For more than a decade now, Fleck E.S.C. has marked himself out as one of the most playful and prolific producers in the electro game. Across dozens of releases for labels including Bass Agenda and Science Cult, the France-born, Japan-based artist has made his name through a production style which balances limber beats with exploratory textural work. 

Fleck E.S.C. debuted on Central Processing Unit in 2018 with the Discrete Opinion EP. Now, after stopping by the Sheffield label last year on a Silicon Scally remix job, Fleck E.S.C. delivers his second EP for CPU in the form of Rough Silk. The record’s intriguing title proves an apt introduction to this four-track affair. These cuts are at once sleek and abrasive, anchored by robotechnic machine-funk grooves yet also full of strange, shifting shapes.

The opening title-track expertly sets out Rough Silk’s stall. Heralded by gurgling synths and all manner of whirring percussive tones, ‘Rough Silk’ blossoms around the minute mark with the introduction of a wickedly buoyant lead synth. This is music at once visceral and full of mystery, the sound of wending through the back alleys, and the feeling carries through to the following cut ‘Hat in the Cat’ - as the synth pads spool out overhead, the machine-funk snap of the beat has an almost aquatic quality that links it back to Drexciya.

Much like ‘Rough Silk’, the record’s first B-side ‘Faking Sweet’ also shifts gears. The opening strains of the track seem to be preparing for another insistent, expansive broken-beat pulse, but it stiffens its neck around ninety seconds in. Programmed drums whirr around a jittery machine-gun bass while discordant synths pull at the edges of the track, all of which brings a strong dystopian energy that increases further as the percussion sounds become increasingly bug-eyed.

After so much excitement, ‘Digger Play’ closes out the EP with a softer touch. There’s still plenty of low-slung bounce to the beat, but the track runs a little slower, and there’s a warm wistfulness in the synths which gives ‘Digger Play’ a painterly, almost poetic feel. However, while it may take its foot off the gas, the production here is as deft as it is everywhere else on Rough Silk. 

With new EP Rough Silk, electro whizz Fleck E.S.C. brings the sort of casual mastery to proceedings that has characterised his career to date.

RIYL: Silicon Scally, Jensen Interceptor, Annie Hall

Rough Silk

Fleck ESC - Rough Silk

Gladio Operations presents its sixth work, in which It returns to the format of various artists. In this third compilation tilted "The Analog Theory" we encounter various renowned producers from the electro scene in Europe.

This EP opens with the French producer Jauzas The Shining, with a fantastic track titled “Traveling Light” where we can hear his classic dark and hypnotic sound in all his productions.

Next up, we meet an old acquaintance of the label the Catalan producer Univac returns again showing off their forceful and aggressive rhythms, entering once again into more industrial territories.

Side B takes off with an exquisite cut by Lloyd Stellar tilted “Re-Entering Earth’s Atmosphere”. The Dutch artist who marks his debut in Gladio Operations, gifts us with an enveloping and very well molded track, with perfectly chosen melancholic harmonies.

German producer Martin Matiske who also debuts with Gladio Operations and has productions on prestigious labels such as Gigolo Records or Stilleben, is the chosen producer for the fourth track tilted “Telepathic Tuning”.

The EP closes with "Round Control" by the young and talented producer from Valencia, Uranio Empobrecido. This track is the most electronic on the EP and possesses the undeniable sound of Detroit, evident in each and every one of the sequences used.

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Lloyd Stellar - Re - Entering Earths Atmosphere

TL Premiere #1011 (2022.09.06) : Panoramic Barrier - Az Erők Harca [Dalmata Daniel]

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For this 209th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by Hungarian DJ/Producer "Panoramic Barrier" titled ‘Az Erők Harca’ from his forthoming EP "Bondage Dance Survivor Machine" on the Budapest-based record label : Dalmata Daniel.

▶︎ The EP will be available from September 16, 2022 on limited anthology cassette + digital on Bandcamp : https://dalmatadaniel.bandcamp.com/album/bondage-dance-survivor-machine-ep

DDCS02 - An Anthology Of Released Works (Cassette) + Digital

DDCS02 is a compilatinon of Panomaric Barrier's previously only digitally released tracks:
Side A: Bondage Dance Survivor Machine EP (DDD09)
Side B: Compilation tracks between 2019-2022
*8 tracks in total

Design by Studio Jetski.

