Singapore

After chucking Underworld, Darren Emerson seems less and less interested with what got him to where he is in the first place – techno – and more concerned with keeping up with the Fontaines and Tongs of this world. And this double CD mix proves that he really ain’t sure what he wants to be.

Sure, there’s a good few underground belters from DJ Sneak, Jori Hulkkonen, Inland Knights, Medicine and Felix The Housekatt, but these sit uncomfortably beside hooj choons from Laurent Garnier, Hatiras, Kc vs Flightt, Slam and Jose Nunez – all good records, yes, but done to death at this stage. The programming’s decidedly odd too, sometimes sounding like it was knocked together tune by tune rather than as a journey. Man. The house-y CD2’s better than CD1, but on this evidence, Emerson needs to check his head before he goes any further.