Electronic music moved on a few vital steps, when Diverted made its debut around a year ago. You see, this is a proper band, consisting of Lee Richardson on drums and MPC, Steve Baxter on Bass, Kaoss and synthesisers, Tomas ‘Mossy’ Skelton on Vox, Kaoss and synthesisers, and Danielle James on Vox, saxophone and flute.

Both Mossy and Danielle provide vocal harmonisations from time to time on what are otherwise typical instrumental tracks. Yet, the band is something of a collective, all sharing the same house in leafy Hertfordshire, with their recording studio in its basement. There is a tremendous vitality to the music, evidenced in each of the eleven tracks on their debut album, which, according to the ‘blurb’, has been long-awaited by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Laurent Garnier, Justin Robertson, Eddie Temple Morris and Radioactive Man, alongside many other top performers, who have heard them during the live sets of their monthly residency at London’s Air.

In fact, the band has a following into the art and fashion scene and the band has guested at various gigs around the UK, while also performing impromptu at their headquarters and presenting an open door policy to other up-and-coming artists. This is clever working of a market, as it means that Diverted can hop onto whatever bandwagon is passing. Naturally, the beauty of live performances is that no two are ever the same and Diverted ensures that there is zero possibility of that happening. Of course, such flexibility does make it difficult to settle, which may explain why it has taken so long for the band to lay down and release its first album. Yet improvisational drive or not, this is a good debut and it is transforming the electronic scene, make no mistake.