James Reichelt is alone. We meet in a cafe in Cheltenham, order a couple of drinks and head to a table.

This, he says, is where he meets most people. We begin by talking about how long he has been producing his brand of chilled out electronica.

Adventures in Hi-Fi:

'About two years now,' he says. 'I began by mucking about with my Play Station and downloading sounds off the Internet. Then I started using Cool Edit to get the music together.'

He is not just a technophile though. He has also learned to play the guitar, which features on some of his tracks.

All By Myself:

The idea for alone first came about when James and a friend decided to collaborate producing music and concluded that either "Alone" or "Queen Con" would be a great name for a music act.

The project didn't take off, but James decided to keep the former of the two names for his own work.

Crash!:

Titles are an interesting topic of conversation. 'I just use phrases I think sound interesting,' he explains. So they don't mean anything in particular? 'Not really, no.' What about "When My Headlights Meet Yours"?

'Ah, that one's different. I was driving along once and the phrase came into my head and I thought "Hmm, wouldn't want that to happen".' Nice. Other songs have slightly less sinister origins. With "Keeping Your Head Above the Clouds", it was simply a case of James wondering if it had ever been used as a title before.

New Yorke? New Yorke?

Inspiration comes from many places. "When the Radiohead album came out, I thought I'd try to do something like that," James tells me. "So I started, but what came out sounded nothing like Radiohead." Neither does any of his music sound like other groups he likes to listen to: Franz Ferdinand and Rage Against The Machine are two of his other favourites, but a Reichelt interpretation of "Take Me Out" seems unlikely.

Despite the entirely chilled out, laid back approach to this latest CD, there is, James explains, some louder stuff out there. But don't expect to hear of a CD called "Several Loud Moments" just yet. It seems that alone is going to be being quiet for the time being. This seems to be what he prefers.

Breaking America:

At the moment, he is happy to send off demos and receive feedback from his fans who appear to spread across the globe. "I've got a few fans in America through the Internet," he explains. "They seem to like it."

Having created a fan base in America, he may like to turn his attention closer to home. Gloucestershire really could do with taking a few quiet moments of James Reichelt's time.

28/04/04 - First published on www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire under this link