While the name Flying Lotus is reason enough to buy this release, I’ll give a very brief explanation of what the music is all about.

Flying Lotusis another of the experimental dance yoke that are found exclusively on Warp. Every single time I get one of these CDs through I just can’t help but mention the label almost immediately.

At times it’s difficult to describe these artists without first saying they’re on Warp – think Warp, think 90% innovative and out-there electronica (Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Clark) with around 10% bands that seem to come out of nowhere (Battles and Gravenhurst).

Tea Leaf Dancers, the opening track, sounds like a fairly standard dance track fed through a tremolo pedal. With the attack at the start of each bar starting up faintly and gathering into a volume swell, it could prove to either confuse or seriously entertain a listener.

I was most definitely entertained, but with an artist on Warp I can almost never be steered wrong. They should just start paying me to be a PR assistant because I haven’t said a single bad word about any of the releases put out by them.

The second track, Vegas Collie,is deceptively straightforward and short. Cue drum loops in standard timing. Have drum loops develop into a relentless pounding of incoherent time signature foreplay. Bring in weird ‘80s videogame sounding music for a while. End track. This is how Space Invaders would seem if you took acid and listened to Aphex Twin all night.

The highlight of Reset, however, has to be Spicy Sammich. Not just because of the awesome name, but because the whole track reeks of cool. Dirty fuzz bass, vinyl crackling, ominous synths coming in like spaceships from overhead, echoey vocals that creep under your skin.