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Presenting Kronowerx EP by High Speed Precision, a certified nuke in every sense of the word. This four-tracker has enough firepower to potentially decimate a small town if fallen into the wrong hands. Thankfully, it’s ours, and we promise to only use it for good.

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Kronowerx

High Speed Precision - Kronowerx EP (GNISTAN002)

Myles Avery (@mylesavery) is a producer, sound designer, and engineer based in Los Angeles. Since his debut in 2017, Avery's work has appeared at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Performance Arcade in New Zealand, and he has continued to advance his career as a producer and writer, collaborating with artists across the indie-pop landscape, including NPR-darlings Overcoats, Valley, Mako, Wingtip, ELIO, and others - and landing various commercial placements with clients like Netflix, XBOX, Space Jam, and more.

Returning to his solo output for us, 'Aldana' is a seven-track opus, combining his compositional expertise with uncanny dancefloor sensibilities. Across the release, bliss ambiance meets lush soundscapes, hypnotic rhythms tangle with hair raising breakbeats, and modular synthesis moves in tandem with carefully considered arrangements, all combining to create a deeply personal and moving collection of music.

From the opening 'Sparks' through to closer 'Liftoff', this is music crafted in equal parts for body and mind.

Aldana

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It started, as it so often does, with two old friends hanging out. 

John Shima and C P Smith were joking around one evening in their home city of Sheffield. At some point, Smith challenged Shima that, if the latter could produce a record using nothing more than a small modular synth setup, then Smith would release it on his Central Processing Unit label. As heads will know, while Shima has drops on imprints like FireScope and Subwax Excursions to his name, he had never previously released anything via CPU. Shima accepted, and thus we now have his CPU debut, the four-track EP CPU Modular 1.

The specific setup that Shima worked with for these tracks was Smith’s Doepfer A-100P6 Suitcase, a small but mighty combination of modules and programmers. It’s no surprise that Shima was able to familiarise himself with the equipment in double-quick time - after all, Shima was an early adopter of the Eurorack modular format back in the day. What emerged from the CPU Modular 1 sessions was a quartet of devastatingly effective DJ tools, mid-set rollers which will get the dance moving something crazy.

Opener ‘003’ kicks the EP off as it means to go on. There’s something at once stiff-necked and buoyant about the rhythms here, all thwacking Roland tones and snares which crack like someone whipping a length of sheet metal. While the beat barrels unyieldingly onwards, the programming in the tuned modulars is more exploratory and even trippy, full of delay-laced bleeps and flighty rhythmic motifs. It comes together for a cracking mix in the vein of artists like Jerome Hill and London Modular Alliance. Second A-side cut ‘010’ is no different, the street-beat groove and grumbling low-ends underpinning all manner of modular wizardry.

CPU Modular 1 is really timeless stuff, a set of percussion-heavy, future-focussed beats which recalls Smith’s own CPU drop ‘DJ Tools Vol.1 - 808 Tracks’. ‘011’ kicks of CPU Modular 1’s second-half with a dose of Drexciyan dystopia, playing an atonal loop off of an insistent bass wiggle and neurotic hi-hats. Even when Shima tightens or slackens the modulars here, ‘011’ remains unyielding, a dose of pure ‘Wip3out’ energy that you could happily groove to all day long. The EP closes out with ‘005’, a gnarled, gurgling production which still retains the dancefloor punch of the rest of the record.

For his Central Processing Unit debut, John Shima was tasked to produce four tracks using a single small modular setup. Unsurprisingly given the pedigree of this seasoned machine-funk pro, Shima aced the assignment.

RIYL: Jerome Hill, London Modular Alliance, Matt Whitehead

CPU Modular 1

John Shima - CPU Modular 1

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Artist: Keita Sano
Track Title: Legacy From Leyton
Album Title: Legacy From Leyton EP
Label: Row Records
Cat#: ROW014
Release date: 21.10.2022
Format: vinyl, digital

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Keita Sano from Okayama is back on Row Records with a new 5 track EP. Reminiscent of his 'Bowl Of Water’ EP in 2015, which marked the label's first release, his latest work fits perfectly with Row’s catalog. Here, roughness meets rhythmic clarity to ignite the dancefloor.
Included is a bangin' remix by Dayzero who has just released two EPs on Zam Zam and Livity Sound.

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"Reluctancy" serves a perfect introduction to @sepehr-a calculated and crisp approach to electro; full of enveloping bass, seismic rhythm effectiveness and a sense of mischief that will charm any dancefloor willing to take a dive into the deep.

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Lost Trax - Surface Treated - Delsin Records - 139dsr

a1. De Laye
a2. Surface Treated
b1. Interstate (Halfway Home Mix)
b2. Still

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6495
https://losttrax.bandcamp.com/album/surface-treated

Unknown collective Lost Trax return for a third EP on Delsin following two previous outings since 2017. Also releasing on the likes of Tabernacle and Frustrated Funk, they deal in emotional music that comes direct from the heart and heads straight for the dance floor.

'De Laye' is a quick and slick, deep and dubby techno cut with plenty of room for the twisted bassline and busy, bristling drums. 'Surface Treated' trips you out with sci-fi sounds and electro influences that recall classic Detroit as they surge into the future and 'Interstate' then gets perfectly dreamy and far sighted, with thoughtful chords and keys drifting up top about tight, punchy drums. This most serene and sublime EP ends on 'Still', a crisp electro cut with icy keys and plenty of machine made drum funk. It makes for a most stylish and timeless collection overall.

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XMAS ACID, a hot new CD compilation involving some of A/NZ’s squelchiest dance producers.

Wait... XMAS ACID? What’s that?

True, let me explain. XMAS ACID asked some of their favourite local Melbourne electronic producers to make an acid inspired dance track, that contains as many XMAS references as they so desire. The result is this 10 track compilation that includes the bizarre, the blissful, the banging and the baffling. Guaranteed to spice up any Xmas function, should you be so bold.

The CD contains exclusive music by DJ Chrysalis, Furious Frank, Leo James, Mousse, Nice Girl, Otologic, Sleep D, Tornado Wallace and Pelvis.

Tracklist: 
1. DJ Chrisco - Century Song
2. DJ Resting Grinch Face - I Hate It
3. DJ Bon-Bon - Dek Tha Hallz
4. Silent Knight - Psylent Night
5. Sexy lil Elf - Xmas Ham Acieed
6. Battery Acid Included - 12 Days On Acid
7. Big Drummer Boi - Bang The Chimney
8. Chadstone - Slay Bells (Fashion Capital Mix)
9. The 303 Wise Men - Little Drummer Boy In Goa
10. Naughty Gurl - A Very Cooked Christmas

CDs available at Skydiver Records (Melbourne, AU) on 20/12/2019, bandcamp link soon. All profits donated to the Indigenous Community Volunteers.

XMAS ACID 001 - CD Sampler

As the Great Conjunction of Thra’s Three Suns draws ever closer, schuttle casts his sonic offerings out into this dying World in an attempt to restore balance and offer us all a chance to ascend to a
higher level of existence.
The record begins by conjuring up the 'Ritual Master'. Stuttering vocals dance over ceremonial strings; the great Unifying kick drum clears the undergrowth for a bassline so life affirming that it
could raise UrSu himself.

High Speed Precision - Kronowerx EP (GNISTAN002)

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