NULLPTR never fails. Since emerging in 2016 with the Optical LP, Eddie Symons’ project has become a byword for top-draw contemporary electro productions. After triumphantly returning to Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit with 2020’s Future World full-length, NULLPTR follows that album up with a new quartet of machine-funk slammers. Striking a balance between highwire, twitchy rhythm programming and some deft textural work, the Terminus EP demonstrates exactly why the NULLPTR name is so respected in the world of electro.

The first half here almost showcases the two sides of the NULLPTR sound in microcosm. Opening track ‘Connected’ zips along like one of the racers from a Wip3out game. The 808s are all booming breakbeats and hissing-piston hats, with a jittery synth bassline nipping in and out of the spaces left vacant by the drums. Atop these swirl eerie keyboard pads, the reverb from them draping across the rest of the instruments like fog above a city. By contrast, following cut ‘Mesospheric Cruise’ is the yin to ‘Connected’s yang. Where its predecessor was tense and coiled, this lilting number is expansive and open like a primetime Virginia joint - though the point where the wistful house pads strip back to foreground the twinkle-toed electro beat still has a pleasing crunch to it.

The B-side of Terminus serves dystopian snap from the off. Genre masters Drexciya are invoked by ‘Syndicate’. The needle-gun bassline here turns itself inside-out across these five minutes, and all the while the tune is laced with some evocative shadow-realm synth pads. A similar energy courses through the EP’s closing title-track, a cut which also brings into play a booming four-to-the-flour that gives it an unstoppable sense of forward-motion. Like ‘Connected’ and ‘Mesospheric Cruise’ - indeed, like all of the NULLPTR material that Central Processing Unit has brought us down the years - these jams will sound positively devilish when deployed in a dark basement.

The Terminus EP sees electro don NULLPTR (Eddie Symons) deliver four slices of unadulterated machine-funk heat.

RIYL: Virginia, Cardopusher, Drexciya, Silicon Scally

Terminus

NULLPTR - Terminus

They held one another tightly as they walked peacefully along the dimly lit boulevard. The wind howled and the rain battered the pier in the distance as they watched the waves crash in against the shore. It was dark, there was nobody else around. 

In the distance they could see the faint shadow of a boat moving against a milky backdrop of stars and murky clouds. She held his hand tighter now, it were as if no palm was too big to ease her nerves. Not even his...

Vienna-based Florian Stöffelbauer – also known as Heap, has built a consistent reputation as a skilled DJ, producer and Neubau’s label head.

Now he is set to release a new record via Isla, a collection of abstract electronics with influences from punk, industrial and leftfield sounds galore.

'False Hope' will be available from the 4th of November next month.

PREMIERE: Heap - No Palm Too Big feat. Gayna Rose Madder [Isla]

Pre-order via Bandcamp : https://osare-editions.bandcamp.com/album/oe-017-novo-line-zeit

Novo Line – aka Berlin's algorave maestro Nat Fowler – delivers a noisy, ultramarine voyage into the depths of his archaic hardware. Clawing at the periphery between leftfield electronics and avant-garde pop, Zeit is an entirely new sonic universe, eerily familiar yet utterly uncharted. A visionary synthesist, Fowler is renowned for his productions that make use of mainly '80s equipment including vintage digital synths, discarded MIDI Hi-Tech, tape delay and even an ancient Atari ST computer. But, despite the aged technology, the result is far from nostalgic.

'Ain't That a Mess' slams in with Monica Kremidi's crooning à la Little Annie Anxiety with reeving car engines and guitar-rock static fed through a pan effect. Multilayered melodies soar on 'Stein', the pounding drums matched by gliding strings, crafting that holy grail of cavernous, booming textures and uplifting euphoria that mark out the most transcendent of rave tracks. The deceptively gentle opening bars of 'Morning Star' are interrupted by a viscously squelching bassline, Cass McCombs' vocals dancing deliciously with the raw beat.

Rejecting contemporary tech-fetishism, Novo Line has a near-supernatural ability to exorcise novel sequences, weaving together a record that speaks to the ghost in the machine.
credits
releases December 10, 2022

Produced by Nat Fowler
Vocals on A1 by Monica Kremidi - Vocals on B2 by Cass McCombs
Mastered by Rude66
Manufactured by Deepgrooves, Netherlands
Cover art by Elena Colombi & Manuel Sepulveda
Riso strip printed at TerryBleu, Amsterdam
Art direction by Elena Colombi
Words by Hannah Pezzack

[ OE 017 ] Novo Line - Zeit (snippets)

After stellar releases on Ilian Tape and Nostro Hood System among others, Mutualism represents the much-awaited return of Atrice on their own label Miras. The follow-up EP reflects the culmination of a year-long exploration of compositional techniques and sound design, and acts as a first step towards a debut album. The result is a complete work, divided into eight chapters, that applies previous artistic research on textures, harmonics and rhythms in a rigorous yet playful manner. Whilst continuing to touch upon a broad spectrum of uptempo reference points, Mutualism offers a first glimpse into the pairs underlying pliancy next to the ever-present intricate complexities in their output.

