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Niki Istrefi - Chambers

Program & Rhythm

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In recent years, Blackploid has come to be one of Central Processing Unit’s signature artists. The German producer has averaged more than a record a year for the Sheffield imprint since he first landed on CPU in 2021. This prolific run continues with Cosmic Drama, Blackploid’s second LP for the label. The album takes the baton from its predecessor Enter Universe in style, delivering twelve tracks of top-quality machine-funk that draw down from electro’s classic artists while also imbuing proceedings with a playfulness that very much gives things a signature Blackploid-ish flavour.

Cosmic Drama sets its stall out from the off. The opening run of ‘Alien’, ‘World Construction’ and ‘Virtual State’ all deliver piston-snapping beats which anchor pleasing melanges of B-movie synth lines. Alongside this, Blackploid adds little flourishes which add buoyancy to each joint - a syncopated bassline reminiscent of I-f’s late-90s classic ‘Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass’, crackling robo-voiced commands, skittering synth chords which wash across the mix and so on. It’s the work of someone completely at ease with their craft, comfortable enough to take risks without upsetting the apple cart of their sound’s core appeal.

Blackploid’s idiosyncratic approach to synth work is something which distinguishes Cosmic Drama from the pack. Electro has long been a genre which prides itself on innovation on the keys, but few producers are willing to push their sonics as far as Blackploid does - take the seasick churn of pads and processors on ‘Multiverse’, for instance, or the way John Carpenter-esque single-note lines dovetail with gurgling synthetic pulses and eerie, spacious chords on ‘The Lab’, a highlight of Cosmic Drama’s midsection.

Cosmic Drama skips along at club tempo throughout - every one of these joints will get bodies moving in dark rooms across the galaxy. However, even when tracks maintain their single-minded pursuit of machine-funk perfection, they never forget to deliver on the hooks. Blackploid has lead lines (and counter-melodies) to burn here, and each track knots them together in ever-more intriguing ways as they plough onwards. Drexciyan heads will be thrilled by the sci-fi delights of ‘Species’, for instance, while Blackploid brings melodies as cold as they are catchy on the aptly-named ‘Polar Dunes’. By the time Cosmic Drama hits upon the vroom-vrooming bassline line of closer ‘Contact’, you’re fully enthralled to the album’s combination of broken-beat heft and synthetic melodiousness.

RIYL: Drexciya, I-f, Cygnus, AFX

Cosmic Drama

Blackploid - Cosmic Drama

Transpac delivers the fourteenth drop on Curtis Electronix presenting Infobahn LP, a seven-track odyssey that showcases their refined, perceptive approach to Electro. Throughout the record they blend elegance and precision through a carefully crafted sonic environment where every sound, frequency, and element serves a purpose. It effortlessly alternates between 4/4 dancefloor killers and beatless segments, creating a dynamic energy that balances weightlessness and density. This interplay of intensity and suspension makes this record unpredictable and striking. The seeming simplicity of the structure hides a deep, sophisticated exploration of sound, where atmospheric textures and production dig deep into the potentialities of space and frequency. Simplicity serves as a gateway through which the deepest complexities unfold.

Release date: 20.05.2025

Mastered by Q3000

Artwork by Linkin Bios

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Transpac - Infobahn LP (CRTSX014)

"Cultivating Discipline"  focuses on 80s-inspired noir avant-garde music, initially emphasizing the Ukrainian scene

Sakseev is a versatile DJ known for balancing emotional depth and technical precision in his mixes. Born in Kharkiv and currently based in Kyiv, he is a resident DJ at Halas parties and an active participant in Kyiv’s electronic music scene. Oleksii draws inspiration from genuine artists who are passionate about what they do and take their craft seriously.
In this mix, he aimed to showcase as many tracks as possible featuring guitar-driven parts, as well as danceable darkwave with disco elements.

Lvcerate specializes in eccentric experiences, leaning into the darker corners of the dancefloor sound. His minimalistic approach is anchored in a dramatic and confident ambience, characterized by a pervasive acidic touch, EBM motifs, edgy drums and avant-garde flair.
He aims to convey introspective narratives while fostering a subtle connection with electronic music.

https://instagram.com/cultivating.discipline 
https://instagram.com/lvcerate 
https://instagram.com/oleksii.sakseev 
https://soundcloud.com/sakseev 
https://soundcloud.com/lvcerate

Cultivating Discipline 009 w/ Lvcerate Invites Sakseev (18.04.25)

A dark new mini-EP invoking the shadows of possession, witchcraft, black magic, necromancy, and the relentless gaze of the Inquisition. A return to the primal roots of horror disco: one unholy track, flanked by an ominous intro and a haunting outro. Conceived and recorded in the witching hours of Beltane night, 2025—a ritual in sound, where the veil is thinnest and every beat summons a whisper from beyond.

Enjoy this exquisite offering.

