Exercise One: DJs know them as crafters of cracking tracks on wax. Clubbers around the world know them as a live act that hurtles like a runaway train. Now, prepare to meet another side of the Berlin-based duo. In Cars We Rust is their debut album, and it presents the most complete picture of Exercise One’s world to date. The dancefloor stormers are still there, and the record’s flow is guided by the same spirit of improvisation that drives their live sets. But the clubbier material is rounded out by sounds we’ve never heard from Exercise One before: gorgeous, enveloping ambient tracks; soundtrack-ready synthesizer ballads; even a kind of retro-futurist electro-pop. To complete the package, the single “No News Today” showcases standouts from both ends of the spectrum, along with a mind-melting remix from their Kreuzberg cohort Deadbeat. Featuring Argenis Brito’s distinctive vocals, “No News Today” is the perfect fusion of electronic production and a classic pop sensibility. At once contemplative and driving, it’s reminiscent of Underworld at the height of their emotive powers. Deadbeat’s “Roller Dub,” meanwhile, finds the versatile producer working his own brand of voodoo on the original, dissolving its multicolored atmospherics into a fine mist of flickering echoes and rolling out a beat that’s a perfect (and rare) merger of heavyweight dub and minimal house. “It Is Happening Again” turns things up a notch with home-hewn breaks and a monter bass line courtesy Lan Muzic’s Jacopo Carreras. Throbbing and acidic, it’s the perfect snapshot of Exercise One as their needles veer into the red. Marco Freivogel and Ingo Gansera are the mad mechanics (albeit with a sensitive side) behind the humming, pulsing Exercise One machine, and In Cars We Rust is a testament to the distance they’ve traveled since the two began making music together five years ago. During that time they’ve released singles for Mobilee, Num, Exone and Exercise One’s own Lan Muzic imprint, but more impor