A delighful deephouse tribute to Gill Scott Heron with sparse spoken words from the soul poet laced over an bouncing, organic rhythm and ultra-deep rhodes chords.

This compilation was put together by the Mixtophonico Lab, a music production studio in Bologna. Mixtophonico Lab is connected to Link Associated, a social centre in Bologna which features a lot of eloctronic performances. Some of the tracks were produced at the Mixtophonico lab studio, and some tracks were specially made for Link by visiting artists.

'Vector' continues further with exploratory mining into the oneforty bpm dubbed into technoid seam - its low end is devious and drills itself clean inside the synapses, mirages of dub cascading either side. 'amber' works the deep small hours in the club most effectively - shunting and writhing within a dub organism which appears to throw its immaculate shapes to the four corners - heavy and grooving, ideal for smoke-machined basements and strobed warehouse interactions.

One day in 2008, two folks were sitting together, probably they were working at the studio to finish some tracks. And while they talked about music, they came across this song again and again. Perhaps it’s Tanitas voice, perhaps the melody attended by that doleful bassoon pipe. Anyway, it is just one of those musical moments from the late eighties that have remained in thought since childhood.

The Modern Electronic Element Serie is the 1st project of the Nation Mini-comp Xklusive 12". This concept was driven by thoughts of Traxx to unleash different styles of sound to the element of Jakbeat.