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WLDV - Bewitched

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-diamond-haze-the-source-ct-kidobo-remix/

Transboundary Haze II is three heavyweight remixes of Diamond Haze tracks.

There once was a Diamond Haze quite sublime, Who danced on the Tapes Sublimating in time,
With a Source so profound, That it spun round and round,
While the CT Kidobó made a fabulous Remix divine!

“Oh, wonderful Source!” cried the Diamond Haze, “Your Remixing skills have me quite in a daze!
You sublimate tapes, Into curious shapes,
And transform all my nonsense to musical praise!”


 
They traveled to Crumbly-come-Tumble by sea, In a sieve that was leaky as leaky could be,
With a spoon for a sail, And a thimble for pail,
And a bottle of nothing to drink with their tea.

And this is the end of my nonsense today, About Diamond Haze Source in its remixing play,
With Tapes Sublimating, And CT Kidobó creating,
A rhythmical jumble in Lear’s silly way!

 

We’re premiering the CT Kidobó rework of The Source. A deep, dark bubbler… let’s go.

Buy HERE on Tapes Sublimating

PREMIERE: Diamond Haze - The Source (CT Kidobó Remix) [Tapes Sublimating]

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

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"MUZA" LP [BLDS002]

PREMIERE CDL || Elena Sizova - D.F. |The Black Lodge| 2025

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Taken from the forthcoming album 'Feeding the Machines' release date 28 July 2025. Pre-order vinyl and digital at:
https://plant43.bandcamp.com/album/feeding-the-machines

Release date: July 28, 2025

PLANT43016LP
WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY EMILE FACEY
MASTERED BY PITCHCRAFT
'INTEGRATED HARDWARE' AND 'THE WATCHING OWLS' MASTERED BY BORIS DIVIDER
DISTRIBUTED BY JUNO
MANUFACTURED IN THE UK
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION BY EMILE FACEY
© & ℗ PLANT43 RECORDINGS 2025
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


Feeding the Machines

Information Decay

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PREMIERE: Information Decay [Plant43 Recordings] - release date 28th July 2025

TL Premiere #1946 (2025.06.10) : 198319831983 - Trustno1 [KRI Records]

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For this 105th Premiere of 2025, we have a track by 198319831983 titled ‘Trustno1’ from the forthcoming VA EP "No Hope, No Fear" on the label based in Ljubljana, Slovenia : KRI Records.

▶︎ The EP will be available from June 18, 2025 on limited edition 12" lathe-cut vinyl + digital on Bandcamp : https://krirecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-hope-no-fear

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Release Info :

No Hope, No Fear VA [KRI // KRI011]

Snippets : https://soundcloud.com/kri-records/kri011-no-hope-no-fear-va-snippets

No Hope, No Fear is a new vinyl series in our catalogue combining 4 artists and a nod to the legendary Slovenian band Borghesia and our apocalyptic times.

Swedish duo Harlem Electronics is responsible for the meaty opening track Versausage, where minimal wave meets industrial funk. Fear side is rounded by American Kri family member Ole Mic Odd, returning with his signature haunting electro gloom.

Hope side doesn't necessarily offer hope but sure does help with escapism. Slovenian partner in crime 198319831983 gives an apt comment while twisting electro and EBM on Trustno1. The record finishes on a "high" note with the legendary Cute Heels ft. Duke MC Herton for peak-time club decadence. No Hope, No Fear!

Tracklist : 

Fear:
A1. Harlem Electronics (@harlemelectronics) - Versausage
A2. Ole Mic Odd (@ole-mic-odd) - Nebula

Hope:
B1. 198319831983 (@198319831983) - Trustno1
B2. Cute Heels (@cute-heels-live) ft Duke Mc Herton - Wear Too Lace

releases June 18, 2025

Published by KRI
Ljubljana, 2025
All rights reserved
Photo: Najlepše mesto na svetu (www.instagram.com/najlepsemestonasvetu)
Mastering: @Zarkoff
A&R: @malalavka & @Schrauff

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Follow 198319831983 :
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dj198319831983
Linktree : https://linktr.ee/Dj198319831983
SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/198319831983

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Bandcamp : www.krirecords.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/krirecords
Instagram : www.instagram.com/kri_records
SoundCloud : @kri-records

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No Hope, No Fear

Trustno1

TL PREMIERE : 198319831983 - Trustno1 [KRI Records]

New 12" vinyl released on my own new imprint INJURY RECORDS dedicated to my own electronic projects in parallel with Le Syndicat Electronique.
Exclusive Edition of 150 piece on good quality white colored vinyl
in a heavy printed sleeve...( not "cz pressing" here, but real analog work on wax ! )
Music & Graphic Dsign by me, as always since 1996:  A//
VINYL VERSION -DIRECT ORDER via email : heathenelectronics@gmail.com - Payment thru Paypal
DIGITAL VERSION Available on Bandcamp : lesyndicatelectronique
BOOKING : No Middlemen Agency - heathenelectronics@gmail.com


