Carl Finlow keeps on keeping on. As the world changes around him, the veteran producer continues to do what he does best - craft top-quality electro tunes which invoke the sound’s Drexciyan heyday, yet carry themselves with an assurance that is all of Finlow’s own. 

Finlow remains a prolific producer more than a quarter of a century on from his emergence. Still averaging several records a year across a variety of aliases, recent times have seen Finlow forge particularly strong links with the Central Processing Unit label. Now, after a run of EPs for the Sheffield imprint which began with 2018’s ‘Projections’, Finlow’s Silicon Scally project offers up CPU’s first drop of 2022 in the form of the ‘Field Lines’ LP. 

Silicon Scally productions have long been marked out by how they combine piston-precise beat programming with more textured synth play. ‘Field Lines’ runs with this formula to deliver some of Finlow’s most atmospheric material to date. At once shadowy and expansive, listening to ‘Field Lines’ is the aural equivalent of taking a night-time drive around some futuristic metropolis. 

The beats cruise sleekly here. Many of these burbling machine-funk numbers hover at mid-tempo, the crisp clip of their drum programming given shape and depth by all sorts of percussive tones fizzing around at the fringes of the mix. Even when ‘Field Lines’ seems to set its sights on the club - the Bunker Records-aping ‘Amino’, for instance, or the dystopian whizz-bang of ‘Static Fire’ - the tracks here strut sturdily rather than giving in to full-on freakouts.

However, from this sturdy base, Finlow moves outwards. Working with tones which range from rapid-fire machine-gun bass to keening, dawn chorus keyboard pads, Finlow leads us through the futurescape with the expertise of a seasoned guide. Cuts like ‘Submerged’ and ‘Yield’ are brilliantly cinematic, blooming from those reliable drum pulses into miniature masterpieces of nocturnal electronics. Elsewhere on ‘Field Lines’ there is a mechanical majesty to ‘Inhibitor’ and ‘Altered Domain’ which invokes the brave new worlds that Kraftwerk repeatedly conjured in their heyday.

Central Processing Unit’s first release of 2022 is ‘Field Lines’, an LP of electro-funk explorations from Carl Finlow’s Silicon Scally project which will thrill regardless of whether it’s experienced through headphones or out on the dancefloor.

RIYL: Drexciya, Kraftwerk, Cygnus, Annie Hall

Field Lines

Silicon Scally - Field Lines

Ivan

Second one for our new OYE podcast series is our good friend MEJLE. Since some year´s we are working with him now as he is always bringing the newest hotest Mechatronica stuff to our shop.

MEJLE is a DJ and co-owner of Mechatronica - the Berlin based record label and collective, founded in 2012. Mechatronica releases music from an umbrella of artists across their labels, and holds club night residencies across Berlin for the past decade. 

His rugged and dynamic approach to DJing blends with a decade-long passion for collecting music and mixing records, to produce energetic sets that surf across electro, acid, EBM, techno, breaks, jungle, chicago and detroit sounds, italo, new beat, wave and everything in between.

Tracklist:

Aquarian Motion – Beyond The Pillars Of Hercules - Voodoo Gold
Luz1e - Sensitivity ft. DALO - forthcoming Mechatronica
CYWU - Dimensional Contract - Lunar Orbiter Program
Farron - Naviar - forthcoming Savy Records
Oscean - Drivion - Tresor
Reptant - The Clique's Clack - Trust
? - forthcoming Mechatronica
D_roots - LFO´s Ride - Klakson
Tripeo - Bullshit Detector - forthcoming Cultivated Electronics
Stojche - Phobia - Infiltrate
? - forthcoming Mechatronica
Objekt - Ganzfeld - Leisure System
DJ Disrespect - Change The System - Dionysian Mysteries
The Advent - Work Dat - Electrix Records
/DL/MS/ - Cinnamon - Frustrated Funk
Moloch Horridus - Worlds Apart - Amniote Editions
Mathis Ruffing - Glazed - Translatlantic
Skee Mask - DJ Camo Bro - Ilian Tape
Hoover1 - HOOVER1-3A - Hoover
Galaxian - Hyper-Accelerating Novelty - Libertine Records
Bambounou - In Depth Beauty Routine - Fabric
Intercepts - Y01 A1 - Intercepts
Appleblim - Limbic Riddim - Sneaker Social Club

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mejle
RA: https://ra.co/dj/mejle
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/mejle_/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/mejle

Bookings: casper@mechatronicamusic.com

OYE Podcast #2 MEJLE

Artist: Motion To Strike
Track: Tangent
Release: Into Exile
Cat: HE005
Label: Human Endeavour
Release date: 5th of July 2023
Format: Digital
Pre-order: https://motiontostrike.bandcamp.com/album/into-exile

