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VINYL pre-order: with outtakes cassette (non-album tracks exclusive to this tape) and immediate digital download of the album. Ships before release date.
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/dntel/human-voice

Human Voice is out World Wide Sept 23rd on Leaving Records

Dntel - Ashby

Available on 12" soon from all good record shops.

Champion + Four Tet - Disparate (TEXT039B)

。「mantra」

Get your copy at Bandcamp:
https://dynamicreflection.bandcamp.com/album/contemporary-spaces-the-remixes-pt-2

For the second and last EP of Contemporary Spaces remixes, Dynamic Reflection welcomes yet another batch of talented producers to the label. Just like the first remix EP, it is a mix between household names, and up and comers.  
 
First off, it’s Perc’s interpretation of Glide. The UK-based artist, who is known for his use of distortion and aggressiveness, takes it down a notch on this occasion. He has made Glide into a echoing and glitchy track that doesn’t reach its energy peak until the last couple of
minutes. Matrixxman takes over with his Biohazard mix of Future Existence, which contains a tensive synth, confined by a filter that gradually opens,and than closes again, retaining your attention at all times.  
 
On the B-side, SHDW and Obscure Shape reshaped The Hunt to provide the first outright dance floor track of the EP. With its thumping kick and epic pads around the breaks, it’s bound to win crowds over in the club. Dutch talent Ben Buitendijk also remixed Future Existence, in his own distinctive, hypnotic style. A deep, though energetic track with a verymature sound. 
 
Lastly, as a digital bonus, Matrixxman remixed Immersion as well. The subby kick, old school rides and uplifting lead, make it into one of those secret weapons, waiting to be used on the night’s most worked-up moments.  

Abstract Division 
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/abstractdivision 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/abstractdivisionmusic 
Twitter: twitter.com/AbstractDiv 
Resident Advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/abstractdivision 
Beatport: www.beatport.com/artist/abstract-division/221575 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/abstractdivision/ 
YouTube: www.youtube.com/AbstractDivisionNL 

Ben Buitendijk
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/benbui
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benbuiben

Matrixxman
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matrixxman
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/matrixxman
Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/matrixxman/

Perc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PercTrax
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/perc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perctrax/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perctrax

Obscure Shape
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/obscureshapeofficial

SHDW
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shdwofficial

The Hunt (SHDW & Obscure Shape Remix)

Abstract Division - The Hunt (SHDW & Obscure Shape Remix)

How the age of your money becomes even more important when your income has a wild side.

252 - Growing Old Together with Your Crazy Money

Highlighting sets everywhere from Awakenings during ADE to Spazio 900 in Rome, the tracks are hard-hitting master studies in industrial-edged techno.  ‘Future’ is a chunky stomper perfect for the winter warehouse party season, as multi-layered synths and effects rub shoulders with heavy-set drums to ensure this one hits its target.

Adam Beyer Vs Dense & Pika - Future - Drumcode - DC166

Aphir closely follows the release of her 2017 album ‘Twin Earth’ with a new, non-album cut, ‘Can’t Comfort’ backed by remixes from Provenance label mates, KAIA and Arrom.

On ‘Can’t Comfort’ Aphir notes: “I feel that a lot of people, young women especially, are taught that sometimes you have to exhaust yourself looking after other people before you're allowed to look after your own needs, and this song is a rejection of that”.

‘Can’t Comfort’ is available via Bandcamp, iTunes & Spotify.

Can't Comfort

APHIR 'Can't Comfort' (PR011)

Download 'Relief' - a 16 track mixtape on Bandcamp  - https://kwantus.bandcamp.com/album/relief

The Wolf

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Mord.
Morderstwo.
Rotterdam.
Herdersmat.
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Herdersmat part 16-18

Uun - The Curse of Avarice [Mord]

YYYY - Carry This Blood

oberheim blacet1b
Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006–08 - AFX
Vinyl rip at -25.9% [33+1/3 RPM]

Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006–08 - AFX

oberheim blacet1b (-25.9% pitchmix)

From the album 'Beneath The Surface' out now on Max Cooper's Mesh Label

Download/Stream/Purchase Vinyl here: http://mesh.lnk.to/BeneathTheSurface

Beneath The Surface

Revolution

Limited Edition Double Vinyl.
Includes Knock Out, My Time Here, It's Bright Out & Typeface 333.
Also Knock Out (Jensen Interceptor Remix), My Time Here (Happa & Jabes Remix), It's Bright Out (Sync 24 Remix) & Typeface 333 (Volruptus Remix).

