Nice -- glad we get a little braindance on the record. What a great release. Will try and find the vinyl in New York.

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Reflex Arc

Live jam with sounds from dsi tempest, tt303, sherman filterbank, roland alpha juno, waldorf micro q, MFB Dominion Club, electribe ER1 - sequenced with sequentix cirklon. effects by eventide.

Back on the cid.

Download for free (or chuck us some coin) on my band camp page.
https://loukarsh.bandcamp.com/track/existessence

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Lou Karsh - Existessence

Artist: Ninechecker
Title: Generating Coastline EP
Label: Orson Records
Cat No: ORSON027
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 

A1. Generating Coastline
A2. Magagun
B1. Computer Armour
B2. Me and My Three Sons

Ninechecker fell in love with Electro as a teenager in Liverpool watching Dave Clarke smash it up at Voodoo (and their I-Robot Electro nights) and at Bugged Out!
Having settled in Toronto, Canada after living in Berlin he reassembled his studio and started producing his own interpretation of Electro, taking inspiration from late 90’s jungle, UK Techno, 808 Miami bass and Trap, dark doomy electronics and field recordings to create his own Gutter Electro. with releases on Varial Records, Zodiac Wax and Supercomputer AV he now make his debut on Orson...

100% set to be an electro classic.

Ninechecker - Generating Coastline EP (ORSON027)

Gravity

Maelstrom returns to Central Processing Unit for the fourth time, and it's the one born Joan-Mael Péneau's lengthiest drop on the Sheffield label yet. The French artist has been a mainstay in the European electro game since the 2000s, and Malestrom brings that experience to bear on new LP The FM Tapes. He goes about this album with the assurance of a seasoned pro, combining his mastery of electro production techniques with a trademark guile to craft an expertly-paced eleven-track affair.

The first section of The FM Tapes sets out the album's stall with style and aplomb - listeners are in store for a rich feast of off-kilter machine-funk which will feature no shortage of intriguing detours. On opener 'Ondes Courtes' the mix throbs with all manner of strange electronic gristle: a distorted bass hum rattles the monitors; wisps of distortion float across the mix; eerily pretty keys wax and wane before giving way to a radar pulse.

'Ondes Courtes' is an ominous slouch of a scene-setter, and it lines things up perfectly for following cut 'Alt50ser' to lock in. This track's churning, gurgling mid-tempo rattle brings to mind the wacky insistence of Modeselektor. Maelstrom repeats the slow-fast one-two again directly afterwards - 'La Vie Sociale Des', a strange nugget that sounds like an early Eski instrumental stripped for parts and blasted into the cosmos, is an ideal prelude to the twitchy space-funk of 'My Digitone'.

Maelstrom's staying power in the electro world comes, in no small part, from his ability to apply his delightfully idiosyncratic choices to some of the genre's staple production tropes. On The FM Tapes, he marks himself out once more as a pleasingly unorthodox talent by taking tracks in unexpected directions to produce surprising - and often rather moving - results.

There are multiple cuts here which channel the more cerebral end of Richard D. James' AFX/Analord output: 'My Digitone' may be a quicksilver techno-electro number, but there's still something cinematic about the synth treatment here which softens the edges; 'Suede's minor-key oscillations bring other CPU veterans like Cygnus and Bochum Welt into view; 'Res 06', one of two Fasme collaborations on the record, is full of pathos even as the beat programming bangs and whirrs throughout.

While there's a deep emotional undercurrent to The FM Tapes, though, Maelstrom's commitment to bringing the thrills surfaces time and again. If 'Res 06' had Maelstrom and Fasme getting wistful, the album's other Fasme link-up 'Trempo' is one of the hardest club joints here, a piece of old-school Detroit energy replete with some great cascading drum production. Indeed, 'Trempo' comes in the middle of a run towards the album's end where Maelstrom takes the handbrake off - there's a wild-eyed sense of fun to 'The Operator' and 'Upside Down DX7' which has one thinking of the zany cut-and-thrust of KiNK's best work.

Maelstrom's latest drop for Sheffield's Central Processing Unit label is an album of leftfield electro numbers that bring both pounding beats and poignant production.

RIYL: KiNK, Modeselektor, Cygnus, Bochum Welt, AFX

The FM Tapes

Maelstrom - The FM Tapes

The next release on Ara-u’s No Static / Automatic comes from Konerytmi aka Kiril Junolainen. The Konerytmi project began in 2020 combining electro, techno and acid sounds with a gliding and clean-edged production aesthetic. On Moottoritie EP he channels in the energy and flow of traversing the speed-limitless autobahn while giving a cool nod to the aesthetic of Scandinavian electro sounds a la Stilleben Records.

Konerytmi - Vainio (NSA009)

Morken - Van Cleef

https://www.beatport.com/release/first-contact/5074606

Nikko ZG - Follow Me

Rüfüs Du Sol - Innerbloom - Beezie & Axel V - Self Reflection Mix

TWENTYEIGHT

Rose VA Compilation 2xLP - Hypress setzt 2020 auf einen
Neustart. Neue Dekade heißt: neuer Look, neue Künstler, neues
Team und die lang ersehnte Label-Compilation als Doppel LP. Des
Labels bisher größtes Werk dient als Werkschau und gleichzeitige
Schärfung des eigenen Portfolios - auf der LP finden sich sowohl
lokale Leipziger Electronic-Musiker, als auch renommierte
internationale Künstlern wieder. Der konsequente Umgang
verschiedener Genres zeitgenössischer Clubmusik ist ganz typisch
für den bisherigen Label-Katalog, so werden auch diesmal 12
verschiedene Tracks im Spannungsfeld zwischen Techno und
Electro auf Vinyl vorgestellt, sowie zwei weitere digitale Bonus
Tracks. Kurios große Summen an Roséwein im gemeinsamen
Studio-Kühlschrank wurden nicht nur zum Running Gag, sondern
zum namensgebenden LP-Titel.

BB2 - Interviews - Resonating

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.

Maelstrom - The FM Tapes

CPU RECORDS

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