Today's Special: Luke Vibert

Throughout the heady days of late 90s and post-millennium English IDM, there was always Luke Vibert who managed to sound the same without sounding tired. Unlike Vibert, the flames of popularity of his counterparts and buddies Richard D. James and Mike Paradinas have burned brighter but have long been extinguished. Given the barrage of new music served up on the internet, I’d written the guy off, feeling the man’s sound couldn’t sustain my interest. But then, he released We Hear You, and I was transported to my college years listening to Throbbing Pouch. Like that slept-on release, Vibert still demonstrates a playful, yet masterly grasp of current trends in electronic music while making them sound distinctively Vibert.