German electro producer Martin Matiske has recently breathed new life into his Blackploid alias. The project’s revival continues to bear fruit with the Strange Stars EP, Matiske’s third Blackploid release of 2021 and second for Central Processing Unit after issuing March’s Cosmic Traveler EP through the Sheffield label.

Blackploid’s two CPU drops have more in common than just stargazing titles. Those who enjoyed Cosmic Traveler will find plenty to like again in these four tracks, with Matiske serving up another quartet of snappy machine-funk joints this time around. However, while there is certainly a throughline between Cosmic Traveler and Strange Stars, this EP also finds Blackploid pushing the envelope at points by taking risks with his synth tones which thrill and enliven the record.

In keeping with the cosmic theme of Blackploid’s recent output, Strange Stars kicks off with ‘Star Patrol’. While this opening cut is full of the same needle-gun basslines and dinky synths that characterised Cosmic Traveler, the drum programming eschews the broken beats favoured by many in the scene for a straight house/techno snap. It makes for a very groovy jam, one with Drexciya, Computer World-era Kraftwerk and a pinch of Space Dimension Controller in its mix.

Indeed, the only track on Strange Stars which skips along on a broken beat is second entry ‘The Signal’. ‘The Signal’ also features some of Blackploid’s most impressive electronics programming to date, announcing itself with a brilliantly unusual synth that sounds like an old video game unit which has just gained sentience. When this alien tone is combined with another precision-engineered bassline the track invokes the grizzly bangers of the L.I.E.S. label, though the keyboard stabs which enter periodically also hint to the funkier electro of, say, Egyptian Lover.

‘The Unseen’, the first B-side of Strange Stars, finds Blackploid bringing together many of the things which made the two previous tunes such standouts. A steady four-on-the-floor and a slightly haunted feel to the synth choices casts back to ‘Star Patrol’, but much like ‘The Signal’ this joint also features some rather weird tones which are a hair’s breadth away from machine malfunction. It’s a feeling which runs through to closing cut ‘Light Corridor’, a number where melodies and anti-melodies zip around an array of gurgling electronic cells.

Martin Matiske’s fine run of Blackploid EPs continues with the intergalactic electro stylings of Strange Stars.

RIYL: Drexciya, Cardopusher, Legowelt, Beau Wanzer, Jensen Interceptor

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Music beamed through Dimensional Waves by Abstract Thought. 

3 unnamed Abstract Thoughts taken from the original project tapes from 2003, recorded around the same time as the wellknown full length album release.
Sonic expressions that will need your own interpretation to lead to a reality-oriented conclusion.

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Two years after debuting on Central Processing Unit with the acclaimed Aftrmth EP, Nullptr returns to the Sheffield label for the release of new full-length album Future World. Nullptr has created a set of perpetual-motion marvels here, wind-’em-up-and-watch-’em-go electro tunes in which synth lines and 808s weave dexterously in and out of one another to form these lovely interlocking patterns.

Many of the tracks on Future World are anchored by needlegun grooves in the Drexciyan mode. The album’s opening number ‘Arrowhead’, an eerie dystopian-electro take, sets the scene in this regard, and cuts like ‘Cytron’ and ‘Phantom Cell’ also have a rugged bump to their low-end - particularly the latter, which features a deliciously nasty bassline drop about halfway in.

While busybody drum programming persists throughout the album, Nullptr’s fondness for washed-out pads means that Future World also provides the listener with space for contemplation. Third track ‘Sweet Luna’ may be robust enough to do damage on the dancefloor, but its deep chords and relatively muted bassline also push it in the direction of 90s electronica and IDM-techno. ‘Sweet Luna’ opens the door for many of the subsequent numbers to balance driving beats with wistful textures, and while electro remains Future World’s core style the harsh sound of machine-funk is softened throughout by these warm synth tones.

Rather than playing it safe within the genre’s familiar confines, Nullptr instead uses electro as a base from which to incorporate other sounds throughout Future World. ‘Wave Cannon’s bleep-bloop modulars and twittering hi-hats are pure robo-funk, but the track’s jumpy bassline shows off a sense of adventure derived from braindance. There is also the ghost of a breakbeat in Nullptr’s snare programming here, something which lurks in the back of ‘Arvanche’ later in the tracklisting. Meanwhile the uptempo ‘Bit Device’ pushes through to the ruminative techno of Virginia’s early Ostgut Ton releases.

Nullptr throws us another curveball in Future World’s home straight. The album’s title-track closes the record out, and it’s a cut which takes us deeper than anything that’s come previously. Here Nullptr both lowers the tempo and also does away with drums, leaving the listener with little more than some hanging-garden synth pads and pregnant bassline. It proves to be a hugely atmospheric coda for this delightful album.

RIYL: Jensen Interceptor, Assembler Code, The Exaltics, Drexciya

A1 - Arrowhead 5:08
A2 - Wave Cannon 5:23
B1 - Sweet Luna 4:38
B2 - Bit Device 4:03
B3 - Cytron 3:39
C1 - Phantom Cell 5:46
C2 - Arvanche 5:22
D1 - Hakusan 4:08
D2 - Chiron 5:00
D3 - Future World 4:09

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Label started by Anil Lal, Jay Lal and (Majkel Graphic Designer.) Set to release acid based electronix on limited pressings of 200.

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