Re-emerging with a much more original sound after their 1990 house album,
Kirk and
Mallinder for the most part rely on abstract electro-inspired ambient-techno with extended voice-over samples for
Plasticity. It certainly wasn't the first time
CV had remade themselves without losing elements of their past work (even re-sampling a passage originally recorded over ten years earlier on "Soul Vine [70 Billion People]"), and
Plasticity was an excellent reworking of the house blueprint into the growing fringe of techno not necessarily produced for the dancefloor. The tribal flourishes of "Deep Time" and the obvious signal track "Inside the Electronic Revolution" showcase the duo as continuing visionaries.