The players on I’ve Got My Eye on You are a mysterious trio of jazz musicians named Sven Kortehisto, Hanna Sarkari and Jukka Kantonen. But just try to Google Hanna Sarkari-Syclops; you’ll get all of two hits, which leads one to conclude that Syclops is actually another pseudonym of Maurice Fulton, the off-kilter genius who’s credited with the album’s production. That would make sense, since the music reflects the veteran beatsmith’s long-held interest in pushing the boundaries of electronic house, funk and jazz.

The tracks are a lot more complex than most dance music, at least dance music as we usually think of it. The album’s leadoff single, “Where’s Jason’s K?,” features a meandering bassline that trips up and down the scale over an electrodisco beat for a full ten bars before looping back to the starting point; your average club tune repeats after perhaps two bars, four if the producer is feeling particularly ambitious. And that’s before the hyperactive cowbell (a DFA staple) and an over-the-top Keith Emerson–style Minimoog workout kick in. “The E Ticket” (another vague drug reference?) features a spazz-jazz drum attack over a waltz beat, until a flock of angelic keyboards sends the track to a different place entirely; the title cut layers aqueous waves of sound over rushes of funk bass and various bleeps and blips. Like most of Fulton’s work, this collection won’t suit everyone’s taste. But it’s antic, adventurous, occasionally beautiful and supremely confident—and a ton of fun as well.