A seminal album from one of electronic music’s most original artists. If you don’t have this in your collection, you shouldn’t even pretend to know anything about electronic music. Even now, 11 years after its release, there’s nothing that even comes close to the sublimity of Bytes. “Carceres Ex Novum” still is one of my top 5 electronic tracks of all time, and if you look at my collection, you’ll know that I don’t say this lightly. It blends an Arabic melody with a complex ¾ time signature for results that are truly out-of-this-world. The rest of the album is as equally intricate and fascinating. “3/4 Heart” and “Jauqq” both add to the mysterious and skewed melodic quality of the album. There’s no way around it, Bytes is a timeless masterpiece.

I didn't even know this came out! If you're reading this and not the Warp version, I may as well tell you that this is one of the all-time greatest electronic LPs, up there with the very best. I was only a kid when it came out and didn't really understand the music, little did I know I would return to it over and over again in the coming years...'Caz' by Close Up Over is a masterpiece of funky melodic techno, perhaps THE masterpiece but it is matched by so many moments on this record...3/4 Heart is unmatched to this day (July 2003). Buy it and have a happy life.