Ferran Adrià's goal is to "provide unexpected contrasts of flavour, temperature and texture". Head chef at El Bulli in Spain, he's one for experimenting with food, the kind of innovator who thinks nothing of mixing and matching flavours to create the likes of bacon and egg ice cream or garlic and coffee créme brulée.

"Nothing is what it seems. The idea is to provoke, surprise and delight."

The same could be said of The Presets who have no qualms about combining Modern Talking keyboards, Fatboy Slim beats and a vocal to rival Joy Division's Ian Curtis ('This Boy's In Love'). Or breaking up two big beat anthems — the Chemical Brothers worshiping 'Together' and electro-pulsing 'Anywhere' — with '70s Jean Michelle Jarre atmospherics ('Aeons').

Their only constant ingredient is cheese. While other retro revivalists like LCD Soundsystem favour a more reverent approach to their source material, this Australian duo's songs are shamelessly guilty pleasures that encourage, no command, you to launch onto the dance floor — or just the living room couch — with reckless abandon.

And even if you move like David Brent, 'My People' should replace Underworld's 'Born Slippy' as the singalong for the mind-altered masses, 'Kicking And Screaming' (all loud haler vocals and glitchy beats) must evoke at least some "raising the roof" hand gestures, and the glittering 'Yippyo-Ay' is sure to bring Kylie's gold hotpants to mind.

The good memories keep coming with the metronomic 'Eucalyptus' reviving Depeche Mode circa 1981, 'If I Know You' imagining Level 42 with Sisters Of Mercy's Andrew Eldritch on vocals, and 'Talk Like That' slamming New Order at their Balearic best into The Prodigy.

Nothing, clearly, is what it seems.