Higher Forms EP is a musical relationship generated through online avatars. The aftermath of an online hang out between London/Moscow bridge @ricocasazza and @cpslmsk. A cybernetic alliance was formed to bring forth rhythmic etchings, transmuted from hardware, and liquified into hyperspace. An exploration into the shedding of an old world in search of a higher form. Remix duties by the very excellent @whambolam, @weith, and @detach707.

Release date: April 1st 2020
Buy here: https://dionysian-mysteries.bandcamp.com/album/higher-form-rico-casazza-cpsl-dmc010

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PREMIERE: Rico Casazza & CPSL - Longhorn [Dionysian Mysteries]

SOMEWHERE IN THE HAGUE IN A FORMER NUCLEAR BUNKER, THE ‘ONDERWERELD’ ENDEAVOUR WAS INITIATED, SOON CREATING A RENDEZVOUS FOR THE CITY’S ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE & BEYOND. WITH THE SPIRIT OF THAT MAGICAL DARK PLACE IN OUR HEARTS, WE NOW TAKE OUR SOUNDS TO THE UPPER WORLD, ONTO THE FIRST-EVER RELEASE OF OUR NEWLY BORN IMPRINT. IN THIS 30 TRACK V/A RELEASE, ‘SCHENK 1’ OFFERS AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING SONIC LANDSCAPE, KICKING OFF THE LABEL’S OUTPUT IN THE BEST WAY IMAGINABLE.

SCHENK 1

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2021 has been something of a banner year for Central Processing Unit. Less than a decade on from its first release, the Sheffield imprint brought up a century of catalogue items earlier in 2021 with Cygnus’ fittingly-titled ‘100% Dope’ EP. 

Reaching such a milestone would cause many to pause and reflect on their achievements. However, as well as taking stock, CPU has continued to drop new music at an impressive clip - Blackploid, Silicon Scally and London Modular Alliance are just a few of the cult favourites to issue new material via CPU in the past twelve months.

With FASME & Maelstrom’s Lotus 48 EP, CPU round out 2021 with yet another cracking electro collection. For the latter, this is par for the course - Maelstrom’s catalogue stretches back to the 1990s, and the one born Joan-Mael Péneau has already delivered two fine records on CPU in the past. However, Lotus 48 represents another line in the sand on account of it being Fasme’s label debut.

No matter who is at the controls, Lotus 48 carries itself with a panache which signifies that Fasme & Maelstrom are both in their element here. Many of the tracks are anchored by the sort of snapping machine-funk grooves which have become something of a calling card for CPU down the years. 

That said, as well as club-ready rhythm work, Fasme & Maelstrom also deliver some gorgeous synth textures which evoke the golden age of Boards of Canada and AFX. A-sides ‘Almond Blossom’ and ‘Ciliae’ both follow this formula fabulously well. The bass and drum programming will delight those who have enjoyed recent CPU drops from Cygnus, Silicon Scally et al, while technotronic synth pads open up hidden depths.

The title-track kicks off Lotus 48’s B-side with another sleek, slick beat. After introducing gurgling basslines and ghostly tinklings of synth, ‘Lotus 48’ soon locks into a slamming breakneck groove which is sure to send the dance into raptures. It’s an energy which carries through to closer ‘Moneres’, a joint which contrasts booming drum programming with chordal washes taken straight out of the dub-techno playbook.

Fasme & Maelstrom expertly combine machine-funk grooves with deft synth play on the Lotus 48 EP.

RIYL: Automatic Tasty, Silicon Scally, Cygnus, Splitradix

Lotus 48

Fasme & Maelstrom - Lotus 48

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Sentient State returns to Source Material following a stellar debut release via the label back in 2019. Here, the Brooklyn based artist continues his journey into the deeper regions of acid laced electro with the first in a two-part series called Sentient Machines.

