The rapid rise and fall of electroclash this time last year might have left a fair few of us wondering where the beef was, but this might in the end prove to be no bad thing.
In its wake a whole series of undefined new movements have flourished in the form of No Wave, punk funk, booty nights, a new phase of indie-kid electro and indietronica.
Proper Filthy Naughty, aka John Ross, has taken electroclash's themes but turned them back towards the dance floor, producing an album that is closer to what people hoped electroclash would deliver than anything it actually delivered.
'Fascination' kicks in as it means to continue, with 'Automatic', a slamming piece if dancefloor driven acidic big beat that sounds more 1994 than 2003.
From here things take a more electro bend, as the current single, 'Fascination', stomps forward.
Having found its beat the album sticks for a while, as tracks such as 'Cowfunk' and 'To The Beat' stay with angular snare arrangements, rising in interest via the odd electronic vocal, change of tempo and occasional snarling techno bass lines.
But throughout Ross keeps his sites on the sweat of the small club dancefloor and this works best when he is in big beat and dancehall jungle mode, as he is on 'Beautiful Day' and 'Stitch Up' - two album high points.
Having blown the set open, 'Flow' eases back into an ambient dub, while 'Philter' slams in the techno beats and 'Great Western' closes the album with a wash of chill out tracks.
Proper indeed.
