Album Review: Various -- Omelette Presents Swarm Theory

Melburnian label Omelette celebrates its tenth anniversary with 16 new tracks of glitch hop instrumentals and downbeat carpet huggers.

It’s compiled by the perennially underrated Spoonbill, who casts a wide net and turns up some little known beauts, including Canadian Jpod’s meditative glider, Dusted Sunset, and the unhinged cyber-stalker Proto & The Dinosaur, from Hungary’s Fine Cut Bodies. That aside, Swarm Theory is for armchair listening rather than wanton ‘floor banging, and altogether makes for a handsome embodiment of the diverse strains that comprise 21st Century beat culture.