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New ears for the year...

Reptilian Magnetism

ZZZZZZZZZ FUTURE RAVE MUSIC

"The Spectre Tapes" is a series of radio shows recorded live on Rinse France. It is an introduction to my new project "Spectre". More info on
www.spectrebyparaone.com

Tracklist:

Para One - Shin Sekai (Actress Remix)
Jimmy Edgar - Crown
Dopplereffekt - Hayflick Limit
Der Zyklus - Elektronisches Zeitecho
Anthony Rother - Destroy Him, My Robots
Franck Kartell - Electro Music
Kraftwerk - Numbers
Cybotron - Clear
Aux 88 - Mad Scientist
Anne Clark - Sleeper In Metropolis
Los Hermanos - The Very Existence
Letroset - Edit Flash
DynArec - Legendary Days
DMX Krew - I’m All Alone (Cylob’s Mix)
Afropolice - Power From (Instrumental)
Aux 88 - Annihilating The Rhythm (Detroit In Effect Remix)
CT Kidobó - Vertigo
Neil Landstrumm - Peer Impressions
Abstract Thought - Synchronized Dimensions
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - 1982 (Vitalic Remix)
A number Of Names - Shari Vari (Ectomorph’s Dark Mix)
Japanese Telecom - Cigarette Lighter
Lorenzo Senni - Digital ‘Tzunami
Nosaj Thing - Voices (Dorian Concept Remix)
Yoghijo Ojima - Glass Shattering
Midori Takada - Mr Henri Rousseau’s Dream
Sofie Birch - Slow Piru
Harumi Honoso - Ukihashi
Satoshi Igarashi - Astral Plane
Para One - Shin Sekai (Speakwave remake)

Rinse France Podcast

Para One - "The Spectre Tapes" 1

www.openlab.fm | 106.4FM in Ibiza & Formentera
Full tracklist on our website:
https://openlab.fm/news/openlab-presents-dgohn

Next up on our #OpenLabPresents series is https://soundcloud.com/dgohn !
His music has been on heavy rotation during our night programming and we are stoked to have him on the station, bringing us an outstanding guest mix. Expect broken beats, IDM, mind-warping breaks and more!
“The set is just a few of the many tunes (some quite recently released, some not so much) that have kept me happy during lockdown, and also one of my own.” - https://soundcloud.com/dgohn .


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This Is Jungle

Emperor Selassie I (feat. Black Star & Bounty Hunter)

TL Premiere #818 (2022.01.20) : Silicon Scally - Inhibitor [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 16th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by veteran UK Electro producer, now based in France, Carl Finlow, aka "Silicon Scally", titled ‘Inhibitor’ from his forthcoming LP "Field Lines" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (CPU Records).

"Silicon Scally - Field Lines" will be available on February 11, 2022 in Limited Edition 2 x 12" Vinyl LP in gatefold sleeve + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/field-lines

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Release Info :

Silicon Scally - Field Lines [Central Processing Unit]

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

Tracklist :
1. Receptors
2. Empty Subways
3. Inhibitor
4. Amino
5. Homage
6. Submerged
7. Static Fire
8. Yield
9. Altered Domain

All tracks written and produced by Carl Finlow.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

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Follow Silicon Scally :
Bandcamp : www.carlfinlow.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/artist/5055-Silicon-Scally
Facebook : www.facebook.com/groups/272001402207 | www.facebook.com/groups/1060324197712077

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

Field Lines

Inhibitor

TL PREMIERE : Silicon Scally - Inhibitor [Central Processing Unit]

He got away with murder most of the time; all he had to do was get on the charm offensive and any negative feelings towards him seemed to disappear. Some would say it was a skill, one perfected through years of practice - sometimes he could wriggle out of situations with just a smile and a wink. It was inevitable that at some point he wouldn't get off so lightly, a time would come where he'd overstep the mark and the world would come crashing down around him.