96 Back - Issue In Surreal - Remixes

Artist: Michal Jablonski
Title: 'Hideo'
Label: Black Owl Records
Cat. #: BOR002D
Format: Digital
Release: 23rd December, 2019
Pre order: https://blackowlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/introspective-chaos

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new Michal Jablonski' gem on 'Black Owl Records'.
Black Owl Records is really excited to present its second release, a Various Artists that mixes dark and deep sounds, which are wrapped in the most distorted and acid ones!
Michal Jablonski delivers an amazing gem which gives pure energy from the first to the last note. 
Marked beat, enchanting rhythm and remarkable acid nuances define it as the perfect track for the dancefloor.

@michaljablonski
@blackowlrecords

Premiere: Michal Jablonski - Hideo [Black Owl Records]

Calum Gunn has spent the past few years becoming a key figure in the European electronic avant-garde. As well as releasing his own music through labels like Entr’acte, FLUF and Tsuku Boshi, the Berlin-based Gunn also helms Conditional Records, one of the most forward-thinking computer-music imprints to emerge in recent times.

Gunn’s Addenda EP, his debut drop for Central Processing Unit, contains some of his most dynamic work to date. While his commitment to experimentalism remains, these four tracks represent a clear shift in focus for Gunn - namely that, for perhaps the first time in his career, he is making music that is club-friendly. A whole host of dancefloor innovators are recalled when listening to Addenda - particularly Autechre, Analord-era AFX and several of Mark Pritchard’s projects as well as Gunn’s contemporaries Rian Treanor and Renick Bell.

These tracks never sit still, their rhythms constantly evolving and turning themselves over. Addenda’s first two cuts use metronomic hi-hats to keep these ever-changing grooves in check. With its thwacking kicks and snares, opener ‘Esephony’ enters the fray with the heft of an early Wiley riddim. Atop these drums we find squeaky half-melodies interlocking and breaking apart, meaning that the overall effect is not dissimilar to the tweaking beats that Pritchard came up with as part of Africa Hitech. ‘Esephony’ is followed by ‘Moebu’, another track that harks to grime through its fluttering lead synth. The way that this single-note line snakes above a slow, steady drum pulse pitches ‘Moebu’ halfway between Last Japan and rRoxymore.

Gunn increases the tempo in Addenda’s second half. ‘Ternenmarz’ introduces itself with more blarts of bass, but whereas these were steady on ‘Esephony’ they now jump around unexpectedly. Gunn holds the erratic kicks in place with twittering hats and snares - indeed, when you factor in its gnarly synth lines, ‘Ternenmarz’ steers closer than any other cut here to the high-grade electro drops that CPU has made its name with. Closer ‘Pins’ supercharges the snap of ‘Esephony’ to 145 bpm before Gunn softens up the track with reverb-drenched synths that nod to the sombre post-grime of Mr. Mitch’s Gobstopper Records.

With the Addenda EP, Calum Gunn has achieved something that proves elusive to so many producers - making club tracks that are at once innovative and immediate, their experimental tendencies serving to elevate their dancefloor impact.

RIYL: Rian Treanor, Africa Hitech, Autechre, Renick Bell, Brainwaltzera

Addenda

Calum Gunn - Addenda

KR3.001

Vortex Chronologies Evo.1

The first release of the new Hypnotic techno label KR3 is a mini-compilation of four club bangers that symbolises the inception and evolution of a vortex - concept that is also embodied in the label’s logo. 
It's a highly powerful release that seduces the listener into a labyrinth of twisted thoughts; a notion that has been widely embraced and evoked by all the artists who have contributed with their participation to the genesis of the label. 

“VORTEX CHRONOLOGIES Evo.”  will be our V.A. Series

Release date February 10, 2020

Vortex Chronologies Evo.1

BUY Vinyl/Digital

KR3.001 | Vortex Chronologies Evo.1 | Steve Bicknell, Zadig, Giorgio Gigli & Lunatik, Iori

Longtime fans of Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit may well remember Annie Hall. When CPU dropped her 2016 EP Tenured Positions it felt like a perfect union of label and artist - the atmospheric take on classic electro that Annie Hall had presented in her previous releases for labels such as Semantica and Detroit Underground was very much in sync with the CPU sound. Sure enough, Tenured Positions was an instant hit with CPU heads old and new, and the record remains highly sought-after to this day.

