Featuring on Marc Romboy’s Systematic label, is Chelonis R Jones, a New Yorker by birth, who has travelled well as part of his multi-talented search for a base-line somewhere. He is a fascinating character, as well-known for his poetry, as his short story writing and even the occasional diversion into Proustian novels. However, his song-writing started as a child and, therefore, he appears ready-formed on the electronica and techno label that provides a platform for his talents and his latest album, ‘Chatterton’, which is unusual in that it possesses such a singularly English name, while the sound that has been produced for him could never be anything less than Teutonic house music.

It is a great sound too and is his fourth album under his own steam, his prolific nature forcing him into collaborations with every popular name from the DJ scene of the past fifteen years, including Jochen Pash, Pinktronix, Tocadisco, El Carlito and even Royskopp, before he settled with Marc Romboy and launched his latest delving into techno. He is fortunate, as he has a memorable voice and one that is flexible enough to turn itself to considerably more mainstream diversions, should he choose to pursue them.

Yet, somehow, I think he is content to reside on the sidelines, exclaiming his poetic licence and broadcasting his unique style to an ever-widening range of admirers. His will to declare his androgyny and his various neuroses is abundantly clear and, when you listen to his lyrical statements, they are packed with remarkable imagery related to hitting the depths of penury, yet charting his personal growth, by means of enlightenment and tremendous hope and aspirations for the future. Yet, somewhere deep within this man’s being lies a troubled soul that is capable of displaying remarkable misanthropy and a fear of confinement.

Whether you can believe him or not, this is an album of great depth and intensity that warrants repetition