For the second release on his Dynamics Of Acid imprint MOY joins forces with mystery man Zodiac Childs for a split EP that explores the pair's shared love of electro, breaks and hardcore. Separately the pair have notched up EPs for Nocta Numerica, Batrachian, Exalt Records, Further Electronix and their own labels, and now they're coming together to each share an original cut backed up by a remix of one another's work. Packed full of anthemic melodies, acid madness and thunderous bass, the four tracks showcase the synergy between the two artists and their knack for capturing the euphoria of the 90s.

PREMIERE: Zodiac Childs - Overstep (MOY Remix) [Dynamics Of Acid]

https://archive.org/details/Mu-Ziq_Soundcloud_101-200_of_392

Aphex Twin - On (μ-Ziq Remix, w/o the tape being chewed up)

The Blackploid resurgence of recent years continues to gather steam. After laying dormant for some time, Martin Matiske’s project roared back into life in 2021 with a pair of EPs for Central Processing Unit. It doesn’t look like he’ll be taking his foot off the gas any time soon - not only does the new Blackploid collection Planetary Science complete Matiske’s hat-trick for the Sheffield label, but it also serves as a prelude to the full-length album which Blackploid will deliver on CPU in 2023.

If that LP is as good as the tracks we get here, then it’s safe to say that we’re on to a winner. This EP contains a quartet of top-tier machine-funk productions, the kind of crisp post-Drexciya joints we’ve come to know and love Blackploid for. Each track on Planetary Science makes good on the record’s title by delivering club tackle flecked with FX which sound distinctly like spaceships blasting off into the cosmos.

There is also progression across Planetary Science. While it still aims for the dancefloor, Planetary Science is a somewhat more textured listen than either Strange Stars or Cosmic Traveler, Blackploid’s previous CPU drops. Most notable is the increased use of synth pads, with Matiske draping chord progressions over all of these tracks in order to give his music a newfound depth.

Blackploid’s subtle evolution is clear from the opening track. ‘Dimension Unknown’ may begin with a precision-engineered groove reminiscent of an early Legowelt joint, but things soon soften with the introduction of some rich keyboard chords. A few well-chosen bleeps and bloops flit in and out of the mix, but whereas some would use these to scuff up the track further here they are warm and playful.

The more confrontational stance of following cut ‘Magnetron’ makes it a yin to ‘Dimension Unknown’s yang. Blackploid works with similar tools here - machine-gun beat programming, chords playing off boinging bass - but there is a tension and buzz to the track which isn’t apparent on its predecessor. The synths have a slight Eighties deep space thriller vibe about them, and the FX cut through the mix with more bite.

‘Magnetron’s energy carries through to ‘Wire’, the first track on the Planetary Science B-side. Here a big, brutish bassline takes centre stage from the off, a chunk squarewave equal-parts Dopplereffekt and early Eskibeat. Around this swirls a queasy brew of synthesised tones, with the component parts all arranged in order to channel ‘Magnetron’s sense of unease.

Planetary Science closes out with ‘Neurotransmitter’. On this cut, Blackploid returns somewhat to where we started off, finding a midpoint between ‘Dimension Unknown’s more spacious feel and the livewire flavour of ‘Magnetron’ and ‘Wire’. Tension remains, particularly when Matiske serves up one of the EP’s snakiest basslines, but there’s also a deftness to the synth pads here which makes ‘Neurotransmitter’ a little softer around the edges.

Blackploid limbers up for a forthcoming full-length on Central Processing Unit with Planetary Science, an EP of stargazing electro joints that quietly expand the project’s sonic world.

RIYL: Drexciya, Dopplereffekt, DMX Krew, I-F, Annie Hall

Blackploid - Planetary Science

It begins in your face with booming bombastic rhythms, almost pummelling, and you immediately know the world you’re inhabiting but then abruptly there’s a sugary melodic left turn that would make Aphex Twin blush.  This piece Wooly Mammut is something as a signifier of the album as a whole. Just when you think you have Tim Koch pegged, suddenly a whole other world appears.  

Volplaning is a master class in edgy machine funk, a dance party on the edge of the circuit board, where a feverish psychedelia breeds within the rigidity of locked grids and sequenced loops. It’s subtle but it grows throughout the pieces, whether it’s the periodically exuberant hyper energised squelches, the dystopian pitch downs or mournful synthetic Blade Runner laments, these flourishes are the sounds of subversion, of a refusal to adhere to expectation. They’re anti-establishment electrics – because Volplaning is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. 

