“From Cyberton With Love” demonstrates the effective timelessness of spacey electronica. Although it’s badged as progressive techno, the original mix is almost closer to old-school, with a gentle, 5-bar-over-4 melody strongly reminiscent mid-90’s-era trance (the dreamy whacked-out stuff, not the Ibiza hands-in-the-air sugar frenzy that came shortly after). It’s certainly progressive though, slowly shifting levels and tone with casual effortlessness over a fairly conventional six-and-a-half-minute, DJ friendly structure. Existential “what is reality?” spoken word samples meander in slowly, then meander out, equally slowly. It’s all a bit “Space Manoeuvres”, but in a good way, and sounds fresh thanks to solid production.

The EP format feels nicely old-school too, with the original, a remix, and a dub version of each. The original is quite spacious already so a dub version is only a subtle change, marginally more stripped back, and nicely steady.

The Skylar Mills remix thickens things up just slightly, with an almost wooden kick sound, a little more urgency in the bass and more prominence given to the dialogue- but it’s a fairly subtle rework rather than a total genre shift. Unexpectedly the dub mix, instead of just being the same with a few tracks removed, goes further in that direction, substituting in a deeper kick drum and changing the structure for some proper, near-industrial techno action.

It’s a solid bit of light-edged progressive techno, unremarkable in some ways but nevertheless really endearing.