Before, Junkie XL was best-known for an Elvis Presley remix that made it into some commercials and a bunch of adrenaline music for videogames. But his fifth album puts the Dutchman in the company of the Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx and Paul Oakenfold: those rare dance producers who have the artistic fortitude to create a fully realized, addictive long-player. "Booming" still sounds like music to machine-gun an alien attacker by, but with the subcultural electricity of a guy who's played a packed Los Angeles nightclub or two, in the current, rock-happy decade. First single "More" is an ode to robotic hedonism with a riot grrrl vocal by Lauren Rocket, and Steve Aoki serves as co-producer on "1967 Poem," a smash-up of metal and trance with a big-room breakdown. There's even ambling, pretty, Goldfrapp-ian stuff like "Mad Pursuit," with German dance-pop duo Electrocute. —Kerri Mason