this is just a loop of me messing around w/ the waldorf q, 101, and can you guess the last synth? if you can, you win my respect for eternity.

Come Play Buckyball

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

RemiX AFX

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

Brackish Beings Alternate

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Corrupted Cosmos

UK producer and long time Bass Agenda Recording's family member The Subdermic returns with a four track earth shattering assault on the senses.

One of the prime reasons The Subdermic is welcome back to the label time and time again is her tireless commitment to pushing herself and her sound, ignoring the tendency to work to a formula and staying loyally tethered to a true underground anchor of what Techno and Electro is really about.

Her work can rarely be judged by a quick skip through; her tracks are eventful and evolve, rather than simply repeat. This is powerful, creative sound to match our times - it's not meant to be comfortable, it is meant to get your synapses firing, your fists clenched, your heart pumping and your feet stomping.....and so it does.

Cat No - BA127
Mastered by Data Rebel
Artwork by 4th Genome
(c) Bass Agenda Recordings 2025 All Rights Reserved

Preview / The Subdermic - One Snap Redux / Releases 31st Oct 2025

PZ Records welcomes SVK with Elektro Karalyste — a six-track electro-acid odyssey built for smoky basements and strobe-lit dancefloors. Translating to Electro Kingdom, the EP bridges raw analog grit with a modern rhythmic pulse, channeling a sound that’s both nostalgic and forward-driven.

Rooted in the lineage of Afrika Bambaataa, The Prodigy, Westbam, and Chemical Brothers, SVK filters those early rave and breakbeat energies through tight acid grooves and Detroit-leaning electro patterns. The result is a record that nods to the past while speaking the language of the now — sharp 808s, driving basslines, and hypnotic machine funk.
From the 303-fueled charge of 303 Splitter to the spaced-out tension of Subsonic, each track carries a raw physicality, designed for movement. Remixes from Ement and Elektrotechnik extend that energy, rounding out a release that’s equally suited for peak-time sets and deeper late-night moments.

Elektro Karalyste stands as a declaration of groove and intent — a statement piece from SVK and a fitting chapter in PZ Records’ evolving underground narrative.

Preview on SoundCloud:
soundcloud.com/pz_records/pzrec012-svk-elektro-karalyste-ep-snippets

Tracklist:
SVK – 303 Splitter
SVK – Elektro Karalyste
SVK – Elektro Karalyste (Ement Remix)
SVK – Gridsnap
SVK – Subsonic
SVK – Subsonic (Elektrotechnik Remix)

Written, produced, and recorded by Vilimantas SVK in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Remix and additional production by Justas Džementas (Ement) and Elektrotechnik.
Mastering by Ben Pest.
Artwork and Design by Justas Džementas.
(P) and (C) PZ Records, Kaunas / Cologne 2025.
Available for pre-order at pzrecords.bandcamp.com.  

releases December 1, 2025

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