If you can judge an artist’s quality by the company they keep, then FaltyDL is up there with the best of them. The label history of the producer known to his friends as Drew Lustman reads like a “who’s who” of 21st century electronic music imprints - Ninja Tune, Unknown to the Unknown, Planet Mu, Studio Barnhus, the list goes on.

With In the Wake of Wolves, we can now add Central Processing Unit to this illustrious roster. The Sheffield label joins the party at a notable juncture - while FaltyDL has kept up an impressive clip of releases throughout his career, In the Wake of Wolves is both the NYC-based producer’s first LP for two years and his first full-length release away from his own Blueberry Records for almost a decade. 

In the Wake of Wolves proves to be both a great match for CPU and also further evidence of the label’s burgeoning sonic palette. While CPU has built its reputation on top quality electro joints, recent releases have delivered adventurous electronica experiments (Proswell’s People Are Giving And Receiving Thanks At Incredible Speeds), hard-wired breakbeat techno (Baby T’s I Against I) and golden-age synth explorations (twenty-fifth anniversary reissues of Bochum Welt’s Desktop Robotics and Feelings on a Screen, both of which first emerged via the legendary Rephlex Records). In the Wake of Wolves takes things further still - this is a brilliantly genre-voracious record, one which marries the rhythmic cut-and-thrust that we have long known FaltyDL for with all manner of adventurous stylistic choices.

Those familiar with the FaltyDL experience will recognise the trademark blend of synthetic grit and harmonious softness in album opener ‘I Need You’. This could pass for Four Tet or even Hannah Diamond at points, the steady build of pulsing synths and looped vocals recalling a more mysterious version of the PC Music sound. ‘I Need You’ stands shoulder-to-shoulder with any of FaltyDL’s other great atmospheric album openers - no small feat given the competition. ‘Further’, the following number, is yin to ‘I Need You’s yang. This is a pulsating track which gleefully skitters between machine-funk, tubing darkside bass and breakcore-adjacent drum programming, all of which is peppered with some genuinely beautiful work in the higher synths.

‘Further’ sets the scene for several of the more club-facing cuts here. ‘Minds Protection’ similarly features all manner of strange percussive sounds to surprise the ear, and it also boasts a thrilling mid-section in which the bottom falls out the track to incorporate a short snippet of blown-out junglism. With its tunnelling low-end and clattering drums, ‘Full Spectrum’ kicks off a delightful run of grime-influenced joints which take cues from Mr. Mitch, Logos and many of those other producers who took the Eski sound to exciting new places in the 2010s. ‘Forget Me Not’, the album’s longest track which is placed three spots from the end, feels like the record’s climactic point - a pitter-patter post-house joint that has a hint of Caribou in its DNA, it’ll take the clubs by storm.

But as much as FaltyDL may consistently bring the heat in terms of the beat programming, the thing which has long marked Lustman out as a special talent is the musicality of his compositions. No matter how much drums clatter or bass bangs, FaltyDL always hooks the ear back in with a sonorous synth or pleasing nugget of melody. Nowhere is this more apparent than on In the Wake of Wolves’ more weightless numbers, each startling in their prettiness. ‘Half Spectrum’ is a new-era beat track packed full of ear candy; the keening keys of ‘GasGas’ are potent with feeling; and on the album’s closer, the evocatively-titled ‘Mila Stans In A Meadow For The First Time Eating Strawberries’, we get a gorgeous synth vignette that joins the dots between the modern mastery of Yung Sherman and the most emotionally affecting moments of Aphex’s Twin’s catalogue.

In The Wake Of Wolves

FaltyDL - In The Wake Of Wolves

UK-based producer and engineer of emotive, off-world soundscapes, Slolek, returns to Of Paradise with Object Desire, a 4-track collection of saturated electronica, experimental bass, and fractured jungle.

A cinematically tinged journey across arid landscapes and through cavernous rooms, Object Desire is a desert-kissed masterpiece of expertly harvested sounds, an incredibly majestic and thought-provoking journey with a darkly ambient core.

Buy: https://ofparadise.bandcamp.com/album/object-desire

Object Desire

PREMIERE: Slolek - Locked-Room [Of Paradise]

Jala

Will Hofbauer & Sangre Voss - Jala

Matching his signature melodic futurism with enduring club music structures, Pev brings the Pulse series to a natural conclusion with the Pulse Phase EP. On this third release he underlines the broader approach to tempos and styles he’s taken across this latest period of his output, soon to be coalesced into a new live set. 

If there’s been a nostalgic streak detectable amongst the crisp modernism of the Pulse series, it comes through clearer than ever in the looped-up house jack and starry-eyed techno synth hooks of ‘Pulse IX’. ‘Pulse TEN’ pares back for a lean soundsystem workout driven by a strafing arp and fractured drums while ‘Pulse XI’ revisits 90s bleep techno with a deep, dubby intention. ‘Pulse XII’ completes the picture capturing the skeletal pressure of 2-step at its most slender and deadly.

