In 2007, Paul Ritch was probably the most talked about new electronic musician. His first release came at the end of 2006, with the rest coming this year. And it's no small job: his name is already printed in Resopal, Get Physical, Minisketch, and Kickboxer (as Handycraft, project shared with his friend Okain) and Paradigma Musik. He's not a lucky guy; what puts him ahead of the rest is the strong personality revealed by his work. Paul Ritch has put the groove back into minimal. His works, praised by the likes of Richie Hawtin, Luciano and Anja Schneider, find the perfect balance between techno's mathematical squareness and the organic soft feel of Latin music and funk, the way it used to be back in Detroit, when Atkins May and Saunderson fused for the first time.