Paul Research's brand of instrumental or spoken-instrumental techno sits between somewhere Skinny Puppy and Steve Hackett and has a certain cinematic quality. It could be the perfect soundtrack for some warped videogame set in a claustrophobic, bladerunnery environment CyberNascar, Psycho Death in Space, you name it. Every now and then you get a moment of relief with a tinkling keyboard sound like Peter Gabriel's 'San Jacinto', then he's off again on a metal guitar/car chase like the millenium never ended ...careful with that axe, Paul! Yes, the world is a bleak and dangerous place. Still, you only have to have a look at the internet to find some scarier representation of the world's many corruptions also, we've already had a band who told us modern life was rubbish, and that band was rubbish enough. The titles are pretty eloquent: 'I Understand That She's In Love', 'Slow Down, Save Energy', 'Don't Point That Thing At Me'. Tuxedomoon is another name that comes to mind. And Gary Numan.