The disco-esque title track is the best here.

Yosuke Ikeda aka AE35 is an Electro DJ / Producer in Tokyo, Japan.
In 2000 he started an event with his partners called “Tokyo Electro Beat Park”. Then he launched an electro label “Tokyo Electro Beat Recordings”, released some compilations. In 2007, he released his first EP “Electric Sunrise E.P.” from Fdb Recordings. His “Underdrain EP” was chosen as 2nd out of 5 in Dave Clarke’s Electro Top 5 Nov 2013. 
In 2014, he left “Tokyo Electro Beat Park” and launched new electro label named "Anti Gravity Device".
His massive-electro style is regarded highly both at home and abroad. He is making electro-machine-beats from the land of rising sun to the world.

Which artists has influenced you the most?

- Anthony Rother

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in
the near future?

- I have several requests coming in, but so far, none of them have been
finalized yet.

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- People who have come to Tokyo, had parties and went out drinking with me :)

What inspires you now to create music?

- Recently, contingencies and emotional snapshots

What set-up do you use when creating music?

- Akai MPC One, Acidlab Miami/Bassbot, Nordlead3, Jomox XBase09, etc.
and Ableton Live

Follow:
Soundcloud: @ae35
http://anti-gravity-device.com/
http://www.discogs.com/artist/AE35

Strange But Dance Music #119: AE35

TL Premiere #1301 (2023.07.07) : Silicon Scally - Super Fluid Tones [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 166th Premiere of 2023, we have a track by veteran UK Electro producer, now based in France, Carl Finlow, aka "Silicon Scally", titled ‘Super Fluid Tones’ from his forthcoming EP "Soft Robotics" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (@cpurecords).

The EP will be available on August 4, 2023 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/soft-robotics

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Silicon Scally - Soft Robotics [Central Processing Unit]

Carl Finlow keeps on keepin’ on. Not only is Finlow one of the most respected names in electro, a producer who boasts a sprawling catalogue that takes in a wide variety of aliases, but he’s also spent recent years establishing himself as a mainstay for Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit label. Soft Robotics, the new EP from Finlow’s Silicon Scally project, is the fifth Silicon Scally release in five years to boast one of CPU’s instantly-recognisable black-and-white covers.

The reason that Silicon Scally and CPU keep linking up is simple; they’re a perfect fit for one another. Central Processing Unit has established itself as a haven for post-Drexciya producers since launching in 2012, and there are few artists better than Finlow at building on the Detroit group’s sound. The union bears fruit once more on Soft Robotics, an EP of lithe machine-funk jams that will both do damage in the dance and also reward more concentrated home listening.

Things begin at a steadier speed than one might expect. Rather than barrelling off with the kind of sinewy roller one associates with the CPU name, Soft Robotics’ title-track takes things at mid-pace. The groove reveals itself without hurry, Silicon Scally adding or subtracting elements - twitchy modular loops, pensive pads, the occasional blurt of low-end - atop the chugging bass/drums groove. It’s a track which wins you over with guile rather than force.

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Things limber up further still on first B-side ‘Spin Ratio’. The track’s 808 kicks are punchier than those of the A-side jams, and there’s a dizziness to the bass tone which gives ‘Spin Ratio’ an intriguingly off-kilter feel. Atop the booming beat we find ourselves hypnotised by cells of melody and harmony interlocking or moving apart - particularly the staccato module at the track’s heart. Sure enough, ‘Spin Ratio’ is the Soft Robotics joint which cleaves closest to Drexciya, invoking other Detroit disciples like Jensen Interceptor in the process.

After Soft Robotics picks up speed in the middle, closer ‘Super Fluid Tones’ brings us back to where we started. This track returns to the more measured delivery of the record’s opener - there’s a steady pulse to the drums, and once again Silicon Scally packs the mix with so many intriguing whizzes, bangs, blips and blurts that it’s impossible not be won over by this tune’s construction. ‘Soft Robotics’ and ‘Super Fluid Tones’ bookend Soft Robotics very nicely, and Silicon Scally’s smart pacing gives the EP a lovely ebb and flow.

The ever-excellent Carl Finlow drops a Silicon Scally release via Central Processing Unit for the fifth year running. Like its predecessors, Soft Robotics is an excellent and deftly-crafted collection of modern machine-funk.

