Lee Coombs is a man who needs little introduction, a constant name and face on the dance music landscape since the mid-1990s. He has played a major part in charting the ever changing course of electronic music. Now he gives us an insight into his sound of 2009 with this his latest opus in the form of third artist album “Light and Dark”.

“Light and Dark” is in Coombs own words “…a true tech funk album”, an amalgam of sounds and influences from dance music’s often disparate scenes. Alongside acts like Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes and Elite Force, Coombs has pioneered this open minded attitude and helped forge the sound of tech funk, a fusion of techno, breaks, house and electro. On this long player Coombs takes the tech funk spirit and develops it to the n’th degree, it is a true melting pot of influences, from the opening bars of the Diva driven “Control” with the wonderful Katherine Ellis to the final refrain of the heavily Echo & the Bunnymen inspired “Blues I’m Singing”.

This is not an album for those who want an LP that stays in a single static vein from beginning to end. Rather this is an album that is a true celebration of electronic music…