Perhaps best known as the man behind sonic experimentalists Locust, and backed by a brace of acclaimed releases on the seminal R&S label, Mark Van Hoen has been exploring a spectrum of emotive electronic flavours for more than a decade; fusing and abusing new and old techniques and technology to produce music that's as baffling as it is beautiful.

Mark Van Hoen’s new album, The Warmth Inside You, is a further chapter in the evolving story of his emotive electronic music. Behind the melodic top lines, lie deep, intricate and complex sounds, shaped by Mark’s masterly knowledge of electronic instruments. as ever, there is not a single library, preset or stock sound on this album; they are each crafted by hand, to form a cohesive whole that somehow manages to assimilate the last 50 years of electronic music. Aside from a few ghostly vocals, every sound here is from analogue synthesizers, as on so much of Mark’s material, which goes to show that these instruments, in the right hands, are far from the gimmicks they were thought to be in the 70s; that they have now come of age. The sound is neither contemporary nor retro, yet seems to be both... and, as with all of Van Hoen’s music, there is a sense of a story, a mood, an emotion. The sense that this music is about something.