Alan Wilder, he of Depeche Mode fame, is the mastermind behind Recoil. Over the past several years, he has collaborated with countless artists to write, record, and play alongside including luminaries and lesser known artists such as Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy, Joe Richardson, and Maggie Estep among many others. “Selected” is a collection of past tracks, remastered and remixed. While many artists that release these sorts of albums are trying to do so for the fans or simply to make a quick buck, Recoil’s “Selected” seems far removed from both of those commonalities. Instead what I hear is a band that wants to re-create an identity by mashing together so many past diverse ones. I hear a man who wanted to re-introduce himself to some and provide a nice introduction to those who’ve never heard of Recoil before. Granted Recoil isn’t for everyone, it’s not always a particularly danceable electronica group. It doesn’t pretend to know the latest trends or clichés in electronic music. However this is a two-disc set that combines to go in two different veins. The first being one that tries to collapse into a sound that doesn’t waffle from one track to the next and indeed feels like a full-length concept album. The second disc is all of the remixes and that’s where things pop and weave like a great boxer in the ring. You never know what to expect but you find yourself rooting him on from track to track. Wilder may never fully come out from behind the shadow of his former band, but Recoil is most certainly several steps out of the gate already.