Saint Petersburg-based Kuzma Palkin returns to GOST Zvuk with a new series, Memont. GOST has been expanding its presence for several years through sublabels Instrument and Archive, as well as releases from GOST family members on their own labels. Flaty's experiments can be found on the ANWO label, while OL has issued a number of releases through Asyncro. For Palkin, Memont represents a return to his roots. The artwork for the first release, stadion sever, features the original packaging of Moment universal superglue, something that will be familiar to every Russian who lived through the 1990s. The album is named after the eponymous stadium in Palkin's hometown of Severodvinsk, which is displayed on the back cover. Sever represented a kind of playing field in childhood, but has now come to stand in as a metaphor for daily life. The visual landscape of modern Russian life points back to Sever.

Musically, stadion sever is also a return to Palkin's roots. The echoes of early IDM that kickstarted his career in the beginning of the 2000s are on display here. While the music is thoughtful and attentive to detail, traces of irony can be identified among the seriousness, not least in the title of the series and the track synth1 power user. The same ironic touch makes its mark on the album's sound. Palkin borrows the recognizable textures of club music, but drastically modifies their context and transforms them into something altogether more thought-provoking and inscrutable. Palkin's unique sound and the beauty of his music can be found in the balance between retrospection and looking ahead, where austerity meets humour. 

MEM01: Kuzma Palkin "Stadion Sever"

Side 1
A1: Intro
A2: Smut Agenda
A3: Reliable Clay
A4: Stadion Sever

Side  2
B1: Synth1 Power User
B2: Memory Clot
B3: Lahta Continuum
B4: Outro 

produced by Kuzma Palkin
mastering by Flaty
artwork by Kuzma Palkin
executive producer Ildar Zaynetdinov

12" LP, full colour print
June 25, 2021, Russian Federation.
© «ГОСТ ЗВУК»

MEM01: Kuzma Palkin "Stadion Sever"

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London-based producer Kincaid heads to Grid Records for the label's sixth release.

Having previously released on Banoffee Pies Records, Well Street Records and Accidental Meetings, Kincaid has clearly demonstrated a penchant for intricate sound design. Seeped in emotion, all the tracks were written within a week in February last year, deep in a lockdown. “It was a particularly difficult time for me, and the record reflects that, each track representing a catharsis with different issues". 

Ahead of the release in two weeks we have the exclusive stream of 'Stretching Distance', a track which floats in and out of focus of natural textures and organic soundscapes, whirring in blissful ambience. 

'More Good Than Bad' by Kincaid will be released via Grid Records on the 29th April - pre-order here: https://gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/more-good-than-bad-ep

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More Good Than Bad EP

Premiere: Kincaid - Stretching Distance [Grid Records]

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MAGIC020 - @bliss_inc "Mind 2 Mind" in stores 12/05/23

preorder from IoAT - https://instituteofadvancedthinking.net/product/bliss-inc-mind-2-mind
 
bandcamp - https://magicwire.bandcamp.com/album/mind-2-mind

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MAGIC020 - Bliss inc. "Mind 2 Mind"

Whence comes such light of the Mind?

MAGIC020 - "Mind 2 Mind" EP in stores 12/05/23 

Preorder from IoAT - https://instituteofadvancedthinking.net/product/bliss-inc-mind-2-mind-pre-order/

Bandcamp - magicwire.bandcamp.com/album/mind-2-mind

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TL Premiere #1563 (2024.03.22) : Karsten Pflum - BALM [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 93rd Premiere of 2024, we have a track by Danish DJ/Producer "Karsten Pflum" (@karsten-von-pflum) titled ‘BALM’ from his forthcoming EP "Liars" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (@cpurecords).

The EP will be available on April 5, 2024 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://centralprocessingunit.bandcamp.com/album/liars

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Release Info :

Karsten Pflum - Liars [Central Processing Unit]

Preview here: soundcloud.com/cpurecords/karsten-pflum-liars

In a convergence of two of the most celebrated names in contemporary electronic music, Karsten Pflum steps out on Central Processing Unit with the Liars EP. As anyone who has followed either Pflum’s work for labels such as Worm Interface/Furthur Electronix or the Sheffield imprint’s recent run of top-quality electro joints will have expected, this coming together proves to be a match made in heaven.

What we have here is a tour de force of modern machine music. With Liars, Pflum achieves that rare feat of making something that is at once boundary-pushing yet also thrillingly immediate, his attention to detail shining through with each well-placed snare hit or leftfield structural choice. Equally apt for home listening or dancefloor deployment, Liars is a delight for heads and hedonists alike.

Constantly evolving while also cleaving to a relentless groove throughout, opener ‘WAN1’ is a brilliant scene-setter for Liars. The track slinks between sections of seething post-Drexciyan acid and eerie vignettes which balance out haunted house synth licks with the sort of punishing bass blasts that recall early grime classics like Youngstar’s ‘Pulse X’. A sly shift of key halfway through the track only serves to redouble ‘WAN1’s restless brilliance. 