Limited to 30 copies
It comes with printed 3-panel J-card, black cassette with stickers both sides in clear case with spindles

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Release Info :

Panoramic Barrier - Bondage Dance Survivor Machine EP [Dalmata Daniel // DDD09]

Snippets : https://soundcloud.com/dalmata-daniel/ddd09-panoramic-barrier-bondage-dance-survivor-machine-ep-snippets

Panoramic Barrier (aka LivingTotem, dj kraak) is an underrated local legend who has been producing music, organizing gigs and DJing for 3 decades now in the Hungarian Industrial/EBM scene.

Bondage Dance Survivor Machine is 4 punky, raw and catatonic-industrial tracks that Panoramic Barrier recorded using only analog gears. What you can hear on this EP is the pure sound from his machines.

This EP is the 9th episode in the Dalmata Daniel Digital only series and it comes with an exclusive limited screen printed hoodie, which is the physical part of the release.

We would like to salute to his music and tireless, enthusiastic work to keep alive the scene all these years, therefore we release a limited cassette with all his previous tracks from digital compilations alongside with Bondage Dance Survivor Machine EP.

Tracklist :
1. Az Erők Harca
2. Noize Tron Red Stars
3. Twin Peaks East 2nd
4. Crash Boom Body

releases September 16, 2022

All Tracks Recorded Live at Ipari Panel Szoba.

Produced by András Gulyás

Synthesizers: Korg Monotribe, Doepfer Dark Energy II, Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy Deluxe, Korg Monotron Delay, Electro-Harmonix 8 Step Program, Korg SQ-1, Arturia MicroBrute, Electro-Harmonix Micro Metal Muff, Mackie 1402-VLZ Pro, Electro-Harmonix Crash Pad.
No computer, No mastering.

Art Director / Artwork by Daniel Jani (Studio Jetski)
www.instagram.com/studiojetski

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Follow Panoramic Barrier :
Facebook : www.facebook.com/panoramic.barrier
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/panoramic-barrier-1

Follow Dalmata Daniel :
Bandcamp : www.dalmatadaniel.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/DalmataDanielLabel
Instagram : www.instagram.com/dalmatadanielrecords
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/dalmata-daniel

Bondage Dance Survivor Machine EP

Az Erők Harca

TL PREMIERE : Panoramic Barrier - Az Erők Harca [Dalmata Daniel]

Panoramic Barrier (aka LivingTotem, dj kraak) is an underrated local legend who has been producing music, organizing gigs and DJing for 3 decades now in the Hungarian Industrial/EBM scene.

Bondage Dance Survivor Machine is 4 punky, raw and catatonic-industrial tracks that Panoramic Barrier recorded using only analog gears. What you can hear on this EP is the pure sound from his machines.

This EP is the 9th episode in the Dalmata Daniel Digital only series and it comes with an exclusive limited screen printed hoodie, which is the physical part of the release.

We would like to salute to his music and tireless, enthusiastic work to keep alive the scene all these years, therefore we release a limited cassette with all his previous tracks from digital compilations alongside with Bondage Dance Survivor Machine EP.

Panoramic Barrier
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/panoramic-barrier-1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/panoramic.barrier

Dalmata Daniel
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dalmata-daniel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DalmataDanielLabel
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dalmatadanielrecords/

PREMIERE: Panoramic Barrier - Noize Tron Red Stars (Dalmata Daniel)

PRE-ORDER: https://linktr.ee/suctionrecords

Artists: Lowfish / Solvent
Title: suction001
Label / CAT#: Suction Records / suction001 (25th anniversary reissue)
Format: Vinyl 12-inch/Digital EP
Release date: November 11, 2022

2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Suction Records, the Toronto-based electro/IDM label founded in 1997 by two emerging producers, Lowfish (aka Gregory De Rocher) and Solvent (aka Jason Amm), the latter still overseeing the label to this day. The label’s inaugural release was a split Lowfish/Solvent 12”, marking both artists’ debut vinyl appearance. 

