US-born, Berlin-based producer Steven Ford has been making deep, disorienting dance music under the name Bruno Pronsato for more than a decade, developing his own skewed and jazzy take on minimal techno on two acclaimed albums (2008′s Why Can’t We Be Like Us and 2011′s Lovers Do) and numerous singles and EPs, including the stunning, Nico-sampling one-track meditation, The Make Up The Break Up.

Late last year the former drummer adopted the alias Archangel for the two-track Metal EP (featured a Gary Numan cover alongside a live recording), which paved the way for The Bedroom Slant, the full-length released this week on foom.

Drawing on a youth spent listening to pop, rock and post-punk, Ford filters his experimental approach to dance music through “the one time romance he had with the radio” and, for the first time, contributes his own vocals. Inspired by records both genre-defining (Gang Of Four’s Entertainment!) and unfairly maligned (Roxy Music’s Avalon), The Bedroom Slant is “a commentary on youth”, as he tells FACT in the Q&A below, and features a host of guest musicians such as avant-garde disco veteran Peter Gordon and Caro, AKA Randy Jones, boss of Orac Records.