Black Secret Technology

Following Gerald's pioneering work in acid house in the late 1980s, Black Secret Technology showcased his movement into jungle and breakbeat production. In 1996, the album was repressed on CD and LP formats with new cover artwork and the bonus track "Hekkle and Koch" placed as the album's opener. In 2008, a remastered edition of the album was released, this time with the original 1995 cover art and the removal of both "Hekkle and Koch" and the unlisted hidden track "Touch Me". The album's famously "murky" mastering was improved slightly, according to critics. ==Reception==

Since its release, Black Secret Technology has received widespread acclaim and has been described as a "candidate for 'best jungle album ever.'" Discussing the 1997 reissue, Ian Harrison of Select stated that "there're few records in this fast-moving genre that could sound as good as this does now," adding that "the album will one day have him listed among Sun Ra/Lee Perry/George Clinton cosmic clubhouse of interstellar visionaries." He ranked "Finley's Rainbow" as the sixth best single of the 1990s. Fact critic Mark Fisher wrote that the album "succeeded in simultaneously being of its moment and transcending it," praising in particular "the way that Gerald transforms the jungle sound into a kind of dreamy OtherWorld music [...]: humid, tropical, full of strange bird cries, seething with nonhuman sentience." ==Track listing==