Luke Vibert, as experimental techno's most reliable veteran, probably doesn't have a singer/songwriter record in him anymore, not after close to 20 years of acid-tinged hip-hop under a garden variety of aliases. His third record for
Mike Paradinas' Planet Mu imprint is a
Luke Vibert solo record, which usually means cleaner, academic acid techno (at least compared to his deeply stoned
Wagon Christ material). The production is spot-on as usual, if less surprising in 2009, with musical references to acid and drum'n'bass as well as straight-up IDM, and vocal samples lifted from golden age hip-hop, horror films, and monster movies alike. ~ John Bush