With ‘100% Dope’ we find Central Processing Unit bringing up their hundredth catalogue number, and you’d struggle to find a more fitting artist to ring in a century of releases for the label than Cygnus. The one born Phillip Washington has been with CPU since the very beginning, his 2012 LP ‘Newmark Phase’ representing the first record ever released on the imprint. That album’s combination of textured techno and grizzly Drexciyan electro set the tone for CPU perfectly, and it’s no surprise that Cygnus has returned to the Sheffield imprint several times down the years.

While ‘100% Dope’ is an expert demonstration of what Cygnus and CPU do, this EP also shows just how much both artist and label have grown over the past nine years. At its heart ‘100% Dope’ is a set of prime machine-funk from a master of the form, but these are also some of the most daring and innovative tracks that Cygnus has ever produced. 

Take opening cut ‘Bad RGB Controller’. In the undulating synth lines we have a ghost of grime as well as Drexciyan drive, and as such the track reminds one as much of Mr. Mitch or Last Japan as it does, say, Dopplereffekt. Furthermore, ‘Bad RGB Controller’ shifts gear around the halfway mark into a highwire electronica mode which has the wit and spark of prime Bogdan Raczynski. Entries like ‘Float Back To The Surface’ are similarly unpredictable. There's some lovely industrial techno bite to this one - the snare drum will echo in your head long after the party’s died down - but Cygnus periodically pulls out the rug from underneath us with passages of impressionistic texture that almost border on sound art. 

‘Float Back To The Surface’ is one of a trio of vocoder-led jams here. On ‘Throwing Shade’ we hear I-F and Egyptian Lover, with Cygnus’ vocals clattering around like pronouncements from some funked-out robot overlord atop hissing-piston drums. Then there’s the enticingly-titled ‘CPU Records’. ‘CPU Records’ delivers all the crisp electro snap we’ve come to expect from a record emblazoned with that signature black-and-white artwork, yet this thing is also widescreen and cinematic in ways that demonstrate the maturation of the Cygnus sound. With a wicked vocoder vocal that celebrates the label’s many achievements, ‘CPU Records’ is a victory lap tune if ever we’ve heard one.

Central Processing Unit keep it 100 on for this new EP. ‘100% Dope’ by Cygnus is CPU’s 100th catalogue number, and the Texan producer delivers on the promise of the record’s title with a collection of brilliantly unique electro joints.

RIYL: Bogdan Raczynski, Mr. Mitch, I-F, B12

100 % Dope

Cygnus - 100% Dope

Recording from Marandi 10/7/2021. Hvalfjörður, Iceland.
Design by: alexjean.design

MARANDI 2021 | XWIFE

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-permutation-manifold 

Barcelona-based production duo @permutation-music step up to deliver their second extended player on their own imprint, resulting in silky Detroit-shaped pads and downtempo electro.

Epicycles

Permutation - Manifold [Permutation]

Format: limited hand-stamped 12"
Cat: ORBITAL 104

Distributed: Under The Radar / Clone

Sound Synthesis - Orbital 104 EP

Painting / Photo: Katharina Sophia Ludewig https://www.borderlinecuts.com/

Berlin Minimal House VI - Club Mix

Forth coming on Random Moments. 
More info will follow...

Just Get On With It (Breakbeat Version)

LIES-142
Gladio-Means to Freedom lp
samples from the upcoming 7 track album
to be released May 2019

Means to Freedom

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Artist: KGIV (@israel-vines & @kit-geary)
Title: Regulatory Capture EP
Label: Eye Teeth
Catalog: Teeth-8
Formats: Vinyl & Digital
Release Date: February 24, 2020

A1 Regulatory Capture
A2 Morgan
B1 Blue Octavo

Interdimensional Transmissions’ techno sublabel Eye Teeth relaunches with a fresh series of releases featuring the solo and related works of Israel Vines — a fresh KGIV 12", an EP of remixes, and his debut LP. The triptych begins with the stellar “Regulatory Capture EP" — a collaborative effort from Vines and Chicago artist Kit Geary presenting their third release under the KGIV guise. Here we find them exploring new ways to own and expand the current style of techno and breakbeat fusion in the title track “Regulatory Capture”, while the chthonic "Morgan" twists distorted vocals and synth lines over a bass heavy foundation built to put the sound systems through their paces. "Blue Octavo" extends their evolving ideas into melodic territory, closing the EP out in a deep and refreshing fashion. Don’t sleep — this release is pure power.

Regulatory Capture EP

KGIV - Regulatory Capture EP [TEETH-8]

The subconscious cave is not an empty space in the conscious mind,

it is a bubbling space, haunted by questions and mystical activity.

“Natif” (Stalactite - in hebrew) is a seventh tracks EP by Tel-Aviv based DJ and producer MYKI.

Any substance, water drip or murmur reveals a cloak of meaning in the form of a showy echo.

a variety of ancient animals, forbidden imaginary fruits and mysterious passions sneak in at night and look for a place of refuge to rest, to sleep.

The stalactites (Natif) are amorphous juice from the bottom of the mind, they are the seeds of confusion and irrationality and they seep through cracks in the cave and produce chaos and trembling until suddenly, out of a nightmare are born proud crystals of splendor and inspiring beauty.

MYKI
Souncloud: https://soundcloud.com/myk1i
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeyhoreshmyki

Tofistock
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tofistock
Facebook: https://soundcloud.com/tofistock

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Old & new friends join the next Nebulae cosmic trip. This time we're visiting Simeis 147, a Supernova remnant located in the Milky Way, straddling the border between the constellations Auriga and Taurus.

Arctor @tomlivingstonmusic
Sound Synthesis @sound-synthesis-official
Featherstone @featherstone_adl
Zodiac Childs @zodiacchilds
MOY @moy
G-Prod @dgaugain
D&S @dennisandstephan

Release date: 05/02/2021

[NBL008] vvaa - Simeis 147

A2 51381819

I am a lover of electronic instruments and the music that can be made with them. 

My sound is an amalgamation of music that has influenced me since my childhood.

Just Get On With It (Breakbeat Version)

Junq