I turned 30 the 09/09/22 and was heading to one of the best summer gathering, Sarcus Festival.
I played the day after surrounded by many friends & artists I like. 

I prepared this set for almost 2 months because I wanted it to be like a retrospective of the path I walked in electronic music during the past 13 years. 
I tried to include as much tracks of the different styles I grew up with with the things I discovered at that time that I really felt like playing at a 6-9pm slot.
A couple of months after the festival, the file I was sent was corrupted, with just a little click at the beginning. One of my USB sticks was near the end so the history folder was messy and I tried to remember my set as I played it. Since I prepared almost 75% of it, it was quite easy.

I recorded it nearly 6 months after this moment on a sunny morning, and I'm happy to finally sharing it with the world.

You'll find in here loads of lazers, zaps, wizzes, noises and probably an unreasonable use of DJM's dub echo.

Big shout out to the Sarcus Team and to all people who made this journey go the way it went.

Christian Coiffure @Sarcus Festival 2022

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.

RIYL: Annie Hall, Silicon Scally, Legowelt

Recursor

NULLPTR - Recursor

The German philosopher Hermann Schmitz defines as vagueness the basic perceptive condition for describing the concept of atmosphere, and the spatial model within which it can be experienced. The space of feeling - a space by definition devoid of surfaces and animated by numerous semi-entities - is able to involve the individual immediately, bodily and affective, for being characterized by intrinsic properties such as indeterminacy and impermanence.

To clarify the spatial character of feelings understood as atmosphere, Schmitz adopts the analogy with the acoustic model explaining its ability to act despite the impossibility of defining a quantifiable spatial model. Vago Spazio del Ritmo - volume 1 is the first chapter of a path dedicated to the indefinite that surrounds us and that becomes a refuge, only experienced via sensations.

12 artists have vaguely wandered among new unexplored atmospheres, pushing the boundaries that define the dimension of listening and dancefloor, paying homage to the leftfield hemisphere in a non-linear and unexpected journey that will bring us to experience the unexplored forms of our emotions.

Compiled and curated by Alessia Li Causi (Luce Clandestina)
Verses by Annika Pettini
Mastered by Marco Milanesio, O.F.F Studio - Torino, 2023
Covered Design and Illustrations by Beatrice Lattuada
Produced by Details Sound


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Various Artists - Vago Spazio Del Ritmo Vol.1

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.

RIYL: Cardopusher, Bochum Welt, Cygnus, D’Arcangelo

Nanoclusters

Global Goon - Nanoclusters

Collaborative album by NAP & Linear Flux. Originally made at Deep Blue Studios (Vancouver BC, 2021) for “Sound & Fire”, a radio play commission for CJSF FM Radio at Simon Fraser University. Originally broadcast December 22nd, 2021.

Digital out now:
https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/aloneptu 

Cassette version out soon via Doom Chakra Tapes:
https://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com/merch 

Mastered by Nik Kosub
Cover Art by Ignacia Paredes

Cassette version out soon via Doom Chakra Tapes

ISLA35 - NAP & Linear Flux - Aloneptu (Previews)

OXY w/ OBLAKA - 21/08/2023

four gifted reverse engineering experts disassemble and recompile ancient source codes for the third volume of TRUST's XY recombination series.

Ilian Tape's Stenny (@stennyyy) breaks down Versalife's 'Nova Prospekt', Planet Euphorique label owner D.Tiffany (@d-tiffany)delivers a twitchy percussive take of Alex Cortex's 'We Run Your Life', UK  breakbeat pioneer Clatterbox (@clatterbox) converts Microthol's 'Intertronic' into a snarling and growling bass monster, and Delsin's dub master VC-118A (@mohlao) drops a lush techno dub of 'Tides' by /DL/MS/.

out november 2023
distributed by @clone-distribution
artwork by dextro.org

a1 :: VERSALIFE x STENNY - nova prospekt
a2 :: ALEX CORTEX x D.TIFFANY - we run your life
b1 :: MICROTHOL x CLATTERBOX - intertronic
b2 :: /DL/MS/ x VC-118A - tides

Vinyl / Download

[TRUST XY.3] STENNY :: D.TIFFANY :: CLATTERBOX :: VC–118A [out november 2023]

Just a bit of fun :)
respect to everyone x x

K N O P F L E R E F F E K T

Recursor (Super Sentient Intelligence Construct Remix)

Nullptr - Recursor (Supersentient Intelligence Construct Remix)

Full Bloom - Time Zones

A1. Respawn
A2. Speed FM
A3. Time Zones
A4. Zwischenwelt
A5. Giesing Underwater
A6. Message To The Trees
A7. Full Baked
B1. Saw
B2. Sticky Fingers
B3. Sea Of Green
B4. Akomembe
B5. Schwabylon Dub

Full Bloom is an experimental sound collective traveling through polyrhythmic timezones and psychedelic soundscapes deeply rooted in the aesthetics of Jazz, Hip Hop, Afrobeat and Dub. Whatever happens, we try to convey a feeling that sits deep in your stomach and makes your body move!

ITLP18 FULL BLOOM - TIME ZONES

AF is proud to feature Vertical67 on the label. It's hard not to have heard of Thomas Pahl in the electro underwater depths after multiple appearances over the course of more than a decade and under a ton of aliases. With the illuminating title of 'Changes', Thomas gets rid of corsets and presents an entrancing voyage into post-euphoria, displaying a radiant and emotive side which the artist’s new discordant sound emerges. A defiant cry in the face of existential angst. Navigating between breaks, dreamy melodies and reflective landscapes ‘Changes’ could be defined as a deep introspective journey into the machines. Cop while u can!.
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PREORDER 2x12" PINK VINYL + DIGITAL: https://t.ly/VeXfX
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CAT: AF054LP
ARTIST: VERTICAL67 
TITLE: CHANGES
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A1   UPSIDE DOWN                               06:09  
A2   OUT OF THE BLUE                           06:18
B1   FADING MEMORIES                           05:53
B2   MOVIE STILLS                              07:15
C1   MOMENTS OF JOY                            04:41
C2   CHANGE OF HEART                           05:04
C3   OBSTACLES                                 03:55
D1   TWITCH                                    06:08
D2   NEW HORIZONS                              06:03
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C+P Analogical Force 2023. Copyright Control
Written and produced by Thomas Pahl somewhere in Berlin
Mastering by Carlos Koschitzky at Koschitzky Studio, Gijón
Design by Geometric Love, UK
Distributed by Clone, Rotterdam 
www.clone.nl
www.analogicalforce.com

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[AF054LP] VERTICAL67 'CHANGES' [2023]

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.

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