Three years in the making, the deceptively simply entitled 'Man Music Technology' is what it says it is - one man making music with technology.
Choosing a title so reminiscent of Kraftwerk could easily have proven to be the album's undoing. Especially when the music recalls rave, early Human League and the sort of quirky electronic bleeps and synthetic squeaks that powered electro-clash.
But this is a historic, hip hop to house epic of an album, stitched loosely together with a series of 'skits'.
All of which means the album should become a magnet for the painstakingly fashionable trainspotter set and could even become in car listening for today's Euro millionaire playboys.
Stefano Fontana's creation is an aural landscape painted largely with the retro shades of ELO / ELP / Jean Michel Jarre and, more currently, Leftfield.
One listen to 'It's The Old School With The New School' has you automatically chalking up the references on the back catalogue score board. 180. Possibly.
Even Pink Floyd-esque choral prog shock intentions are heard in the opening 'Vinylstyloz' whilst Eighties b-boy electro pop gets a look in with tracks like 'Break at 100bpm' (which has the cheek to use that god awful 'break' vocal sample) and 'Dialog'.
None of this means this isn't any good.
On the contrary - it's great. A totally enjoyable ride that "once you've popped you just can't stop".
Plus there's obvious chart potential - the soon to be released 'If Everybody In The World Loved Everybody In The World' and 'Da Symphony', a could-be breezy, summer vocal hit of Madison Avenue-like proportions.
This is indisputably a promising album debut from the Prolifica stable. It's funky, quirky, dark, housey, twisted, disco-y and druggy and takes you on a proper journey - which is what made Daft Punk and Basement Jaxx stand out not so long ago.
