Noumen returns to Central Processing Unit after a six-year absence with Altum. This bumper record, the Ukrainian artist’s fourth release for the Sheffield label and first since 2019 double-LP Obscurium, serves to remind us all why Noumen’s music has been lauded by the likes of Mixmag and Resident Advisor in the past. Altum is a consummate piece of contemporary electronic production, a technoid exploration of outer-edges electronica that nods to genre greats like Autechre while still maintaining its own unconventional charm.

Across well over an hour of music here we find Noumen repeatedly playing punchy mid-tempo beat work off of some more cerebral tuned synths. Altum kicks off with the epic ‘Oion’ - beginning in that Autechre/AFX mid-tempo zone, full of deep-sea bangs and whirrs, the track slowly builds to a final stretch of delay-drenched keys which set us free amidst the outer cosmos, almost Sun Ra-style. It’s a perfect liminal-space roller and an apt scene-setter for Altum.

‘Oion’ provides a blueprint for several of the album’s other highlights - plenty of the joints here adopt that same approach of hitting hard with the drums and soft with the synths. Second track ‘Splitter’ takes on the baton from ‘Oion’ while souping up the kick to warehouse levels; the beats in ‘Far Wind’ splutter like a needle skipping on a mid-90s Tresor drop; ‘Fate Carette’, all eerie looped synth leads, is a highlight as the album enters the home straight.

The rhythm production (which, it should be noted, is exemplary throughout Altum) is ratched up in intensity on a handful of numbers. ‘Telemask’ displays a delightful breakbeat - if you’d told me this was sampled from golden age A Tribe Called Quest, I’d have believed you. Mid-section anchors ‘Awe’ and ‘Axis’ are glitchers in the Mike Paradinas mould, with the latter showing off some pleasing steel pan-esque synth leads for good measure. And while Altum generally maintains a processional pace throughout, there are points where Noumen toughens up the drums for club deployment - ‘Unveilness’ shows off a real chunkiness in the low end, closer ‘Spurling Sign’ plays a satisfying rolling groove off of ever-layering synths, and the title-track is an alien machine-funker in keeping with fellow CPU electronauts like Silicon Scally and Cygnus.

Noumen’s third album for Central Processing Unit is a pleasingly hefty double-LP which builds on the zany invention of acts like Modeselektor and Autechre to delightful effect.

FFO: Autechre, Aphex Twin, Modeselektor, Bochum Welt, LFO

Noumen - Altum

Bandcamp: https://fastatwork.bandcamp.com/album/up-too-late-2

Digital + physical preorder: October 8 2025
Release date: October 30 2025

Fast At Work returns with another statement EP, this time from the label’s own Carré (@carreo) and her closest collaborator Danny Goliger (@dannygoliger). Navigating through textured atmospheres, rhythmic explorations, and immersive landscapes, they allowed their music to unfold naturally—an organic process shaped by curiosity and intuition. Each track was born from sampling its predecessor, creating a recursive dialogue that guided the creative flow. A commitment to a tension-building groove in ‘Up Too Late’, the warped dub throughlines of ‘Tricky One’, the intricate, delicate uptempo delight that is ‘Exit Plan,’ and the bridge between all four tracks ‘Don’t Keep Me In Suspense’ — each reflect different moments in this journey. An expert in textural exploration, the Dutch DJ and producer Konduku (@kondukukonduku) brought out the true hypnotic potential of the title track. Their influences ripple outward, yet the sound remains inherently theirs—fluid, unbound by singular genre or label.

A1 Carré & Danny Goliger – Up Too Late
A2 Carré & Danny Goliger – Tricky One
A3 Carré & Danny Goliger – Don’t Keep Me In Suspense
B1 Carré & Danny Goliger – Exit Plan
B2 Carré & Danny Goliger – Up Too Late (Konduku remix)

Written and Produced by Carré & Danny Goliger
Mastered by Nikolaj Jakobsen 
Vinyl production R.A.N.D. Muzik
Artwork & CD by Studio Balcony
Distributed by One Eye Witness

FAW004: Carré & Danny Goliger - Up Too Late EP w/ Konduku Remix

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Ethnomusicology plays a central role in the work of Aukio Sound, Helsinki-based electronic artist and DJ, and this @futuraresistenza release is no different. Drawn from recordings made during his time in Benin, the 4-track EP contains two tracks with their own alternate dub versions to compliment.

