Since April 2005, the Stilll label's reputation has continued to grow. The Brussels-based label's first compilation, Stilllysm, confirms a commitment to the best in organic electronic post-pop music with melancholic tinge. The compilation includes music from established artists such as Mitchell Akiyama, Aoki Takamasa aMute, Ghislain Poirier, Peter Principle, Off the Sky, Christophe Bailleau, Benjamin Lew... as well as newer names, including the post-jazz duo Tangtype, the sonic destructured post-rock of Mikale de Graff, the extremely talented Holiday for Strings (who will soon release their official debut album as a co-production between Stilll and the Canadian label Intr-Version) and many other excellent surprises such as Immune and Nox, both future full releases from Stilll. Sometimes melodic and dynamic, other times vast, contemplative and ambient, Stilllysm is a cohesive and powerful record that will listeners in anticipation of the great things to come from this new label.

Offthesky "it impossible to say just what i mean", a line in T.S. Eliot's poem "The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", fits apropos as title-to-idea for the artists on-going struggle to transcend innate social limitations. And in the process of completing this album, Offthesky (Kentucky based Jason Corder) successfully crossed many boundaries through working with countless musicians to form a diverse sound. "It is impossible to say just what I mean" deftly fuses atmospheric-electronic sensation with heart-felt, post-rock melodies that exists truly as a work of poetry in motion.

Arden, the band, unites forward-thinking micro-forces: Mitchell Akiyama, aMute, Sogar, Jeuc Dietrich, Christophe Bailleau, and Sébastien Roux. Their debut, Conceal, was conceived across a three day production bender at an old house nestled in beautiful Belgian country. The album's style marries a minimal-electronic approach with post-rock sensibilities from each artist's sonic palette to birth an entirely unique improvisational sound. Conceal is a delightful production piece with unlimited moments of candid melodic beauty that spring into dynamically intense yet masterfully contained emotive exaltations.