Tracklist :
1. Soft Robotics
2. Jitters
3. Spin Ratio
4. Super Fluid Tones

All tracks written and produced by Carl Finlow.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

Soft Robotics

Super Fluid Tones

TL PREMIERE : Silicon Scally - Super Fluid Tones [Central Processing Unit]

Taken from the SDEM - Vortices - Album
Release Date July 28th 2023.
Audio mastering: Miles Whitaker
Artwork: SODA

Vinyl // CD // Cassette // Digital // Streaming 

Steeped in Northern England's post bleep+bass mutations the album expands & finesses SDEM's dynamic & forward-facing approach.

Vortices

SDEM - SKRUNGE

TL Premiere #1348 (2023.09.08) : NULLPTR - Phase Function [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 213rd Premiere of 2023, we have a track by the veteran UK Electro Producer and DJ, Eddie Symons, aka "NULLPTR", titled ‘Phase Function’ from his forthcoming EP "Recursor" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (CPU Records).

The EP will be available on October 6, 2023 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/recursor

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NULLPTR - Recursor [Central Processing Unit]

Eddie Symons’ fine recent run for Central Processing Unit continues. The NULLPTR mastermind makes it four releases on the Sheffield label in five years with Recursor, a six-track EP which balances precision-engineered machine-funk grooves with an overarching aura of gracefulness.

Recursor finds its lane from the opening title-track. On the quicksilver ‘Recursor’ we get Drexciyan punch, a needlegun bassline and staccato arps offset by eerie washes of synths. There’s a tension between the two elements of the track, and this yin-yang combination means that’ Recursor’ will work equally well for both the rave’s darkest corners and also the euphoria of a sunrise set. 

After the title-track begins the record at breakneck speed, ‘Pulsar’ puts proceedings into cruise control. There’s still enough punch in the drum programming to ensure that ‘Pulsar’ will deliver in the dance, but this mid-paced tune is dominated by its warping bassline and keening keys, all of which comes together for a pretty and strangely wistful number. ‘Pulsar’s energy persists into following cut ‘Phase Function, though there’s a twitchiness to the bassline here which gives this track a nervier, more neurotic feel. As well as the golden age of Detroit electro, you’re also looking at Silicon Scally and Annie Hall as ballpark references, though there’s a winning idiosyncrasy to the production here which is all NULLPTR’s own.

The groove which kicks off the second half of Recursor is one of the most focussed on the whole EP - ‘Seil’ has a bassline which moves with the intent of a heat-seeking missile. When combined with the distant snap of 808s and twinkling arps, the whole thing very much maintains the shadowy feeling of ‘Phase Function’, and it’s an energy that Recursor rides into ‘Stone Tape’. ‘Stone Tape’ boasts another stellar bassline, but rather than the low-end barrelling forward intensely as it does on ‘Seil’ the bass here skips all around the mix, pleasingly erratic and playful. 

‘Portal’ is an apt title for Recuror’s sixth and final track. Indeed, the whole vibe of ‘Portal’ makes it a perfect closer for this EP of detailed electro jams. This tune really does feel like a portal being opened, the bass and drums busying themselves on the floor while chemtrails of synth in the upper-end of the mix intimate something enticing beyond the threshold. 

Sparky yet sleek, Recursor is the latest fine machine-funk collection from NULLPTR. 

Tracklist :
1. Recursor
2. Pulsar
3. Phase Function
4. Seil
5. Stone Tape
6. Portal

releases October 6, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Eddie Symons.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

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Follow NULLPTR :
Bandcamp : www.bovaflux.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/artist/43028-Bovaflux
Facebook : www.facebook.com/bovaflux
Instagram : www.instagram.com/bovaflux
RA : www.ra.co/dj/bovaflux
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/bovaflux
Twitter : www.twitter.com/bovaflux
Website : www.bovaflux.co.uk

Follow Central Processing Unit :
Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/424941-Central-Processing-Unit
Facebook : www.facebook.com/cpurecords
Instagram : www.instagram.com/cpurecords
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/cpurecords
Twitter : www.twitter.com/CPURECORDS
Website : www.cpurecords.net
YouTube : www.youtube.com/user/cpuoutput

Recursor

Phase Function

TL PREMIERE : NULLPTR - Phase Function [Central Processing Unit]

TL Premiere #1432 (2023.11.17) : Global Goon - Calcula [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 297th Premiere of 2023, we have a track by "Global Goon" (@globalgoons) titled ‘Calcula’ from his forthcoming mini-LP "Nanoclusters" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (@cpurecords).