Gregory and Jason had known each other since high-school, but a deeper friendship was forged during their university years, after Gregory introduced Jason to early Rephlex releases by Aphex Twin and µ-Ziq. Gregory had been making electronic music in his bedroom for more than a decade, but it was those Rephlex releases that ignited Jason’s passion to do the same. After several years of obsessive gear buying, music making, and playing tracks for each other, Lowfish and Solvent had hit their stride, and their demos even attracted the interest of legendary early IDM labels labels Skam (for Lowfish), and Isophlux (for Solvent). But things were slow-moving in those days — letters, faxes, phone calls… nothing was panning out. So that’s when they decided to start their own label, and put out 300 copies of this 12”, suction001.

The label was heavily inspired by contemporary artists like AFX, Autechre, and Panasonic, but on suction001, those influences collided with their ‘80s synth-pop and industrial roots to create something unique. 25 years later, it still sounds fresh, and like nothing else out there. On suction001, 808 drum machines are run through distortion and breakbeats are chopped and mangled, contrasting with melodic OMD-style leads and catchy synth-pop basslines — a sound the label would refer to as ‘distortion pedal new wave.’ 

Over the past 25 years, Suction’s sound has morphed and evolved, but in recent years has shifted back to it’s original Rephlex-inspired roots. That makes 2022 the perfect year to revisit this wild, 1997 debut, now reissued in a new, expanded edition for it’s 25th anniversary. The reissue adds 2 bonus tracks — a 1999 remix by Detroit electro-punk duo ADULT., along with a previously-unreleased version of Lowfish’s A1 cut, and also features new and improved artwork, including an insert with full label discography. 

Limited to 500 copies, and comes with a Bandcamp download card.

Tracklisting:

A1. Lowfish “Helski Gotenks”
A2. Solvent “Course Hub with Garnish”
A3. Lowfish “Helski Gotenks (version)”
B1. Solvent “Flexidisc”
B2. Lowfish “Your Last Legs”
B3. Solvent “ESP (edit)”
B4. Lowfish “Peanut Butter Castles”
B5. ADULT. vs Solvent “Flexidisc (remix)”

ADULT. vs Solvent "Flexidisc (remix)" (from suction001 25th anniversary reissue)

Full album → https://bit.ly/3ViiEUI
Artist: Hardenberg 
Title: Augmented Reality
Format: Digital / USB
Catalogue:DRSS538
Tracklist:
01. Augmented Reality
02.Camouflage
03.The Truth is on Fire
04.Öl
05.A System is Never Done

www.diffusereality.net
https://linktr.ee/diffusereality

Hardenberg - Augmented Reality

Clips here: https://soundcloud.com/dvsnme/dvs-nme-agitation-propaganda
Buy here: dvsnme.bandcamp.com/album/agitation-propaganda

Exactly one year after his 2021 release entitled 'The Electro Manifesto', DVS NME returns with a collection of new tracks that were produced between late 2021 and early 2022. This 25-track album is another thematic nod to class struggle with the hope to stir class consciousness in listeners. Every song title makes reference to some tenant of the destructive and unequal economic system called capitalism as well as its ever-looming shadow socialism. Even the album cover borrows inspiration from Soviet-era propaganda, re-adapting the artistic styles of many communist agitators.

This album, as with the last, relies heavily on the sounds of classic Electro machines like Mono/Poly, MS-20, SH-101, Jupiter-8, Juno-106, SH-2, System 100, Juno 60, JX-3P, TB-303, Polysix, TR-606, OB-8, TR-808, ARP Odyssey, as well as some contemporary additions to his studio like Hydrasynth, System 8, MC-101, Prophet Rev2, Novation Peak, Minilogue, SE-02, and Microkorg.

DVS NME is the man behind the weekly radio show/daily blog called 'Dark Science Electro' and has been a dedicated contributor to the Electro community for the last 11 years. He shares his love of Electro music by posting Electro-affiliated news, art, mixes, albums, memes, concerts, tracks, gear, and more. This album is available for $15 USD

Buy Here

DVS NME - Speculative Logic

TL Premiere #1153 (2023.02.03) : Blackploid - Silent Room [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 18th Premiere of 2023, we have a track by the veteran German Electro DJ, producer & composer Martin Matiske, aka "Blackploid" (@martin-matiske), titled ‘Silent Room’ from his forthcoming LP "Enter Universe" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (@cpurecords).

The album will be available on February 17, 2023 in Limited edition 2x12" vinyl LP + Digital. 

