2nd Shot in 2021

NULLPTR

After covering several hundred releases in 2021, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged at https://igloomag.com/features/best-of-2021. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.

Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2021

Rolling out the higher tempos, the half tempos and the no tempos.

Show downloadable.

Tracklisting:

1	Fiesta Soundsystem - Incantation I	
2	Brandon Juhans - Dead Weight Y	
3	Tara in Tibet - Mila Azul	
4	Batu - Tuff Cookie	
5	DONATO DOZZY - Mai	
6	Forest Drive West	 - Terminus	
7	CNDSD - Leitmotiv	
8	SWARMM - Liminality pt.2	
9	Homemade Weapons	Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix)
10	PESSIMIST and HOLSTEN - The Riot Tune - TYPE 2
11	A.Fruit - Polykarp	
12	Es.tereo - Temple Of Ra	
13	Flore - Coded Language (3Phaz Remix)	
14	The Duke of Juke	Jukin Bird	
15	 https://soundcloud.com/warlock/warlock-computer-madness (free download)
16	Hyph11e	 - Barnacles (Kode9 Remix)	
17	Slick Shoota - Mtl Hardcore	
18	Sonic - Volcan	
19	KODE9 X DJ FULLTONO - TKO (FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL)
20	Atomu Shinzo -  Atomu Got It	
21	DONATO DOZZY - Dusty Bones	
22	Fiesta Soundsystem	ML185	
23	8Ball - Many Shapes 	
24	Brandon Juhans - Floating in Traffic	
25	Cleyra - Shafted	
26	Kanyon - Six Track 	
27	Low End Activist - Look Up	
28	No Nation & Sheba Q - Mother of Mars
29	Radioactive Man	Clap Ya Hands	
30   Charly Says - Good in My Soul (Decibella Remix)	
31	LMajor - Roll The Beeps 
32	Mani Festo - Titan - Ten Eight Seven Mastered	
33	ScanOne_Energize	
34	Itsu Uno - Shooter (Super Sharp B-Boy)	
35	Deadhand - Skitty ft. DJ Prime Cuts	
36	Blazer SoundSystem - Whatcomesup96	
37	Speedy J - Drainpipe

Threads Radio - Mar 2021

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

This month, tempo ranging from 118 to 170 with some fine new music along the way. Plus a few forgotten gems.

1	ESQUEEZY - No Name No Shame
2	Caprithy - Lockbox
3	Johnny Hunter - 89’ Brakes
4	ScanOne - Visual
5	Zodiac Childs & Baraqiel - Goblin
6	Hooverian Blur_What I Am
7	Dexorcist - Body Clock
8	Warlock - Cross-breed
9	Cooly G - Phat Si
10	Tristan Arp - Unfurling
11	Kevin Murf - Tramal
12	Ehua - Silica
13	Amazondotcom & Siete Catorce - Shells
14	LCY - Teeth
15	Meat Beat Manifesto - Bo Bots
16	London Modular Alliance - Head of the Keeper
17	Mani Festo - Close Proximity
18	Pessimist - Empty Words
19	Hooverian Blur - Bad Actor 
20	Walton - Rewind Riddim
21	TENEBRE - Low Poly 
22	Asquith - NFT Bass Mix
23	INVT - ORB
24	Ital Tek - Gonga
25	INVT - JUMPSTART
26	MANI FESTO - TOXIC WASTE
27	Pessimist - No Fxxxing Soul
28	Torn, Roho - Proelli
29	BASEMENT TRACKS ONE - 21082020
30	Etch - Tyrant 
31	Switch Back Smith - Frankincense

Threads Radio - May 2021

Artist: Nullptr
Title: Lost Time
Label: Distorted Sensory Perception
Cat No: DSP004
Format: 12’’ Vinyl

Tracklist:
A1.  Adrift
A2.  Islands
B1.  First Light
B2.  Lost Time

Distorted Sensory Perception returns for their 4th release, proudly welcoming Eddie Symons AKA Nullptr to the fold. ‘Lost Time’ boasts 4 deep and dynamic analogue cuts that are sure to stimulate the mind, body and soul. The EP forms the penultimate part of Nullptr's 2021 triptych, recorded over the final months of a difficult year when the distance between friends and family really started to be felt, yet the hope of better times felt close.

