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BADMAN

Wonky acid n sheeeyat

Bochum Welt’s 2019 LP ‘Seafire’ and its accompanying remix album are two of the Central Processing Unit label’s most beloved releases. However, links between the two parties run far deeper than just those records.

You see, the tracks that Gianluigi Di Costanzo cut as Bochum Welt in the 1990s and 2000s are in the very DNA of the celebrated Sheffield imprint. Bochum Welt’s drops on labels like Rephlex made for some of the most celebrated electronic music releases of the era and went on to influence producers the world over - including many of those who have turned up on CPU since it launched in 2012.

As such, it makes sense that two of the most crucial EPs from Bochum Welt’s first wave are now being given new life by CPU. ‘Desktop Robotics’ and ‘Feelings On A Screen’ initially emerged in 1997 via Aphex Twin’s Rephlex imprint. Now, Di Costanzo has curated this special CPU release to celebrate both of those EPs making it to 25. This is a reissue with a twist, though. While ‘Desktop Robotics / Feelings On A Screen’ features many crucial cuts from the original pressings, the record also serves up other gems gathered from Bochum Welt’s original master tapes - all of which have never previously been released on vinyl.

The ‘Desktop Robotics’ cuts which make for the record’s first half are dreamy, impressionistic things. On this quartet, Bochum Welt plays painterly synth work off of idiosyncratic drum programming to illuminating effect. The opening title-track, for instance, blooms from a clattering, distorted beat into an icily beguiling electronic soundscape, a vibe which carries through to following number ‘HMT (202 Mix)’.

Things become more weightless on ‘Leafs Brought By The Wind’, a potent vignette where you can almost see the leaves falling amidst its reverb-drenched haze. We then get ethereal ‘Marylebone (Demo Version)’. Anyone who’s heard the iteration of ‘Marylebone’ which appeared on Bochum Welt’s 2017 LP ‘April’ will be pleasantly surprised by this alternate mix. Here the track pulls away from pretty post-minimalist piano composition to widescreen ambience - it’s so warm and intimate that it feels like peeking behind a curtain to observe an artist at work.

Things ramp up a notch with the tracks taken from in and around ‘Feelings On A Screen’. The title cut kicks off the record’s second half in limber fashion, its nimble percussion programming dancing around a pulsing bassline. Like A Tim’s mix of ‘Greenwich’ is still as much of a party-starter as it was on the original ‘Feelings On A Screen’ release, with the Djax-Up-Beats veteran setting buoyant rhythm work against a playful, eccentric lead-line. 

Between these tunes we are treated to one of the gems of the Bochum Welt discography. In 2007, Di Costanzo split an EP with Heinrich Mueller, an artist best known as Drexciya’s Gerald Donald. That record featured Mueller’s ‘Z Version’ of Bochum Welt’s ‘Saint’, and the track’s appearance here, with machine gun bass burbling alongside strange textures, joins the dots between Di Constanzo’s style and the pulsating machine-funk that Donald helped popularise. Things close out with ‘North’, a frostily beautiful ambience which makes for a fitting bookend to this album when taken alongside ‘Desktop Robotics’.

This 25th anniversary re-release of Bochum Welt’s ‘Desktop Robotics’ and ‘Feelings On A Screen’ EPs reminds us that, while time may have passed, the appeal of Bochum Welt’s electronic music remains as strong as ever.

RIYL: AFX, Mike Paradinas, Boards Of Canada, Mrs Jynx

Bochum Welt - Desktop Robotics & Feelings On A Screen (25th Anniversary Edition)

Medal Headz [G.B.D.F] - EP

Medal Headz [G.B.D.F] Peshay Remix

Austrian electro explorers /DL/MS/ assemble an intergalactic all-star crew of sonic scientists, rhythm agitators, and techno bass rebels to take apart and reconstruct their recent 'Calanhi' album.

With @electricindigo_official   @214_electro @mister-bellini @reptant_the_lizard @anniehallmusic @rogertwentythree @r__325__  @shun1music @beatprozessor @gl03 @lo-d @dl-ms on @trust.label 

Electro forever!

"_ R 325 [toulouse] is the project of painter and producer Youl Dirlès, who, if rumors are to be trusted, has set up his studio in room 325 of a shady inner city hotel. his excellent 'Mouvements' EP appeared on brokntoys in 2020, and for his remix he imbues 'Scylla' with crunchy distortion and swirling edits."

https://trust.bandcamp.com/album/calanhi-remixes

Mastered by Keith Tenniswood / @radioactiveman
Art visual by dextro_org

/DL/MS/ - Scylla (R-325 Remix)

At last, what do we know about time? An essential indicator of our lives, counted in seconds, officially codified worldwide via the international System of Units. Always running forward, never coming back. An implacable, invisible, impalpable truth, haunting each one of us, as we all expect it to ring the bell sooner or later. 

Hey, here’s a theory: couldn’t we distort it sometimes, even just a tiny bit? Because Lyon-based label SousTraitance may have managed to finally alter its course through its last compilation, a year and a half after the inaugural one.
“Looking for MTH” V/A successively stretches and contracts the passing time, or at least how we perceive it. Lose yourself in tempo fluctuations and audio glitches, between the slow, entrancing rites of Jan Loup, Israfil and Sabla, the atmospheric dilatations of Isabassi, Marion Castor and Inhmost, or the high-paced, feverish, raging outbursts of Tera Octe, Loïcc and Tadan.

