Bernard Fevre is perhaps best known for being one-half of Black Devil Disco Club, whose 2008 album Eight Oh Eight derived from late seventies disco - yet sounded remarkably relevant 30 years later.

Quite astonishingly, Fevre’s debut - The Strange New World Of Bernard Fevre (1975) – pre-dates even that and is more ahead of its time than is remotely plausible. A collection of 3-minute, instrumental electronic pop songs, bathed in the rich mysteries of tonal analogue melodies.

The album’s aged facade only reveals itself through some rather passé melody arrangements buried in a weird 70s kitsch, otherwise it’s decades ahead of its time, convening almost perfectly with modern electronic music’s continued yearning for retro.

In fact, few tracks are so outlandishly contemporary it almost beggars belief – notably the luscious Dangerous Mixture, with its resplendent body of ambient synth pads and brisk, sumptuously melodious keyboards.

Polyester, meanwhile, provides equally haunting, engaging moments. It’s all so cleansed and tightly sequenced, but then so was Kraftwerk. Pendulum also contains that pristine glimmer, but remarkably, Fever’s electronic library music has a much more emotional quality than the German pioneers, incorporating a wider and more complex range of sounds, and therefore moods.

No doubt The Strange New World Of Bernard Fevre has been studio airbrushed, polished up in preparation for 2009, but it's still an extraordinarily contemporary throwback and enjoyable on its own terms too.