When I kept up with the development of techno I usually found out pretty quickly when something new was due out, either through music press, or mainly via the guys at Sister Ray.

Over recent years this has just stopped, I don’t buy as much techno as I used to, because much of it has become stagnant. Ironically, techno is becoming more visible to the general public. More on this later in the week perhaps. Bubbles..

Kelli Hand was, for a little while, my favourite techno musician. But she then disappeared. Or so I thought. Recently I discovered that she continued to release albums right through the late 90’s into 2001. It was time to play catch-up on the albums I missed.

Soul is the title track from Kelli Hand’s 1997 album. It keeps her trademark looping style, but is easily her most melodic album, introducing vocal samples and, um, soul.