Enigmatic homegrown electronic music producer Fauxe moved to Kuala Lumpur last year where he lived alone for almost a year. The experience has been been distilled into his new album Ikhlas (Bahasa Melayu for "sincerity"), which mixes the Malaysian capital's traditional musical roots with modern hip hop elements.

It's one helluva blast from start to end and sounds like music from another dimension as Fauxe samples Tamil and Hawaiian-Malay music over his own sick beats.

About three decades ago, Dick Lee tried to capture the sound of modern Asia in The Mad Chinaman (1989); in the same vein, Fauxe embarks on his own globalised musical adventure with Ikhlas.