very lovely track, will support in the streets on my boombox

years later i can come back to this track and still feel the same feels i felt when first hearing it! beautiful work Creta!

J E P - S O U N D / Div. Music

Mix I did for Professor Stranger's show on Tukio Radio. Music from across the spectrum but on the same continuum. Hope u feel. Q

Continuum Mixtape

With ‘100% Dope’ we find Central Processing Unit bringing up their hundredth catalogue number, and you’d struggle to find a more fitting artist to ring in a century of releases for the label than Cygnus. The one born Phillip Washington has been with CPU since the very beginning, his 2012 LP ‘Newmark Phase’ representing the first record ever released on the imprint. That album’s combination of textured techno and grizzly Drexciyan electro set the tone for CPU perfectly, and it’s no surprise that Cygnus has returned to the Sheffield imprint several times down the years.

While ‘100% Dope’ is an expert demonstration of what Cygnus and CPU do, this EP also shows just how much both artist and label have grown over the past nine years. At its heart ‘100% Dope’ is a set of prime machine-funk from a master of the form, but these are also some of the most daring and innovative tracks that Cygnus has ever produced. 

Take opening cut ‘Bad RGB Controller’. In the undulating synth lines we have a ghost of grime as well as Drexciyan drive, and as such the track reminds one as much of Mr. Mitch or Last Japan as it does, say, Dopplereffekt. Furthermore, ‘Bad RGB Controller’ shifts gear around the halfway mark into a highwire electronica mode which has the wit and spark of prime Bogdan Raczynski. Entries like ‘Float Back To The Surface’ are similarly unpredictable. There's some lovely industrial techno bite to this one - the snare drum will echo in your head long after the party’s died down - but Cygnus periodically pulls out the rug from underneath us with passages of impressionistic texture that almost border on sound art. 

‘Float Back To The Surface’ is one of a trio of vocoder-led jams here. On ‘Throwing Shade’ we hear I-F and Egyptian Lover, with Cygnus’ vocals clattering around like pronouncements from some funked-out robot overlord atop hissing-piston drums. Then there’s the enticingly-titled ‘CPU Records’. ‘CPU Records’ delivers all the crisp electro snap we’ve come to expect from a record emblazoned with that signature black-and-white artwork, yet this thing is also widescreen and cinematic in ways that demonstrate the maturation of the Cygnus sound. With a wicked vocoder vocal that celebrates the label’s many achievements, ‘CPU Records’ is a victory lap tune if ever we’ve heard one.

Central Processing Unit keep it 100 on for this new EP. ‘100% Dope’ by Cygnus is CPU’s 100th catalogue number, and the Texan producer delivers on the promise of the record’s title with a collection of brilliantly unique electro joints.

RIYL: Bogdan Raczynski, Mr. Mitch, I-F, B12

100 % Dope

Cygnus - 100% Dope

The sky was a soft delicate shade of blue but that didn't stop it from falling upon them. Where had the rain come from? Why was it here on today of all days? As they walked upon the shore, looking out upon the splashes atop the ocean and the soft waves which rolled in against the sandy beach, they held one another's hands. Perhaps this would be the last time, for soon they would be long gone from here and all that would be left might be the remnants and puddles of a day lost in time. 

Mark E is a bit of a UK legend if you will, we don't say that lightly. For over fifteen years he has been producing music which has delighted and intrigued dancefloors the world over, he is infamous for weaving samples throughout his work like a rich tapestry and his music is reminiscent of the golden era of house, funk and disco in which the dancer was king. This new EP is forthcoming on 18437.

Rain EP

PREMIERE: Mark E - Rain [18437]

Paul Hardcastle - 19 (Extended Version)

Taken from 'Thanks 4 The Tracks U Lost', a 6 track LP released via Modern Love on April 28th 2022. Mastering by Rashad Becker.

Thanks 4 The Tracks U Lost

Jamal Moss - The Lust With - IN

NTS Apron Show Quaid Takeover 18th May 2022

SSIEGE @ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴀɢɪᴄᴋ ʙᴀʀ Aug '22

https://soundcloud.com/dynamo-dreesen
https://soundcloud.com/finn_johannsen

TASCAM DR-40

2022-12-03 Live At SUED Release Party (Dynamo Dreesen, Finn Johannsen, SVN)

Sheila E - A Love Bizzare (Re-Directed Version by Lutz Flensburg)

Sheila E - A Love Bizzare (Re-Directed Version)

Freeez - IOU 1983 - Original Version

Actress' highlight reel needs little exposition. Darren J. Cunningham has been a prominent yet inscrutable figure in electronic music since the late 2000s, typically flickering to life from the margins before receding into the shadows. Beloved albums like R.I.P., Karma & Desire and Splazsh may switch up the template, but the Actress hallmarks of haze, murk and showstopping beauty remain.

As you'll see in the interview below, he's a man of few words—that's in character for him. What's characteristic, too, is a taste for surprises. Ahead of the release of tenth studio album Statik on esteemed Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound next month, here's the "Дарен Дж. Каннінгем RA Mix"—a tapestry of 100 percent original and exclusive Actress music you won't find anywhere else. Flowing between pensive, rugged and stargazing moods across an album's worth of unaired tracks, Actress' first time stepping up on the RA Podcast was clearly worth the wait.

@actress1

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/938

RA podcast

RA.938 Actress

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DJ Persuasion TTT mixtape

here's a treat. please share! https://www.facebook.com/renriz &lt;3

Nu Shooz - Point Of No Return (Ren Riz re-edit)

FNQ's Bob Walker left no stone unturned when he took on this remix.  Working from multi-track, Bob carefully rearranged the entire production, shifting the tempo down to 111 BPM and bringing all the best parts of the track up in the mix. Arranged in Logic - a major amount of reconstruction of the arrangement took place with a hint of additional production that does this classic justice.  Bob left us on December 3 2012 after putting up a very brave fight against Cancer.  I spent a quality week with him in hospital before he passed and his dying wish was to hear this classic remastered.  He got his wish - thanks to Melbourne's mastering guru - Tony 'Jack the Bear' Mantz.  RIP Bobby - this one's up, as you wanted.

Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (Bob's Triple One Mix) (Remastered)

Dam-Funk - I Don't Wanna Be a Star (Creta Kano Mix)

As broadcast on Rixon D's 'The Time In Between' show on Balamii radio...hope u feel...Q

Dam-Funk - I Don't Wanna Be a Star (Creta Kano Mix)

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