It's been a while since we've heard from Stellar Om Source, the musical pseudonym of synthesizer obsessive Christelle Gauldi. Now within the loving arms of New York's brilliant RVNG INTL, she's ready to drop her first album since 2009. Predictably, it's superb, dripping with stylish synths, vintage drum machines and a knowing attitude -Gauldi is a student of proto-techno, early house, classic electro and Warp-ish early IDM. Joy One Mile sounds like a one-woman tribute to the combined works of Cybotron, Richard H. Kirk, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Newcleus and Legowelt. Yet it's deeper and more stylish than that. Seriously, if synth fetishism is your thing, check it out - if only for the sublime "Par Amour".

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