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Throughout his prolific musical career, Maurice Fulton has worn many hats and moniker masks to fully capture the breadth of his creativity. The Baltimore native started recording in the mid-90's with house groups like The Basement Boys, and was soon catapulted into artistic notoriety for his work on Crystal Waters' "Gypsy Woman," a truly massive and seminal house track. Since then, Fulton has pushed, pulled and warped his musical boundaries, taking on 18 different names to span deep-house, downtempo, future jazz, breaks and fusions thereof, unafraid to dive into the unknown and make it work. More recently, Fulton and his wife, Mutsumi Kanamori, have ripped gaping holes in the sides of genres with their twisted project, MU. Equally frightening and awe-inspiring, MU projects a post-apocolyptic industrial/synth slate that batters dancers as Kanamori howls and sneers at bewildered listeners on their albums, "Afro Finger and Gel" and "Out Of Breach (Manchester's Revenge)." All the while, Fulton's hot remixes for Hot Chip, Kathy Diamond, Annie, The Rapture, Chateau Flight and Chicken Lips (among many others) have propelled him into the indie dance scene as well.

His latest project, Syclops, brings together a mysterious trio of largely Finnish musicians to bring his jagged visions of dance music's future to life. Their debut album for DFA Records, I've Got My Eye On You, buzzes and stretches happily through more organic, laid back textures on "Naoka's F," jazzy lab experiments on "A Lovely Sunday" and synth funk shards on "Where's Jason's K." It's a pure representation of dance music's possibilities with live, virtuostic musicians. In fact, you can stream the entire album here for one week only! Fulton may have donned many guises and covered many a genre throughout his 15+ years of making left of center music, but it all comes back to the unbridled creativity constantly flowing from his hands and mind.

Sounds Like: The Juan Maclean, Osborne, Daniel Wang

Album Stream: Syclops - I've Got My Eye On You

Syclops @ Myspace

DFA Records @ Myspace

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