Feeding the Machines

Many thanks to Bricolage for inviting me a second time to their podcast series on Mixcloud. 
https://www.mixcloud.com/BricolageG5/bricolage-podcast-121-veelargo/
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/bricolage-g5

Tracklist:
1. Futuregrapher - Anton & Skelijar [Intellitronic Bubble]
2. Jako Jako - Amygdala [Bigamo Music]
3. Quench - Bud [N5MD]
4. Komatssu - For A Fairer World [TensalLTD]
5. Attraktta - Floe [Film]
6. Lanark Artefax - Touch Abscence [Whities]
7. Mr. Project - Less Math, More Music [!K7 records]
8. Fragile X - The Colour Of Secrets [Intellitronic Bubble]
9. Wilks - Before The World Awakes [Bricolage]
10. Plaid - African Woods [Warp]
11. Kettel - Inmate Shuffle [Analogical Force]
12. Robotiko Rejekto - Rejekto (U.S. Dub) [ZYX Records (1987)/Mecanica Records (2019]
13. Brainwaltzera - re: lapse (roll with iD) [Film]
14. Cyrk - Hidden Geometries [Science Cult]
15. Darkhorse - Eidolon [Mutoscope Records] + small excerpt from LFO - Freak [Warp]
16. Balil - Parasight [Rising High]
17. Anders Ilar - Press Charges [Touched Music]
18. Reload - Peschi [Warp]
19. Arran Trax - Bàta-Aiseig [self-release]
20. Veelargo - Myld [unreleased]
21. The Future Sound Of London - Sorrow [FSOL Digital]
22. Odalie - Battements [Mesh]
23. Autechre - Vletrmx [Warp]
24. AZ Rotator - Elunnomticom [Satellite Era]
25. Lanark Artefax - Corra Linn [Numbers]
26. Barker & Baumecker - Spur (Clark Remix) [Warp]

Cover: John Gorecki

Bricolage Podcast #121: Veelargo

Originally recorded in the Dutch towns of Ureterp and Groningen between 2003 and 2005, 'Through Friendly Waters' marks a pivotal moment in Reimer Eising’s —better known as Kettel— journey through melodic braindance and ambient electronica. With his classical training on piano and a refined sensibility for gentle electronic textures, Kettel weaves together shimmering piano motifs, warm ambient textures, playful breakbeats, and pastoral atmospheres that shimmer with emotional resonance.

First released in 2005 via his own label Sending Orbs, the album soon achieved cult status among IDM fans, celebrated for balancing playful compositional elegance with heartfelt sonic depth. TFW still remains as a timeless soundtrack that perfectly encapsulates why Kettel remains a key figure of electronic music enthusiasts two decades on.

To honour its twentieth anniversary, Lapsus Records presents 'Through Friendly Waters (20th Anniversary Edition)', marking the album’s debut on vinyl within the Perennial Series. This edition has been remastered by Alex Ferrer and redesigned by Basora, resulting in a deluxe version that also includes the tracks "Unistar" and "Toen", which were originally released only on CD by the Timothy Really label back in 2007.

· Buy link (Bandcamp): kettel.bandcamp.com/album/through-friendly-waters-20th-anniversary-edition

Written and produced by Reimer Eising. Recorded in Ureterp and Groningen 2003-2005
Remastered by Alex Ferrer.
Original artwork by Jeroen Advocaat.
Artwork update by Basora.

LPS-PS18.
www.lapsus.cat

© 2005 Sending Orbs
℗ 2025 Lapsus Records

lapsus.bandcamp.com

Buy Link (Bandcamp)

Kettel - Pinch of Peer - 2025 Remaster [LPS-PS18]

I discovered so many amazing #showerarcid related tracks lately so i had to record a new mix. I hope you enjoy this journey. Once again... a huge thanks to these artists and labels for releasing amazing music and keeping me sane :)
1, Algal Bloom - 218Ac0p6mT @ Furthur Electronix
2, D3 - Thrill @ Mighty Force
3, NimrodConDr - First Contact (ACID ORANGE MIX)
4, Roy Of The Ravers - Exit Ren8 @ Emotional Response
5, Acidulant - Romantic Behaviour
6, Microlith - Mahta (2025 Remaster) @ Analogical Force
7, MOY - Outburst @ Offen Music
8, The 89th Passenger - Hopin' It Would Save Me @ Dream Ticket
9, Uf0 - don't touch my juno
10, BufoBufo - Bittern @ Eudemonia
11, KWAKE - Cassini @ Klasse Wrecks
12, Blackploid - Universe Research @ Central Processing Unit
13, Noboot - Strfunk42
14, James Shinra - Cirrus @ Analogical Force
15, Mac Severino - Space Inbetween
16, Baalearic Goat - Submerged Romance
17, Sound Synthesis - 9669 @ WITHOLD
18, A-Sim - Cloud Burner @ Human Disease Network
19, DJ Club Sandwich - Snakes N Ladders @ Citra Lab Sounds
20, B.R.U.M.E - Mold (Voiron remix) @ Santé records

feryne - Showeracid and Cutelectro Summerhits 2025

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

Introducing Sage for the Soul, a split EP from German producer Static System and label co-robot Hardenberg. Featuring a remix from The Droid.

