Rephlex Records

Bochum Welt’s 2019 LP ‘Seafire’ and its accompanying remix album are two of the Central Processing Unit label’s most beloved releases. However, links between the two parties run far deeper than just those records.

You see, the tracks that Gianluigi Di Costanzo cut as Bochum Welt in the 1990s and 2000s are in the very DNA of the celebrated Sheffield imprint. Bochum Welt’s drops on labels like Rephlex made for some of the most celebrated electronic music releases of the era and went on to influence producers the world over - including many of those who have turned up on CPU since it launched in 2012.

As such, it makes sense that two of the most crucial EPs from Bochum Welt’s first wave are now being given new life by CPU. ‘Desktop Robotics’ and ‘Feelings On A Screen’ initially emerged in 1997 via Aphex Twin’s Rephlex imprint. Now, Di Costanzo has curated this special CPU release to celebrate both of those EPs making it to 25. This is a reissue with a twist, though. While ‘Desktop Robotics / Feelings On A Screen’ features many crucial cuts from the original pressings, the record also serves up other gems gathered from Bochum Welt’s original master tapes - all of which have never previously been released on vinyl.

The ‘Desktop Robotics’ cuts which make for the record’s first half are dreamy, impressionistic things. On this quartet, Bochum Welt plays painterly synth work off of idiosyncratic drum programming to illuminating effect. The opening title-track, for instance, blooms from a clattering, distorted beat into an icily beguiling electronic soundscape, a vibe which carries through to following number ‘HMT (202 Mix)’.

Things become more weightless on ‘Leafs Brought By The Wind’, a potent vignette where you can almost see the leaves falling amidst its reverb-drenched haze. We then get ethereal ‘Marylebone (Demo Version)’. Anyone who’s heard the iteration of ‘Marylebone’ which appeared on Bochum Welt’s 2017 LP ‘April’ will be pleasantly surprised by this alternate mix. Here the track pulls away from pretty post-minimalist piano composition to widescreen ambience - it’s so warm and intimate that it feels like peeking behind a curtain to observe an artist at work.

Things ramp up a notch with the tracks taken from in and around ‘Feelings On A Screen’. The title cut kicks off the record’s second half in limber fashion, its nimble percussion programming dancing around a pulsing bassline. Like A Tim’s mix of ‘Greenwich’ is still as much of a party-starter as it was on the original ‘Feelings On A Screen’ release, with the Djax-Up-Beats veteran setting buoyant rhythm work against a playful, eccentric lead-line. 

Between these tunes we are treated to one of the gems of the Bochum Welt discography. In 2007, Di Costanzo split an EP with Heinrich Mueller, an artist best known as Drexciya’s Gerald Donald. That record featured Mueller’s ‘Z Version’ of Bochum Welt’s ‘Saint’, and the track’s appearance here, with machine gun bass burbling alongside strange textures, joins the dots between Di Constanzo’s style and the pulsating machine-funk that Donald helped popularise. Things close out with ‘North’, a frostily beautiful ambience which makes for a fitting bookend to this album when taken alongside ‘Desktop Robotics’.

This 25th anniversary re-release of Bochum Welt’s ‘Desktop Robotics’ and ‘Feelings On A Screen’ EPs reminds us that, while time may have passed, the appeal of Bochum Welt’s electronic music remains as strong as ever.

RIYL: AFX, Mike Paradinas, Boards Of Canada, Mrs Jynx

Bochum Welt - Desktop Robotics & Feelings On A Screen (25th Anniversary Edition)

Module 2

That's Mutuality

Lunakhod

Mechanique

Radiopropulsive

I turned the vocals down a bit :)

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I will not dwell upon you
What have I been if not true
Haven't seen you since the spring
Dread cannot do anything

I will not dwell upon you
_    You may evacuate this loyal helicopter
What have I been if not true
_    While they stare at nothing in particular
Haven't seen you since the spring
_    Why haven’t we seen it all before
Dread cannot do anything
_    Where life can exist it always does that’s the law

Just now it seemed
As if I dreamed 
All that I lived through
Don’t let it affect you

I will confide
I can’t describe
How to jump off the treadmill
Now I feel a chill

Just now it seemed
As if I dreamed 
All that I lived through
Don’t let it affect you

I will confide
I can’t describe
How to jump off the treadmill
Now I feel a chill

Refreshing breath of the night
_    They were far older than the catastrophe
At this time it just feels right
_    We should leave because otherwise it’s too risky
Cover your face with your hands
_    Well he climbed the height and saw the lake
Irregular on the sands
_    The cup shaped valley could not be fake

Just now it seemed
As if I dreamed 
All that I lived through
Don’t let it affect you

I will confide
I can’t describe
How to jump off the treadmill
Now I feel a chill

Just now it seemed
As if I dreamed 
All that I lived through
Don’t let it affect you

I will confide
I can’t describe
How to jump off the treadmill
Now I feel a chill

Just now it seemed
As if I dreamed 
All that I lived through
Don’t let it affect you

I will confide
I can’t describe
How to jump off the treadmill
Now I feel a chill

Just now it seemed
As if I dreamed 
All that I lived through
Don’t let it affect you

I will confide
I can’t describe
How to jump off the treadmill
Now I feel a chill

Jump Off The Treadmill (V2)

longloop n droneaday

pnch_drmLP 707

Wicker Man (2014)

https://mnlth.bandcamp.com/album/music-off-the-telly 

Dave Monolith - Music off the Telly - Good Friday

https://mnlth.bandcamp.com/album/the-ridge

Foxcall (Blue sky days)

Track started Aug 13, 2016, finished Sep 14, 2025.
Photo by Learda Shkurti @ pexels.
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Look at the little king
He found out all he wanted to know
It doesn’t change a thing
No-one is near to cushion the blow

I found my tribe
If I survive remains to be seen
I feel the need to hide
What does it mean, the end of a dream

I found my tribe
If I survive remains to be seen
I feel the need to hide
What does it mean, the end of a dream

We came so far
To meet the raging breakers on the bar
They leave their mark on the sand
But where is the helping hand

We came so far
To meet the raging breakers on the bar
They leave their mark on the sand
But where is the helping hand

Where is the helping hand
 
We must not separate
Over the sea, the crescent is gone
Time to accept our fate
Whether we lost, or whether we won

I found my tribe
If I survive remains to be seen
I feel the need to hide
What does it mean, the end of a dream 

I found my tribe
If I survive remains to be seen
I feel the need to hide
What does it mean

I Found My Tribe

From the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpM83pinxhg&t=690s

Back2Last

From the video https://youtu.be/oOiUZx2BPHs?t=705
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Sixteen bands
Are at my hands
I can make them freeze
Or carry on as I please

All under control
With the ultimate goal
Of making them ring
With a voice that can sing

I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze

Every frequency is mine
To let alone or reassign
To another neighbour
To increase the flavour

Should the occasion arise
To harmonise
I can take every channel
On the instrument panel

And achieve full freeze
And achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze

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