The phrase "a kind of compilation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is a collection or aggregation of various items, data, or information.
Example: "The book is a kind of compilation of essays from various authors on the topic of climate change."
Alternatives: "a type of collection" or "a sort of anthology".
What it is then is a kind of compilation, My Riot, on shuffle.
His first independent work, this was a kind of compilation of the latest, most celebrated archaeological finds.
And when we know that it is eucalyptus, one of the world's most flammable trees, we understand it also contains incendiary power, a kind of compilation of all the roaring eucalypts that have burned Australia in recent years.
The album does not contain the off-the-hook experimentation of 2002's "Yankee Foxtrot Hotel" or the sinister tug of 2004's "Ghost Is Born" but is a kind of compilation of a band at the height of its powers.
As its subtitle, "American Art From the Yale University Art Gallery" indicates, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" is a kind of "Treasures of" compilation, organized originally as a traveling show during the final phase of the museum's expansion and renovation.
Like many of Godard's later films, "Goodbye to Language," which opens today, is a kind of collage, a compilation of images and sounds, incidents and phrases that don't tell only one story but bring lots of stories together, in a cycle that fulfills a grand idea.
Call the Midwife is more than yet another tale of posh folk, while Dickensian – a kind of Greatest Hits compilation of the great man's work: Now That's What I Call Dickens! – is, naturally, peopled with as many characters living the low life as the high.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called the album a "stellar collection", concluding that it is "the kind of compilation that satisfies fans of all stripes and converts skeptics.
Instead they base their decisions on a videotape compilation, a kind of highlight reel, of the bloodiest or raciest scenes.
But Shepherd winces at the idea of anyone using the word "jazzy" to describe his music, as if it could be found on the kind of compilation that would've played in a hotel lobby in 1998.
Over the last decade several states have undertaken arduous "proportionality reviews," the compilation of a kind of depravity index to guide appellate courts in making sure that capital punishment is reserved for certain kinds of crimes.
