He calls it "vintage sounds for modern music", but really it's his rock'n'roll album. Arnaud Rebotini's Music Components is the result of turning his back on today's too-clean digital electronics. Bunkered down, alone in a studio of beautiful vintage synths and beatboxes, he adopted one of many sets of strict rules.

It was simple: all music had to be generated live. Rebotini's killer touring set for this album is all live - no laptops, no pre-prepared sequencing. But even the album, where less daring is standard, laptops were put in their rightful place - they were used only as expensive tape recorders.

It's the kind of monomanicial musical dedication you get from the man who founded Blackstrobe, the Parisian dancefloor duo whose stated ambition was to "make electronic music that scares people". Founded in 2001 with Ivan Smagghe, that duo later went on to be helmed soley by Rebotini for its most recent album, 'Burn your own church' - chief singer / songwriter Arnaud Rebotini, and produced by noise genius Paul Epworth / Phones.

Now Rebotini is back with Music Components. His first solo album since experimental pop album Organique as "Zend Avesta" and a brilliant followup to his recent run of releases on seminal French label Goodlife. as well as high-profile Blackstrobe remixes of Royksopp, Frankmusik, The Rapture, and Tiefschwartz. The album will be released in February 2009 in the UK and the rest of Europe.

It’s already a 4/5 on Resident Advisor and the front cover of France's TRAX magazine. And to get you ready, here's the first EP, "Music Components EP". Released on 12 January, it runs from the low-down album opening track The Spirit of Boogie to the epic and emotional 777 to the original and dub versions of the high drama of The Swamp Waltz...

Album promo following soon...