The Because Tomorrow Comes series is an audio magazine from Germany that provides its listening audience with an extraordinary variety of non-traditional music. This edition in particular boasts some excellent collage-type compositions. Manos Tsangaris starts things off with "Im Gesprach mit Kyra Stratmann", which appears to be an interview spliced in with bits of sound recordings in a musique concrete style. "Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn (fragment)" by Charlemagne Palestine juxtaposes beautiful droning tones against a field recording of the Jamaica Day festival, which uniquely skews the sensation of sound and motion. Charlemagne made the recording as he walked through the din of the festival, so you hear what he heard as he passed by vehicles, groups of people, music, etc. On the other hand, the droning tones create the illusion of stillness against "moving" sound events in the speakers. Most interesting.

Kristin Oppenheim's "The Eyes I Remember" is a haunting study in pluralism, repeating and doubling phrases until they lose their original context and transform into something new. The next piece by Carsten Nicolai, entitled "Infinite [radio teeth edit]" is a stunning piece of modern electronic music that is both dark and minimal. Sine waves hover above a low frequency oscillation as different vocal samples appear and disappear. "Train Study" by former No Waver Christian Marclay does a fine job of compressing the sonic landscape of NYC into 5:15 of re-imagined sonic truth. Next Christina Kubisch presents a lively conversation as ready-made music in "SALAMBO". Finally Jeff Perkins' "Movies for the Blind" comes from a series of interviews he records from his cab. This interview finds Varoushka, the German artist/actress from Antonini's "Blow Up", getting into his cab on the way to a photo shoot for a book of her photo series "Varoushka in NY". She speaks of mankind's general darkness at the end of the millennium, greed, pollution, and other grave subjects. This interview wets the appetite for both of these artists' other pieces in their respected series. A compilation such as this is most successful when it creates enthusiasm for the artists included and presents a varied mixture of talent. This one in particular excels in this area.