Not Even Noticed (aka Carsten Fluck and Lucas Lejeune) should gain some additional traction despite their penchant for more danceable electro-nics than I’m used to writing about.
An uncompromising, densely packed acid-electro EP
With the Acid Illusion EP, which features the opening title track saturated in acid, bass, electro, and techno that ends much too soon, Not Even Noticed (aka Carsten Fluck and Lucas Lejeune) should gain some additional traction despite their penchant for more danceable electro-nics than I’m used to writing about. “Rodinia” is a little more subdued and relaxed, transporting the listener to the mid-to late-1990s rave era. Although the acid electro groove continues, we are taken in by its emotive synth line.
While “Cloudless” pushes the acid lines a little bit further as the bass descends from beneath our feet, “Xenograft” hooks in with machine funk and robotic flow and features some heavier bass and bleep electro. As “Cyber Rhythm,” an appropriately named piece, comes to an end, the groove carries on into the sunset despite its panoramic and ethereal vocal highlights. The bass, beats, and breadth of this closing piece just as strong as its siblings—diving light years into the future. An uncompromising, densely packed acid-electro EP.
“Paula looked into the mirror, when logic and proportion have fallen apart, white fog lifting and falling, glimpsed thru mullioned glass, crawling around her face like a thousand micrograms of bleeps, far above the moon. Is it real or an illusion?”
Acid Illusion is available on Who Is Paula. [Bandcamp]