The mini-LP will be available on December 1, 2023 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/nanoclusters

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Global Goon - Nanoclusters [Central Processing Unit]

While this may be the first release on Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit from Global Goon, the one known to friends and family as Johnny Hawk brings a whole heap of experience to the Nanoclusters mini-LP.

Hawk started dropping Global Goon records on the legendary Rephlex Records back in the 1990s. The project’s subsequent releases have taken in imprints as esteemed as WéMè and Balkan. Factor in a whole host of other aliases which have delivered missives via the likes of Planet Mu, and you know even before you press play on this witty, wily record that you’re dealing with a master at work here.

The confidence with which Global Goon approaches Nanoclusters shines through in Hawk taking much of the mini-album at midtempo. Cuts like ‘Khroxic Mould’, ‘Metallik’ and ‘Syntheseers’ sound like Bochum Welt heading down a dark alleyway. The former in particular is a seasick lope, the tuned synths lurching around like sailors on deck in a storm as bass ebbs and flows underneath the mix.

The influence of Kraftwerk comes through prominently at times here, particularly in the way ‘Calcula’ and ‘Digit Six’ play pensive, slightly sombre synth chords off some simple but effective forward motion in the drum programming. That is not to say that Nanoclusters is not full of invention, though. None of the productions are overly flash, but this approach allows the little details to shine through more clearly, from cleverly panned hi-hats to hissing synth counter-melodies which flit in and out of the mix. Enthralling and packed full of ear candy, they’re further evidence that Nanoclusters is the work of an expert craftsman.

While the pulse of Nanoclusters remains relatively steady throughout, it’s still a rather lively record. Plenty of these tracks will get the dancefloor moving if deployed correctly - though whether they’re heard at home or in the dance, it’s the attention to detail which makes them stand out.

‘Snapterisk’ is as perfect an example of machine-funk as you’re likely to find - the drum programming is razor-sharp but rubbery with bongos, the bass a lithe burble, and those wobbly stabs of keys that put a bit of wiggle in the beat? Delightful stuff. Elsewhere the ever-looping arpeggio of ‘Metro Esc’ has hints of Frankie Knuckles’ house classic ‘Your Love’, though an array of interesting sonic nuggets - snippets of vocal, radar-like bloops, a gently insistent low-end pulse - soften the track’s clubbier elements with a pillowy sheen. And Hawk throws us a curveball right at the end of Nanoclusters, tapping back into that old Rephlex sound for the fizzy, braindancing ‘Metal Glass’. 
 
Global Goon doesn’t need to show off on Nanoclusters - from brilliantly slick machine-funk to Kraftwerkian reveries, the CPU debutant lets the music do the talking here. It makes for a confident and vivacious mini-LP, one which wears its expertise lightly. 

Tracklist :
1. Khroxic Mould
2. Snapterisk
3. Metallik
4. Syntheseers
5. Calcula
6. Metro Esc
7. Digit Six
8. Metal Glass

releases December 1, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Jonathan Taylor.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

Nanoclusters

Calcula

Pre-order

TL PREMIERE : Global Goon - Calcula [Central Processing Unit]

2023 has unarguably been a great year for Electro both with overall visibility for the public as well as with the sheer number of quality releases being put out over the year. With a newfound buzz surrounding my beloved genre, I'm hardly keeping up! I feel like It was a busy year both production-wise and promotion-wise for @DVSNME and @DarkScienceElectro respectively, however, I found some time to put together a mix of my personal favorite tracks from 2023. Thanks to all the artists and DJs for the promos that made this mix possible. (@dvsnme December 15th, 2023)

