As we stroll  into the summer, we're happy to provide you with a fresh splash by Avant Garbage. The London-based duo k means and DJ ojo got entangled over their love for peculiar sounds and offers you a monthly refill on Netil Radio , with the stranger margins of music, deftly balancing feelings of brightness and darkness.

This two-hour (!) mix channels their love for disorientating dub and crunchy rhythms, combining old favourites and new digs ~ all infused with the softness of a psychedelic teabag. Rejuvenate and replenish with this one!

Stay hydrated, xr

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RUBBER TIJD with Avant Garbage (k means & DJ ojo)

Splitradix is the moniker of Irish producer Stephen Hennelly. Prior to taking on the Splitradix title for 2014’s Glassilaun Memento EP, Hennelly was known variously as DJ Gaillimh and skkatter - both names which should ring a bell for those heads who had an eye on the scene in the 2000s. 

Since Glassilaun Memento, Hennelly’s brand of ‘​​Gaeltachtstep’ - ‘Gaeltacht’ meaning those areas of Ireland where the Irish language is still actively spoken - has graced both the Virtual Urban and 030303 labels. He continues to rep his area with 51º53'43"Nord 8º25'09"Waldorf, a four-track EP which marks the debut Splitradix drop on Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit imprint. This is a textured, dynamic quartet of productions, one which uses the core sounds of electro, acid and IDM-techno as a base from which Splitradix can explore some fabulously idiosyncratic production tendencies.

‘3350 Beach Electronic’ is an exhilarating first flurry. Splitradix tracks are cut with a bevvy of analogue hardware, and as such it’s no surprise that the track is alive with the sound of busy machinery. Beginning with a squelching Fenix synth, we soon find multiple melody lines coalesce into a melodious melange. Synths chatter and sparkle, counter-melodies slip-side around the bass, and bright, welcoming pads are anchored by piston-precise 808s. It’s a stargazing delight, one that comes off like a souped-up take on the Lone sound, and a cracking introduction to 51º53'43"Nord 8º25'09"Waldorf.

Second cut ‘Zassenhaus Lemma’ kicks off in a Posthuman mode, with a delay-drenched 303 bassline meandering atop some chunky house drums. However, as acidic as the track sounds, Splitradix finds space in this crowded genre field with some brilliantly unusual harmony choices and zippy lead-lines that channel Discovery-era Daft Punk. 

Much like ‘3350 Beach Electronic’, ‘Zassenhaus Lemma’ is a perpetual motion machine, gathering synths and drums as it rolls ever onward. The same can be said of following number ‘PS31 Sideways Rain’, but this joint also coaxes out some more cerebral elements of the Splitradix sound. Whereas ‘3350 Beach Electronic’ found us racing through the cosmos, ‘PS31 Sideways Rain’ glides gracefully across the astral plane, the synths cascading over one another while the pads look up to the night sky. It sets the listener up perfectly for rose-tinted closer ‘PS31 Moxie', a tune which channels both prime Space Dimension Controller and Automatic Tasty’s recent CPU drop The Future Is Not What It Used To Be.

Splitradix’s Central Processing Unit debut 51º53'43"Nord 8º25'09"Waldorf is an evocative collection of off-kilter electro productions.

RIYL: Space Dimension Controller, Lone, KiNK, Automatic Tasty

Splitradix - 51º53'43 - Nord 8º25'09 - Waldorf

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Under the @decemberxxx alias, Tomas More has found the perfect balance between his slow and gloomy techno cuts. Electro punk, new beats, wave and techno influences - his signature sound is filled with references, from minimal drums to 80s industrial music.

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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

Decomposition is a mix series by Dead Channel. Fig. 5 comes from JS Alvarez of Research & Development. Tracklist below:

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Carter Tutti Void - T 3.6
Internacional Electrical Rhythms - Azaka
Kuniyuki - Shout (12 inch version)
Spiritflesh - Mortuary
Nick Klein - Tail Eating
Future DZ - Bongo 2cc
Assalti Industriali - Sei Minuti E Ventitré Secondi
Privacy - No Way Back
Bill Converse feat. Carlos Souffront - WATB
Kliner - Tamtara
In Sotto Voce - Track 2
Untold - Overdrive
Ximena, Ali X, Palomo - Pastillitas (Cabaret Nocturne Remix)
Subjected - Steel
Cadans - 3 Milian
Globull - Untitled
Max Durante - Machine World
Factory Floor - Two Different Ways (Perc Remix)
DSX & Sid Lamar - Rain and Sweat
Ansome - Haylard Hitch
houz' mon - 101 rx. dm 112
Juzer - Busy Bees
Post Scriptum - You Won’t Find Me
HKKPTR - Reglos
Darien - Hit it
Scalameriya - Tainted Voltage

Decomposition - Fig. 5: JS Alvarez

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)

Cult Tigersushi band Principles of Geometry is back with a new release after 8 years hiatus. 

This release is the 1st single. Album to be out this fall. The band goes deep back to its electronica / IDM roots with an acid touch and put another cult artist in charge of delivering a remix : mysterious Brainwaltzera.

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Tencion returns to Manual Deep with his stunning new single Nothing Is Real. The original mix leads with broken electro-infused rhythms and a raw, emotive edge. Niki Sadeki follows with a daring remix, expertly navigating the space between electronica and techno with her signature experimental flair. Closing the release, Tencion offers the Balearica Mix, a beatless, ambient reimagining that invites listeners into a more introspective soundscape.

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

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

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