Now, four years on from Tenured Positions, the Barcelona-based Annie Hall returns to CPSmith’s imprint with new EP Fum. Fum picks up where Tenured Positions left off. Snapping broken-beat electro grooves anchor Fum’s midsection of ‘D’un Altre Planeta’ and its title-track. ‘D’un Altre Planeta’ is the most lively cut on the EP - there is real bite to the drums here which recalls everything from B12 to Star Eyes to early-90s hardcore - while ‘Fum’s beats are more low-slung and come bolstered by an electro-funk-flavoured bassline. These two tracks are bookended by ‘Verd Mar’ and ‘Promeses De Fusta’, joints which straighten out their rhythms into more linear IDM-techno beats.

As she exhibited on Tenured Positions, one of the main strengths of Annie Hall’s style is the manner in which she layers up harmony, tone and texture. Reverb- and delay-drenched synths cascade across Annie Hall’s tracks and serve to render her music in vivid colour. The combination of evocative atmospherics and grounded, stable beatwork is a technique which Annie Hall has inherited from experimental techno luminaries of the past - Autechre, Mark Bell, The Orb - and also something that she shares with other CPU artists like Tryphème and Nadia Struiwigh.

Annie Hall takes this approach once again on Fum. A fair bit of the record’s soundworld tends towards science-fiction - from the whooshing pads of ‘Verd Mar’ through the zipping synths of ‘D’un Altre Planeta’ and on to the B-movie keys of ‘Promeses De Fusta’ there is certainly an alien quality to much of this EP. However, Annie Hall is also sure to ground her astral musings by introducing softer synth sounds like the twinkling chimes in the background of ‘Fum’ and the gently lilting lead-line of ‘Verd Mar’.

For fans of Central Processing Unit, Annie Hall’s Fum is the best of both worlds. Here we have a record which brings together the roughneck electro snap of CPU’s club weapons with the melodic and textural deftness of its IDM-oriented releases.

RIYL: LFO, Tryphème, André Bratten, Biosphere, Autechre, Nadia Struiwigh

Annie Hall - Fum

Who is Bit Folder? There have been whispers about the identity of Central Processing Unit's latest signing, and many theories have been presented as to who's behind the project. Some say it's a young upstart fresh on the scene, others insist that this is the work of an old head. Either way, initial investigations have proven inconclusive, and the Bit Folder project remains shrouded in mystery.

There may be a way to untangle the Bit Folder riddle through listening to the artist's new EP Silicon Frontier. There is classic early Warp in here, a dash of Rephlex too. More contemporary styles also come to mind - FireScope, the label helmed by B12's Steven Rutter, and Analogical Force are two of the imprints recalled, and Bit Folder also shares some space with fellow CPU artists Datassette, Noumen and the aforementioned B12.

What's for sure is that Silicon Frontier is a futuro-rave adventure that conjures up the brave new world hinted at by its title. Like the classic 90s techno/IDM that it channels, this record gleams with the sounds of the android future. Keyboards glisten and shimmer, their tones at once stargazing and hallucinogenic; hi-hats open and close like steam valves; synth lines move in and out of each other to create all these lovely little cells of melody. Some tracks even play with tempo itself, beats glitching or slowing down completely as if you've just dropped a dose of (electro-)soma, but Bit Folder always manages to snap them back into place just as they seem to be breaking apart. For an artist's debut release it is very deft production - but then again, could it be that we've heard from Bit Folder before?

Silicon Frontier kicks off with 'Youka', a 150-bpm IDM-techno number that squiggles and squirms like AFX in Analord mode. The title-track follows, its beautiful opening zooming out into a unique melange of wobbling bass and final-frontier keyboards. 'The Tritan Cord' pushes us further out into deep space - there's something very Drexciyan about this track, though rather than pure revivalism 'The Tritan Cord' in fact displays the kind of dense worldbuilding we see in the work of Gerald Donald and James Stinson, its dinky synth lines and whirring drums sliding and out of one another to create a cinematic dancefloor trip. Silicon Frontier closes out with 'Legs Akimbo', a speedy number that injects those same chirruping drums/synths with the playful energy of DMX Krew and Squarepusher.

Even while it channels the sounds of some of electro's most important sites - Detroit, London, CPU's native Sheffield - Bit Folder's debut EP Silicon Frontier still manages to sound fresh and new. Now, if only there was some way to discern the man behind the mask…

RIYL: B12, DMX Krew, Datassette, D'Arcangelo, James Shinra

Silicon Frontier

Bit Folder - Silicon Frontier

The union of Bochum Welt and Central Processing Unit makes perfect sense. Here we have a principal figure from IDM’s 90s heyday linking up with an imprint that has brought the sound and spirit of Rephlex Records into the modern day. As such, it is unsurprising that Bochum Welt’s label debut, the 2019 LP Seafire, has quickly become one of the most vaunted releases in CPU’s extensive catalogue.

