Sullen Look

Italian producer Marco Passarani’s work flits between acid and electro, techno and house, and, on ‘Sullen Look’, his playful nature comes to the fore. There’s melodic, Warp-esque bleeps on ‘Red Panda Sunrise’ and ‘Earth’s Heart’, shades of Kraftwerk on ‘CBS Master Theme’, the sexy, infectious Italo of ‘Clair’ and, best of all, an androgynous male vocal fronting a twisted electronic house cover version of 80s soul sugar daddy Alexander O’Neal’s ‘Criticise’. Like much of Passarani’s work, this is bizarre but brilliant.