CLINICAL ORDER "Lullabies For Awakening" LP AVAILABLE-- Track B5- Too late

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Men of the hour and part of the Endless Illusion crew from Prague joins RET with a 5 tracker ranging from Electro to wave-ish Techno. After releasing on labels like Midlight, Eidectic and more recent Brokntoys Ladislav Zensor drops another fierce and well executed joint. The ep kicks off with an extended acid injected electro track called ''All Things Are Possible''. Second track ''Transgas'' continues this threatment for the A side. The flip has a more darker perspective with flanged hi hats and eerie atmosphere. ''Defenestrace'' contains a strange vox going over the track from the beginning, it then quickly gains power by its dubbed out framework. The days of EBM and newbeat comes to mind when we hear ''Straight Folded'' which sounds like its recorded straight on a tape in the mid 80's. Last not least ''Very Fake News'' closes things of, with a driving kick-bassline and shattering snares causing pleasure on the dancefloor. Dark days are coming towards us.

Exhausted Modern - A1 -  All Things Are Possible

Crisis returns with a new digital only series by Belgian producer Datawave, whose unique approach on electro was foreshadowed by previous releases on Mechatronica and Natural Sciences.

From the opening arpeggio bassline of Red Nebula, embedded into discrete yet tense energy, leading through Metathesis’ other-wordly noises, and finally breaking out of the cocoon with Chrysalis’ needle-sharp beat — Datawave’s Inceptive EP is infused with space themes and human emotions that echo through dreamy soundscapes.

Rounding up the EP is Exhausted Modern’s remix of Red Nebula. One half of Prague’s Endless Illusion crew, he has established his work as a producer on labels like Brokntoys and VEYL and contributes to Inceptive with a more organic and analogue re-interpretation that perfectly accentuates the original’s essence.

Release date: 28th June 2019

Datawave 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/datawave
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Datawave01/

Crisis
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/crisis-records
Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/crisisbp/

Exhausted Modern
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/exhausted-modern
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/exhaustedmodern/

Inceptive

PREMIERE: Datawave - Red Nebula - (Exhausted Modern remix) (Crisis)

Cat-No: F//016
Reka X Imperial Black Unit - Todo Avaricia

‘Todo Avaricia’ by Reka and the duo Imperial Black Unit is the result of an immediate and natural connection forged between the three artists, through a jam session that swiftly and intuitively yielded three tracks of stylistically diverse yet demonstrably cohesive sounds. Featuring the sampled voices of Che Cuevara, Pablo Neruda and original vocals by Reka herself, the EP plays the role of an urgent call to action against political and environmental injustice, conveyed via the musical substrate of new beat, industrial and EBM, fused into a landscape of techno and undeniably constructed for the dancefloor. The EP is rounded off with a heavy-hitting remix of the title track by the prolific Umwelt, in his signature dramatic style. 

Tracklist:

A1 – Arrasadora Utopia
A2 – Tropas de le Muerte
B1  – Todo Avaricia
B2 – Todo Avaricia (Umwelt Remix)

All tracks written and produced by Reka and Imperial Black Unit
Mastered by Alain Paul
Artwork by Silica

Buy now

B1 - Reka X Imperial Black Unit - Todo Avaricia

https://soundcloud.com/exhausted-modern
https://soundcloud.com/annechoic
https://soundcloud.com/endless-illusion
Buy Release: https://endless-illusion.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-the-rat-remixes
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gk-Ke_qj3wo

Exhausted Modern builds on his artistic journey with the release of the Year of the Rat remixes EP, a collective reinterpretation that takes the murky, hidden depths of the album to new rhythmic dimensions.

Philipp Otterbach starts off the A-side with a spellbinding composition for the thoughtful, dissolving Pineal Gland into an ethereal cluster of solemn melodies and vocals. Annechoic's take on Apathy Eats You Alive delves into the melodic side of the track, polishing it for the dance floor. Poperttelli draws out T-Maze from dark introspection to beats that waver between a glitch and a heartbeat, with the feeling of having been resuscitated.

The B-Side sees Ayaz putting words to a 180-degree spin on Food of the Gods with hallucinogenic dynamism: a grimy tale of facing the unavoidable. Finally, NVST returns with her Hifive remix of Hard Working Rats, oscillating between heavy and melancholic with soul-permeating resonance.

Tracklist:

Exhausted Modern - Pineal Gland (Philipp Otterbach Mix)
Exhausted Modern - Apathy Eats You Alive (Annechoic Remix)
Exhausted Modern - T-Maze (Poperttelli Remix)
Exhausted Modern - Food of the Gods (Ayaz Remix)
Exhausted Modern - Hard Working Rats (NVST Hifive Remix)

Year of the Rat Remixes EP

Apathy Eats You Alive (Annechoic Remix)

PREMIERE: Exhausted Modern - Apathy Eats You Alive (Annechoic Remix) [Endless Illusion]

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