The A-side opens with the bass heavy ‘Adrift’. Shrouded in eerie synth leads and tasteful modular bleeps. All presented over heavy hitting drum loops that together make an emotive, uncompromising whole. 
The first side concludes with the warm and funky ‘Islands’. Smooth sailing synthesis and popping percussion in combination create a sonic delight for the ears. 

The B-side opens with the dark and moody ‘First Light’. A deep, dystopian example of UK Electro that takes no prisoners. Deep menacing bass pads, melancholic synth leads and acidic squiggles all bubbling under a punchy broken beat. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle and title track of the release ‘Lost Time’ is a lighter, dreamier example of Eddie’s versatility as a producer. Signature arpeggios and contemplative leads all tied together with shuddering percussive elements. A beautiful insight into the reflective mind of its creator and a fitting end to an emotion-inducing record.

Nullptr - Lost Time (DSP004)

TL Premiere #611 (2021.06.18) : Nullptr - Mesospheric Cruise [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 163rd Premiere of 2021, we have a track by the veteran UK Electro Producer and DJ, Eddie Symons, aka "Nullptr", titled ‘Mesospheric Cruise’ from his upcoming EP "Terminus" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (CPU Records).

"Nullptr - Terminus" will be available on July 30, 2021 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl EP + Digital here : https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/terminus

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Release Info :

Nullptr - Terminus [Central Processing Unit]

Preview : www.soundcloud.com/cpurecords/nullptr-terminus

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

The next release is CPU 100!

Tracklist :
1. Connected
2. Mesospheric Cruise
3. Syndicate
4. Terminus

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

Mesospheric Cruise

TL PREMIERE : Nullptr - Mesospheric Cruise [Central Processing Unit]

Without really meaning to be, this show ended up comprising quite a star studded cast. Lots of new and forthcoming music with a couple of retro left turns. All in the mix and no chat. Show downloadable.

1	Appleblim - Opal Moon
2	Petwo Evans	- Dr Rhythm
3	Gensi - Primavera 707 (Decius Remix)
4	Working Men's Club - X (Paranoid London Remix)
5	Terrence Dixon - On 7 Mile All Night
6	Italo Johnson - 14B2
7	Warlock - 7th Floor
8	Third Son - Drummy Drummerson Wants His Drums Back
9	The Hacker Vs Commuter - RBMK (MMT-8 Remix)
10	Roi	Crunia - (The Exaltics Remix)
11	ADG - Sibi
12	Andrea - AuxL
13	Atrice - Amphibia
14	Limewax - Getupa
15	Kill The Void 	- Cult Of Tau (Assembler Code Remix)
16	LeftLeft	- Bockie
17	Mailer - Rokkaku Group
18	UTR unknown - Unknown 1
19	UTR unknown - Unknown 2
20	Zodiac Childs & Baraqiel -Goblin
21	A Guy Called Gerald -Cars Dont Like Me
22	Hooverian Blur - Delusion
23	PHOTONZ - Saturn
24	LSDXOXO - Baby
25	Luke's Anger	- Sloth Father
26	Jerome Hill - League Against Jazz
28	Hooverian Blur - Reject All
29	Skee Mask - Collapse Casual
30	Paradox -Paragon of Virtue
31	Trigger - Stratosphere (remix)
32	Tsvi	- Compos Mentis

Threads Radio - July 2021 Part 1

TL Premiere #630 (2021.07.07) : Nullptr - Adrift [Distorted Sensory Perception]

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For this 182nd Premiere of 2021, we have a track by the veteran UK Electro Producer and DJ, Eddie Symons, aka "Nullptr", titled ‘Adrift’ from his EP "Lost Time" on the Electronic Music Vinyl Label run by @Zobol & @Entrave : Distorted Sensory Perception.

