Dutch DJ / producer Jochem Paap’s first releases were a run of E.P.s on Ritchie Hawtin and John Acquaviva’s label, Plus 8. The 12s appeared through 1990 to 1992, under the pseudonyms Public Energy and Speedy J. These were then followed, in 1993, by a Speedy J LP, Ginger. While Hawtin and Acquaviva issued the album, Jochem also used it to launch his own imprint, Beam Me Up! In addition, the record was licensed to Warp, as part of their Artificial Intelligence series. It’s Warp who have now remastered and repressed it.

None of the album tracks rely on big riffs or hooks, but rather almost solely on rhythm. The opening titular tune, for example, builds from a pulse to something tribal – like a slightly smoother Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia – while the closer, De-Orbit has bleeps, and some serious bass, ride a rolling hip hop break. The track, Beam Me Up, is a radical re-edit / rework of Reuben Wilson’s Got To Get Your Own, which surely draws inspiration from Carl Craig’s ground-breaking early `90s gear. Showering a loop of the rare groove favourite with trippy sequences. Basic Design travels at speed, with an express train rattle of filtered and phased cymbals. Pepper is gated, and euphoric. The brilliant, bucolic, mid-tempo IDM of R2 D2 is slashed by Brian Eno / Sky Saw guitar.

The album is at its most abstract on Pitch Perfect. A wall of echoed elements, including sonics that sound like screeching gulls, there is, however, a melodic payoff for the patient, which slowly emerges from its marching, machined mist. The whole not unlike some of Andrew Weatherall’s more out-there dubwise, techno experiments. Flashback, on the other hand, with sonar blips and drama in its detail, provides the most straight forward, party-starting, pounding.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Fill 4 and Fill 14, given how they’re named, would be mere interludes. However, they’re far from that. Yeah, sure they’re shorter, but they’re still terrific tunes. The former is all relaxing Steve Reich-ian percussion. The latter, a racing rush of river-like chimes, with an undercurrent of classic Detroit-influenced strings. Throughout the album, ethereal angels feature, cooling, and calming, no matter how fevered your raver’s brow.

Speedy J’s Ginger is out, again, on Warp.