Both works feature vocal feature from singer John Follass, the two meeting in Grand-Popo and recording 6 tracks in collaboration. With this material in hand, Aukio Sound returned to Helsinki to produce and master the work into the driving dub-techno heard on the EP.

Aukio Sound Ft. John Folass - Sakpata [Future Resistenza]

Pour le mois d'octobre, Vanadís vous plonge dans l'effervescence des nuits anglaises avec un focus sur les nouveautés outre-Manche, de la bass, du break et tout ce qui fait vibrer nos voisins anglais. 

Tracklist : 

1 Bad From Day - Magugu & Le Motel	
2 Raid - Burna	
3 Pressure ft. Entrañas - Obeka	
4 Sunday Groove - Kliptown
5 Loaded Gust - Beckett
6 Human Resources - Martini
7 Kuduro! ft. Yemi Bolatiwa - Obeka
8 unknown - untitled - turbo dux
9 Reso Danz (Hodge remix) - Doctor Jeep
10 Orison - Bodhi
11 Make It - Debba
12 Time Night - Antilogic
13 Total - Verraco
14 QAAR B - Muskila
15 Basha - Hassan Abou Alam
16 Kwaze (Club Version) - PheliMuncasi
17 Global Revolution - DJ Mell G
18 Push The Body - Doctor Jeep
19 HUMILDADE E DISCIPLINA CRAZED (BR)
20 ░▓ (feat. MTWN) - Leese
21 No Fear - Magugu & Le Motel
22 Fault Line - Burna
23 Paradise Disguise ｆｒｅｅ ｐａｌｅｓｔｉｎｅ - BLEID
24 Sticky - Muskila
25 Lever - Gamma Intel
26 Catperson - Undercover
27 Spud Dog Jog - Monologue
28 ∴∴ (feat. Ouanounou) - Leese
29 POY POY - BENFIKA
30 Tumble Turn - Cleyra
31 Chapalo - COIDO
32 Third Life - Prayer

Digressions Auditives avec Vanadís · Octobre 2025

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Pieter Dudal & Adriaan De Roover are set to release their collaborative album "Pivot Rotations" next month - a continuously mixed collage of tape loops largely taken from recordings made at live shows in Ghent, Brussels, and Meakusma Festival in Eupen.

"b" is the third track on the album, although its arrival becomes unnoticeable during the listening experience, as it drifts seamlessly between motifs and textures. The piece, and much of the album by that matter, is smothered in the warm fuzz of tape hiss - providing a comfortable constant throughout the piece for the mind to drift into.

Dudal & De Roover - b [Viernulvier Records]

From their debut collaborative EP No One Moves Alone on Kindergarten Records, “Middle Ground” captures the duo’s fluid chemistry intertwining Bristol’s percussive intensity with New York’s experimental pulse. Out November 20.

More: https://www.orbmag.com/music

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Premiere: Ma Sha x Hodge - Middle Ground

DJ MELL G, founder of JUICY GANG RECORDS, crafts a bold sound blending electro, breakbeat, techno, and EBM. Since leaving law school in 2020, the Hamburg-based artist has toured globally, with standout sets at Tresor, FOLD, Sonár Istanbul, and iconic B2Bs with Helena Hauff and DJ Stingray 313.
Her debut album ISSUES (2023) earned acclaim from Resident Advisor and Vogue, cementing her status as a trailblazer. With collaborations like 'Wizard Snakes' (Boysnoize Records) and major 2024 festival bookings, DJ MELL G continues to define her unique path.



Listen Festival w/ DJ MELL G @ Kiosk Radio 08.11.2025

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En Reversa presents some cutting edge sampling for the synth and some sequences under the bass sounds.

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