At the height of the Big Beat craze, one label stood taller than the rest – Skint. Boasting names like Fatboy Slim and X-Press 2, the label produced some of the most successful cross-over music in the business. Damian Harris, one of the owners of Skint, also produced music under the name Midfield General, and had some minor hits on his hands.

However, as the music press turned on Big Beat, deriding it as cheese, Harris became a little more reclusive with his works, opting to produce others works rather than his own. This lead to him becoming executive producer of Justice, and yet another huge cross-over success.

Unfortunately, even though he seems to have magic with other people, his own work never seems to have that mass appeal. And I don’t think this is going to change with General Disarray. There are some really great tunes here, but they’re all just a little too left of centre to really catch the general public’s ears. Disco Sirens with its housey vocals and disco bassline is probably the closest that he’ll get to commercial success. Love Thy Self and On The Road are sure to please the electro lovers out there, and be played in many dancefloor sets.

But it is the left field tracks like Teddy Bear – a spoken word piece over music about a disabled boy talking to truckers on a CB Radio, and Seed Distribution by The Might Boosh’s Noel Fielding, which is as warped as Noel Fielding can be, shows where Harris has gone in the last few years. He hasn’t lost the real essence of big beat, which went beyond the cheese and commerciality and actually explored what could be done with electronic music.