Headman’s latest album Catch Me is an excellent dance album. It has the accessibility to appeal to both the fluoro clad hoards as well as more discerning club goers. The album is electro house at its finest. It’s not as crass as say TV Rock ’s Flaunt It or Fredde Le Grand ’s Put Your Hands Up for Detroit but it definitely has the potential to shake up dance floors. hailing from Switzerland and otherwise known as Robi Insinna, he effectively channels a past age of icy analogue synths to appeal to a modern audience.

Released on Gomma, which is lauded as the Modular or DFA of Germany, just like his 2006 release On there’s a number of guest vocalists which are featured on the album. While for his alst album he enlisted the help of Matty B. Safer from the Rapture, Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax and Antony Roman of Brooklyn dance punks Radio Four, on this album he recruits long time collaborator Tara , Jeremy Kerr of seminal post punk band A Certain Ratio , as well as ‘new wave’ rapper Don Cash .

Under the headman moniker Insinna he’s remixed everyone from skinny tied Glaswegian new wavers Franz Ferdinand to local boys the Lost Valentinos to Swedish electro pop provocateur Annie . A problem for many prolific remixers is transferring their remixing prowess to their own music. For the most part he does a great job. The opening track Catch Me If U sets the style for the whole album; catchy electronic music that is both forward thinking and retrospective. New delivers a spine melting acid sample on par with anything produced by Ed Banger records, sure to get feet moving on dance floors. Song 8 and Hostage are where Headman really shines in this album. They both clock in at over six and a half minutes. Song 8 is a jaunt of bouncy synth arpeggio, whereas Hostage has a staccato post disco strut to it.

Unfortunately as the case can be with even the best dance albums at home, listening can get monotonous. Headman does his best to break the album up by including the track Dreampieces. Jeremy Kerr sounds more like Bauhaus ’ Peter Murphy than his factory label mate Ian Curtis of Joy Division. Austere lyrics like “what do the words mean? Tell me where I have been, searching darkness,” are juxtaposed by the jubilant instrumentation; looping synthetic drums, hand claps and throbbing bass guitar.

The only bad track on the album is Two Sisters. Starting out promisingly with chirping keyboards and a chunky acid sample, it quickly dissipates as vocals come in. “Two sister no return … soldier man,” is repeated over and over by Tara which soon becomes grating ruining an otherwise great track. Hopefully it may be released as a single with a dub remix.

Despite its flaws Catch Me is a great album. Hopefully this record will receive the spins on dance floors that it deserves , because that is where it truly belongs.