I like Altern-8 but their tunes are pretty clumsy - their japery (standing for Parliament, using the 4 year old daughter of their label boss to recite E-monster slang, etc etc) at the time puts them a notch ahead of Messiah and Utah Saints, who are even more clumsy.
"Chime" though - sublime. The cascading main riff. The gibbering 303s. The use of the Onedin Theme as stirring orchestral stab. Tingletastic.
The British "Strings of Life", as someone said.
They have a bunch of great tunes, Orbital - "Halycon (and on)", "Belfast" - and they are the rare thing, a techno act that is great live and is also genuinely live.