Name: Brackish Beings Alternate by Analogous Doom
Duration: 3 min 31 s
Description: I've been feeling a bit salty lately. This version was included in a recent live set.

Very nice tune ! (the first bass sound seems familar to my old memories :) is it a AN1X ?

Sequenced in Ableton; triggered the following hardware with the APC40 mkII: SH-101, SC Pro-One, TR-8s, and Analog Keys. This is actually for a split release and will likely not be up for long. I'll probably add some samples to it as an afterthought.

Automaton Emotions

this is just a loop of me messing around w/ the waldorf q, 101, and can you guess the last synth? if you can, you win my respect for eternity.

Come Play Buckyball

Noumen returns to Central Processing Unit after a six-year absence with Altum. This bumper record, the Ukrainian artist’s fourth release for the Sheffield label and first since 2019 double-LP Obscurium, serves to remind us all why Noumen’s music has been lauded by the likes of Mixmag and Resident Advisor in the past. Altum is a consummate piece of contemporary electronic production, a technoid exploration of outer-edges electronica that nods to genre greats like Autechre while still maintaining its own unconventional charm.

Across well over an hour of music here we find Noumen repeatedly playing punchy mid-tempo beat work off of some more cerebral tuned synths. Altum kicks off with the epic ‘Oion’ - beginning in that Autechre/AFX mid-tempo zone, full of deep-sea bangs and whirrs, the track slowly builds to a final stretch of delay-drenched keys which set us free amidst the outer cosmos, almost Sun Ra-style. It’s a perfect liminal-space roller and an apt scene-setter for Altum.

‘Oion’ provides a blueprint for several of the album’s other highlights - plenty of the joints here adopt that same approach of hitting hard with the drums and soft with the synths. Second track ‘Splitter’ takes on the baton from ‘Oion’ while souping up the kick to warehouse levels; the beats in ‘Far Wind’ splutter like a needle skipping on a mid-90s Tresor drop; ‘Fate Carette’, all eerie looped synth leads, is a highlight as the album enters the home straight.

The rhythm production (which, it should be noted, is exemplary throughout Altum) is ratched up in intensity on a handful of numbers. ‘Telemask’ displays a delightful breakbeat - if you’d told me this was sampled from golden age A Tribe Called Quest, I’d have believed you. Mid-section anchors ‘Awe’ and ‘Axis’ are glitchers in the Mike Paradinas mould, with the latter showing off some pleasing steel pan-esque synth leads for good measure. And while Altum generally maintains a processional pace throughout, there are points where Noumen toughens up the drums for club deployment - ‘Unveilness’ shows off a real chunkiness in the low end, closer ‘Spurling Sign’ plays a satisfying rolling groove off of ever-layering synths, and the title-track is an alien machine-funker in keeping with fellow CPU electronauts like Silicon Scally and Cygnus.

Noumen’s third album for Central Processing Unit is a pleasingly hefty double-LP which builds on the zany invention of acts like Modeselektor and Autechre to delightful effect.

FFO: Autechre, Aphex Twin, Modeselektor, Bochum Welt, LFO

Noumen - Altum

I've been feeling a bit salty lately. This version was included in a recent live set. 

Brackish Beings Alternate

Plogue track 1

Loop de loop 14

Brain Enterprise - Monc - Prbit Records
DJ Sumatriptan - Nirmata - Bass Agenda Recordings
Broken Joe - Remove the parameters - Borg recordings
DAS MUSTER - RÜCKZUG - DAS MUSTER
Dopplereffekt - Programmable Organism - Curtis Electronix
Zeta Reticula - Star's Wobble - Censor Records
Brain Enterprise - Tarc - Prbit Records
RXmode - Inferno - Bass Agenda Recordings
X-Truder - Shaping Digital Future - Borg recordings
214 - DYD - 214
Assembler Code - Perimeter Inspection - Censor Records
Zeta Reticula - Star's Wobble - Sync 24 & Alex Jann Remix - Censor Records
Lloyd Stellar - Monday Morning's Destruction - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Ben Pest - Amirite - Mechatronica
Assembler Code - Monochrome - Censor Records
Ben Pest - Octavial - Mechatronica
Dopplereffekt - Entity From Tetra Space - Curtis Electronix
Vertical67 - Emitter - Mechatronica
RXmode - Nocturne - Bass Agenda Recordings
X-Truder - 04 00 764 0 00 - Strange But Dance Music
Dago Sondervan - Taffy's Objection - F.R.B. Redaction - Censor Records
Ben Pest - VCS Wig - Mechatronica
Synth Diller - Inside Club - Synth Diller
Dago Sondervan - Taffy's Objection - Censor Records

Set 48

Corrupted Cosmos

Echoborg

UK producer and long time Bass Agenda Recording's family member The Subdermic returns with a four track earth shattering assault on the senses.

One of the prime reasons The Subdermic is welcome back to the label time and time again is her tireless commitment to pushing herself and her sound, ignoring the tendency to work to a formula and staying loyally tethered to a true underground anchor of what Techno and Electro is really about.

Her work can rarely be judged by a quick skip through; her tracks are eventful and evolve, rather than simply repeat. This is powerful, creative sound to match our times - it's not meant to be comfortable, it is meant to get your synapses firing, your fists clenched, your heart pumping and your feet stomping.....and so it does.

Cat No - BA127
Mastered by Data Rebel
Artwork by 4th Genome
(c) Bass Agenda Recordings 2025 All Rights Reserved

Preview / The Subdermic - One Snap Redux / Releases 31st Oct 2025

A melancholic electronic track built around a pulsing synth bass, atmospheric pads conjuring wide open roads, and soft, driving beats, Subtle electric piano layers evoke a sense of movement, while sparse guitar lines echo like memories of distant houses

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