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This album is nothing short of mesmerising. Evan Marc is otherwise known as Bluetech, and if you caught the evolution of his sound from his debut album to 2005’s Sines And Singularities, then the prospect of this release is likely to get you fairly wet.

If Bluetech is the ambient and chillout act, Evan Marc is the tech-house project. But it’s not just derivative, post-Trentemoller tech-house. Marc’s near-visionary sense of emotion translates perfectly from the ambient, and when you place it all in a new mellow-beat context it takes on a whole new life.

Marc’s production is glassy, crystalline, spacious. The louder you play it, the tighter and more absorbing it becomes.

Opening track Skyline marks the transition from ambient to tech. At its centre is a huge sonic vacuum, around which playful percussion and subtle themes patter around. The melody rises for the last third of the track, at which point you realise that what you’re listening to has all the emotional expression of the deepest chillout track, except with a beat that you can dance to, and thoroughly lose yourself in.

Centigrade reminds me of Tokyo, but I have no idea why this is the case. It’s busier, more involved and focussed, but still with this effortlessly mellow approach. Silver takes things to a more paranoid and slightly sinister place, with morphed and stretched sounds betraying Marc’s background in psychedelic music, while Lineform pushes things back up toward the light, with a suggestion of breeziness about it.

Shuffle Bits is cracking: pure techno through an offworld blender. Seriously good shit this, it’s got all the hallmarks of classic “proper” techno (the intelligent stuff that none of us psy people know anything about). Likewise Active Ingredient and Stamen: atonal and somewhere between pumping and laid-back.

It’s worth noting again at this stage that what really makes this special is how you can only define it by what it isn’t. Recognising that it works in a similar way to Bluetech’s chillout, while your foot’s tapping away and you’re being taken to a very unique place, all makes for something very unique, and very special.

This is perfectly demonstrated in Spacesuit, a staggeringly confident and well-conceived track which I urge you to check out here (http://www.myspace.com/psybooty). Likewise Ekoshok: perfectly-structured, exquisitely-realised, the strongest example of exactly what it is that’s going on here. Finally, Spiral House does more or less what it says on the tin, psychedelically breezing its way back to the sort of sound we had on Sines And Singularities.

It all adds up to a compelling, loveable, and generally marvellous little package. The evolution is the key here – Bluetech’s ambient sound suddenly makes a lot more sense when placed in the context of Emotional Ecology. Aside from that, while a lot of tech-house is intentionally cold and removed, having something as warm and as genuinely transporting as this is a huge leap forward.

This one I’ll recommend until I’m blue in the face or until you hit me, whichever comes first.