Gerald Cleaver is best known as a drummer who's worked with free-jazz luminaries including William Parker and Matthew Shipp but, here, he strikes out into less familiar territory with an album of solo electronics. But perhaps it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.

Though based in New York, Cleaver was born and raised in Detroit, and this album pays oblique homage to that city's fertile Techno scene. That said, almost none of the tracks here employs techno's thumping 4/4 crunch, opting, instead, to investigate more outré rhythmic configurations. ‘Jackie's Smiles’, for instance, layers cogs of distorted steel pan and dry brush shush over a lurching cycle, while ‘Tomasz’ is more ambient, yearning skyward with ascending cosmic swirls of bliss. Running throughout many of the tracks is a robotic burbling that more explicitly alludes to the techno influence – the same kind of ecstatic wibble as can be heard on Donna Summer's ‘I Feel Love’ – positioning this as both a sly deconstruction of the idea of electronic dance music and a retrofuturist manifesto of considerable imagination.