Originally released through Mylo’s independent label last year, ‘Destroy Rock & Roll’ has been widely heralded as one of the landmark dance albums of this century. Having duly shifted 200,000 units in Britain and received critical plaudits from all quarters, Sony obviously decided to get in on a good thing and signed Mr MacInnes up in partnership with his own label. Now, following the release of the Miami Sound Machine bootleg, ‘Doctor Pressure’, in true corporate style good old Sony have decided to re-release the album bolstered by, wait for it, three extra tracks. Nice.

True, it would be easy to get into a pedantic argument about the major label swiftly cashing in on their latest signing rather than waiting for a new full-length - yet, in all honesty, the more people that hear this brilliant work the better really. From understated synth-driven head-candy moments (‘Sunworshipper’ / ‘Need You Tonite’) to feisty dance-floor-inducing gems(‘Doctor Pressure’) to warm, bleepy classics (‘Otto’s Journey’ / ‘Zenophile’) to pumping tech-tinged opuses (‘Paris Four Hundred’), the amiable Scot barely falters in supplying the listener with aural rapture. Indeed, this is a universal album that’s inherent appeal lies in the fact it doesn’t buy into any solitary genre or mood - it’s the perfect pre-club, night-out or blissed out comedown soundtrack and is just as likely to be listened to by a brain-frazzled clubber as a three-album-a-year-supermarket-CD-buyer.

Perhaps the album’s only snag is the gnawing, ubiquitous title-track which lets it down slightly. But thankfully on this re-release there’s the welcome inclusion of the more palatable, housey version courtesy of Mr Tom Neville. Other new inclusions come in the shape of the aforementioned instantly likable ‘Doctor Beat’ and live favourite and very guitar based ‘Soft Rock’, which perches rather uncomfortably at the end of the album. While the extra tracks fail to add another dimension to the album, fortunately they don’t take anything away.

Electronic music with panache, soul and damn fine melodies, if you don’t already have a copy of ‘Destroy Rock & Roll’ really you’ve got no excuse. We await Mr MacInnes’ next ‘proper’ release with a due sense of anticipation.