Methyl is a netlabel run by producers ps.a and pill with the kind of stripped-back, no-frills ethos that feels like a throwback to the golden age of internet-native music distribution; a neocities website, a Bandcamp page, and absolutely zero interest in playing the conventional music industry game. You don’t get much more underground…

Prevention #2 is the label's second charity compilation and its tenth release overall; fourteen tracks of electronic music spanning electro, rave, and experimental club music, released on a pay-what-you-can basis with every penny split between Doctors Without Borders, The Red Cross, and UNICEF.

The compilation opens with the moody atmospherics of ps.a's Tsar 1918; a distinctly experimental take on electro that remains rooted in the sound's signature tropes while simultaneously amalgamating an entirely different formula. Dark and dismal, just as electro should be in our humble opinion.

Utopic Meadow takes the stage next, entering low-slung hip-hop territory with a cosmic jazz edge courtesy of some glistening bell synths. Check out that bass too. Momentary Blisness follows, with Enry laying down the kind of IDM shit that will see any self-respecting braindance fan dissolving into a puddle of ambient breakbeats.

Freeman serves up A Bag of Chips next; focusing firmly on the electronic variant rather than the potato version. Amidst glistening pads and strings sits the sort of off-kilter drum programming that would put a Windowlicker-wide grin across anyone's face.

The zany chiptune-meets-breakcore ride that is door host's antonio's car reverses over us before we're back on the road with a VIP mix from pill; another chiptune laugh-riot that any 2000s Planet Mu fan will feel instantly at home with.

Morph bitcrushes samples beyond redemption with Aquella Noche de Noviembre; an atmospheric ode to what we imagine to be a fairly sodden evening, given the digital downpour the track conjures. Kusch Spitfire follows with 98765432; a rattling production loaded with think-break sensibilities alongside contrasting, softly ringing synths.

SECTION//sessions2 arrives next; y-Twokoop's contribution to the compilation. A thunderous bottom end provides a dense foundation upon which kinetic drum breaks do their best work. pill then reappears with the staccato bassline of reason; the kind of gloriously unhinged track that would have Kid606 hanging his laptop up for good.

Not content with letting pill have the last word, y-Twokoop clatters back into the soundspace with the belligerent breakcore of Amara Glimpse Lap Mess Used Inside I Rosene, Enjoy The Stay.

In case your pulse hadn't already reached dangerous levels, Pitchdrop offers up a remaster of Tachycardia; a wildly chaotic IDM jungle track that takes our favourite spot on the entire compilation.

We finish on an exhilarating note with ZonerG's soaring synth work on In Addition to Reviving Great People; a most fitting crescendo to a genuinely brilliant collection.

Head to Bandcamp, buy it, and give generously.