Amazon.comLike the recent Brace Yourself by mu-Ziq, this fun and funky four-song offering from Wagon Christ (a.k.a. Luke Vibert, who also records drum & bass tunes as Plug) goes a long way toward putting a happy, even downright silly, face on techno. The madcap opener, "Rendleshack" (from his forthcoming LP Tally Ho!), sounds like a sparkling '50s television commercial crossed with a video game celebrating "high score" over and over. Dotted with flute samples, the downtempo "Breakage No. 1" delivers all of the foreplay but none of the release of Van McCoy's "Do the Hustle," while the beckoning strings of "Breakage No. 2" are the closest this 16-minute outing gets to menacing--which is to say, not very. --Kurt B. Reighley