Opening with a depiction of a dystopian soundscape by Static System, followed by themes of electro-funk, glitchy vocals and syncopated rhythms. The Droid closes this EP with a rework of Human all too human.

https://soundcloud.com/staticsystem
https://soundcloud.com/hardenbergelectro
https://soundcloud.com/thedroiduk


Static System x Hardenberg - Sage for the Soul EP (snippets)

I've been feeling a bit salty lately. This version was included in a recent live set. 

Brackish Beings Alternate

Second Storey is the artistic vessel of Alec Storey, a Berlin-based producer whose roots trace back to Norfolk’s free-party scene — the same fertile ground that gave rise to Bloc Weekender. Emerging first as Al Tourettes with early releases on [k]rack-troni[k], he went on to record for Apple Pips, Sneaker Social Club, Aus Music, and Schmorgasbord, while building a formidable creative partnership with Appleblim. Together, the duo remixed Planetary Assault Systems, Axel Boman, Underworld, and Raudive, before launching the ALSO project. Their live debut at Space Ibiza set the tone for a string of European performances and culminated in a full-length album on R&S Records.

Second Storey’s solo trajectory is no less ambitious. Commissioned for the soundtrack to Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, he later inaugurated his Second Storey alias with the Houndstooth-released debut album Double Divide. Preceding EPs on Nervous Horizon and Austria’s Trust laid the groundwork for his second LP, Lucid Locations, a cerebral distillation of his electro-techno-funk aesthetic. The subsequent remix collection, Lucid Interpretations, featured contributions from Nastia, Radioactive Man, The Exaltics, Machine Woman, and 214. His catalog has since expanded with releases on Clone’s Frustrated Funk, Varvet, Natural Selection, Pudel Produkt, Mechatronica, and most recently, No Static Automatic.

Stylistically, Second Storey’s compass is guided by funk’s psychedelic backbone, channeled through electro, techno, IDM, UK bass, and other rhythmic mutations. Whether collaborating, remixing, or commanding the stage with live drum pad intensity, his output remains singular: elastic, unpredictable, and bursting with energy.

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Socials: 

Instagram: 
- https://www.instagram.com/second_storey

Facebook: 
- https://www.facebook.com/secondstoreymusic

X:
- https://x.com/second_storey

Soundcloud: 
- https://soundcloud.com/second_storey

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Further information: 

Discogs: 
- https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/3385326-Second-Storey

RA: 
- https://de.ra.co/dj/secondstorey

Bandcamp: 
- https://secondstorey.bandcamp.com/

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Tracklist: 

01 Second Storey - Do Everything Now (Forthcoming - Frustrated Funk)
02 Zonaris 92 - Fehlercode Z - (Data Therapy) 
03 CTRLS - Concept 5 - (Science Cult)
04 3Phaz - Exploit -  (3Phase)
05 Second Storey - Fhain Gales - (No Static Automatic)
06 Client_03 - Registration Error - (Client_03)
07 Second Storey - Viper Returns (Forthcoming - Frustrated Funk)
08 HIJINX - Aeon - (Fortune)
09 ARA-U & Ben Pest - Err Hello (No Static Automatic)
10 Surusinghe - Skit - (Steel City Dance Discs)
11 UU - B3 - (Unknown Untitled)
12 UU - A2 - (Unknown Untitled)
13 Second Storey - Ambiguous Systems - (Forthcoming - Frustrated Funk)
14 Souzo - Levit8 - (Useless Seconds)
15 Second Storey - Descend to Ascend - (Forthcoming - Frustrated Funk)
16 Manta - Unititled 1 - (Science Cult)
17 LDS - Zipp Prompt - (Tresor)
18 Hevlaran - Truss - (Fever AM)

Addicted-2-Bass / Episode 132 / Second Storey / 14.09.2025

Azurite

Tracklist:

Boris Divider - Memories Of Us
Dexter - Space Booty
RIOT - Kill The Algorithm (Instrumental)*
Larionov - Planet X
DJ-T1000 - No Victims, Only Volunteers
Electro Nation - Robot Story (Robo Voice Mix)
Dark Vector - Disidentes
Boris Divider - Content Location
UR - Fiber Optic Commando (M.O.D. Mix)
DJ MELL G - You Will Comply
Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night
Calagad 13 - Go Off
CEM3340 & 2030 - Electric Tribe
Gesloten Circle - Acid Puke
Jerome Hill - Bunker 7

*digital

"Elektro Tonight 51" Basement Issue (October 2025)

Terminal Flow

Under the influence of Emmanuel Top, Bam Bam, DJ Pierre, Phuture and many others, Chrome Beats is a Techno Acid producer from Antwerpen - Belgium, born in Wetteren a couple of years before the 70´s. At the age of 25 got his first TB 303 and experienced the Acid scene from the late 80s. His first tracks were produced using Cubase (simple notation software) a sampler, the 303 and some FX. These days most of Chrome Beats's music comes from software and once a while still uses hardware. The result of all this,  is a punchy sound making no prisoners outside the dance-floor. Infused energetic beats characteristic from his home country, merged with a Detroit feel and 303 reso tensions controlled wisely with a special magic touch in between London and Chicago.We travel safely balanced across skilled terra-formations of layered pads and bubbling pulses. Credits: All tracks Written, Programmed, Sequenced, Produced and Mixed by Chrome Beats in Antwerpen.

