Omar S carries the torch for innovative, proudly independent Detroit techno producers like Mad Mike and Moodymann, yet his signature is unmistakable. Since Alex “Omar” Smith started pressing records in 2003, he has specialised in skeletal funk jams that seduce and entrance, balancing heady pleasures with a healthy sense of humour. He reveals his sensitive side in the bright keys of 2014’s “Romancing the Stone” and gets down and dirty with the raw sonics of 2019’s “Another Man”; multiple versions of 2012’s “S.E.X” also prove him an R&B lothario with winning moves. “Thank U 4 Letting Me Be Myself”? We wouldn’t have it any other way.