Pilgremage is a journey through which Rennie Pilgrem fully expresses himself musically and shows off his talents. You can hear a wide and diverse range of influence and style, and furthermore see that he is a talented musician as well as brilliant beat manipulator.

The opening track Attention seems totally out of character for Pilgrem, being a short and sweet Acid Jazz style number, complete with funky sax and groovy piano that rolls along nicely. It’s a refreshing change to what you expect from a breaks producer like Pilgrem. Defender begins with classical violins and pumps in with a very house orientated beat, which fades out to a new order style guitar riff, and then moves to an acid fuelled beat track.

Sanctified is a rocky breakbeat tune that will no doubt find it’s way into a Adam Freeland set. ‘Rock and Roll will never die… Techno is Bullshit’ says an American voice – and then you hear Pilgrems voice simply say, ‘wicked, that’s my next tune’ as my favourite tune Gladiator starts. The phat basslines indicative of nuschool breaks rolls over the electro chords, and breakdowns with the voice from the start being cut up to say ‘techno will never die…rock and roll is bullshit’.

Sara Whittaker-Gilbey provides vocals to the anthem Coming Up For Air, which is sure to be a big track over this summer. Uberzone and Pilgrem redo their classic Fuego 2, with its big and nasty bassline, which is followed by Celeb, an electro-acid rant in collaboration with MC Chickaboo about the cult of celebrity. The rough beats return in Trevor Pistol, another stomping nuschool breaks track that combines heavy rock bass with techno infused bleeps. Go Back returns the funk, sounding as though it came straight from some ghetto studio of the 70’s.

The final track on the pilgrimage of aural delights is Atlantis, a smooth, dreamy production that could be made by Future Sound of London or the Orb. There’s also a bonus track called Acid Part 3, which is from the film The Football Factory, made by the people behind Human Traffic. This is a fabulous old school style acid house track, complete with the infamous 303 squelch that defined acid house and distorted vocals saying what else but “acid”.