That's all, hasta abajo!

@atricemiras

Tracklist

A1. 7°C
A2. Aracaea
A3. Koji Mold
A4. Digital Lilies

B1. Taxon
B2. Being Harvested
B3. Fast Scroll
B4. Mo. 1235

All tracks are produced, arranged and mixed by Atrice.
Mastered by Brian Sanhaji at Calyx Mastering
Artwork by Joana Huguenin & HANK SERVICES 
Distributed by dnp
All rights reserved.

Release date: 09.02.23

Mutualism

MIRAS002 | ATRICE - MUTUALISM

Elena Colombi helps to keep Mondays weird - expect a diverse range of up-and-at-'em records: from techno to post-punk, through EBM, industrial and -wave... 
https://www.nts.live/shows/elena-colombi/episodes/elena-colombi-19th-february-2024

Elena Colombi 190224

Ahead of tomorrow's BT night at Bike Jesus with Ivna Ji, Exhausted Modern, Barking and mʊdʌki, we present Poisoned Notes, featuring four exclusive tracks from tomorrow's line-up.

Offering a taste of the sounds to come, flexing downtempo, pulsating jams, breaks and electro.

[NOCAT] VA - POISONED NOTES
Free digital compilation.

Tickets available from RA.
https://ra.co/events/1875583

@mudaki

Free

mʊdʌki - You Can Run But You Can't Hyde

Hi on Tek

JAC BERROCAL + DAVID FENECH + VINCENT EPPLAY feat COSEY FANNI TUTTI and JAH WOBBLE - 'Broken Allures' CD / LP / Ltd LP

"Broken Allures", the fifth LP from trio Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, and Vincent Epplay (following releases on Blackest Ever Black, Akuphone, KlangGalerie), furthers their unique recording style with a musique concrète approach to mixing, characterized by the distinctive sound and technique of musicians and producers. Fenech and Epplay have paired with legendary French musician Berrocal, renowned for his collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Vince Taylor, Jaki Liebezeit, Pascal Comelade, Sunny Murray etc. "Broken Allures" is arguably their most coherent and fully accomplished album to date.

For this album, the trio has invited two fantastic musicians to compose with them: COSEY FANNI TUTTI and JAH WOBBLE.

COSEY FANNI TUTTI (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, COUM Transmissions) contributes vocals, cornet, and electric guitar in her unique style. She has also written lyrics for two tracks on the album and brings a radical touch to the instrumental track 'Viva la Hacienda', which, in her own words, recalls her time recording with Throbbing Gristle.

JAH WOBBLE (founding member of Public Image Limited, and collaborator with African Head Charge, Brian Eno, Björk, Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Bill Laswell, Primal Scream, Evan Parker, Sinéad O'Connor etc) plays a deep bass line on one track. He adds his signature industrial dub sound, with deep sub-bass frequencies.

File next to Throbbing Gristle, early Clock DVA, Chris & Cosey, Bill Laswell, Master Musicians Of Jajouka.

• CD in a matt-laminate flood-printed digipak.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr339cd

• Ltd Ed 150 copies on transparent yellow vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve with full-colour insert.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr339lp-yellow

• Black vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve with full-colour insert.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr339lp 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/broken-allures

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/broken-allures

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr339cd

Video by Vincent Epplay (YouTube): 'Outspoken Caress' feat Cosey Fanni Tutti: https://bit.ly/Outspoken-Caress

Tracks:

1. Warszawa
2. Tones Of Blue And Red
3. Cerbère Passage
4. Outspoken Caress
5. Viva La Hacienda
6. Zadar Melodia
7. Morocco Shanghai
8. Broken Allures
9. Coiffeur Pour Vince
10. Christal Venus
11. Sondelimosa
12. Preacher Feature

DAVID FENECH: https://davidfenech.fr
VINCENT EPPLAY: http://www.viplayland.net
JAC BERROCAL: https://facebook.com/jacberrocal
COSEY FANNI TUTTI: http://www.coseyfannitutti.com
JAH WOBBLE: https://jahwobble.com

OUT 30th AUGUST 2024

JAC BERROCAL + DAVID FENECH + VINCENT EPPLAY feat COSEY FANNI TUTTI - Outspoken Carress

Atoraye @ KURS radio 10.07.2024

teardance

In record shops very soon..
Catch Greg Beato  & St Julien on Halloween 31st Oct in London

Tickets: http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?760199
Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1663195713937658/

B2 Sadatai

Cold Spring is the UK's premier record label / mailorder for: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Esoteric, Japanese Noise, Ritual, Power Electronics, Noise, Drone, Death Industrial, Neoclassical, Neofolk, Doom, Dark Soundtracks and Experimental music.

Cold Spring Records has primarily been a label since 1990, releasing such influential artists as Coil, Laibach, Psychic TV, Merzbow, MZ. 412, Z’EV, Skullflower and more.

http://www.coldspring.co.uk / http://store.coldspring.co.uk / info@coldspring.co.uk