Track Listing:

1. Philippians - New Inspiration
2. Melk The G6-49 - The Instantaneous Mobilization of All the Resources in the BURROW and All the Forces of My Body and Soul
3. Deneir - Charting Oblivion
4. Soul-Junk - Genesis 15
5. MakeShift:Shelter - Faux Hawk
6. Lafcadio - Noticing Drastic Changes in Individuality and Enlightenment at Such a Young Age
7. Bizzart - Nivek (outputmessage remix)
8. Patagonian - Cage
9. Create (!) - Durindana
10. Electric iLL - Funaise
11. Gratis - Means and Ends (instrumental version)
12. Abner Trio - One
13. Manners for Husbands - Lions
14. I Heart Lung - Moving Through Colour (excerpt)
15. Receptor Sight - Bagel & Green

An ambitious compilation of noise, electronic, hip-hop, free jazz, prog and experimental music, Strata is a primer for listeners of all ages. Featuring rare, new and unreleased tracks from both the Joyful Noise and Sounds Are Active rosters, Strata- A Young Person's Guide To Experimental Music is a sharp spike in a flat-lining, homogenized world of independent music.

From psychotropic folk to mathy hardcore, from hyper-experimental hip-hop to symphonic noise. The musicians featured here are working at the bleeding edge of new possibilities; feeling for that utopian moment of truly revolutionary sound. This is music that has stripped itself of history and formula; sounds that describe and define the time in which they're played.

Produced by Chris Schlarb and Karl Hofstetter
Artwork by Tim McMullen