not even noticed

Seamless but safe

not even noticed, AKA Lucas Lejeune and Carsten Fluck, are back plumbing the past and present underground scenes of their native Frankfurt, delivering icy breakbeats and psychedelic acid house on their Fast at Work debut. Across four original tracks Lejeune and Fluck move meticulously between tones and textures, segueing from sparky two-steppers into trance-y cuts packing globoid basslines, and trippy vocals. Despite drawing from a varied collection of sounds, synths and syncopations, ‘Eteus’ can feel a bit too seamless at times — but reworks from K-Lone (Wisdom Teeth) and Maara (Ancient Records) inject some jagged edge to keep listeners locked in.

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Closet Yi

Embracing the fringe

Seoul’s Closet Yi is at a crossroads. On the one hand, she’s been courted by the upper echelons of dance music — with releases on Peggy Gou’s label and mixes for Bicep. On the other, her original productions — whether it’s freaky techno or Baltimore club — are too strange for the festival masses. She keeps things weird on ‘Cloudborne 888’, where tracks are filled with impressionistic synth work that fade in and out of focus over down-and-dirty drum & bass. Take ‘Erhigh’ — a tune that starts with sharp and nasty drum programming and bass wobbles (call it ‘post-dubstep dubstep’) before a faint whisper of a melody takes shape on the horizon. A perfect blend of tough and tender.