A few months on from the release of Seafire, the Italian artist returns to the Sheffield imprint with Seafire Remixes. As well as a pair of new versions from Bochum Welt himself, this five-track set also contains a trio of tunes which rewire Seafire originals - one remix apiece from EOD, James Zabiela and Telefon Tel Aviv.

One can think of Seafire Remixes as chronicling a night at the club in reverse - at least until its final track. ‘More Light (Radio Edit)’ and ‘G1 (Ambient Mix)’, the two Bochum Welt originals which kick things off, maintain the heady glow of Seafire. Both are lovely, wistful lilts, full of gently-pattering drums, pluming synths and keening keyboards. They recall the most cerebral end of Boards Of Canada’s output, flushing you with the warm afterglow of the party as you begin to bed down, dawn just starting to break through the window.

If these opening jams represent the night drawing to a close, the mid-section of Seafire Remixes rewinds to the thrill of the dance. bbbbbb recors mischief-maker EOD and British dancefloor veteran James Zabiela both tackle ‘More Light’ on their remixes, and each producer makes the same decision to gee-up the track with drums. The former’s version plumbs a load of IDM-techno beats into the floaty-light original to give it a buoyant positivity not dissimilar to Andrew Weatherall (RIP). Meanwhile Zabiela’s snapping broken-beat electro rework is pure peaktime euphoria, with 303s squirming gleefully under clattering drums and a needle-gun bassline. It’s a distillation in sound of some of the very best aspects of dance music culture - rhythm, communality, utopia.

Telefon Tel Aviv’s reworking of Seafire’s ‘Color Me’ ends this otherwise-uplifting EP on a more pensive note. Unsurprisingly given the pedigree of the artist, Telefon Tel Aviv’s ‘Color Me’ flip is the most leftfield production on Seafire Remixes. Eerie, spectral synths clatter and churn away atop skittering drums which have a ghost of trap about them. This heady fug sounds very much like the morning after the night before, with Gold Panda, Teebs and TOKiMONSTA all recalled. 

Covering a large amount of sonic terrain - electro, IDM, techno, abstract hip-hop, ambient music - Bochum Welt’s Seafire Remixes EP is simultaneously one of the most stylistically diverse and most aesthetically unified Central Processing Unit releases to date.

Tracklist
A1 - More Light (Radio Edit)
A2 - G1 (Ambient Mix)
A3 - More Light (EOD Mix)
B1 - More Light (James Zabiela Remix)
B2 - Color Me (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)

RIYL: Daniel Avery, AFX, Boards Of Canada, Autechre

Seafire Remixes

Bochum Welt - Seafire Remixes

Klinika -Woch EP including Voidloss and Gabeen & Dr Hoffmann Remixes coming out on Blind Spot Music [BSM025]

Early feedbacks:
- Slam (Soma / Paragraph) - will road test these this weekend - thanx guys 8/10

- Tom Laws (Respekt / Phobiq) - dark and booming, like it 9/10

- Frankyeffe (Truesoul / Analytic Trail / Phobiq ) - great remixes...super ep!! 10/10

- AnGy KoRe (1605 / Italo Business) - what a banger!!!!gabeen & dr Hoffmann rmx for sure in my bag!!!! 10/10

- Lazy M (capsula) - this tune rocks!!! 8/10

- Spartaque (1605 / IAMT / Supreme) - Full Support 10/10

- Q'Hey (MB Elektronics) - Gabeen & Dr Hoffmann Remix is so powerful! Original is also cool! 9/10

- Alex Di Stefano (binary404.com / 1605 / Sabotage) - Super, support! 8/10

-Mollo (Flat Belly) - love the original mix! 10/10

-Pierre Deutschmann (Platform B / Blufin) - YES! Woch (Gabeen & Dr Hoffmann Remix) for me! will drop for sure 10/10

-Monocraft (Android Musiq) - Thanks, great EP. Voidloss and Gabeen & Dr Hoffmann Remix for me. 7/10

Klinika - Woch (Voidloss Burning Angels For Warmth Mix) [BSM025]

Central Processing Unit, commonly referred to as CPU Records, is an independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music.

Distributed by Kudos Records London UK.

We are not currently seeking unsolicited demos. Due to the volume of digital submissions, it is impossible to listen and respond to each one.

Bit Folder - Silicon Frontier

CPU RECORDS