''Idol Tryouts 2'' is a various artists compilation album released by Ann Arbor,

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-based record label

Ghostly International Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Go ...

. It is the label's third compilation overall and the second in their ''Idol Tryouts'' series. ''Idol Tryouts 2'' contains tracks from artists on the label and spans the musical genres of electronica,

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, electro,

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and

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. Included in ''Idol Tryouts 2'' is a second disc which highlights ambient music selections from Ghostly International artists.

''Idol Tryouts 2'' track listing

Disc one

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"Introduction to Ghosts" #

Matthew Dear Matthew Dear (born April 4, 1979) is an American electronic music producer and DJ. History Texas-born Dear moved to Michigan as a teenager, where he was inspired by the sound of Detroit Techno. Dear met Sam Valenti IV at a party while attendin ...

"Send You Back" # Outputmessage "Sommeil" # Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys "Fit Black Man" # Kill Memory Crash "Press + Burn" #

Dabrye Tadd Mullinix or Dabrye is an American musician from Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, also known by the aliases James T. Cotton and SK-1. During his adolescent years, he grew up in Troy, MI. His ''Winking Makes a Face'' was the first album r ...

"Magic Says" # Mobius Band "Electronic Piano" # Daniel Wang "Berlin Sunrise" # Charles Mainer "Bang Bang Lover" #

Benoit Pioulard Thomas Meluch (born August 4, 1984) is an American multi-instrumentalist, writer, and photographer, best known by his pseudonym Benoît Pioulard. His music signed to Kranky Records. Biography Meluch began documenting field recordings and ...

"Depths & the Seashore" # Solvent "Spin Cycle" #

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"Wasting a Fall" # Mobius Band "Loving Sounds of Static" (

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Remix)

Disc two

Loscil Loscil is the electronic/ ambient music project of Scott Morgan from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Morgan launched the project in Vancouver in 1998 while a member of the multimedia collective Multiplex, which curated audiovisual events at a ...

"Umbra" # Deru "Straight Speak" # Sybarite "Sanctuary" # Cepia "Ramp" # Cepia "Hoarse" #

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"Isthmus" # Greg Davis "Amaranthine" #

Lusine Lusine, formerly L'Usine, L'Usine ICL, and Lusine ICL, is the stage name of Jeff McIlwain, an ambient/ IDM musician. A native Texan, McIlwain now resides in Seattle. In 1998, he attended California Institute of the Arts to study 20th century el ...

+ David Wingo "Locks" # Aeroc "Little Something" # Christoper Willits "Colors Shifting" # Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion "Love on a Real Train (Risky Business)" #

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"Gliding in On" #

Tim Hecker Tim Hecker is a Canadian electronic musician, producer, composer, and sound artist. His work, spanning atmospheric ambient albums such as ''Harmony in Ultraviolet'' (2006), ''Ravedeath, 1972'' (2011) and ''Virgins'' (2013), has been widely cr ...

"Sundown6093" #

Richard Devine Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician and sound designer. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from glitch music to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for ...

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