In cutting up you will get a point of intersection where the new material that you have intersects with what is there already in some very precise way, and then you start from there. As to the sequences and rhythms organizing themselves, well, they don't. The cut-ups will give you new material but they won't tell you what to do with it.
William Burroughs

On the eve of the release of Akufen's My Way, one could catch whispers of delight uttered by the lovers of techno and house. A sense of collective excitement I haven't felt on this scale since the release of Homework. The "New House" (often named microhouse, a term I seldom use since a lot of this music is just too expansive for the moniker), one almost senses, has been working towards this album, from the innovations of click & cuts, to glitch, to the unexpected return to the dance floor by Force Tracks, to the pop sensibility of the Kompakt label. Those last two influences are essential: Akufen, real name Marc Leclair from Montreal, through a series of releases such as Psychometry, has been expanding the grammar of dance music in an accessible way. On My Way you'll find no humourless glitch clichés or thin beats you can't dance to. No, one hears touches of Derrick May, Herbert, Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, and Todd Edwards — populists every one of them. Akufen effortlessly transcends those influences by creating a unique signature sound built out of short samples of words, gasps, acoustic guitar, static, and radio transmissions that work themselves