Carl Finlow keeps on keeping on. As the world changes around him, the veteran producer continues to do what he does best - craft top-quality electro tunes which invoke the sound’s Drexciyan heyday, yet carry themselves with an assurance that is all of Finlow’s own. 

Finlow remains a prolific producer more than a quarter of a century on from his emergence. Still averaging several records a year across a variety of aliases, recent times have seen Finlow forge particularly strong links with the Central Processing Unit label. Now, after a run of EPs for the Sheffield imprint which began with 2018’s ‘Projections’, Finlow’s Silicon Scally project offers up CPU’s first drop of 2022 in the form of the ‘Field Lines’ LP. 

Silicon Scally productions have long been marked out by how they combine piston-precise beat programming with more textured synth play. ‘Field Lines’ runs with this formula to deliver some of Finlow’s most atmospheric material to date. At once shadowy and expansive, listening to ‘Field Lines’ is the aural equivalent of taking a night-time drive around some futuristic metropolis. 

The beats cruise sleekly here. Many of these burbling machine-funk numbers hover at mid-tempo, the crisp clip of their drum programming given shape and depth by all sorts of percussive tones fizzing around at the fringes of the mix. Even when ‘Field Lines’ seems to set its sights on the club - the Bunker Records-aping ‘Amino’, for instance, or the dystopian whizz-bang of ‘Static Fire’ - the tracks here strut sturdily rather than giving in to full-on freakouts.

However, from this sturdy base, Finlow moves outwards. Working with tones which range from rapid-fire machine-gun bass to keening, dawn chorus keyboard pads, Finlow leads us through the futurescape with the expertise of a seasoned guide. Cuts like ‘Submerged’ and ‘Yield’ are brilliantly cinematic, blooming from those reliable drum pulses into miniature masterpieces of nocturnal electronics. Elsewhere on ‘Field Lines’ there is a mechanical majesty to ‘Inhibitor’ and ‘Altered Domain’ which invokes the brave new worlds that Kraftwerk repeatedly conjured in their heyday.

Central Processing Unit’s first release of 2022 is ‘Field Lines’, an LP of electro-funk explorations from Carl Finlow’s Silicon Scally project which will thrill regardless of whether it’s experienced through headphones or out on the dancefloor.

RIYL: Drexciya, Kraftwerk, Cygnus, Annie Hall

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Central Processing Unit, commonly referred to as CPU Records, is an independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music.

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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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DVS NME is an Electro music producer/deejay and Post Punk enthusiast living in Colorado. He runs a weekly mix series called @DarkScienceElectro (est 2010) and is actively producing under the name @DVSNME (est 2000)

His musical influences include, but are not limited to: Abstract Thought, Adult., The Advent, Aether Pilot, Afrika Bambaataa, Aphex Twin, Aloka, Andrea Parker, Animistic Beliefs, Annie Hall, Anthony Rother, Armec, Arpanet, AS1, Ashtar Lavanda, Audiogenetics, Autechre, Automat, AUX88, Bass Junkie, Binary Digit, Blackploid, Blatromen, Blotnik Brothers, Boards Of Canda, Boris Divider, Carl Finlow, CEM3340, Cignol, Client_03, Commuter, Composite Profuse, Comtron, The Consumer, CPU, Cyan85, Cybotron, Cygnus, Cylob, CYRK, Dark Vektor, Das Muster, Datawave, Datassette, Deemphasis, Delayscape, Der Zyklus, Detroit's Filthiest, Dez Williams, DJ Stingray, Dave Clarke, Helena Hauff, Dibu-Z, Digitizer, Ditone, DJ Di'jital, DJ Godfather, DJ Overdose, Djedjotronic, DMX Krew, Dopplereffekt, Drexciya, E.R.P., Dynarec, Ectomorph, Egyptian Lover, Ekman, Elecktroids, Electronome, The Exaltics, Heinrich Mueller, Exzakt, Fabrice Lig, Faceless Mind, FAH, Fleck ESC, Fotoapparat, FPU, Franck Kartell, Francois Dillinger, Galaxian, Gedanenexperiment, Gesloten Cirkel, Glass Domain, Go Nuclear, Gosub, The Hacker, Hadamard, Hardfloor, Headnoaks, Heinrich Dressel, Heurisitc Audio, The Hidden Persuader, I-F, Illektrolab, Imatran Voima, Inkamera, Isolated Material, Ivna Ji, IXRQ, Japanese Telecom, Jauzas The Shining, Jeremiah R., John Carpenter, John Selway, Kalson, Kan3da, Keith Tucker, Kobol Electronics, Komarken Electronics, Kon001, Konerytmi, Koova, Kraftwerk, Kronos Device, Krypton 81, Lake Haze, Lectromagnetique, Legowelt, Lithium Flux, London Modular Alliance, Low Tape, Lowfish, Luke Eargoggle, Luxus Varta, Luke Vibert, Luz1e, Machino, Maelstrom, Manasyt, Mandroid, MAS 2008, Maschine Brennt, Melogik, Mesak, MetaComplex, Microlith, Microthol, Miss Kittin, MNLTH, Model 500, Mono Junk, Morphology, Mr. Velcro Fastener, MSRG, Mumm, MystesSystem, N-Ter, Nebenprodukt, Newcleus, Nite Fleit, Noamm, Noise&Noise, Nomenklatur, NRSB-11. Nullptr, Oberman, Ole Micc Odd, Orgue Electronique, Pametex,  Paul Blackford, Pip Williams, Planet Pluto, Plant43, Polytron, Privacy, Q-Chip, R325, RA-X, Radioactive Man, Rebustape, Reedale Rise, Relaxant, Reptant, Retax Gorgon, Richard Easel, Robodrum, Rutherford, S>>D, Sansibar, Sbassship, SC-164, Scape One, Siak, Silicon Scally, Simulant, Skinny Puppy, Solar Chrome, Solvent, Solid Blake, Sonar Base, Sound Synthesis, Stingray313, Sync 24, Synth Alien, Syrte, T/Error, TecRoc, Terens K., Teslasonic, Thomas Kress, Textasy, Ticco Ross, Transparent Sound, UHU, Ultradyne, Umwelt, Underground Resistance, Unit Black Flight, Univac, VC-118A, VCS2600, Velocs, Versalife, Vertical67, Vessel In Distress, VLR, Voice Stealer, Volfram, Volsoc, Wee DJs, Weltwirtschaft, Will Web, Wumpscut, Xerodefx, XY0815, Zerkalo, Zeta Reticula, Zobol, Zwischenwelt, 96 Back, 240 Interceptor, and many more.

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