▶︎ Pre-order : https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/enter-universe

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Release Info :

Blackploid - Enter Universe 

Blackploid has become one of Central Processing Unit’s stalwarts in the past couple of years. Martin Matiske’s project contributed a trio of EPs to the Sheffield label across 2021 and 2022, with each of them showing off the kind of electro chops and production sensibilities that made Blackploid an ideal fit for an imprint which also boasts the likes of Cygnus, Silicon Scally and Bochum Welt among its catalogue.

Now, for CPU’s first release of 2023, Matiske levels things up with the debut Blackploid LP Enter Universe. Across these twelve tracks, Matiske leaves us in no doubt that he’s a prime mover in the world of modern electronic music. Enter Universe does not let up from start to finish, delivering a dozen pieces of leftfield electro that draws from the sound’s greats while also showcasing an unpredictability and flair that is all of Blackploid’s own.

The tone is set from the first frosty chords of opening cut ‘Pulsation’. The track traverses the starscape on pitter-patter drums and chirruping synths, a lively and slightly dystopian roller with an adventurous undercurrent reminiscent of classic Rephlex drops. It’s a style which Blackploid often draws for throughout the rest of Enter Universe, albeit with elements added or subtracted at each stage.

Indeed, this album features some of the most unusual production you will hear on any record this year. While the grooves pulse away in a manner reminiscent of Drexciya or Legowelt, Blackploid layers the mixes with a whole cornucopia of synth tones. ‘The Mission’ boasts a bleep-bloop breakdown that sounds like malfunctioning rotary telephones; ‘Silent Room’ is a ghoulish jam which harks back to Warp’s legendary Artificial Intelligence compilations; ‘Automatik’ and ‘Wormhole’ are defined by some brilliantly strange low-ends - you’ll be thinking of Mr. Oizo’s ‘Flat Beat’ with the wiggly former, while the gurgling, writhing anti-lead that dictates ‘Wormhole’ is oddly thrilling and more than befits the track’s title.

This inventive approach is also apparent in some of the structural choices on Enter Universe. While the tracks here all keep a steady, dancefloor friendly pulse, several of them surprise you by switching up the approach after a minute or two. ‘Pulsation’, ‘Automatik’ and ‘The Mission’ all feature moments where a new element - extra hi-hats, a synth line entering from leftfield - inject fresh impetus into the tune to keep the listener on their toes.

Blackploid may push the sonic envelope on Enter Universe, but this does not mean there is no room for melody. In particular, the cuts here which most strongly channel ‘Computer World’-era Kraftwerk do so by fronting some slyly tuneful work, particularly in the low end of the mix. ‘Unidentified’ serves up delightfully springy chords, ‘Cell Mutation’ leads from the bassline, and ‘Space Curve’ features little cells of melody and counter-melody working together to close Enter Universe out on a high.

Blackploid’s debut LP Enter Universe marries Drexciyan electro and Warp-school electronica with some brilliantly inventive production choices.

Tracklist :
01. Pulsation
02. Material Collapse
03. Planetary Nebula
04. Automatik
05. The Mission
06. Wormhole
07. Silent Room
08. IQ
09. Unidentified
10. Cell Mutation
11. Vacuum Movement
12. Space Curve

Enter Universe

Silent Room

TL PREMIERE : Blackploid - Silent Room [Central Processing Unit]

Well, our friend @comeonme does not stand on ceremony. He came kicked in the door and took his honourable place in our 9th podcast series. Enjoy.

Blatant 009 - Commoner

Out now: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-impact

EP playlist: soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/sets/luz1e-sonic-impact-mtron029

Luz1e debuts on our label with a breakout blend of delicate electro and dystopian machinefunk, carefully reinforced by DALO's haunting vocals and drenched in futuristic atmosphere 🛸🌐💨

A1 Intro
A2 Escapism
A3 Sonic Impact Ft. DALO
B1 Language Of The Unheard Ft. DALO
B2 Sensitivity Ft. DALO
B3 Sensory Perception

@l-v-z-1-e

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instagram.com/mechatronicamusic

Sonic Impact

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Luz1e - Sensory Perception [MTRON029]

As a part of small but powerful Zagreb based bRAVE crew - together with Ikonal and Le Chocolat Noir, Maja presents interesting and energetic, sometimes eclectic sets that can take you to some very dark places and heavenly highs within a matter of minutes by mixing up various genres and experimental stuff.

