Sounds From The Ground are Nick Woolfson and Elliot Morgan Jones, two survivors from the mid 90s trip-hop scene that made what Melody Maker (remember that?) called 'one of the first sex ambient cuts'. And while Melody Maker might have been generalising just a tad, Sounds From The Ground (S.F.T.G) are definitely an act that's ripe for a revival, which is why 365mag was so happy to get their re-mastered album, Kin, in the mail. Ah, postie, if you only knew what you missed…

If you're in ambient territory, it's really all about making atmospheric music. If you can't give your listeners a sense of place, of feel, of ambience…well, then you don't deserve a 15 year career that makes you big in the US (ah, college radio… who needs Clear Channel) and a regular act at Big Chill. Which is what Sounds From The Ground have had, so they must be doing something right.

But back in the early 90s, which is when this pair started out, you didn't have a FaceBook, a MySpace, A Twitter and a PR running the show, you just made good tunes, got some gigs and got noticed. And listening to this, a re-mastered version of the album that got things going for S.F.T.G in the first place, its unsurprising they got themselves a following - they manage to mix genres like chilled hip-hop, jazz and dub with electronics to create tracks that are both relaxing and involving at the same time.

In particular we like the 'washed over by warm blue sea'-feel we get from Triangle, while the trip-hop reminiscences that Seven Sisters and Drawn To The Woman provoke are good fun too. But while this is a nice little number if you're old enough to remember the 90s, it might be of limited interest otherwise - unless you're looking for the roots of the 90s Bristol sound. Yeah, we know SFTG are from London - dance music's funny like that.