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Music production is pretty cyclical. No sooner has the 'big room' been pronounced dead and buried, than back comes the big room sound. Dirt Crew duo Peter Gijselaers and James Flavour have been busy getting out their album Raw with great aplomb so it's been a while since Breaks 3000 (Gijselaers' other pseudonym) has had a solo release.

His current MySpace profile proclaims 'I survived minimal' and I'd agree a brief hiatus was probably the best solution, leaving the slate clean before unleashing the epic 'Bleed Like Me'.

After a couple of misleading, slightly tinny opening bars what sounds like a cacophony of dwarves tap dancing manically on water pipes leads directly into a full-on face slap of sound that can only be likened to the musical equivalent of the mysterious black smoke microbots from 'Lost'.

Stare fearlessly into the depths of the unknown though, as it's directly followed by some massive piano stabs that will blow the cobwebs off any desert island disco. Granted, ten-and-a-half minutes is stretching it a bit; there would have been no harm in a little trimming. But tracks on this scale are hard to end - good luck to the DJ trying to find something to follow on from this before the grooves run out!

Daso brings it back down to earth slightly with his remix on the reverse. Ethereal as opposed to elevated, is probably a more functional track but it meanders off down the trance track somewhere around the middle, without ever coming back.

Cinematic, giant pieces of music both: now all we need to do is find the rooms big enough to put them in.