Electronic Garden CD

It may be well over two decades since Robin Rimbaud first made his name with a series of eccentric sound collages created using a handheld radio scanner, but the veteran producer has lost none of his experimental bite. Sure, he may have mellowed a little with age - the overheard conversations of jilted lovers and American eccentrics have long since been jettisoned - but Rimbaud still retains the knack of creating dense, atmospheric, enveloping soundscapes. Electronic Garden, recorded at the Dresden-based festival of the same name way back in 2007, more than proves this point. Flitting between spitting, IDM-influenced electronica, yearning ambience and becalmed, dub-influenced sparseness, Electronic Garden is a thrillingly atmospheric voyage into the unknown.