Link: http://xumanrecords.com/

If I were in a club right now, I would be wanting to bounce all over the dance floor. I could close my eyes right now and envision the lights piercing through the smell of fake fog as the disco ball spins the world away. Xuman will do that to you. Their ‘70s-tinged disco electronic lights up this compilation.

Xuman Records (based off Alexander Xuman’s vision) is a Russian label that is comprised of a group of friends and an international scope. From the discotheque to the rock stage, Xuman Records may be small, but their ideas appear sincerely bold in a metaphysical sense: “Music is intangible space between one’s ear and its source. It is something unintelligible and available for everyone at the same time. It is something eternal and fairy. This is how we relate to it. Music of this definition we do,” taken directly from the website.

Back to the compilation, if Xuman didn’t wine and dine you, The O will with their song “Modules.” A powerful and upbeat song that pours stardust in your ears and views of distant planets invade your brain with a sense of romanticism to their robotic pulsing.

If you put on Upstart’s “Over,” you would swear it was 1983. But be aware that there is another side to Xuman Records that will take you by surprise, an alternative rock side. On its own, STI creates a tender feeling of modest alternative rock, but in comparison to the compilation, it’s like a sore thumb. But then again so is On-The-Go’s vocal ruffage for “Honey,” but that’s just because I can see them desperately wanting to sound like Gnarls Barkley.

There are some spin offs between the two worlds: Alisa Frankel’s New Age electronic “The Night Is Dark,” or Bajinda Behind the Enemy Lines’ “Loud Man.”

Overall you will be impressed with Xuman’s collage of the strange and delightful. Within an international landscape, this is a label to keep your eyes and ears on, knowing that in the retrospect of our electronic destiny, we all are not so much different after all.