Jet Jaguar

Grounded (Self-released)

Available only on cassette and digitally, Jet Jaguar’s fifth album is ‘‘grounded’’ in the emotionally positive and negative. Jet Jaguar is the moniker for Wellington electronic composer Michael Upton, who says the mix ‘‘of calm and restless is something I reckon I share with lots of others who feel the urge to make stuff’’. The jet stream of musical fragments – such as Costa, Bright Light, An Early Start and Slow Go – is so astutely processed and structured that it chills you, like the thought of Aphex Twin taking a holiday in Ibiza. – Mike Alexander