As you hear the opening bars of Take Your Time you know the Lotus Blooms LP is going to appeal to a particular audience. Once you’ve heard the thing all the way through you’d struggle to count the musical reference points. On the whole it harks back to the days when music with electronic drums still had bucket-loads of soul. It’s not all about the energy, it’s about the simplicity, the rhythm, and the melody. This is that place where techno meets jazz, electronic sequenced production next to acoustic audio recording techniques, to create music that still manages to sound spontaneous without losing direction or becoming over-indulgent.

Admittedly not every track is a winner. In fact the Lotus Blooms LP is probably not produced well enough to make it a universally loved, timeless piece. However the magical moments far outweigh the fillers. Dive straight in for the opener, the beautifully bouncing Bombakiss and, then, the broken soul anthem Lotus Blooms. If you need to pick tracks to skip some of the Hancock inspired Callelunakarma Movements and the unnecessarily bizarre Sonata in C are average.

This is one of the first records to come out of the US that is very heavily influenced by the UK broken beat sound. Celebrate. We are pioneers. American artists are now looking at the UK and being influenced by music made on these shores for the first time in our lives.