Idol Tryouts 2 is a various artists compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 released by Ann Arbor, Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

-based record label Ghostly International

Ghostly International

Ghostly International is an American independent record label. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye , Mobius Band, and Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys, all of which are innovative contributors to the world of music....

. 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

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

, synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

, techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

, electro

Electro (music)

Electro is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines, Moog keytar synthesizers and funk sampling...

, tech house

Tech house

Tech house is a subgenre of house music that mixes elements of minimal techno into simple, 4-to-4 beats found in soulful deep house. The genre came to prominence in the late-1990s atmosphere of American clubs as soul influenced Detroit-style techno that also borrowed elements from house before...

 and hip hop

Hip hop music

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. Included in Idol Tryouts 2 is a second disc which highlights ambient music

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 selections from Ghostly International artists.

Disc one

1. Solvent
   Solvent (producer)
   Solvent is the stage name used by electronic producer and remixer Jason Amm . Although his music has been included in the electroclash movement , many of Solvent's tracks fall under the intelligent dance music or electropop genres...
   
    "Introduction to Ghosts"
2. Matthew Dear
   Matthew Dear
   Matthew Dear is an American music producer, DJ and electronic avant-pop artist.-History:Texas- born Dear moved to Michigan as a teenager, where he was inspired by the sound of Detroit Techno...
   
    "Send You Back"
3. Outputmessage "Sommeil"
4. Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys
   Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys
   Skeletons are an American entertainment unit from Oberlin, Ohio. They currently live in New York City....
   
    "Fit Black Man"
5. Kill Memory Crash
   Kill Memory Crash
   Kill Memory Crash is three-piece Electronic band from Chicago, Illinois. They originally formed around 1998, they made an almost self-imposed exile from the music industry due to their indifferences to the popular styles of Electronic music at the time. They eventually made a very sinister sounding...
   
    "Press + Burn"
6. Dabrye
   Dabrye
   Dabrye is an alias of Ann Arbor, Michigan-based musician Tadd Mullinix , whose Winking Makes A Face was the first album released by Ann Arbor’s Ghostly International...
   
    "Magic Says"
7. Mobius Band "Electronic Piano"
8. Daniel Wang "Berlin Sunrise"
9. Charles Mainer "Bang Bang Lover"
10. Benoit Pioulard
    Benoit Pioulard
    Thomas Meluch is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and photographer, best known by his pseudonym Benoît Pioulard.- Biography :...
    
     "Depths & the Seashore"
11. Solvent "Spin Cycle"
12. Lawrence "Wasting a Fall"
13. Mobius Band "Loving Sounds of Static" (Junior Boys
    Junior Boys
    -History:Junior Boys formed in 1999 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as a duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark. Years of collaboration followed and a demo was produced, but after many rejections and near-misses, they were resigned to being bedroom beat constructors. Soon after, Johnny Dark left the...
    
     Remix)

Disc two

1. Loscil
   Loscil
   Loscil is the electronic/ambient music project of Scott Morgan, from Vancouver, BC. The name Loscil is taken from the "looping oscillator" function in Csound...
   
    "Umbra"
2. Deru "Straight Speak"
3. Sybarite
   Sybarite
   Sybarite may refer to:*Greek Sybarites, from Sybaris, an ancient Greek city in what is now southern Italy*Sybarite , the alias of New York electronic musician Xian Hawkins...
   
    "Sanctuary"
4. Cepia "Ramp"
5. Cepia "Hoarse"
6. Kiln
   Kiln (band)
   Kiln is a Michigan-based Ambient trio that is a reincarnation of ambient group Fibreforms.-Discography:*Treedrums as Fibreforms...
   
    "Isthmus"
7. Greg Davis "Amaranthine"
8. Lusine
   Lusine
   Lusine is Texan Jeff McIlwain, an ambient/IDM musician. Originally a Texas native, Jeff now resides in Seattle. In 1998, he attended California Institute of the Arts to study 20th century electronic music and sound design for music and film...
   
    + David Wingo "Locks"
9. Aeroc "Little Something"
10. Christoper Willits "Colors Shifting"
11. Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion "Love on a Real Train (Risky Business)"
12. Twine "Gliding in On"
13. Tim Hecker
    Tim Hecker
    Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. Hecker previously recorded under the moniker Jetone, but has become better known internationally for his ambient recordings released through Kranky, Mille Plateaux, Alien8, Force Inc, Staalplaat, and Fat Cat under his...
    
     "Sundown6093"
14. Richard Devine
    Richard Devine
    Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from hip-hop to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records, which was founded by . He has also done...
    
    "Murman"