The Istanbul based DJ strikes with an outstanding mix on our first cassette release. This one is all about brainpoppers and brainwaves. Be prepared for a trip through your mind, roll out the yoga mat, take a seat and a deep breath. Let your inner self wander through a kaleidoscope of sounds and colors. Welcome to Ece Özel's Expansion of Change.

Cover Art by Ece Özel
Design by Atelier Superplus
Mastered and dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes
Special thanks to Doom Chakra Tapes

released April 30, 2021

Selected and mixed by Ece Özel

Selected and mixed by Ece Özel

Tracklist

Side B

Failing Lights - Brightly Beneath (Trailing A Broken Wing) (Hospital Productions)
Mule Driver - Many-eyed Ones (Confused Machines)
Eba - Elephungk (Percapella) (La Bella Di Notte)
Clatterbox - Genetic Code (Frustrated Funk)
Roza Terenzi - Sxc Saloon (Step Ball Chain)
Leroy Se Meurt - Şiddet (Lux Rec)
Mary Lake - Top Skipper (Radiant Love)
Pillow Queen - Resurrection (Delicate Records)
S Ruston - Eternal Merciless Hum (Killekill)
Bigod20 - Are You Horny, Yet?

Ece Özel - Expansion of Change (WARCC01-B)

With ‘100% Dope’ we find Central Processing Unit bringing up their hundredth catalogue number, and you’d struggle to find a more fitting artist to ring in a century of releases for the label than Cygnus. The one born Phillip Washington has been with CPU since the very beginning, his 2012 LP ‘Newmark Phase’ representing the first record ever released on the imprint. That album’s combination of textured techno and grizzly Drexciyan electro set the tone for CPU perfectly, and it’s no surprise that Cygnus has returned to the Sheffield imprint several times down the years.

While ‘100% Dope’ is an expert demonstration of what Cygnus and CPU do, this EP also shows just how much both artist and label have grown over the past nine years. At its heart ‘100% Dope’ is a set of prime machine-funk from a master of the form, but these are also some of the most daring and innovative tracks that Cygnus has ever produced. 

Take opening cut ‘Bad RGB Controller’. In the undulating synth lines we have a ghost of grime as well as Drexciyan drive, and as such the track reminds one as much of Mr. Mitch or Last Japan as it does, say, Dopplereffekt. Furthermore, ‘Bad RGB Controller’ shifts gear around the halfway mark into a highwire electronica mode which has the wit and spark of prime Bogdan Raczynski. Entries like ‘Float Back To The Surface’ are similarly unpredictable. There's some lovely industrial techno bite to this one - the snare drum will echo in your head long after the party’s died down - but Cygnus periodically pulls out the rug from underneath us with passages of impressionistic texture that almost border on sound art. 

‘Float Back To The Surface’ is one of a trio of vocoder-led jams here. On ‘Throwing Shade’ we hear I-F and Egyptian Lover, with Cygnus’ vocals clattering around like pronouncements from some funked-out robot overlord atop hissing-piston drums. Then there’s the enticingly-titled ‘CPU Records’. ‘CPU Records’ delivers all the crisp electro snap we’ve come to expect from a record emblazoned with that signature black-and-white artwork, yet this thing is also widescreen and cinematic in ways that demonstrate the maturation of the Cygnus sound. With a wicked vocoder vocal that celebrates the label’s many achievements, ‘CPU Records’ is a victory lap tune if ever we’ve heard one.

Central Processing Unit keep it 100 on for this new EP. ‘100% Dope’ by Cygnus is CPU’s 100th catalogue number, and the Texan producer delivers on the promise of the record’s title with a collection of brilliantly unique electro joints.

RIYL: Bogdan Raczynski, Mr. Mitch, I-F, B12

100 % Dope

Cygnus - 100% Dope

For this month's Intergalactic Rhythms, we will broadcast live from the Sleeve++ record store in Leipzig, where Clear Memory will showcase their signature all-things-electro sound in a special 3 hour takeover with crew members Milium and Rekorder.
The label is well known far beyond the borders of Germany and not only since their latest release from January 2021 - which hits diggers hard with “Speedy Beats, High Energy - Electro deeply saturated with rap samples and breaks”, as they describe the sound of CLEAR005.
We are very happy to have these guys with us for the next episode!
Expect loads of unreleased music.

https://soundcloud.com/clearmemory

Intergalactic Rhythms  - Clear Memory Showcase 01.07.21

For mix #077 we welcome long-time friend and sister, Hazra!

Not many positives have come from COVID-19 but Lauren finally taking the plunge into mixing has been a definite plus for everyone, whether you know it yet or not.

Now Glasgow-based but originally from Dundee, we have partied with her long before Hilltown Disco days.  From Thursday-Sunday sessions at our beloved home of the Reading Rooms, to infamous Commercial Street parties, Hazra has always had the ear for killer tunes and has really just always got it - which can be felt in this mix.

The set was recorded mid-isolation when she had COVID which makes the result even more impressive.  A mix for the dancers and for the nights of the future.

