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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

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State Of The Ether Episode #28
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State Of The Ether is a bi-monthly radio show on Operator Radio. Its focus lies on all things body music. Aiming to showcase artists on the axis Rotterdam ↔ Leipzig. Unreleased, unfinished and not quite thought out tracks are thrown into the mix.
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Alles kann, nichts muss.

State Of The Ether | Episode 28

A preview show of the upcoming CAREBOTS 2nd Mission for Gaza compilation by Bass Agenda and Pyramid Transmissions, with over 160 artists worldwide raising money for Medical Aid for Palestinians and Gaza Soup Kitchen. 
Released this week 1st October.
https://bassagendarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/carebot-the-second-mission-for-medical-aid-for-palestinians-gaza-soup-kitchen

ADJ - Pyramid Transmissions Carebot 2 preview show (Sun 21 Sep 2025)

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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

COURAGE

Art by Donato Giancola

01. Zobol - Uprising [Melodize]
02. Promising/Youngster - Deep in my soul [HC Records]
03. Transpac - TTS [Distrito91]
04. 2030 & CEM3340 - Circuit Take Control [Metroplex]
05. The Dead Kirks - Mr Kirk (Nachtwalds Electro Remix) [Self Released]
06. DMX Krew - Warm Places [Altered Circuits]
07. Breakdata - Devil's Path [Electric Music Foundation]
08. Grow - Evil [CHP]
09. Nuklear Prophet - Compton [U-Trax]
10. Darkatek - Geo-Engineering [New York Haunted]
11. PRZ - Tronix [Mechatronica]
12. Static System - Fairytale Dreams [CyberDomain]
13. Aztronouth - Detroiticon [Connectome]
14. Kuldaboli - Yuri Gagarin [Fundamental]
15. Dataintrång - Permafrost [soundcloud.com/dataintrang]
16. Konerytmi - Hengitys [Burial Soil]
17. Nachtwald - My Heart Shall Not Fear [New York Haunted]
18. P-Kay - Litho (Sean Kosa Remix) [Facecontrol Audio Industries]
19. Boris Divider - Content Location {Gladio Operations]
20. Haus Arafna  - The Woman You Are [there Is More Than You Expect][Galakthorrö ]

E-L-E-C-T-R-O mix October 2025

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