Detroit producer Jimmy Edgar has been a versatile and dependable voice in electronic music for years. He’s capable of adapting to and embracing new sounds with the kind of energy and enthusiasm that’s rare for a chameleon producer of his calibre. From the glitchy dance jams of Colour Strip through to J-E-T-S, his blissed-out take on R&B with Machinedrum, Edgar has never sounded jaded. Cheetah Bend is his first solo album in nearly nine years. His childlike sense of fun bleeds through every moment. Cheetah Bend might be a solo album, but it’s not a lone venture. Edgar enlists likeminded eccentrics and personal heroes like Danny Brown, the late, great SOPHIE, and Hudson Mohawke to add their magnetism to what is largely a celebratory party record. These are brash club bangers shifted into cartoony forms.