DT PREMIERE: Motion To Strike - Tangent [Human Endeavour] (2023)

Kraftwerk - It’s More Fun to Compute (Arpatronic Rework)

Production by Arpatronic 
Mixed and Mastered by Arpatronic

Original released by Kraftwerk in 1981

Kraftwerk - It's more fun to compute (Arpatronic Rework) FREE DOWNLOAD

Monger is a talented producer and label owner runs the lauded Dead Channel Records and podcast series that is based in Kentucky.  The multi-talented individual designs all visual aspects of the label and works with the production and engineering duo Keith and Kevin.

Dead Channel Records Artists: Acidic Male, Bertram, Bound By Endogamy, ccciclo, Chris Mitchell, Corps Déchiré, Cybereign, DJ ARG, DJ VST, Eindkrak, Fucking Shit Show, Hoaxes, Human Figures, Keith&Kevin, Kelan, L/F/D/M, Robert E. Livingood, LostSoundBytes, MANASYt, Memory Clap Acid, Mokre’tzy Konstruktor, Monger, Mr. Clarinet, MVQX, Ole Mic Odd, Plural, TANS, TLXCO, TX Connect, Vectorvision, ZAAX

Follow:
https://soundcloud.com/dead-channel-records
https://soundcloud.com/monger-dc

Strange But Dance Music #130: Monger

NATUR: @natur_wav
Watumusiquemaks-yos
Bandcamp: naturwav.bandcamp.com/album/natur-di…ompilation-001
Release Date: November 1st 2023
"The full-scale military invasion in Ukraine and the tense political situation in Belarus forced us to leave our homes and brought us to Poland.

Straight from Warsaw where the Covid-19 has practically destroyed the night culture in the usual sense for us we are building an underground music scene right now.

Among our releases, we curate music of completely different styles, moods and characters.

Music for an extraordinary audio experience created with high hopes for a bright future and sincere love for our craft."

Bandcamp

*PREMIERE*  Maks Yos - Forget

Bechelany(BR) - Try

Yomi One resurfaces on Sweden's When Disco Goes Wrong, with “Snaketon Acid Trax 3,” a four-track statement of raw, machine-driven soul. Built from the warm wiring of Acid House and the crooked bounce of Electro, everything is filtered through a DIY ethos that values feeling over fidelity. The label's underground spirit is palpable here – hand-drawn art and a rebellious pulse frame a record made for darkened rooms where the air is thick, and the rhythm is a physical presence. It’s less a collection of songs and more a charged fragment of night, where 303s breathe, and drums stutter with purposeful, human imperfection.

Premieres here, “Warp Time” fractures the grid entirely, plunging into a vortex of polymetric chaos and shadowy computation. Time signatures splinter as acid lines twist through corridors of textured, temporal dissonance. Here, structure is dismantled into its raw, unstable components – a deliberate rupture in the night’s flow where percussion cracks open and melody contorts. This is the EP’s moment of exposed circuitry, a bold swerve into the experimental void that reveals the daring, rhythmic science beating at the label’s core. A final bend in the signal before the tape runs out.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://whendiscogoeswrong.bandcamp.com/

Follow @yomione_official and @janne-berglund, peeps! 

PREMIERE845 // Yomi One - Warp Time (Original Mix)

Wild

Our new mix has been curated by @st_theodore. He is a musician from Voronezh, Russia, and one of the curators of the Russian Label @rawunion which is part of the post-punk / synthwave project @midnightpassage. Before he surprised the scene with his debut EP on the Italian @land-of-dance-records which was well accepted among the likes of The Hacker, Helena Hauff, and Lokier, he released numerous tracks on @neoviolence and Raw Union. St Theodoré keeps surprising with his refreshing take on music and his latest releases on @snufftrax, @hilltown-disco, @rotterdamelectronix and @craigie-knowes. 

His podcast is filled with pure EBM, acid and cold & sinister combat electro.

Includes tracks by @richardgamble, @synkronized, Ces Cadáveres, Muscle & Hate Aka Сергей Климентьев, David Vunk, @djedjotronic, @moralez, Diana Berti aka @violet-poison, @david-carretta, @naor-dayan, @gammaintelligence, @imperialblackunit, @bernardobetek. 
Enjoy the electronic body movements. 

SoundCloud: @st_theodore
 RA: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/sttheodore
 Facebook: www.facebook.com/im.st.theodore
 Instagram: www.instagram.com/st.theodore

Galactic Funk Podcast 009 - St Theodoré

Amsterdam based events company and music series