Future Beat Alliance

Future Beat Alliance is Matthew Puffett, a Berlin-based British electronic musician who has remained prolific since the mid-'90s, producing wide-screen, emotive tracks in a variety of forms from Detroit-style techno and electro to acid and ambient house. Debuting with several EPs which often recalled the techno-soul of Kirk Degiorgio and Ian O'Brien, he released Disconnected, an album of spacy club explorations, in 2001. Through numerous releases, his work has included lush dancefloor grooves as well as cerebral downtempo head-nodders. He's also received recognition as a member of James Lavelle's UNKLE project since 2012. He's revisited his past with compilations like Collected Works 1996-2017 and continued surging forward with releases such as 2020's Beginner's Mind.