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Nog Zone w/ Brian Wenner: 7th October '25

TL Premiere #2029 (2025.10.25) : Noumen - Fate Carette [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 188th Premiere of 2025, we have a track by Noumen titled ‘Fate Carette’ from his forthcoming LP "Altum" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit.

The album will be available on November 7, 2025 in Limited edition 2 x 12" white vinyl LP + Digital. 

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

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Release Info :

Noumen - Altum

Preview here: soundcloud.com/cpurecords/noumen-altum

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.

Tracklist : 
01. Oion
02. Splitter
03. Altum
04. Telemask
05. Awe
06. Calm
07. Axis
08. Centrip
09. Fate Carette
10. Unveilness
11. Twelwind Scars
12. Far Wind
13. Spurling Sign

releases November 7, 2025

All tracks written and produced by Andriy Vezdenko.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

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Facebook : www.facebook.com/noumenmusic
Instagram : www.instagram.com/andrewnoumen
SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/noumen

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TL PREMIERE : Noumen - Fate Carette [Central Processing Unit]

Nog Zone w/ Anthony Child: 4th November '25

In a book about the Japanese tea ceremony, the author explains:

‘Great attention should be given to a tea gathering, which we can speak of as "one time, one meeting" (ichi-go, ichi-e). Even though the host and guests may see each other often socially, one day's gathering can never be repeated exactly. Viewed this way, the meeting is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.’

It is very similar with DJing. Each time it is different and distinctive. I was so happy to have this ‘once-in-a-lifetime occasion’ on Saturday at the Moon stage of Draaimolen Festival 2025. It was a wonderful opportunity to share a lot of music full of meaning and memories. My sincere thanks to all those who joined and made this gathering possible. I hope you enjoy listening to what happened.

Chris SSG

Chris SSG at Draaimolen Festival 2025

Diskonnected & Mama Snake at Dekmantel Selectors 2025

This was a mix I made for a series called 'Music for Theatre Lobbies' in December 2020. It appears the original recording is no longer online, so I am sharing it here. I really like the energy of this mix, it has a lot of beautiful music I keep returning to.  The accompanying photo is of a genkan at a temple, taken in the same month the mix was made.

Fader From Borneo - Cold Sore Adonis
Imaginary Softwoods - Almond Branch
Ulla Straus - Figgy
TALsounds - Opening
Fadi Tabbal - Cheap Triptych Photography
Hoodie - Justin
DJ Lostboi - LB 100
LOG - LOG 2
Pontiac Streator - Trizlang Gem ft. Ulla
KMRU - Degree of Change
Pétra - Tavel
Vanessa Amara - Leopards
Ali Wade - The Drowned World
Shasta Cults - Option 2
Monolake - Phaenon Ono
Perila - mag cent re
Teleplasmiste - An Unexpected Visit
Gunnar Haslam - Kampemnh
I:Cube - Mystérieuse Mangrove
Croatian Amor and Varg2TM - Bonbons
SØS Gunver Ryberg - The Presence Eurydike
Kangding Ray - Sun
Daughter Produkt - Anisotropy
Zandvoort & Uilenbal - Folk Triumfator
Faten Kanaan - The Archer
Sunhiilow - Waves of Sunlight
Mattheis - Prism1 (Tidal Fields Version)
Oqbqbo - Utsuwa
Imaginary Softwoods - North of Roswell
Nadia Khan - Port Ana
Malibu - Lost At Sea (Kelly Moran Remix)
Tongues Of Light - Unity

MTL1220

In the clear light of winter's coming
Notes collected over many years
Reappear.

Recorded at home in Tokyo, December 2025.

Light notations

This year has been a strong one for us in the studio. We’ve spent more time making music than at any other point since we began. Between the main studio and our own set-ups, we've been working flat out, and the support from you, our listeners and followers, has meant a lot. It keeps us moving and keeps the art honest. Nothing stays still, and that keeps the energy up.

This project is a continuation of our Sleep Deprivation series, and a counterpoint to our recent Loud Ambient work. It's also our way of saying thank you to everyone who has supported us so far. We want you to feel seen, especially if you are skint. We are still fans of music, and we know what it means when someone gives their time and attention. Your support this year has driven us to keep creating. It also allows us to stick to the DiY ethics, because we don’t want to deal with corporations that drain the life out of what we do.

As a thank you, we’ve made this album "pay what you want", so if you are skint, you can pay nowt.

Thank you.

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