If purple ever gets the anthology treatment – sorry, when purple gets the anthology treatment – Bristol producer Guido will definitely be remembered as a major player.

2010’s Anidea won us over with its technicolour sweep, sci-fi tics and general all-round enthusiasm. This year has already seen Guido launch his own State Of Joy label (on which he released the ultra-slinky ‘Micro X’/’Vessel Dogs single), and his next move is a second State Of Joy release, titled ‘Flow’. As his January FACT mix showed, Guido’s been assimilating some of the brightest pop about – Janelle Monae, Rustie and Missy Elliott – and like much candyfloss pop, ‘Flow’ is sweet but slight.

Like fellow Bristolian Joker, Guido looks to here his Atari for inspiration, unleashing dinky melodic lines spotted with ersatz string stabs. Jay Wilcox’s vocal is prim, vanilla and utterly inessential. The instrumental mines similar territory to SBTRKT, but Guido doesn’t quite have the masked one’s quality instincts – still, ‘Flow’ makes no attempts to be complex, and the results certainly hit the spot, if not quite the nail’s head.