There’s never a sense of over-familiarity — the exacting angles of the drums and alien hue of the synths maintain Pev’s distinctive sound first and foremost. But this series has also been an opportunity to hear some of his musical DNA more explicitly than before, cast in universal rave motifs propelled by the unrelenting pursuit of new forms for the dance.

Peverelist - Pulse TEN

Four years ago Ma Sha launched Kindergarten Records into a world in which dancing in a club was impossible. The sounds brimmed with an intensity and intimacy that felt so far away during the Covid 19 lockdowns and the following months saw a slew of close friends in the scene join the label. Within the dearth of contact they conjured that missing feeling of togetherness with a series of mind-bending split EPs that ultimately laid the foundations for the crew that Kindergarten now represents.

With Slipstreaming, the first split EP on the label since 2021, Ma Sha teams up with Sobolik to return to Kindergarten’s origins in collaboration and pure energy. Taking cues from each other’s unfinished projects and bouncing ideas back and forth, the pair serve up the fastest EP the label has released to date. While it may be a surprise to fans of the label that these higher climes haven’t been breached before, the frantic dynamism is exactly what we’ve come to expect from Kindergarten releases.

#electronic #premiere #electronicmusic #newmusic #masha #kindergarten 

Ma Sha
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/masha-ny
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ma_sha_music/

Kindergarten 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kindergartenrecords
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Slipstreaming EP

PREMIERE: Ma Sha - Step To One (Kindergarten)

Third episode of my 2024 Residency on @stegi-radio-athens

For complete tracklist & download head over to the MD Archive: www.mumdance.com

Originally commissioned by stegi.radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.

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Mumdance - Stegi Radio Residency 03 - 06 June 2024

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Serge Geyzel - It's Cancelled, 2024 
Buy: https://adepta.bandcamp.com/album/its-cancelled

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[Premiere] Serge Geyzel - It's Cancelled (out July 29 on Adepta Editions, pre-order now)

Pre-order: https://earlyreflex.bandcamp.com/album/flex005

@alecpace's @earlyreflex imprint presents the release of 'Flex005' to commemorate its fourth anniversary - propelling leftfield techno and experimental club music into uncharted territory.

@no_sir's 'Surface Gage' sophisticatedly weaves highly textured, spacious layers of sound, punctuated by percussive elements and bursts of noise, creating dynamic planes of ambience.

Surface Gage

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Premiere: No Sir 'Surface Gage'

Malesa - Sal y Sangre (album coming soon)

Between epic drone, enchanting trip-hop ballads, and club tracks written under the moonlight, @malesa-318443499 release on Comic Sans Records a hybrid and elusive debut album that still remains accessible to all. "Sal y sangre" (Salt and Blood): two alchemical ingredients mirroring love and madness; two crucial elements for crafting a fantastical world, where stone giants, snake tongues, mad dogs and unfaithful feathers meet at the crossroads.

We premiering today the track “Brujas” a subversive rock-infused trip hop track in which humanity is served on a plate to hungry monstrosities. Delicious! 

Music : Paola Avilés & Eloi Petillon
Lyrics : Paola Avilés
Mastering : Lorenzo Targhetta
Artwork : Omer Mosseri
Design : Francesco Tosini
A&R : sleek fata
Mix : Damna

Malesa - Brujas

Sobolik makes their return to All Centre with It’s a Wrap. Following up their second self-released Edits EP and a collaboration with Ma Sha on Kindergarten, the New York-based artist continues a busy 2024 with four more expertly designed maximalist club tracks.

The Butt of Your Joke kicks off the record in a propulsive groove, with a spaced-out descending melody expanding and contracting amongst syncopated percussion. Energy levels rise further with a deep warping bassline, before taking a final left turn with the introduction of tense, abstract pads.

Forever Chemicals opens with shape-shifting vocals repeating over dynamic percussion, gradually ramping up the tension. The track then enters a moment of calm for an ecstatic melody to enter the mix, which bounces around the four-to-the-floor groove held down by heavy kicks, which shift throughout the track to keep dancers on their toes.

Pleating (Hemmed Mix) moves the EP into a darker mood, with subsonic-frequency kick drums and washes of alien sound design building a tense atmosphere. A subdued arpeggio bubbles underneath the surface as the track propels through murky territory.

Final track Closure Step brings down to the tempo into a broken-up ama style groove. Microtonal synths stutter and a hypnotic bassline loops and spirals around the track, before lush, wistful chords creep into the latter stages of the track, closing out on an emotive note.

It’s a Wrap is available across all digital platforms from July 5th.

Sobolik - It's a Wrap [ACEN061] (PREVIEWS)

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