MISC.WAVES

Originally broadcast on Threads Radio 26th August 2021.

MISC.WAVES w/ Datassette (26 Aug 2021)

In a convergence of two of the most celebrated names in contemporary electronic music, Karsten Pflum steps out on Central Processing Unit with the Liars EP. As anyone who has followed either Pflum’s work for labels such as Worm Interface/Furthur Electronix or the Sheffield imprint’s recent run of top-quality electro joints will have expected, this coming together proves to be a match made in heaven.

What we have here is a tour de force of modern machine music. With Liars, Pflum achieves that rare feat of making something that is at once boundary-pushing yet also thrillingly immediate, his attention to detail shining through with each well-placed snare hit or leftfield structural choice. Equally apt for home listening or dancefloor deployment, Liars is a delight for heads and hedonists alike.

Constantly evolving while also cleaving to a relentless groove throughout, opener ‘WAN1’ is a brilliant scene-setter for Liars. The track slinks between sections of seething post-Drexciyan acid and eerie vignettes which balance out haunted house synth licks with the sort of punishing bass blasts that recall early grime classics like Youngstar’s ‘Pulse X’. A sly shift of key halfway through the track only serves to redouble ‘WAN1’s restless brilliance.

After ‘WAN1’, ‘LOLA’ represents something of a gear-switch. The track’s wiggly opening bassline is a red herring - make no mistake that we’re fully into braindance territory on this one, the drums skittering across the mix as Pflum fills the track out with jungle-adjacent delays and softly insistent synth pads. As ‘LOLA’ goes on, blurts of synth and some stiffening in the drum work pushes the track into pure rhythm workout territory.

First B-side ‘MOUSFOLK’ somewhat splits the difference between Liars’ A-sides. This track has ‘WAN1’s unyielding stomp and prominent acid bass line, but the helter-skelter drum breaks and wandering keyboard lines are very much pulling from ‘LOLA’s zanier energy. As with the other joints here, ‘MOUSFOLK’ is elevated by Pflum’s composerly touch, the Dane frequently throwing in new sonic tidbits - a skippy snare tattoo, a single-note synth loop which sounds like a hovering spaceship - that reinvigorate the mix.

Pflum’s musicality is at the fore once more on closer ‘BALM’. For the first section of ‘BALM’, a rich and sombre keyboard fugue, you’d be hard pressed to say whether you’re listening to a producer of club music or a contemporary classical maestro. The way Pflum builds this central motif up with deft broken-beat drum programming, a wheezing synth countermelody and distant vocal sighs is equally delightful, the whole track coming off like a kindred spirit of the electronica-infused experiments on Radiohead’s 2000 masterwork Kid A.

A brilliantly unorthodox collection of electro-braindance hybrids, Liars is a barnstorming Central Processing Unit debut from the seasoned Karsten Pflum.

RIYL: AFX, Silicon Scally, DMX Krew, Matmos

Liars

Karsten Pflum - Liars

If you can judge an artist’s quality by the company they keep, then FaltyDL is up there with the best of them. The label history of the producer known to his friends as Drew Lustman reads like a “who’s who” of 21st century electronic music imprints - Ninja Tune, Unknown to the Unknown, Planet Mu, Studio Barnhus, the list goes on.

With In the Wake of Wolves, we can now add Central Processing Unit to this illustrious roster. The Sheffield label joins the party at a notable juncture - while FaltyDL has kept up an impressive clip of releases throughout his career, In the Wake of Wolves is both the NYC-based producer’s first LP for two years and his first full-length release away from his own Blueberry Records for almost a decade. 

In the Wake of Wolves proves to be both a great match for CPU and also further evidence of the label’s burgeoning sonic palette. While CPU has built its reputation on top quality electro joints, recent releases have delivered adventurous electronica experiments (Proswell’s People Are Giving And Receiving Thanks At Incredible Speeds), hard-wired breakbeat techno (Baby T’s I Against I) and golden-age synth explorations (twenty-fifth anniversary reissues of Bochum Welt’s Desktop Robotics and Feelings on a Screen, both of which first emerged via the legendary Rephlex Records). In the Wake of Wolves takes things further still - this is a brilliantly genre-voracious record, one which marries the rhythmic cut-and-thrust that we have long known FaltyDL for with all manner of adventurous stylistic choices.

