A legend among devotees in Europe, has been gradually making a name for himself as a composer of original dance music as well as a world-class DJ and remixer. His second artist album finds him taking the final step into real songwriting, working with such singers as , and and continuing both to refine and expand his personal vision of the ways can be defined in a constantly expanding dance music universe. The album opens powerfully with the surprisingly breaks-based a well put together celebration of funkiness that luxuriates in a long instrumental intro before eventually turning into a song featuring the attractive voice of . From there on, things fall into a more familiar pattern: sonically pretty but rhythmically predictable club anthems supporting singers and lyricists of varying quality -- on the high side, there's the faintly -ish on a very fine song titled ; on the low side is the breathtakingly tedious featuring both . Most of the rest falls somewhere in between, and will appeal mainly to those with well-developed tastes in the genre. [A bonus track version was also released.] ~ Rick Anderson