Alex Jann - Infomaterial @alexjann
Steve Allman - Initiate Experiment @steve-allman
False Persona - Headrush @falsepersonaa
Featherstone - Arrival @featherstone_adl
DJ Godfather - Funk For The Trunk @dj-godfather
Human Rebellion - Telepathic Groove @humanrebellion
Grow - F.T.P. (Mark Starr remix) @adamgrow
Sansibar - My Boom (Reptant remix) @sunnysibar
Client_03 - Panic Multiplier @client_03
Zeta Reticula - Ionization @umek
Reptant - Lizard Eyes @reptant_the_lizard
Noamm - Exobiology Radiation Assembly @user-766451490
Lunar Tropics - Venus In Virgo @michaelwalsh
CYRK - Attack Of The Blowup Dolls @cyrkmusic
Kenneth X - Bunkerdepp @ordelnar
Versalife - Polychron @conforce
No Hype Crew - Euler's Formula @sourcematerialrecs
Dip Shim - Digital Warfare @dipshim
Fleck ESC - Invisible @fleck
Faca - Whipped Cream @facabeatz
Funktor - Critical Point @funktor-sound
Mokotron - Push Back @mokotron
CEM3340 - Highwheel @cem3340cem3340
Ben Pest - Bad B @benpest
iNFO - Rhetoric @noisy-suply
Aether Pilot - Macrosphere @aetherpilot
Ninechecker - Generating Coastline @ninechecker
Sinitsin - Roswell @sin-it-sin
Boris Divider - Your Light @borisdivider
Robotron - Pornographix (feat @egyptianlover) 
Lefrenk - Plastic (Pablo Funk remix) @lefrenk
DL/MS/ - Thinner Than Idris @dl-ms
Lazercat - Void06 (KafkaCtrl remix) @lazercat
Nullptr - Portal @bovaflux
CH415 - Spaze Modulations @ch415
Ultradyne - Native Serenade @pi-gao-movement
DVS NME - Debt Trap @dvsnme
Djedjotronic - Not Real @djedjotronic
T/Error - Computer Controlled Future @t-error-5
Plant43 - Silent Core @plant43
Blackploid - Pulsation @martin-matiske
Solar Chrome - Maschinen Absurd @nika-farra
Silicon Scally - Super Fluid Tone @carlfinlow
Teslasonic - Trantor @teslasonic-minimalrome
Lwptch - Morning, Evacuate @lwptch
Moralez - Temple Of Light (@commuter remix) 
Eoism - Relapsing Cycles @eoism
Bass Junkie - Bubble Funk (Radioactive Man remix) @pak-jamz
Luxus Varta - Everlost @luxusvarta 
Viikatory - Heart Wave @viikatory
Parallel Planet - New Generation @maturre
Franck Kartell - Acoustic Intelligence @franck-kartell
Lowfish - Mostly Cloudy @lowfish
Global Goon - Digit Six @globalgoons
The Oscilloscope - Cinap @the-oscilloscope

www.soundcloud.com/dvsnme

Dark Science Electro

Dark Science Electro presents - Best Of 2023

TL Premiere #1471 (2024.01.05) : Larionov - Vimana Ride [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 1st Premiere of 2024, we have a track by Russian DJ/Producer based in Voronezh "Larionov" titled ‘Vimana Ride’ from his forthcoming EP "Space Threat" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (CPU Records).

The EP will be available on February 2, 2024 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : centralprocessingunit.bandcamp.com/album/space-threat

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Larionov - Space Threat [Central Processing Unit]

After building up a head of steam on labels such as Craigie Knowes and Rotterdam Electronix in the past couple of years, Larionov debuts on Sheffield's Central Processing Unit with the Space Threat EP. Larionov's previous releases have shown off a musical sensibility which is both schooled in classic electro stylings and also able to reach for leftfield sonics in a way which sets the producer apart from the pack. It's a vibe that continues into this record, a quartet of busy electro joints which are characterised by a brooding, neurotic energy.

The opening title-track is precisely the sort of thing which would soundtrack a voyage to the outer-edges of the solar system. 'Space Threat' is a nervy, restless bit of machine-funk, the track moving forward at a midtempo which manages to be at once steady and slightly fidgety. The beat skitters and swerves, a perpetual-motion machine of minor-key bass, strange modular flutters and thwacking snares. All of this is draped in icy washes of keyboard - think Drexciya if they blasted into outer space rather than delving deep down in the ocean. 

'Asteroid Attack' works from the same blueprint for 'Space Threat' but ratchets up the intensity a little to take the track to another galaxy. It's still powered by a livewire neurosis, all piston-sharp drums and whirligig synth percussion. However, an increased tempo, strangely poignant keyboard lines and little snatches of vocoder-drenched vocals turn 'Asteroid Attack' in the direction of modern practitioners like Cardopusher and CPU homie Silicon Scally. 

