Tasty blend of jazz, downtempo and dub aesthetics, Professor’s first opus, “Foreign Pulses & Borderline Dubs” is both accessible and precise, melodic and mind-expanding… dreams, anger and journey cross and run together smoothly. Aboard this third millennium album, the prof. manages with a great maturity to combine live playing and acoustic shades with electronic textures. The musicians (bass, drums, guitar, clarinets and keys) fully express their sensibility and sense of groove while electronics and arrangements deconstruct, recompose, explore sound design and open sound fields. You can easily think about Cinematic Orchestra but the professor’s influences go from Burnt Friedman to Jaga Jazzist, Matthew Herbert, Señor Coconut, the Jazzland label and artists from the Scape catalogue.