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Bandcamp - bit.ly/37VeYnY
Juno - bit.ly/3lnw2pQ

PREMIERE : Sentient State - Sentient Machines

DC Promo Tracks #1379: "In The Sky (Night Moves)" by Jesse Bru is part of the release "Sea To Sky" on Oath @oathy  
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With a fleshy mix of acid and electro cuts from Sync 24, Privacy, Luke Eargoggle, Etcher and -=UHU=-, Berlin’s longstanding machine-driven music collective, Mechatronica, forcefully unites the classic and new sound on their first record release. 

A first-ever collaboration between established electro commanders Luke Eargoggle and Sync 24 opens the record in toxic floor burner fashion, followed by a cold and tightly programmed electro journey by -=UHU=-, blending the mechanic and the monotone in a comment on today’s relationship between machine and man. 

Building on strong previous releases with Lobster Theremin and Klasse Wrecks, Privacy kicks off the flip and takes the tempo down with a booming, melodic electro cut, followed by a funky acid workout by Etcher featuring his signature bubbly basslines and soothing synths.

Pressed at Record Industry. Distributed by Triple Vision.

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MTRON001: Privacy - Miss U

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Geared to dive-bomb beach volley fields and jam-packed sweatboxes with great deals of evil-minded drum programming and fast-track bass arpeggios, @hardbeachentertainment's forthcoming instalment, 'The Elevation', eases a new player into the game, going by the enigmatic name of Pyramid Of Knowledge.

Pyramid Of Knowledge - Son Of Edjo [Hard Beach Entertainment]

For this @DarkScienceElectro premiere we take a listen to a track from a recently released LP by @Conforce (aka Versalife) on @2020VisionRecordings

Versalife aka Boris Bunnik is one of the most respected producers in electro, recording for many of the truly great Dutch labels including Delsin, Clone, Rush Hour and Frustrated Funk as well as cutting edge imprints like Brokntoys, Shipwreck and Transcendent. Bunnik has toured Versalife live extensively across the world, as recently featured on Boiler Room. Bunnik now presents his debut release for 20/20 Vision as the label continues it’s path into the world of pure electronic music. 

This record is available now at all fine record shops and will release digitally on July 15th. 

Additional resources:
https://soundcloud.com/2020visionrecordings
https://soundcloud.com/conforce

Buy Here

PREMIERE: Versalife - Monospaced (20/20 Vision Recordings)

Cover by Abdul Qadim Haqq, Bubble Chamber booklet included!

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Gentrified Underground presents an interdisciplinary project
tackling the sonic fiction & afrofuturism of Drexciya. 
Thought as an extension to the Bubble Chamber exhibition happening at Mikro & UP STATE Zürich, GU releases a 2x12 vinyl compilation and a booklet with contributions by Abdul Qadim Haqq, Charlie Mills, chukwumaa, Dominiqueh White, Gentrified Underground, Maïté Chéniere and tracks by Xor Gate (Gerald Donald), Shawescape Renegade, DJ Dijital, Plant43, The Exaltics, Kuldaboli, Iko, Tom Ware, Luz1e and Sansibar.

The goal of this compilation is to showcase the reach and influence which Drexciya had through generations of electronic music producers and also link them together with compositorial predecessors from the early 80s. The musical timeline on this compilation starts from 1982 and reaches its contemporary end in 2019.

"More than twenty years after their first release, the sonic
fictions produced by Drexciya, the Detroit based electronic
duo founded by James Stinson and Gerald Donald at the
start of the 1990s, continues to enthral contemporary
cultural practitioners. By reimagining the Transatlantic
Slave Trade as a fiction of enforced mutation, the Drexciya
mythos opened, and continues to open, a speculative space
for the reimagining of the posthuman condition, and for
questions of becoming, origin and mutation in relation
to capitalism, finance and futurity." - Kodwo Eshun

The booklet contains unseen and unreleased Drexcyan drafts by Abdul Qadim Haqq, an interview between him and GU, contemporary art contributions by chukwumaa, Dominiqueh White and Maïté Chéniere and an academic essay by Charlie Mills.

D2 Sansibar - Cyberdine Systems

'Super Scratch' will be released on @Credit00Ratlife's and @EgyptianLover's 
EP 'Super Scratch' through FM Label in May. More Info: bit.ly/sprscratch

Super Scratch

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