Kirk Degiorgio and Catherine Siofra Prendergast don their As One alias for a new long player, their third for Belgian label, De:Tuned. Requiem finds them staying true to their pioneering `90s UK techno roots, but adding some 21st Century polish and punch to that classic sound.

The opening God Particle is an immediate highlight. A race of syncopated chimes, snares and soaring, emotive strings that beautifully balances dance floor momentum with sunset / sunrise introspection. It’s up there with anything As One have ever done. Fractured Light and Luminescence aren’t far behind. Swooning romantic orchestration illuminating the latter.

Swirling Mass builds, constructs Carl Craig-esque drama from dark drones and percussive crashes. Synths spinning and spiralling, alluding to the track’s title, before hitting, surfing a sea of TB-303 belches and bleeps. Everything on offer flexes a little acidic energy. Even if it’s only tender, tasteful twists.

The busier, and buoyant bass-ed, The Furthest Place makes like a house-ier shake of stuff like Drexciya’s Sea Snake. Message Received has fractured pianos flying around, like a beatless reimagining of Basic Channel’s Phylps Trak. Our Ancient Future is a clapping, clattering Red Planet meteor shower, with a rumbling funk B-line.

Requiem itself is the record at its most urgent. A speedy symphony that sort of reprises the trance of CJ Bolland’s Camargue and Luke Slater’s Planetary Assault Systems. A shot of racing but reflective retro-not-retro. The track, like the rest of the album, hurtling toward the future while affectionately glancing back.

As One Requiem is out now on De:tuned.