With so much of today's music scene looking dreamily back to a more innocent time, isn't it about time somebody started thinking about the future?... Enter London's Adaadat label (recently declared "Label of the Month" by BBC Radio 1's John Peel) with their new compilation CD, Trade & Distribution Almanac Volume 2.

Combining the best of today's experimental electronics underground with a DIY, lo-fi aesthetic and an accessible pop sensibility, Adaadat are renowned for working with emerging stars of tomorrow. Tracks from DJ 100000000 and Ove Naxx go far beyond the worst excesses of Squarepusher and Venetian Snares. Cow'P and Miklos "The Accountant" Kemesci deal in twisted pop music that would be equally at home on Saturday morning TV or soundtracking an LSD sequence in a John Waters film. Utabi and Horacio Pollard make you realise what the people who claim to combine pop music and avant-garde electronics have been going on about all this time.

"There is something very exciting about these boys and their sister Japanese label, 19-t. It feels like there is something brewing, something that's going to explode and make Adaadat one of the big players. bring on the new blood." Mikerak (logarhythm.org.uk)

"Trade & Distrobution Almanac Vol. 2 takes the baton from Vol.1 and increases on it in every way. With a plethora of artists this strong on your books, all creating action packed, ram upgrade requiring, hard wired, mushroom cloud quality music, you have got to have a big smile on your face. Super quality compilation" Tesselate

"At the place where computer game soundtracks, electropop, alpha wave emissions and industrial process control meet exists the Adaadat label, lots of a's several d's, scary men interfering with Gameboys, Japanese children playing on Zelda too much bubble tea, romance at the arcade, riding electric scooters through the shopping mall." Hari Kunzru (Wallpaper Magazine)

"Some of the finer post-Squarepusher-heritage algorithms are being developed right now at the Hackney-estates of the Adaadat collective.." Keith Fullerton Whitman (aka Hrvatski)

"It's difficult to remember the last time that electronic music actually sounded fresh and modern. Y'know, like it's supposed to. Well I can say without fear of reprisal that Adaadat are threatening to do something about it. This compilation sees the still young UK label present 21 cuts from around the world that vary in their style, pace, and heaviness, but are united loosely by a sense of post-Warp, post-Tigerbeat mentalism, and united more solidly by the fact that they are all pretty damn banging... Adaadat are systematically seizing IDM and bludgeoning the 'intelligence' out of it with a big purple crocodile. Really, it's that much fun..." dot-alt.com

"In the two years since their gestation, Adaadat have become one of thee most inventive labels to emerge from the electronic underground." Jim Backhaus (Resonance FM)