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

Field Lines

Silicon Scally - Field Lines

Monger is a talented producer and label owner runs the lauded Dead Channel Records and podcast series that is based in Kentucky.  The multi-talented individual designs all visual aspects of the label and works with the production and engineering duo Keith and Kevin.

Dead Channel Records Artists: Acidic Male, Bertram, Bound By Endogamy, ccciclo, Chris Mitchell, Corps Déchiré, Cybereign, DJ ARG, DJ VST, Eindkrak, Fucking Shit Show, Hoaxes, Human Figures, Keith&Kevin, Kelan, L/F/D/M, Robert E. Livingood, LostSoundBytes, MANASYt, Memory Clap Acid, Mokre’tzy Konstruktor, Monger, Mr. Clarinet, MVQX, Ole Mic Odd, Plural, TANS, TLXCO, TX Connect, Vectorvision, ZAAX

Follow:
https://soundcloud.com/dead-channel-records
https://soundcloud.com/monger-dc

Strange But Dance Music #130: Monger

Sunday's PT Show with Special Guest SIGMA ALGEBRA live (recorded at Electroleibols 2 in Valencia) and ADJ with lots of new idm/electro and beyond!!

GACHA BAKRADZI - LIFT on LAPSUS
ILLOCANBLO - NEBULONIX on ECU
LEGIAC - SCOPOLAMINE on ECU
GACHA BAKRADZI - THANK YOU FOR THIS UPLOAD on LAPSUS
THOUGHT TRAILS- 5AM on TIME IS NOW
JAMES SHINRA - FINCH on BANDCAMP
GROW - SECRET MACHINES on CHP
JADZIA - HIDDEN UNIVERSE EP on A7A
VIIKATORY - MIND TRIP
HIEROPHANT - GOLD DIGGER on HIEROPHANT DUBS
DEZ WILLIAMS - NO LONGER HUMAN on RATORMUTE
LEFRENK - INSEN (Francois Dillinger Remix) on ECU
SMPL SMPL - THRILLER
6SISS - BOTS on MICRON AUDIO
COSMIC CARS - AUTORADIO (Second Storey Remix)
SYRTE - ROBOT INDUSTRY on SCIENCE CULT
JADZIA - HIDDEN UNIVERSE EP on A7A
SIGMA ALGEBRA - CONVERGENCE (Errorbeauty Remix) on DIFFUSE REALITY
DJ BONEYARD - SLAP SLAP SLAP on STEEL CITY DANCE DISCS
LECTRO COD E - UNIT 2.67 on BANDCAMP
ADJ - CAN'T TAKE THE STREET FROM THE BEAT unreleased
DOPPELBANGER - POST MAG CLARITY on ELECTRO BANGER
6SISS - BOTS on MICRON AUDIO
DJ BONEYARD - PUMP on STEEL CITY DANCE DISCS
ULTRADYNE - TRUE TO THE REALM on PI GAO MOVEMENT
ISOLATED MATERIAL - SAILOR MOON on BANDCAMP
DOPPELBANGER - ULTRA VIOLENCE on ELECTRO BANGER
BEN PEST - PP BREAKS on LOVE LOVE
SCANONE - VERTABRE on REPOSITION

PT Show Aug23 with ADJ and SIGMA ALGEBRA live.mp3

Conflict

DTP#25 - Boris Barksdale

Next mix incoming. This time from Paris, made by Boris Barksdale. 
Known for his uncompromising machine excursions between weird electro, slow ebm grinders and industrialized hitters, you can find his productions on overseers like Phormix, Velena Viola, Natural Sciences or Eye for an Eye. Not to forget his Collabo with Antonio Barbetta named Barbare Tendenze.

In this mix he makes a fresh take on new beat and proto ebm with a surprising twist. Go for it.
https://soundcloud.com/brxsdale

DTP#25 - Boris Barksdale

Kontour Visions w. Jaundice & Naks
Kontour Visions welcomes Naks (@dreamsofneon_bln), who runs the Berlin- based video stream Dreams of Neon for @intergalacticfm and party series at @humboldthainclub. Weaving together blistering electro, acid and EBM, Naks taps in for the second hour. Jaundice starts off the opening hour of tracks by familiar faces with sounds of the esoteric and hypnotic underworlds.

Kontour Visions w. Jaundice & Naks [14.12.2023]

Mix set para Microm Records para la celebración del decimo aniversario. Enjoy

TRACKLIST

1 Viikatory - Heart Wave / What The A.I. Decides - Viikatory

2 Boris Divider - La Hora De Las Maquinas [DCOM007] / Drivecom

3 Scape One - Make Your Body VA001 Mind Controlled Rectifier
Jerk (Don`t Stop)

4 Negocius Man - Sector/Clear - Closing Circle / Microm Records

5 NEON - Machine - Man Made Machine / Plonk

6 James Shinra - On & On / 20/20 Vision

7 Escape Artist - World / Digital Natives - Kalahari Oyster Cult

8 Credit 00 - Homeless / One Day In Metropia Rat Life 11 - Rat Life Records

9 Polytron - Electro Empire / Electro Empire

10 Silicon Scally - Paradigm / Bioroid (SAT038) Satamile Records

11 Ørbita Secundariā - Las Miradas / Realidad Neutra - Microm Records

12 Negocius Man - Oscuridad Remix / Remixing Da Vektah 3 - Electroclub Recordings
( Todo Cambia, Todo Se Transforma )

13 Dez Williams - Koffin / Oper8 - Elektroda Ziq

14 Etcher - Departure / Perfect Language - Brokntoys

15 Bass Junkie - Bubble Funk / Cruising The Bass Nebula
(Radioactive Man remix - Extended)

16 Neuro D - Artificialty / Audiomatik - Tar Hallow

17 Lake Haze - Nibiru Ritual - Ionosphere / Atlantic Thunder

18 Silicon Scally - Formulant / skoda banger - Cultivated Electronics

19 Dynarec - Machines / Silver tourist - Bass Agenda Recordings

20 Carl Finlow - Broken Mirror / Introspective - VIS307 - 20/20 Vision

21 False Persona - Swarm / VA001 - Mind Controlled Rectifier & Tom Jarmey

22 Sync 24 - We Answer / Cultivated Electronics EP 003 - Cultivated Electronics

23 PQ17 - Mvmnt Dtctd / BBC EP (Electro Music Coalition - EMC V010) - Flatlife Records

mAy0 dj @ 10TH ANNIVERSARY MICROM RECORDS

Dataintrång & Luke Eargoggle - Flat Earth Mindset

Hadronic Final State

With his December, alias Tomas More, pushes his vision of a romantic-yet-dark, body music you could both dance to or listen to in your bed whilst shedding a tear.

December @ Kiosk Radio 12.08.2024

Quarta progressione Cosmica

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.

Silicon Scally - Field Lines

CPU RECORDS