Enjoy X

TRACKLIST 
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ANNIKA WOLFE — I WISH I WAS A FLEA
SLACKER	— TWISTED HEADS
LSDXOXO — CODENAME COTTONMOUTH
ANNIKA WOLFE — BUST
JASMINE INFINITI — YES, SIR
5ZYL — HOMIE
INTERVIEWS — MIAMI STRING
GAMMA INTEL — FALSE MEMORIES
SHEDBUG — SIBELLE
OSC KINS & SPEED GONZALES — GIVE IT 2 ME
ACEMOMA - AMPHIBIOUS TECHNOLOGIES (FT. SWEATER ON POLO)
JLM WERX — STREET PULSE
NITE FLEIT — USUAL SUSPECTS (D. TIFFANY REMIX)
PPALACE - SEIKO
THE ADVENT — WORK DAT

HD Mix #077 - Hazra

Out now: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/lultimo-ritmo

EP playlist: soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/sets/late-night-approach-l-ultimo

Italian duo Late Night Approach debuts on Mechatronica with a pulsating, subterrestrial trip through emotive machinefunk, dubbed-out electro, cosmic breaks and fluid basslines, drenched in hypnotizing ambience and elegant obscurity.

@latenightapproach

L'Ultimo Ritmo

[ Buy on Bandcamp ]

Late Night Approach - Unleashed Bastards [MTRON024]

Deka is the name under which we celebrate the tenth album released in the last six years. This time in vinyl format and with a compilation of the styles that unite us most: IDM, electro and rhythms taken directly from the dancefloor.

Seven unique tracks from some of our most special artists. Sölna, Atico Corp, Sound Synthesis, Not On Earth and Frank Jhonson join our family with rhythms ranging from the smoothest electro to the most "macarras" beats. And once again, Promising Youngster and Jailed Jamie (aka Skygaze) are with us with their signature IDM.

Deka es el nombre con el que celebramos el décimo álbum publicado en los últimos seis años. Esta vez en formato vinilo y con un recopilatorio de los estilos que más nos unen: IDM, electro y ritmos sacados directamente de la pista de baile.

Siete canciones únicas de varios de nuestros referentes más especiales. Sölna, Atico Corp, Sound Synthesis, Not On Earth y Frank Jhonson se unen a nuestra familia con ritmos que van desde el electro más suave hasta los ritmos más macarras. Una vez más están con nosotros Promising Youngster y Jailed Jamie (aka Skygaze) con su IDM característico.

DEKA

Excerpt of a leisurely and unannounced 6 hour DJ set at Leipzig record shop Sleeve++ in celebration of the official release of „Robyrt Hecht - Type EF“ (CLEAR007) on Clear Memory.

Enjoy! And excuse the 128kbps sound-quality. My ancient recording device thinks that this is still "XHQ" – Extreme High Quality ... and then the batteries were dead at the end.

Record Release DJ-Mix Excerpt at Sleeve++ (2022-01-22)

Mix #087 comes from the hugely talented, Lewski!

Lewski released his first solo record at Patron Records, based in Amsterdam in 2017. The diverse likes of artists on his first release ensured he will never stop. After the first one he released his second at Darko Esser’s Wolfskuil. After those two his reputation of blending acid, electro and several styles together get noticed by Or:la. In 2019 Lewski had the opportunity to release the first EP on her fresh new label called: ‘Céad’.

In 2019 the record at Or:la’s label wasn’t the only record he put out. A single track ‘Artificial Beings’ (Support by Helena Hauff and Laurent Garnier’s Tsugi Electro mix CD) V.A. and recently ‘Bicameral Mind EP’. Both came out on his homebase Patron Records. 

Even though Utrecht-based Lewski has only just begun to make waves in the scene, the gig section of his resumé speaks for itself with appearances at De School, Zeezout, Awakenings and Twitch in Belfast. Don’t forget his local club Was in Utrecht where he also played his first Boiler Room set and completely rocked it.

Lewski’s perspective on performing as a DJ is all about finding that perfect moment and choosing precisely the right frequencies to get everybody’s vibe in the room on the same wavelength.

HD Mix #087 - Lewski

Peeve & Parts Unknown (17/4/22)

In the darkness of the new moon, when the celestial body completes its cycle and begins anew, we welcome I’m Mady (@immadyofficial) to the Phases collective with his debut EP Schwankschwindel. He offers us a sonic exploration of what it means to sway, oscillate, and find balance within perpetual motion.

Schwankschwindel — German for the sensation of oscillating vertigo, that feeling when the ground beneath you moves in rhythm — becomes a metaphor for the creative process itself. Just as the moon follows its eternal cycle, so too does the groove: repeating, evolving, transforming with each rotation.

I’m Mady’s signature sound is unmistakable. The EP’s two tracks form a perfect duality. The title track “Schwankschwindel” anchors us in that hypnotic sway — percussion patterns and woodwind textures creating a controlled vertigo, a purposeful imbalance that somehow grounds us deeper. Then comes “Sexy” — a harder-edged exploration where slow tech meets tech house attitude. Here, synthesized sound design takes the wheel, building tension through metallic textures and precise, driving rhythms.

The artwork mirrors this cosmic dance perfectly: lunar phases orbit a radiant celestial body, starbursts emanating energy outward while orbital mechanics keep everything in delicate, perpetual motion. It’s a visual representation of what I’m Mady achieves sonically — finding harmony in complexity, stillness in movement, balance in vertigo.

This is music for the space between cycles, for the moment when one rhythm ends and another begins.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we do ⏾.

Schwankschwindel

Sexy

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