these synths are talking to me! beautiful piece and classic beats

Inspired by melodies heard in dreams, late-night musings, and hypnagogic half-visions. This EP, especially in its instrumental sections, is an alchemical attempt to capture something numinous, profoundly subtle, and wordless. The sometimes dissonant melodies here represent contrasting angles of liminal space; at once chaotic, yet at the same time harmonious, whispering of some truth between the lines, yet aside from sight or thought. Let the textures take you, journey beyond the walls of 3-dimensional space, see what is within.

sleeps forever (buddy Mix)

old mix i found lurking in the private sc track vault..

pretty sure it was made around the time i was prepping the set for space 289 (https://soundcloud.com/breadyscarethrough/mause-live-space-289-20-05-2022?in=breadyscarethrough/sets/mixes) which is why its a little rough.
some tracks overlap and theres some different ones in there so i reckons it was an early vers of that one. 
less lively than that one
🤷‍♂️🤷

an mix

In a convergence of two of the most celebrated names in contemporary electronic music, Karsten Pflum steps out on Central Processing Unit with the Liars EP. As anyone who has followed either Pflum’s work for labels such as Worm Interface/Furthur Electronix or the Sheffield imprint’s recent run of top-quality electro joints will have expected, this coming together proves to be a match made in heaven.

What we have here is a tour de force of modern machine music. With Liars, Pflum achieves that rare feat of making something that is at once boundary-pushing yet also thrillingly immediate, his attention to detail shining through with each well-placed snare hit or leftfield structural choice. Equally apt for home listening or dancefloor deployment, Liars is a delight for heads and hedonists alike.

Constantly evolving while also cleaving to a relentless groove throughout, opener ‘WAN1’ is a brilliant scene-setter for Liars. The track slinks between sections of seething post-Drexciyan acid and eerie vignettes which balance out haunted house synth licks with the sort of punishing bass blasts that recall early grime classics like Youngstar’s ‘Pulse X’. A sly shift of key halfway through the track only serves to redouble ‘WAN1’s restless brilliance.

After ‘WAN1’, ‘LOLA’ represents something of a gear-switch. The track’s wiggly opening bassline is a red herring - make no mistake that we’re fully into braindance territory on this one, the drums skittering across the mix as Pflum fills the track out with jungle-adjacent delays and softly insistent synth pads. As ‘LOLA’ goes on, blurts of synth and some stiffening in the drum work pushes the track into pure rhythm workout territory.

First B-side ‘MOUSFOLK’ somewhat splits the difference between Liars’ A-sides. This track has ‘WAN1’s unyielding stomp and prominent acid bass line, but the helter-skelter drum breaks and wandering keyboard lines are very much pulling from ‘LOLA’s zanier energy. As with the other joints here, ‘MOUSFOLK’ is elevated by Pflum’s composerly touch, the Dane frequently throwing in new sonic tidbits - a skippy snare tattoo, a single-note synth loop which sounds like a hovering spaceship - that reinvigorate the mix.

Pflum’s musicality is at the fore once more on closer ‘BALM’. For the first section of ‘BALM’, a rich and sombre keyboard fugue, you’d be hard pressed to say whether you’re listening to a producer of club music or a contemporary classical maestro. The way Pflum builds this central motif up with deft broken-beat drum programming, a wheezing synth countermelody and distant vocal sighs is equally delightful, the whole track coming off like a kindred spirit of the electronica-infused experiments on Radiohead’s 2000 masterwork Kid A.

A brilliantly unorthodox collection of electro-braindance hybrids, Liars is a barnstorming Central Processing Unit debut from the seasoned Karsten Pflum.

RIYL: AFX, Silicon Scally, DMX Krew, Matmos

Liars

Karsten Pflum - Liars

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Hi! Friends 

We are pleased to finally announce the release of Artificial Intelligence, new reference on Vinyl. 
Vinyl in Special Limited Edition, which brings together some of the most prominent international artists and producers with the best trajectory and reputation of the Braindance IDM Electro scene and sound worldwide.
For this new work, we are excited and honoured to have international artists and producers of the stature and trajectory of: D'Arcangelo, RTR, Principles of Geometry, Roel Funcken, Curios, Groof aka Q_IX, The Jaffa Kid, Low Tape, Lee, Veelargo, Yaporigami, Zobol.


Format: 12" Special Limited Edition.

PRE-ORDER: https://artificialintelligencercrds.bandcamp.com

LTD. EDITION 12" SOLID RED - SOLID WHITE AND RED SPLATTER 


A1. RTR - Waev    [4:14]

A2. ZOBOL - Don´t Be So Shallow  [5:45]

A3. LOW TAPE - Articelectro    [3:42]

A4. THE JAFFA KID - SSF   [7:08]


B1. PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRY - Dreampler   [6:16]

B2. D'ARCANGELO - MC101-07  [4:36]

B3. Lee - Lazy Saturday  [5:13]

B4. YAPORIGAMI - Custodian of Ambience  [4:24]


+4 DIGITAL BONUS TRACKS

01. ROEL FUNCKEN - Brame Convix   [5:16]

02. CURIOS - Dancing With The Flowers   [8:05]

03. Q_IX - Liquid Love   [5:50]

04. VEELARGO - Melek17   [5:48]


Thank you very much to each artist who collaborated to our vision and to each one of you who have made possible.


Artificial Intelligence™ 

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Mastering by Rubén Montesco at Soundclip Studio, Madrid
Artworks & Design by Black Moon, Madrid
Distributed by Clone, Rotterdam
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