Those old enough may remember being stunned when the Artificial Intelligence album emerged on Warp in the early 90s and solidified a lovely hybrid of Detroit deepness and advanced electronica. Benchmarks were raised and blueprints mapped out. Round about the same time, dancefloors basked in the haunting lushness of New York labels like Strictly Rhythm and Nu-Groove.
Doug Adamson’s debut album is beautifully impressive because he’s taken that insidious electronic foraging as a launch-pad and made his own individual masterpiece. The soft pads, dreamy synths, muted throb-grooves and injections of startling Black Dog-style space-ravaging make for a lovely thing indeed.
4 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
