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Bits N Bobs

Wonky acid n sheeeyat

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)

No Answer

Final version is here: https://soundcloud.com/cylob/diary-burner-1?in=cylob/sets/placeholder-5

Tracing the evolution of the track "Diary Burner" from last year's album PLACEHOLDER. The various versions at different stages of development are crossfaded into each other. Starting as a "home made 808" jam, some ominous chords are added, a funky bassline joins the party and the vocoder gets involved. The last 35 seconds are from the final version, the iconic track that we all know and love :D

The initial track was saved on January 25th 2021 at 13:41 and the mixdown of the final version on August 29th 2021 at 17:27, so now you know.

Is this interesting to you? I'm always thrilled to hear early or alternative versions of tracks I like, so that's why I did this. If you want me to dig out some more "evolutions", click the heart and / or leave a comment. If not then fine, I can just delete this later and we can all move on as if nothing happened, OK?

Track Evolution: Diary Burner

Medal Headz [G.B.D.F] - EP

Medal Headz [G.B.D.F] Peshay Remix

Austrian electro explorers /DL/MS/ assemble an intergalactic all-star crew of sonic scientists, rhythm agitators, and techno bass rebels to take apart and reconstruct their recent 'Calanhi' album.

With @electricindigo_official   @214_electro @mister-bellini @reptant_the_lizard @anniehallmusic @rogertwentythree @r__325__  @shun1music @beatprozessor @gl03 @lo-d @dl-ms on @trust.label 

Electro forever!

"_ R 325 [toulouse] is the project of painter and producer Youl Dirlès, who, if rumors are to be trusted, has set up his studio in room 325 of a shady inner city hotel. his excellent 'Mouvements' EP appeared on brokntoys in 2020, and for his remix he imbues 'Scylla' with crunchy distortion and swirling edits."

https://trust.bandcamp.com/album/calanhi-remixes

Mastered by Keith Tenniswood / @radioactiveman
Art visual by dextro_org

/DL/MS/ - Scylla (R-325 Remix)

Image by huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion
Prompt was the track title.

We Michigan But Should We

Step Away From The Kerb (S-Version)

sublabel of mindcolormusic, devoted to breaks oriented idm and jungle

bandcamp exclusive, sold out!

limited edition of 85 copies on recycled vinyl with 30x30 insert, available strictly on bandcamp, no digital.

artwork by: geometric love

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mental concept 121212 - tkb - 12" snippets

Acid: Sunday October 2nd, 2016. Beats: Saturday 16th March, 2019. Mix: Sunday 26th May 2019.

Latebook Dixie 108

Well, it's a start

re:27
12" vinyl + digital, edition of 100. Label sticker design by Efentwell.

@alternatecurrent
@dreadmaul
@toben-ro
@djlcp
@books

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va - re:align

hello, my name is cylob, and i make electronic music