"Nullptr - Lost Time" is available in Limited 12” vinyl and digital formats for pre-order now on Bandcamp : https://dddsssppp.bandcamp.com/album/lost-time-dsp004

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Release Info :

Nullptr - Lost Time [Distorted Sensory Perception - DSP004]

Distorted Sensory Perception returns for their 4th release, proudly welcoming Eddie Symons AKA Nullptr to the fold. ‘Lost Time’ boasts 4 deep and dynamic analogue cuts that are sure to stimulate the mind, body and soul. The EP forms the penultimate part of Nullptr's 2021 triptych, recorded over the final months of a difficult year when the distance between friends and family really started to be felt, yet the hope of better times felt close.

The A-side opens with the bass heavy ‘Adrift’. Shrouded in eerie synth leads and tasteful modular bleeps. All presented over heavy hitting drum loops that together make an emotive, uncompromising whole.
The first side concludes with the warm and funky ‘Islands’. Smooth sailing synthesis and popping percussion in combination create a sonic delight for the ears.

The B-side opens with the dark and moody ‘First Light’. A deep, dystopian example of UK Electro that takes no prisoners. Deep menacing bass pads, melancholic synth leads and acidic squiggles all bubbling under a punchy broken beat.
Finally, the last piece of the puzzle and title track of the release ‘Lost Time’ is a lighter, dreamier example of Eddie’s versatility as a producer. Signature arpeggios and contemplative leads all tied together with shuddering percussive elements. A beautiful insight into the reflective mind of its creator and a fitting end to an emotion-inducing record.

Check the Snippets/Clips >> tinyurl.com/336e84ud  

Tracklist :
1. A1. Adrift
2. A2. Islands
3. B1. First Light
4. B2. Lost Time

Written & Produced by Eddie Symons
Mastered @ Curve Pusher by Keith Tenniswood
Pressed @ R.A.N.D
Distributed by Subwax (https://subwax.es)

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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 Distorted Sensory Perception :
Bandcamp : www.dddsssppp.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/distortedsensoryperception
Instagram : www.instagram.com/distortedsensoryperception
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/dddsssppp
Website : www.www.dddsssppp.com

Lost Time

Adrift

TL PREMIERE : Nullptr - Adrift [Distorted Sensory Perception]

Distorted Sensory Perception returns for their 4th release, proudly welcoming Eddie Symons AKA Nullptr to the fold. ‘Lost Time’ boasts 4 deep and dynamic analogue cuts that are sure to stimulate the mind, body and soul. The EP forms the penultimate part of Nullptr's 2021 triptych, recorded over the final months of a difficult year when the distance between friends and family really started to be felt, yet the hope of better times felt close.

Nullptr
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bovaflux
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bovaflux

Distorted Sensory Perception
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dddsssppp
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/distortedsensoryperception/

PREMIERE: Nullptr - First Light (Distorted Sensory Perception)

Well it's not all from London I know, but like many a scene, London has often been a processing point for what's being generated elsewhere. In this case, very much courtesy of Frankfurt, Detroit, Rotterdam, New York and of course the UK itself. This is a fairly close recreation of the regular sets I played at VFM, Dead By Dawn, Eurobeat 2000, Institute Of Goa, Helter Skelter and various squat parties (Spiral Tribe, Bedlam) in and around London. Hard banging techno leading up to some of the decent first instances of gabba.  It's at a point where things were quickly splintering off from the highly successful UK Rave Hardcore sound of 92 and reconnecting with a harder updated version of what had previously been coming out of Detroit, Brooklyn, Belgium and Holland around 89/90/91. Looking back, though it seemed such a very separate sound from breakbeat hardcore, with the distance of time they were both very much shades of the same rave. Ah the memories….


www.twitter.com/warlockdj

Warlock - The Hard Sound Of London 1992-1994

VA - Eleventh  Listen Teaser [2021]

https://clocolan.bandcamp.com/album/o-p-e-r-r-a-t-a

op+errata

1.self

Compiler - Level 4 by Xephem Records @xephem-records
CATXCL4 - NIKE VOMITA - snd/wrm Brk V2
Mastered by Jake Fields

Xephem Records presents the "Compiler" series; A collection of short compilations featuring various artists from the Braindance community.