Those familiar with the FaltyDL experience will recognise the trademark blend of synthetic grit and harmonious softness in album opener ‘I Need You’. This could pass for Four Tet or even Hannah Diamond at points, the steady build of pulsing synths and looped vocals recalling a more mysterious version of the PC Music sound. ‘I Need You’ stands shoulder-to-shoulder with any of FaltyDL’s other great atmospheric album openers - no small feat given the competition. ‘Further’, the following number, is yin to ‘I Need You’s yang. This is a pulsating track which gleefully skitters between machine-funk, tubing darkside bass and breakcore-adjacent drum programming, all of which is peppered with some genuinely beautiful work in the higher synths.

‘Further’ sets the scene for several of the more club-facing cuts here. ‘Minds Protection’ similarly features all manner of strange percussive sounds to surprise the ear, and it also boasts a thrilling mid-section in which the bottom falls out the track to incorporate a short snippet of blown-out junglism. With its tunnelling low-end and clattering drums, ‘Full Spectrum’ kicks off a delightful run of grime-influenced joints which take cues from Mr. Mitch, Logos and many of those other producers who took the Eski sound to exciting new places in the 2010s. ‘Forget Me Not’, the album’s longest track which is placed three spots from the end, feels like the record’s climactic point - a pitter-patter post-house joint that has a hint of Caribou in its DNA, it’ll take the clubs by storm.

But as much as FaltyDL may consistently bring the heat in terms of the beat programming, the thing which has long marked Lustman out as a special talent is the musicality of his compositions. No matter how much drums clatter or bass bangs, FaltyDL always hooks the ear back in with a sonorous synth or pleasing nugget of melody. Nowhere is this more apparent than on In the Wake of Wolves’ more weightless numbers, each startling in their prettiness. ‘Half Spectrum’ is a new-era beat track packed full of ear candy; the keening keys of ‘GasGas’ are potent with feeling; and on the album’s closer, the evocatively-titled ‘Mila Stans In A Meadow For The First Time Eating Strawberries’, we get a gorgeous synth vignette that joins the dots between the modern mastery of Yung Sherman and the most emotionally affecting moments of Aphex’s Twin’s catalogue.

In The Wake Of Wolves

FaltyDL - In The Wake Of Wolves

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GHOST WARRIOR - Owls
KILLER BONG - Osaka Bingi
TONITO YAMA - Unreleased
BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE - Nightwolf
GHOST WARRIOR - No Stream
KITACHI - Spirit (Mystical Mix)
THE LOVECRAFT SEXTET - De Profundis
GHOST WARRIOR - I’ve Been There
JAH SCHULZ - Unbroken Dub
JON HASSELL - Dreaming
JOHNNY JEWEL - Nightmare
COMMODO - Living Bones
BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE - Painless Steel
ONYX COLLECTIVE - My Favorite Things
COMMODO - Shadowing
JAH SCHULZ - Dub Fool
GHOST WARRIOR - Air
J. ROBINSON WHODEMSOUND Tuff Dub
GHOST WARRIOR - Julee
The Necks - Bloodstream
LE CRI DU CAIRE - Le Marcheur

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In The Wake of Wolves

FaltyDL - Minds Protection

Special guest: Linnley
Recorded live on Threads Radio 13th February 2020

Tracklisting:

Eurhythmics - Monkey Monkey
Dim Garden - Panbos
Lives of Angels - Gateway
Innsyter - Local Fantasy
Ende Shneafliet - Rendez-vous Met Betsy
Dave Ball & Genesis P Orridge - Muzak For Frogs
Lord Tusk - Sharkeys Night
Suns of Arqa - Asian Rebel
Margaret - River
Shed - The Traveller
Monoton - Wasser
En-Dome - 01.o.T
Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus - Item 4
Aaron Leitko - 0505#4
Der Zyklus - Polar Coordinates
Arpanet - Entrophic Decay
Wilted Woman - Heating Problem
Innsyter - Global Boring
X-Ray Pop - Polar Polar
Bauhaus - Of Lillies And Remains
The Flying Lizards - What's New Pussycat
ZYX - Hey You
Severed Heads - Prototype Pop
Fah - Future Petrichor
Ruutu Poiss - Noad
Solid Space - New Statue
Ggrraaccee Jjoonneess - Ssllaavvee Ttoo Tthhee Rrhhyytthhmm

MISC.WAVES w/ Datassette & Linnley (13 Feb 2020)

MISC.WAVES — MACHINE LEARNING SPECIAL

All tracks generated by, or constructed from assets acquired using AI / machine learning / neural networks / procedural generation. Edited, reprocessed and mixed especially for headphone listening by Datassette,

Originally broadcast on Threads radio on 4th June 2020.