https://soundcloud.com/cooliefruit
https://m.mixcloud.com/cooliefruit/
https://ra.co/dj/majapa/biography

| EPISODE 164 | Maja Pa

DVS NME is an Electro music producer/deejay and Post Punk enthusiast living in Colorado. He runs a weekly mix series called @DarkScienceElectro (est 2010) and is actively producing under the name @DVSNME (est 2000)

His musical influences include, but are not limited to: Abstract Thought, Adult., The Advent, Aether Pilot, Afrika Bambaataa, Aphex Twin, Aloka, Andrea Parker, Animistic Beliefs, Annie Hall, Anthony Rother, Armec, Arpanet, AS1, Ashtar Lavanda, Audiogenetics, Autechre, Automat, AUX88, Bass Junkie, Binary Digit, Blackploid, Blatromen, Blotnik Brothers, Boards Of Canda, Boris Divider, Carl Finlow, CEM3340, Cignol, Client_03, Commuter, Composite Profuse, Comtron, The Consumer, CPU, Cyan85, Cybotron, Cygnus, Cylob, CYRK, Dark Vektor, Das Muster, Datawave, Datassette, Deemphasis, Delayscape, Der Zyklus, Detroit's Filthiest, Dez Williams, DJ Stingray, Dave Clarke, Helena Hauff, Dibu-Z, Digitizer, Ditone, DJ Di'jital, DJ Godfather, DJ Overdose, Djedjotronic, DMX Krew, Dopplereffekt, Drexciya, E.R.P., Dynarec, Ectomorph, Egyptian Lover, Ekman, Elecktroids, Electronome, The Exaltics, Heinrich Mueller, Exzakt, Fabrice Lig, Faceless Mind, FAH, Fleck ESC, Fotoapparat, FPU, Franck Kartell, Francois Dillinger, Galaxian, Gedanenexperiment, Gesloten Cirkel, Glass Domain, Go Nuclear, Gosub, The Hacker, Hadamard, Hardfloor, Headnoaks, Heinrich Dressel, Heurisitc Audio, The Hidden Persuader, I-F, Illektrolab, Imatran Voima, Inkamera, Isolated Material, Ivna Ji, IXRQ, Japanese Telecom, Jauzas The Shining, Jeremiah R., John Carpenter, John Selway, Kalson, Kan3da, Keith Tucker, Kobol Electronics, Komarken Electronics, Kon001, Konerytmi, Koova, Kraftwerk, Kronos Device, Krypton 81, Lake Haze, Lectromagnetique, Legowelt, Lithium Flux, London Modular Alliance, Low Tape, Lowfish, Luke Eargoggle, Luxus Varta, Luke Vibert, Luz1e, Machino, Maelstrom, Manasyt, Mandroid, MAS 2008, Maschine Brennt, Melogik, Mesak, MetaComplex, Microlith, Microthol, Miss Kittin, MNLTH, Model 500, Mono Junk, Morphology, Mr. Velcro Fastener, MSRG, Mumm, MystesSystem, N-Ter, Nebenprodukt, Newcleus, Nite Fleit, Noamm, Noise&Noise, Nomenklatur, NRSB-11. Nullptr, Oberman, Ole Micc Odd, Orgue Electronique, Pametex,  Paul Blackford, Pip Williams, Planet Pluto, Plant43, Polytron, Privacy, Q-Chip, R325, RA-X, Radioactive Man, Rebustape, Reedale Rise, Relaxant, Reptant, Retax Gorgon, Richard Easel, Robodrum, Rutherford, S>>D, Sansibar, Sbassship, SC-164, Scape One, Siak, Silicon Scally, Simulant, Skinny Puppy, Solar Chrome, Solvent, Solid Blake, Sonar Base, Sound Synthesis, Stingray313, Sync 24, Synth Alien, Syrte, T/Error, TecRoc, Terens K., Teslasonic, Thomas Kress, Textasy, Ticco Ross, Transparent Sound, UHU, Ultradyne, Umwelt, Underground Resistance, Unit Black Flight, Univac, VC-118A, VCS2600, Velocs, Versalife, Vertical67, Vessel In Distress, VLR, Voice Stealer, Volfram, Volsoc, Wee DJs, Weltwirtschaft, Will Web, Wumpscut, Xerodefx, XY0815, Zerkalo, Zeta Reticula, Zobol, Zwischenwelt, 96 Back, 240 Interceptor, and many more.