The producer, real name Rudi Agius, hails from Malta, but conceived of Visions while completing his doctoral work in London. "My life was literally getting back from the lab and spending the night making some music," he says. "The gloom is something that I love." Agius, whose previous City Life '88 cassette also came via the Los Angeles-based 100% Silk, locked down Merwyn Sanders of Virgo Four and Xosar to collaborate on the record. Appropriately, the Jupiter Jax project falls somewhere between classic house labels like Nu Groove and Gherkin and newer leftfield imprints such as Workshop