Tracklisting:

OpenAI Jukebox - Alanis Morissette Conditioning (Edit)
OpenAI Jukebox - Aretha Franklin Unseen Lyrics (Edit)
OpenAI Jukebox - Chris DeBurgh Unseen Lyrics Interlude
WaftFlex vs Madonna - Holiflail (Cassette Re-Trash)
OpenAI Jukebox - 3x Rick Astley Continutations (Edit)
Dadabots - Relentless Doppelganger
OpenAI Jukebox - Boy George Unseen Lyrics
OpenAI Jukebox - Frank Sinatra, Various (Datashat Granola Mix)
OpenAI Jukebox - Yello Conditioning (Datashat Comfort Loop)
Datassette - Fleetwood Mac Transcend Spacetime Becoming Glorious Superheated Plasma As They Plummet Into The Sun
OpenAI Jukebox - Chris DeBurgh Unseen Lyrics Interlude
OpenAI Jukebox - ABBA Re-Rendition (Datashat Hell Portal Edit)
OpenAI Jukebox - Angelo Badalamenti Conditioning
OpenAI Jukebox - Michael Jackson Conditioning
OpenAI Jukebox - Britney Spears Re-Rendition
Convoi Exceptionnel - Gaia Homeostasis
OpenAI Jukebox - Bananarama Unseen Lyrics
OpenAI Jukebox - Donna Summer Unseen Lyrics (Datashat BBQ Briquette Edit)
OpenAI Jukebox - Aretha Franklin Interview
OpenAI Jukebox - Billy Ocean Re-Rendition
OpenAI Jukebox - Prince, Various (Datashat Cafe Oto Awkward Hush Edit)
OpenAI Jukebox - Gary Numan Re-Rendition
OpenAI Jukebox - 7x David Bowie Outputs
The Cars - Drive (Datashat Too Late Mix)
OpenAI Jukebox - Lionel Hampton Re-Rendition (Datashat Pool Snake Edit)
OpenAI Jukebox - Michael Jackson Re-Rendition
OpenAI Jukebox - Prince Conditioning
OpenAI Jukebox - Queen Re-Rendition (Datashat General Anaesthetic Edit)
OpenAI Jukebox - Roberta Flack Re-Rendition (Edit)
OpenAI Jukebox - Simon & Garfunkel Unseen Lyrics
OpenAI Jukebox - Tammy Wynette Unseen Lyrics
OpenAI Jukebox - Unkle Re-Rendition
OpenAI Jukebox - Mozart Conditioning
OpenAI Jukebox - Arthur Rubinstein Conditioning
OpenAI Jukebox - Lazar Berman Conditioning
OpenAI Jukebox - Vivaldi Conditioning
OpenAI Jukebox - Scala Kolacny Brothers Re-Rendition
OpenAI Jukebox - Ella Fitzgerald Continuation (Loop)
Per Nyblom & Richard Stanley - Untitled (Datashat Vivaldi Vom Mix)
John Maus - Divide By Zero (Demo)
Melobytes - Misc.Waves Logo Output
Stefan Bodorovsky - Generated Piano (Edit)
Rachel Chen - Forest / Nature / Happy (Edit)
Dadabots - Outerhelios Free Jazz
OpenAI Jukebox - MC Hammer Unseen Lyrics (Datashat Re-Touch)

Misc. is an evolving repository of audio, artefacts and experimental interventions; a platform for artists, musical or otherwise, to release new/old/alternative/side projects, free from the constraints of commercial, genre or audience expectations.

http://misc.works/

MISC.WAVES - Machine Learning Special w/ Datassette (4 Jun 2020)

Originally broadcast on Threads Radio 30th July 2020.

All audio from cassette. Sources include:
Excerpts from personal mixtapes from 1998 - 2000, used blank tapes found in the street after junk markets, tapes of radio recordings made by my folks in the 70s, used blank tapes bought from charity shops, recent recordings of hardware jams recorded straight to tape.  

