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One of the foremost players in the new wave of Italian techno artists, Lucy and his label Stroboscopic Artefacts have developed a firm following in recent years. Coming from an IDM background, Lucy’s own production work is carefully crafted and admirably uncompromising, layering ambient and IDM textures over hypnotic four-four rhythms. It’s an approach that reached its culmination in the form of his 2011 debut LP Wordplay For Working Bees, a diverse yet coherent excursion that took in beatless tonal experiments, unsettling minimalism, and widescreen, main room pushers. Similarly, his DJ sets are characterised by their ability to swell from gentle ambient beginnings to rich and resonant peak-hour pure techno. His magnificent Stroboscopic Artefacts label, meanwhile, has become a consistently reliable outpost for like-minded artists including Xhin, Dadub, Go Hiyama and Perc.