Opening up the EP's B-side, 'Flying High' finds a midpoint between its predecessors, returning to the steadier pace and twitchy vibe of 'Space Threat' but maintaining 'Asteroid Attack's single-note counter-melodies and digified vocals - although here the ghostly treatment on the voice makes for a hugely eerie atmosphere. Around the four-minute mark, the track peels back the veil of synth pads and wobbling keys stabs to turn the attention wholly to the rhythm section, a choice which feels like taking a stiff drink in order to redouble your energy for the next part of the night. 

'Vimana Ride' runs with 'Flying High's approach to see Space Threat out in style. There's something to the digital vocal sighs that make up the melody of this cut which gives things a really uncanny quality - it's the kind of sonic choice that Sadboys producers like Yung Gud and Yung Sherman would make, but applied wholly to the service of crafting body-popping, acid-tinged electro. 

Larionov arrives on Central Processing Unit with an EP of anxiously excellent electro experiments. 

Tracklist :
1. Space Threat
2. Asteroid Attack
3. Flying High
4. Vimana Ride

releases February 2, 2024

All tracks written and produced by Dmitry Larionov.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

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Follow Larionov :
Bandcamp : www.larionov.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/Larionovmusic
Instagram : www.instagram.com/larionovmusic
Linktree : www.linktr.ee/larionovmusic
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/larionov

Follow Central Processing Unit :
Facebook : www.facebook.com/cpurecords
Instagram : www.instagram.com/cpurecords
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/cpurecords
Website : www.cpurecords.net
YouTube : www.youtube.com/user/cpuoutput

Space Threat

Vimana Ride

TL PREMIERE : Larionov - Vimana Ride [Central Processing Unit]

After building up a head of steam on labels such as Craigie Knowes and Rotterdam Electronix in the past couple of years, Larionov debuts on Sheffield's Central Processing Unit with the Space Threat EP. Larionov's previous releases have shown off a musical sensibility which is both schooled in classic electro stylings and also able to reach for leftfield sonics in a way which sets the producer apart from the pack. It's a vibe that continues into this record, a quartet of busy electro joints which are characterised by a brooding, neurotic energy.

Larionov arrives on Central Processing Unit with an EP of anxiously excellent electro experiments.

@larionov

https://beacons.ai/looselipsmusic

PREMIERE: Larionov - Flying High [Central Processing Unit]

Tracklisting:

Paul Hierophant - 
Soon come..

Plant43 - 
Plant43 - Skyway Shadow [Plant43 Recordings]
https://plant43.bandcamp.com/album/luminous-machines

Mr. Blix - Racks Xnip Cyber Eye [Stereo on Strike]
https://stereoonstrike.bandcamp.com/album/saucer-sectionals

Aphex Twin - zin2 test5 [Warp Records]
https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/blackbox-life-recorder-21f-in-a-room7-f760

Plant43 - Haunting the Depths [Plant43 Recordings]
https://plant43.bandcamp.com/album/luminous-machines

214 - Arrival [Bandcamp]
https://214electronics.bandcamp.com/album/what-would-have-been

Obzerv - Xeno [Control Data Institute]
https://cdistore.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-institute

Tracing Xircles - Voyage [Candy Mountain]
https://tracingxircles.bandcamp.com/album/first-contact

Ana Quiroga - Wallada [Houndstooth]
https://anaquiroga.bandcamp.com/album/azabache

Silicon Scally - Spin Ratio [CPU]
https://centralprocessingunit.bandcamp.com/album/soft-robotics

Larionov - Asteroid Attack [CPU]
https://centralprocessingunit.bandcamp.com/album/space-threat

Credit 00 - Breathe One Two [Mechatronica]
https://mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/count-8

214 - Mall Walkers [Bandcamp]
https://214electronics.bandcamp.com/album/what-would-have-been

Steffi - Alternation Of High And Low [Candy Mountain]
https://steffiedoms.bandcamp.com/album/steffi-the-red-hunter

Plant43 - Disrupt & Disobey [CPU]
https://centralprocessingunit.bandcamp.com/album/three-dimensions

Luz1e - Electronic Warfare [Voitax]
https://voitax.bandcamp.com/album/radical-optimism

Alonzo - 10 Y Vs A [Control Data Institute]
https://cdistore.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-institute