Do electrics dream of scattered nightmare dubs?  Or do they prefer complex skittery rhythms, taut ironclad bass and oscillating synthetic flourishes? Volplaning is new world electronica, a place where genres collide, techniques collide, tempos collide and expectations collide.  

So much is happening beneath the surface, more often than not the foreground keeps you rhythmically locked, while all manner of atmospheric weirdness roams freely behind. At first you think this music is rigid, percussive, even repetitive, but Volplaning is the audio equivalent of those magic eye pictures where if you focus on the beats and taut machine funk, and relax your ears, a whole other world appears often moving in an entirely different direction. So turn on, tune in and open your earlids. It’s all here.

RIYL: Plaid, Autechre, Jega

Tim Koch - Volplaning

Splitradix FFT is a fast Irish transform (FFT) rhythm for computing the discrete musical acid (aux note relative), and was first described in an initially little-appreciated paper by R. Yavne (1978) and subsequently rediscovered simultaneously by Central Processing Unit label owners in 2021. (The name "Splitradix" was coined by one of these re-inventors, S. Hennelly.) In particular, Splitradix is a variant of the Electro-Vocoder FFT rhythm that uses a blend of analogue 2 and 4: it recursively expresses an emotion of length N in terms of one smaller aux of musical N/2 and two smaller DFT of Fenix PCM/70.

Synthesizing Your Future

Splitradix - Synthesizing Your Future

https://www.discogs.com/release/6644667-DJ-Stingray-313-Cognition

Dj Stingray 313 - eRbB4  / Kon001 Remix (Lower Parts)

Blackploid has become one of Central Processing Unit’s stalwarts in the past couple of years. Martin Matiske’s project contributed a trio of EPs to the Sheffield label across 2021 and 2022, with each of them showing off the kind of electro chops and production sensibilities that made Blackploid an ideal fit for an imprint which also boasts the likes of Cygnus, Silicon Scally and Bochum Welt among its catalogue.

Now, for CPU’s first release of 2023, Matiske levels things up with the debut Blackploid LP Enter Universe. Across these twelve tracks, Matiske leaves us in no doubt that he’s a prime mover in the world of modern electronic music. Enter Universe does not let up from start to finish, delivering a dozen pieces of leftfield electro that draws from the sound’s greats while also showcasing an unpredictability and flair that is all of Blackploid’s own.

The tone is set from the first frosty chords of opening cut ‘Pulsation’. The track traverses the starscape on pitter-patter drums and chirruping synths, a lively and slightly dystopian roller with an adventurous undercurrent reminiscent of classic Rephlex drops. It’s a style which Blackploid often draws for throughout the rest of Enter Universe, albeit with elements added or subtracted at each stage.

Indeed, this album features some of the most unusual production you will hear on any record this year. While the grooves pulse away in a manner reminiscent of Drexciya or Legowelt, Blackploid layers the mixes with a whole cornucopia of synth tones. ‘The Mission’ boasts a bleep-bloop breakdown that sounds like malfunctioning rotary telephones; ‘Silent Room’ is a ghoulish jam which harks back to Warp’s legendary Artificial Intelligence compilations; ‘Automatik’ and ‘Wormhole’ are defined by some brilliantly strange low-ends - you’ll be thinking of Mr. Oizo’s ‘Flat Beat’ with the wiggly former, while the gurgling, writhing anti-lead that dictates ‘Wormhole’ is oddly thrilling and more than befits the track’s title.

This inventive approach is also apparent in some of the structural choices on Enter Universe. While the tracks here all keep a steady, dancefloor friendly pulse, several of them surprise you by switching up the approach after a minute or two. ‘Pulsation’, ‘Automatik’ and ‘The Mission’ all feature moments where a new element - extra hi-hats, a synth line entering from leftfield - inject fresh impetus into the tune to keep the listener on their toes.