To be released in limited-edition CD and digital on January 25, 2023: 9 tracks over one hour, that could actually go round the clock or vanish in the blink of an eye, we just can’t tell anymore.
https://soustraitance-sstr.bandcamp.com/album/looking-for-mth

@isabassi
@soustraitance

Looking For MTH (SSTR/VA02)

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Isabassi - Cynical [SousTraitance]

sublabel of mindcolormusic, devoted to breaks oriented idm and jungle

bandcamp exclusive, sold out!

limited edition of 85 copies on recycled vinyl with 30x30 insert, available strictly on bandcamp, no digital.

artwork by: geometric love

bandcamp

mental concept 121212 - tkb - 12" snippets

@flowerb-dj269
@bigscience

In the mood for a thrill? Tune in on Big science for another one of its signature insurrectional releases, featuring ‘Locked-In’, the debut album of Flower B. The LP features 8 explosives tracks of breaks, indus, grime and bass music, delivering the raw sound of ghetto-electronics. Blending all fragments needed for a state of terror, from street insecurity to dark web paranormal activities and police brutality. 

To be delivered in super-limited edition cassette and digital, from April 11.
https://bigsciencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/locked-in

Support

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈  Flower B - Ned Rush [Big Science Records]

@ursulasereghy
@mondoj-org

First time on our premiere program for the great Polish label Mondoj, set to release  Ursula Sereghy’s ‘Cordial’ LP on April 18. The Prague-based musician delivers a unique, playful approach of music production, between microcompositions accumulation and overwhelming sound design. Sounds unravel and reform: fragments of voices, reshaped textures, the shimmer of manipulated recordings all bending into semi-familiar contours. Here’s the heterogeneous yet harmonious music of the post-internet era, bringing you the comfort you didn’t think finding in such a ludicrous place.

Out on april 18 in casette and digital:
https://ursulasereghy.bandcamp.com/album/cordial

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Ursula Sereghy - Wet and Innocent [Mondoj]

@musictaru
@bio-future-lab

"Gemmation" by Taru unfolds like a slow bloom of synthetic life, where baroque-inspired polyphony meets liquid electronics and celestial textures. Bridging precise sound design and emotional resonance, the track reflects Taru’s exploration of spatiality and inner states through evolving sequences. Taken from the upcoming album Specular, out May 25 on Bio Future Laboratory.

Order / Download : https://bio-future-lab.bandcamp.com/album/specular

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Taru - Gemmation [Bio Future Laboratory]

@jonnnah
@coclear

co:clear is overjoyed to welcome Jonnnah to its fold, with a new long-form 12” edition. Featuring Pavel Milyakov (aka Buttechno) right off the bat, ‘Me, With You’ is an album that grips its listener tight with gleaming electronica, off-kilter trip-hop and swampy bass.

With past offerings to Soleil Rouge and Second End Records – a label which he heads – there's a thread that laces all of Jonnnah’s work. Although never sticking to a definable bracket, the Lyon-dweller effortlessly floats through various tempers, peddling impeccable electronics as equally suited to colossal sound systems, as they are to solitary early morning walks in headphones. It's ambient for the foreground that surprises with flurries of two-step and amen breaks – present-day sonics that doff their cap to what’s come before.

https://coclear.bandcamp.com/album/me-with-you

Bandcamp

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Jonnnah - U Made Me [co:clear]

@infaant
@oscilla-sound

Drawn from the reflections of Detroit based producer Infant, ‘radial blur’ weaves super-processed atmospherics with smudged and dubbed touches. 

Drifting between the swamp and the late night haze, the EP conjures intimate domestic scenes and transcendent, otherworldly ecosystems.

Out digitally now on Joel Arcane & Addison’s own Oscilla Sound.

https://oscillasound.bandcamp.com/album/lmnl003-radial-blur

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Infant - notch [Oscilla Sound]

Pandemic

Future Past (Kanji Kinetic Remix)

Beatings

Impakted

Tek Tek

Static Charge

re:27
12" vinyl + digital, edition of 100. Label sticker design by Efentwell.

@alternatecurrent
@dreadmaul
@toben-ro
@djlcp
@books

https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/126795-
https://disc-world.com/collections/pre-order/products/re27
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/alternate-current-dreadmaul-toben-re-align-ep/791253-01/

re:align

va - re:align

Label, podcast series and parties to promote audio sophrology, 90's reminiscences, psychedelic atmospheres and exotic breaks.
Run from Lyon by @erevandj - Active since 2018.

Releases:
BSLP007 - Eiger Drums Propaganda - Live Excerpts - 19/09/2024
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/eiger-drums-propaganda-bslp007

BSLP006 - JS Donny - BnN - 29/02/2024
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp006-cmr006-js-donny

BSLP005 - Jonquera - La Croix des Cros - 13/02/2023
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp005-jonquera

BSLP004 - Metra.Vestlud - Coalyqsta - 12/10/2022
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp004-metravestlud-coalyqsta-lp

BST003 - V/A - Vapordub: an introduction to contemporary psychedelic music - vol. 1 - 14/04/2022
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bst003-vapordub

BSLP003 - Naomie Klaus - A Story of a Global Disease - 03/11/2021
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp003-naomie-klaus

BSLP002 - Perse - Exile in H - 08/04/2021
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp002-perse-exile-in-h

BSLP001 - Jonquera - DARKOS LP - 10/12/2020
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/bslp001-jonquera-darkos-lp-previews

BST002 - V/A - Bamboo Shows Tapes 002 - 09/07/2020
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bamboo-shows-tapes-002

BST001 - V/A - Bamboo Shows Tapes 001 - 12/12/2019
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bamboo-shows-tapes-001

infos, contact, promos, podcasts: bambooastruth@bambooshows.com