Electronica

This week's electronica CD reviewed

Swedish producer Alex Willner's much-admired debut album, From Here We Go Sublime, created soundtracks for skyscraping, cloud- bursting escapism with its hypnotic grooves, bespoke textures and unrecognisable samples. There's little change to that template as Yesterday and Today unfolds with the mesmerising I Have the Moon, You Have the Internetbuilding with a pitter-patter of soft-shuffle snaps, bleeps and clicks. Elsewhere, The More That I Doutilises a sliver of the Cocteau Twins' Lorelei to heighten and accentuate the bliss, while the title track has Battles' drummer John Stanier fitting a muscular under- carriage to Willner's fine-boned engineering. But the producer's constant need to amplify the gossamer and fragile aspects of his beats leads to repetition and a sense that Yesterday and Today is looking back rather than forward. Solving that stylistic conundrum will occupy Willner for some time. www.myspace. com/thefieldthlm

Download tracks: Yesterday and Today, The More That I Do

JIM CARROLL