NULLPTR never fails. Since emerging in 2016 with the Optical LP, Eddie Symons’ project has become a byword for top-draw contemporary electro productions. After triumphantly returning to Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit with 2020’s Future World full-length, NULLPTR follows that album up with a new quartet of machine-funk slammers. Striking a balance between highwire, twitchy rhythm programming and some deft textural work, the Terminus EP demonstrates exactly why the NULLPTR name is so respected in the world of electro.

The first half here almost showcases the two sides of the NULLPTR sound in microcosm. Opening track ‘Connected’ zips along like one of the racers from a Wip3out game. The 808s are all booming breakbeats and hissing-piston hats, with a jittery synth bassline nipping in and out of the spaces left vacant by the drums. Atop these swirl eerie keyboard pads, the reverb from them draping across the rest of the instruments like fog above a city. By contrast, following cut ‘Mesospheric Cruise’ is the yin to ‘Connected’s yang. Where its predecessor was tense and coiled, this lilting number is expansive and open like a primetime Virginia joint - though the point where the wistful house pads strip back to foreground the twinkle-toed electro beat still has a pleasing crunch to it.

The B-side of Terminus serves dystopian snap from the off. Genre masters Drexciya are invoked by ‘Syndicate’. The needle-gun bassline here turns itself inside-out across these five minutes, and all the while the tune is laced with some evocative shadow-realm synth pads. A similar energy courses through the EP’s closing title-track, a cut which also brings into play a booming four-to-the-flour that gives it an unstoppable sense of forward-motion. Like ‘Connected’ and ‘Mesospheric Cruise’ - indeed, like all of the NULLPTR material that Central Processing Unit has brought us down the years - these jams will sound positively devilish when deployed in a dark basement.

The Terminus EP sees electro don NULLPTR (Eddie Symons) deliver four slices of unadulterated machine-funk heat.

RIYL: Virginia, Cardopusher, Drexciya, Silicon Scally

Terminus

NULLPTR - Terminus

Artist: Matti Turunen
Title: Radau
Label: Cultivated Electronics Ltd
Catalogue No: CELTD011
Formats: Vinyl
Released: 24th October

Track Listing:
A1. Aureum
A2. Xhante
B1. Radau
B2. Memnonia

Matti Turunen is probably best known for his work as Morphology (with Michael Diekmann) but here he goes it alone for a new EP on Cultivated Electronics vinyl-only series,  Cultivated Electronics Ltd.

Finnish electronic maestro, Turunen's previous solo ventures without his Morphology cohort are rare.  The last time was a track for AC Records in 2013 (which was remastered earlier this year for Bandcamp), but appearances have also cropped up on Abstract Forms, Muhk and Bliq in previous years.

For his 'Radau' EP on CE Ltd he turns up the Electro-funk to the max with lush arrangements, dulcet melodies and gritty beats – there's a warmth in the machines.

Radau

CELT011 - Matti Turunen - Radau

Pre-order via Bandcamp : https://osare-editions.bandcamp.com/album/oe-017-novo-line-zeit

Novo Line – aka Berlin's algorave maestro Nat Fowler – delivers a noisy, ultramarine voyage into the depths of his archaic hardware. Clawing at the periphery between leftfield electronics and avant-garde pop, Zeit is an entirely new sonic universe, eerily familiar yet utterly uncharted. A visionary synthesist, Fowler is renowned for his productions that make use of mainly '80s equipment including vintage digital synths, discarded MIDI Hi-Tech, tape delay and even an ancient Atari ST computer. But, despite the aged technology, the result is far from nostalgic.

'Ain't That a Mess' slams in with Monica Kremidi's crooning à la Little Annie Anxiety with reeving car engines and guitar-rock static fed through a pan effect. Multilayered melodies soar on 'Stein', the pounding drums matched by gliding strings, crafting that holy grail of cavernous, booming textures and uplifting euphoria that mark out the most transcendent of rave tracks. The deceptively gentle opening bars of 'Morning Star' are interrupted by a viscously squelching bassline, Cass McCombs' vocals dancing deliciously with the raw beat.

Rejecting contemporary tech-fetishism, Novo Line has a near-supernatural ability to exorcise novel sequences, weaving together a record that speaks to the ghost in the machine.
credits
releases December 10, 2022

Produced by Nat Fowler
Vocals on A1 by Monica Kremidi - Vocals on B2 by Cass McCombs
Mastered by Rude66
Manufactured by Deepgrooves, Netherlands
Cover art by Elena Colombi & Manuel Sepulveda
Riso strip printed at TerryBleu, Amsterdam
Art direction by Elena Colombi
Words by Hannah Pezzack

[ OE 017 ] Novo Line - Zeit (snippets)

Ahead of tomorrow's BT night at Bike Jesus with Ivna Ji, Exhausted Modern, Barking and mʊdʌki, we present Poisoned Notes, featuring four exclusive tracks from tomorrow's line-up.

Offering a taste of the sounds to come, flexing downtempo, pulsating jams, breaks and electro.

[NOCAT] VA - POISONED NOTES
Free digital compilation.

Tickets available from RA.
https://ra.co/events/1875583

@mudaki

Free

mʊdʌki - You Can Run But You Can't Hyde

Dalmata Daniel ‎– DDE07
SILF
[7" Lathe cutl / Digital]

Dalmata Daniel, with the seventh installment of the lathe cut series, invites us on a time travel journey.

11 years ago, on a hot and acidic July evening, the SILF guys secluded themselves in the Ballacid studio in the concrete jungle of Újpest to dive into the night with their analog setup. During the jam session, led by the TB303 bass synthesizer, these two timeless classic acid variations were born from a single theme.

'Tot-O' is the darker, more rugged stomper, while 'Tot-A' is the lighter, more upbeat acid-house track, featuring the playful use of the TR707 and TR727 drum machines by the duo.

Improvised by @S-I-L-F, Recorded Live at Ballacid Studio in Budapest, Hungary 2013

Mastered by A.P (GS Mastering & Post)
www.ghostsounds.net

Art Director/Artwork by Daniel Jani (Studio Jetski)
www.facebook.com/studiojetski

Curated by @maximilliansinclair(Executive-Producer)

Risograph print by BPZines
https://www.instagram.com/bpzines

Dalmata Daniel: www.dalmatadaniel.com

DDE07

DDE07: SILF (7" Lathe cut) [SNIPPETS]

Deep Blue Ocean

The Move (Snippet)

Cruising at night😎🦼

DJ Sundae (Idle Press // Paris)
@djsundae

Illustration: @steviewhisper

DJ Sundae says Yes.

A1 from the upcoming Mouvements
https://brokntoys.bandcamp.com/album/mouvements


Having garnered an online cult following, painter and producer Youl Dirlès AKA R 325 makes his record debut with Mouvements.
Across 5 tracks, R 325 runs the gamut through IDM, electro and breaks, creating an insular EP full of emotive, multilayered atmospheres.

Each record features a different painting by Youl himself on upcycled sleeves.
Edition of 150 copies.

R 325 - 151408420

LIES-165
Broken English Club-White Rats III
album clips
to be released Feb. 2021

White Rats III

Broken English Club-WHITE RATS III album clips (LIES-165)

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.

NULLPTR - Terminus

CPU RECORDS