Another Electronic Musician's Jase Rex crafts ice-cold, blatantly digital tracks full of tender beats, slowly evolving textures and subtle melodies, setting them in graceful motion with a flowing, repetitive approach. Harmony Central's "DJ Tip" page defines IDM as a "more intricate style of trance", a label that perfectly fits Rex's dance-music-without-the-driving-beats aesthetic. Of course, you could say that about almost anyone in the genre's "early" days, but that's where Rex aims (and hits his mark) on Use: "Phase" and "These Given"'s gritty, slurring dub reeks of Pole, the playful "Enclosure" would find refuge on Kid 606's GQ on the EQ if it were sped up a bit, and most of the other tracks earn the Mille Plateaux stamp of approval.

However, those comparisons are probably the best compliments that someone like Rex could hope for. His skills are not in question -- he knows programming, composition and how to create interest from a limited palette. He clearly did some serious wood-shedding, and his pure, minimal process definitely yields fruit: Use's lovely, intricate, not-terribly-original songs can comfortably share mix-CD space with the work of IDM pioneers.