Compiler Level 4

NIKE VOMITA - snd/wrm Brk V2

Taken from "Six Circuits" Compilation celebrating 6 years of Kaer'Uiks Label

Tcaresset

Traces Set

Released - 24/11/2017 (vinyl only)
https://robertleiner.bandcamp.com/album/aqua-viva-2017-re-master
AMB1711 - Robert Leiner - Aqua Viva

A - Aqua Viva (2017 re-master)
B - Aqua Viva (Edward Desert Edit)

An all time classic originally released on the Visions Of The Past album (Apollo 1994). http://smarturl.it/visionsofthepast

Released on 12” single for the first time.  Re-mastered by Matt Colton.
Includes a superb new remix/edit from Edward.

Original master of Aqua Viva is available to download in the 'Visions Of The Past' album.  If you've never heard the album then make sure to listen in full. http://smarturl.it/visionsofthepast

Aqua Viva (2017 re-master)

Miss Kittin & The Hacker release ‘Lost Tracks Vol. 2’ on Josh Cheon’s Dark Entries label on 25th June. We’ve got the exclusive premiere of ‘Love On 26’ from it above.

Miss Kittin & The Hacker, real names Michel Amato and Caroline Hervé, worked on a number of EPs together in the late ‘90s that landed on DJ Hell’s International DJ Gigolo label.

Their long-revered electro sound is influenced by 1980s synthpop and post-punk bands like Fad Gadget, D.A.F., Liaisons Dangereuses and Yazoo.

‘Lost Tracks Vol. 2’ contains four previously unreleased demos recorded between 1997 and 1999.

Speaking about the track, Hervé told DJ Mag, “It’s a track we were not really satisfied with in the beginning. I had to sing straight live, as you can hear.

“The lyrics were about a joke we often said to each other: it’s not in the music business we will find a family."

All the tracks on the release have been transferred from the original DAT tapes and remastered for vinyl.

Listen to the exclusive premiere of ‘Love On 26’ above, out on ‘Lost Tracks Vol. 2’ via Dark Entries on 25th June.

Lost Tracks Vol. 2

Premiere: Miss Kittin & The Hacker ‘Love On 26’

Tailored Tears

buy there : https://lajungle.bandcamp.com/album/past-middle-age-future-remixes-2

https://soundcloud.com/pasteurcharles & https://soundcloud.com/djtsygan revisit La Jungle on a 3XLP "Past // Middle Age // Future // Remixes" containing lot -24- of brilliant reinterpretations by DC Salas, Jack Pattern, Poladroid etc check !

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

PREMIERE : La Jungle - The Boring Age (Pasteur Charles & DJ Tsygan WTF Are We Doing In Ibiza Remix)

It’s a bold title I know. It’s open for debate. 2 hours of forward thinking breakbeat music. 

Music from Skee Mask, Mani Festo, Cop Envy, Pearson Sound, Millie & Andrea, Decanal, Tsunga, Dead Mans Chest X Sonic, Hooverian Blur, Mor Elian, Ryan James Ford, Stavrogin, Meat Beat Manifesto, Figure Ground, Denham Audio, Fiesta Sound System and more.

Mix is downloadable.


Recorded 0ctober 2020

Future Sound of Breakbeat Mix

BANDCAMP - https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/last-august-ep

Kovyazin D returns to our label for the first time since 2017. 'Last August' is packed from start to finish with EBM club-sludge, forged with the slap and kick that has been woven into Kovyazin's productions for the best part of a decade. A long-overdue reunion between artist and label that does not fall short of expectation.

PRE-ORDER PAGES:
Horizons - https://tinyurl.com/Horizons-Kovyazin-D
Cold Cuts - https://tinyurl.com/CC-Kovyazin-D
Juno - https://tinyurl.com/Juno-Kovyazin-D
Bordello - https://tinyurl.com/Bordello-Koyazin-D
RedEye - https://tinyurl.com/RedEye-Kovyazin-D
Decks - https://tinyurl.com/Decks-Kovyazin-D
HHV - https://tinyurl.com/HHV-Kovyazin-D
Rekkids - https://tinyurl.com/Rekkids-Kovyazin-D
Technique - https://tinyurl.com/Technique-Kovyazin-D

Last August EP

Buy @ Bandcamp

CKNOWEP28 | Kovyazin D - Last August EP

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