ABBA - SOS
Dollar - Hand Held In Black And White
Werner Muller - Hawaiian War Chant
Excerpts - Elton John / Unknown
Tomita - Saturn, The Bringer Of Old Age
The Archers, 10000th Episode (Excerpt)
Kenny Everett's Bottom 30 - Unknown
Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralysed
Edwin Astley - Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Theme
Lalo Schifrin - Danube Incident
Roy Budd - Getting Nowhere In A Hurry (Instrumental)
Mary Lou Williams - Ode To Saint Cecile
Stereolab - Brakhage
Murray Reams - I Came Here To Keep You Busy
Unknown - Unknown
The Village Callers - Hector
Victor Lewis Smith - Unknown
Waikiki Beach Boys - Unknown
Zoot Woman - Chasing Cities
Ramsay Lewis - Tambura
Dick Hyman - Give It Up or Turn It Loose
The Mohawks - Senior Thump
Sly Stone - Runnin Away
Anthony King - Filigree Funk
Radio Tip Top - Lunewyre Technology Plus System Jingle
James Last Starparade Boney M Megamix
Supermax - Unknown?
Baccara - Cara Mia
Lyndsey De Paul & Mike Moran - Rock Bottom (Lobotomy Edit)
Mrs Miller - A Lover's Concerto
Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
Boney M - Ma Baker (Upscaled Neck Snap Edit)
Throbbing Gristle - D.O.A. (w/ John Peel Continuity)
Datassette vs Strepsil - Expand (2020)
Datassette - Anywhere (2020)
Datassette vs T-FLX - Memetone Fokkerblock (2018)

MISC.WAVES - Tape Archive Special w/ Datassette (30 July 2020)

Originally broadcast on Threads Radio 19th Nov 2020.

Misc. Wormy Apple Intro
Cocteau Twins - When Mama Was A Moth
Asylum Party - White Light
OMD - Almost (Martin Hannett Mix)
Amy Cutler - Riddles Of The Firmament
RL/VL - Four Piece Suite
Bibio - Capel Celyn
Multicast Dynamics - Tie
Lino Capra Vaccina - Canti Della Sfere
Bass Clef - Maze 1
Demdike Stare - Embedded Content (Excerpt)
Mohn - Mohn
Luke Sanger - What Happened To The Future?
Miles Tilmann & Steven Hess - Cascade
Love Cult - Backslide
Ploho - Город Устал (Gorod Ustal)
Anne Dudley - Bright Morning (Datashat End Times Mix)
Chips For The Poor - Wet PDF
Shoc Corridor - Artificial Horizon
John Callaghan - I'm Not Comfortable Inside My Mind
Robin Gibb - Juliet (Datashat Heaven & Hell Edit)
Suzanne Ciani - Flowers Of Evil
FSOL - Quagmire (Excerpt)
Richie Hawtin - (1) 01-01
Mücha - Slow Notes For Voice 1
Jo Johnson - Circles
Crosspolar & Bruised Skies - Cicada
Cabaret Voltaire - Your Agent Man

MISC.WAVES WINTER APOCALYPSE w/ Datassette (19 Nov 2020)

Originally broadcast on Threads Radio 17th December 2020.

Marcello Giombini - Libra (Datashat Crazy-D SN8 Edit)
loveliescrushing - youreyesimmaculate
A.C. Marias - Just Talk
Helado Negro - We Will You
Arthur Russell - You Did It Yourself
R. Stevie Moore - Lie Like A Dog
Section 25 - Be Brave
Astrobrite - Crasher
Love Inc. - Life's A Gas
Pulusha - Isloation (Part Two)
Bad Sector - Trozou
Dopplereffekt - Athanatos
Konduku - Seker 5
Nilotika Cultural Ensemble - We Love Nilokita
Atom TM - MP1
Vessel - Scarletta
André Ceccarelli - Funk No. 3
Phoenicia - Biorepo
Monolake - North
Underworld - Air Towel
The Future Sound Of London - You're Creeping Me Out
Bass Clef - Maze 4
Fis - Ebb
Colourbox - Tarantula
Unknown - Unknown

MISC.WAVES w/ Datassette & Linnley (13 Feb 2020)

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