Plant43 - Hibernation Base [Plant43 Recordings]
https://plant43.bandcamp.com/album/luminous-machines

Plant43 - Capsule Hotel (Rainy April Mall) [Plant43 Recordings]
https://plant43.bandcamp.com/album/luminous-machines

State Of Play W/ Paul Hierophant & Plant43 -8th-Feb-2024 | Threads

TL Premiere #1563 (2024.03.22) : Karsten Pflum - BALM [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 93rd Premiere of 2024, we have a track by Danish DJ/Producer "Karsten Pflum" (@karsten-von-pflum) titled ‘BALM’ from his forthcoming EP "Liars" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (@cpurecords).

The EP will be available on April 5, 2024 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://centralprocessingunit.bandcamp.com/album/liars

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Release Info :

Karsten Pflum - Liars [Central Processing Unit]

Preview here: soundcloud.com/cpurecords/karsten-pflum-liars

In a convergence of two of the most celebrated names in contemporary electronic music, Karsten Pflum steps out on Central Processing Unit with the Liars EP. As anyone who has followed either Pflum’s work for labels such as Worm Interface/Furthur Electronix or the Sheffield imprint’s recent run of top-quality electro joints will have expected, this coming together proves to be a match made in heaven.

What we have here is a tour de force of modern machine music. With Liars, Pflum achieves that rare feat of making something that is at once boundary-pushing yet also thrillingly immediate, his attention to detail shining through with each well-placed snare hit or leftfield structural choice. Equally apt for home listening or dancefloor deployment, Liars is a delight for heads and hedonists alike.

Constantly evolving while also cleaving to a relentless groove throughout, opener ‘WAN1’ is a brilliant scene-setter for Liars. The track slinks between sections of seething post-Drexciyan acid and eerie vignettes which balance out haunted house synth licks with the sort of punishing bass blasts that recall early grime classics like Youngstar’s ‘Pulse X’. A sly shift of key halfway through the track only serves to redouble ‘WAN1’s restless brilliance. 

After ‘WAN1’, ‘LOLA’ represents something of a gear-switch. The track’s wiggly opening bassline is a red herring - make no mistake that we’re fully into braindance territory on this one, the drums skittering across the mix as Pflum fills the track out with jungle-adjacent delays and softly insistent synth pads. As ‘LOLA’ goes on, blurts of synth and some stiffening in the drum work pushes the track into pure rhythm workout territory.

First B-side ‘MOUSFOLK’ somewhat splits the difference between Liars’ A-sides. This track has ‘WAN1’s unyielding stomp and prominent acid bass line, but the helter-skelter drum breaks and wandering keyboard lines are very much pulling from ‘LOLA’s zanier energy. As with the other joints here, ‘MOUSFOLK’ is elevated by Pflum’s composerly touch, the Dane frequently throwing in new sonic tidbits - a skippy snare tattoo, a single-note synth loop which sounds like a hovering spaceship - that reinvigorate the mix. 

Pflum’s musicality is at the fore once more on closer ‘BALM’. For the first section of ‘BALM’, a rich and sombre keyboard fugue, you’d be hard pressed to say whether you’re listening to a producer of club music or a contemporary classical maestro. The way Pflum builds this central motif up with deft broken-beat drum programming, a wheezing synth countermelody and distant vocal sighs is equally delightful, the whole track coming off like a kindred spirit of the electronica-infused experiments on Radiohead’s 2000 masterwork Kid A. 

A brilliantly unorthodox collection of electro-braindance hybrids, Liars is a barnstorming Central Processing Unit debut from the seasoned Karsten Pflum. 

RIYL: AFX, Silicon Scally, DMX Krew, Matmos

Tracklist :
1. WAN1
2. LOLA
3. MOUSFOLK
4. BALM

releases April 5, 2024

All tracks written and produced by Jacob Helverskov Madsen.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

Liars

BALM

TL PREMIERE : Karsten Pflum - BALM [Central Processing Unit]

Limited edition 12" vinyl in shrink-wrapped printed sleeve with paper inner.
Includes Space Cucumbers, Re-Invasion, Radioactive Leak, Positronic Matter and More Questions.

Space Cucumbers

DMX Krew - Space Cucumbers

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.

DMX Krew - Space Cucumbers

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FATAL WALIMA

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