Super-refined, funky and fresh – with a roster including Villalobos, Daze Maxim and Vera what else would we expect from Assemble Music? Here Cologne’s St Joseph stretches out on his first ever full-length, resulting in 8 individually intriguing headspaces for you to inhabit at your leisure. ‘MFB1′ and ‘Kinda Fly’ mix slow dusty samples with pristine programming in a German homage to the Detroit house masters Joseph so admires. Elsewhere, he takes his cue from closer to home: ‘Music’ and the stunning opener ‘The Good Shit’ remind of classic Isolée. Or put the needle on ‘Raw Jam’ and find yourself catapulted into a frenzy of offbeat snare hits, claps and acid lines, sounding half like a live jazz drum solo and half like a synthesizer in its final throes – invigorating! St Joseph brings a real musician’s feeling to his productions that should be prized very highly. ‘I’m A Lover Not A Hater’ he says – on the evidence of this vinyl-only longplayer, we can well believe it.