Blackploid may push the sonic envelope on Enter Universe, but this does not mean there is no room for melody. In particular, the cuts here which most strongly channel ‘Computer World’-era Kraftwerk do so by fronting some slyly tuneful work, particularly in the low end of the mix. ‘Unidentified’ serves up delightfully springy chords, ‘Cell Mutation’ leads from the bassline, and ‘Space Curve’ features little cells of melody and counter-melody working together to close Enter Universe out on a high.

Blackploid’s debut LP Enter Universe marries Drexciyan electro and Warp-school electronica with some brilliantly inventive production choices.

RIYL: Legowelt, Cygnus, Proswell, Jensen Interceptor

Enter Universe

Blackploid - Enter Universe

From the Depths is a compilation of Harrow roster-mates of both newcomers and veterans alike. Ranging from artists such as Direct, Ikotu, Broken, Alaskan Tapes and many many more, this is a release you will not want to miss.

Out Now

Jai Tee: https://soundcloud.com/jaiteemusic

Jai Tee - Waiting Room (Out now on From The Depths)

Taken from the Changes Remix EP forthcoming on Apollo Records 15/07/2016

apollorecs.lnk.to/synkro-changes

@keithkenniff

Synkro - Midnight Sun (Helios Remix)

Have You Got A License To Play This ?

Have You Got A License To Play This ? (4x4 mix) FREEDOWNLOAD = CLICK BUY

1-3-3 (Acid Loop)

Mr Bossman

Parti Parti

Download

SAAH - Engage

I Rock

I Rock (Exile's Instrumental Mix)

Amazonia

Aphex Twin - Manchester / 001 // Pretend Analog Extmix 2B,e2,ru

Forest Drive West - Mantis 01 - Delsin Records - DSR/MTS01

a1. Hidden Past
b1. Invisible
b2. Radiance

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6617
https://forestdrivewest.bandcamp.com/album/mantis-01
@forest-drive-west

Forest Drive West joins Delsin and inaugurates their new Mantis offshoot with three tracks that build on his reputation for restrained, immersive atmospheres loaded with soundsystem-ready physicality. As an artist well versed in elegant beat science stretching from techno to jungle and touching on tempos and moods in between, he’s perfectly placed to set out the blueprint for this new chapter in Delsin’s expansive techno legacy.

Buy @ Delsin Shop

Forest Drive West - Mantis 01 (DSR/MTS01)

Analord 03

AFX - Stabbij

Analord 09

AFX - Liptons B Acid

Errortica - Safely Stowed EP (12" Vinyl) LYO#007
https://www.discogs.com/Errortica-Safely-Stowed/release/15959583

Pre-order : https://lesyeuxorange.bandcamp.com/merch/errortica-safely-stowed-ep-12-vinyl

https://soundcloud.com/errortica https://soundcloud.com/anatolianweapons

Hailing from St Petersburg, Sasha Balykova aka Errortica was graduated from music school. Always obsessed with learning and collecting music, she’s one of the most promising artists from russian buzzying electronic scene.
On local pillar Test FM, she’s showcasing an impeccable taste and selection in her own Melomantica radio show by inviting artists from different horizons which allowed her to raise an evergrowing interest all over Europe.
By delivering sophisticated podcasts on countless platforms, Errortica revealed her mixing ability. She performed for Boiler Room Vilnius in 2019 and has been invited to Dekmantel Festival 2020, showing evidence she’s just at the edge of a brilliant career.
LYO is glad to present her inaugural vinyl debut with the «Safety Stowed EP» backed by a killer acid reinterpretation from Athens best Anatolian Weapons!

TRACKLIST
A1 - ERRORTICA - SAFELY STOWED
A2 - ERRORTICA - NEVER-ENDING FUN
B1 - ERRORTICA - MASTER SLAVE
B2 - ERRORTICA - MASTER SLAVE (ANATOLIAN WEAPONS ACID CLUB REMIX)

PRE-ORDER

Errortica - Safely Stowed EP (LYO#007) / SNIPPETS

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.

Splitradix - Synthesizing Your Future

CPU RECORDS