France

Released:

27 May 2005

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Glitch, Abstract, Downtempo, Ambient

Tracklist

1	Alexkid / B.J. Cole* / Paolo Fresu -	I Think (Live At Factory)	6:46	X
		Electronics - Alexkid Engineer [Live Sound] - Christophe Appel Guitar [Pedal Steel] - B.J. Cole* Trumpet - Paolo Fresu
2	Ecoplan -	Bumblebee Pop	6:06	X
		Producer, Written-By - Luc Hespel
3	Metronome (3) -	Acid Eiffel	2:58	X
		Piano - Maxence Cyrin Written-By - D. Delesalle* , L. Garnier*
4	Downliners Sekt -	The Pledge	4:19	X
		Producer - B:Cuts , Downliners Sekt Written-By - Alex Cortés
5	Plonn -	Many Hours Passed	7:13	X
		Producer, Written-By - Plonn
6	Unforscene -	So Long	8:02	X
		Producer - Unforscene Vocals - Nik Young Written-By - Nik Young , Unforscene
7	Chaton (2) -	L'Entonnoir Et Le Plongeoir	4:43	X
		Producer, Written-By - Lionel Chatton
8	Coral Love -	Northbridge	5:27	X
		Producer, Written-By - Baptiste Mauerhan
9	Octowire -	The New-York Grill (In & Out Mix)	5:49	X
		Bass - David Finck Drums - Victor Lewis Guitar - Chuck Loeb Piano - Mike Rucchiuti Producer, Written-By - Octowire Saxophone [Alto] - Andy Snitzer Trumpet - Randy Brecker
10	mindMap -	Gerlach	6:02	X
		Producer - mindMap Written By - Ilias , Mat'ko , Mazalová , Musková
11	Flow, The -	Final	3:59	X
		Performer, Written-By - Ben Constable Producer - Flow, The Saxophone - Gary Reader Scratches - Mistah tOE

Credits

Artwork By - Hotspot

Notes

Sticker on sleeve states "This album is limited edition".

Notes on inner sleeve:
"The Megasoft Office series all started in 1997. It was fresh, it was spontaneous: this (irregular) appointment with the label's artists' deepest cuts has established itself and built up a reputation. The series is now a milestone in terms of quality, far from clichés and fashions, far from 'all-the-rage' and 'in-your-face' stuff.

This year's edition will be entirely fully dedicated to rare, ephemeral material.

Daily, between 3 and 10 demos land at the F Com Lab. Within this never-ending flow, somewhere, sometimes, some tracks make us stop, take our breath away. Some of these crushes can lead to full-length love affairs, artist albums and long-lived ties with the label. But being an adventurous label also obliges us to show a certain amount of caution - forgive us the oxymoron. We cannot fully commit ourselves to all projects dues to a lack of time and money, in spite of the excitement. Hence (a little) frustration. Hence Megasoft Office.

The idea has come a long way, with this year's edition being an ephemeral springboard for talents. Tracks and artists to whom we'll breathe life for 12 months. The whole opus - visuals, sounds - will vanish, disappear after precisely 12 months; the album will go out of print and will never be available anymore, erased from the F Com catalogue.

Ephemeral. Rare.
This epitomises the contradiction at the heart of the artist's dilemma.

"I am a listener, I am a consumer. I want to listen to my favourite tunes whenever I want, wherever I want and the way I want. But I am flooded with such a choice of music, coming from all corners of the Earth. I have no guiding light, no-one to direct me. I think that I can make it but I do not know how any longer. I have 60 Go of tunes in my MP3 player but I will never listen to them all. I have got 100 TV channels at my disposal but only 24 hours a day to watch them. I think I can make it but I do not know when any longer."

Megasoft Office 2005 consists of 11 confidential tracks with a limited 12-month lifespan. And 11 e-mail addresses will give you the opportunity to express your opinions and feelings to the artists themselves.

We at F Com are so happy. We've created a beautiful album of 11 tracks that we love. Above all, we hope that we've done something useful for you, listeners. And for at least 11 people.

Enjoy"

F Com Team