After ‘WAN1’, ‘LOLA’ represents something of a gear-switch. The track’s wiggly opening bassline is a red herring - make no mistake that we’re fully into braindance territory on this one, the drums skittering across the mix as Pflum fills the track out with jungle-adjacent delays and softly insistent synth pads. As ‘LOLA’ goes on, blurts of synth and some stiffening in the drum work pushes the track into pure rhythm workout territory.

First B-side ‘MOUSFOLK’ somewhat splits the difference between Liars’ A-sides. This track has ‘WAN1’s unyielding stomp and prominent acid bass line, but the helter-skelter drum breaks and wandering keyboard lines are very much pulling from ‘LOLA’s zanier energy. As with the other joints here, ‘MOUSFOLK’ is elevated by Pflum’s composerly touch, the Dane frequently throwing in new sonic tidbits - a skippy snare tattoo, a single-note synth loop which sounds like a hovering spaceship - that reinvigorate the mix. 

Pflum’s musicality is at the fore once more on closer ‘BALM’. For the first section of ‘BALM’, a rich and sombre keyboard fugue, you’d be hard pressed to say whether you’re listening to a producer of club music or a contemporary classical maestro. The way Pflum builds this central motif up with deft broken-beat drum programming, a wheezing synth countermelody and distant vocal sighs is equally delightful, the whole track coming off like a kindred spirit of the electronica-infused experiments on Radiohead’s 2000 masterwork Kid A. 

A brilliantly unorthodox collection of electro-braindance hybrids, Liars is a barnstorming Central Processing Unit debut from the seasoned Karsten Pflum. 

RIYL: AFX, Silicon Scally, DMX Krew, Matmos

Tracklist :
1. WAN1
2. LOLA
3. MOUSFOLK
4. BALM

releases April 5, 2024

All tracks written and produced by Jacob Helverskov Madsen.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

Liars

BALM

TL PREMIERE : Karsten Pflum - BALM [Central Processing Unit]

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~ Tracklist ~

Claudio PRC - Unda Part 1
LF58 - Metamorfosi
JQ - Everyday Is Like A Second Chance
Erik Wöllo - The Near Future
Valentino Mora - Mass Frequenz
Christina Chatfield - Nameless Islet
Martin Goodwin - Eclosion Pt.5
Aspetuck - Zoom Deck
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - First Flight
RQ - Union Of Spheres
Andy Nicholson - A Strangely Beautiful Interior
Barefoot - Becoming Somone Else (Inhmost Altered Remix)
Jarguna & Uzbazur - Enlightenment
Vida Voice - Show Me Beauty
The Fully Automatic Model - The Fold Of Origami
Launaea - Vision I
Rod Modell - Side D
Kuniyuki - Into Small Hands

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I’m really happy to share the next Deep Mind Music today, from my friend Adam Pits. A calming and serene entry, listening to this mix feels like floating on your back in a cool lake on a hot day. A quenching refreshment for a frazzled mind 🩵

The mix wanders gently through slowly morphing landscapes. The soft twitter of birdsong brings us to a dusk dappled forest, warm drones coaxing us further inwards in a lackadaisical swirl. Toward the end of the mix we are uplifted by luminescent arpeggios which draw rainbow trails through the sky above 🍃☀️🌿

I sense in Adam’s selections and musical approach a shared sensitivity to the innate emotive undertones of music, as well as sounds which have an inherent depth and vitality to them. I hope you enjoy listening to this meditative mix as much as I have 🪶

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Downloads Enabled ~

Deep Mind Music

Adam Pits ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.31

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Sebastian Mullaert has always favoured the long arc: of tracks, of creative cycles, of artistic trust. His next chapter unfolds in the form of a new vinyl only label, born in close collaboration with Ulf Eriksson — his longtime friend, ally and the steady pulse behind Kontra Musik, a label that’s been both home and launchpad for many of Mullaert’s most vital releases.

K-Files is built on two foundations: singularity and multiplicity. Every release will present a single track refracted through three or four different versions — each one approaching the core idea from a distinct creative angle. These are tools not just for DJs, but for listeners who hear dance music as more than just rhythm — as mood, as exploration, as transformation.

The first release, KFILE 001, sets the tone: deep, dubby, and spacious, it invites patience and immersion. But like all good rituals, the process will shift. Future releases are already poised to explore other territories: sharper energies, stranger grooves, unexpected colours.

In an world increasingly defined by instant access and digital saturation, K-Files stands
intentionally apart — a slower offering. A return to physicality, to process, to the tactile rituals of listening, selecting, and playing music with care.

K-Files is a sublabel for those who play records not just to move bodies, but to open space. A
platform for sonic evolution, variation, and perspective. A place where dance music is not pinned down — but opened up.

Each record will be released exclusively on vinyl.


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