G-Man (LFO) - Moonbase Alpha

Circuitry Electronic launches with a release that stands as a statement of intent - an artist with few true peers within English electronic music, with an album that jumps out of the speakers and slaps you around the chops.

G-Man is Gez Varley - one half of Sheffield pioneers, LFO, and, thirty years into his solo career, he returns with his first vinyl album release since Avanti on Force Inc way back in 2002.

Having worked with the likes of Richie Hawtin, Karl Bartos, Laurent Garnier, Art of Noise, Radiohead, YMO and Alan Wilder, in addition to the LFO output, you'd expect Gez to know his way around a techno dancefloor rhythm and drum pattern, and this is an inventive funk-filled journey that never veers too far into experimental territory yet avoids the cliches and generic tropes that too often lose the listener when techno manifests in album form.

As the inaugural release on the Circuitry Electronic label, this album plugs all the right sockets; stay close for further electronic expansions on the theme on the label in the coming months

‘Sparse, hypnotic big-room techno that builds from the bass drum up’ - 4/5 - Mojo