There is a continuum between empiricism (real world) and transcendentalism (supernatural).

Tears In Rain is a space dedicated to science fiction and its soundtracks. From the “simple” tonalities of its beginnings to the complex compositions of today, science fiction has felt comfortable with electronic music due to its futuristic connotations and its mysterious internal processes.

""Come with me""

TEARS IN RAIN - RADIO RELATIVA

An exploratory journey among the classic and forgotten compositions created by the pioneers of Science Fiction OSTs


01.John Murphy_ The Beginning
28 Days Later (2002)

02.The Arboria Institute - Insert
03.Sinoia Caves_ Run Program - Sentionauts 
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

04.The Insects_ Ad Infinitum Ad Nauseam
DEVS (2020)

05.Tyler Bates: Stars
The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008)

06.John Taverner: Mother and Child
Children of Men (2006)

07.James Newton Howard: In the Cornfield (alternate)
Signs (2002)

08.Mica Levi_ Bedroom
Under the Skin (2013)

09.Mark Hinton Stewart: You Can't Go Home
The Man From Earth (2007)

10.Michael Andrews (Ft. Gary Jules)_ Mad World
Donnie Darko (2001)

11.John Powell_ The Meteor
Evolution (2001)

12.Shane Carruth_ Aaron's Debt
Primer (2004)

13.Clint Mansell_ I'm Sam Bell
Moon (2009)

14. David Robert Mitchell_ Jay
15. David Robert Mitchell_ Detroit
It Follows (2014)

16. Interrogation / Insert
District 9 (2009)

17. Séverin Favriau_ God and Drug
18. Séverin Favriau_ Apocalypse
Titane (2021)

19.Hans Zimmer: 2049
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

20.Jóhann Jóhannsson: Death and Ashes
Mandy (2018)

21.Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury: Bunsen Burner
Ex Machina (2014)

22.Jóhann Jóhannsson: Heptapod B
Arrival (2016)

23. Joby Talbot: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxyy
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (2005)

24. John Williams: Pre-Crime Commercial
Minority Report (2002)

25. Baseline Test - We're Done!






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In recent years, Blackploid has come to be one of Central Processing Unit’s signature artists. The German producer has averaged more than a record a year for the Sheffield imprint since he first landed on CPU in 2021. This prolific run continues with Cosmic Drama, Blackploid’s second LP for the label. The album takes the baton from its predecessor Enter Universe in style, delivering twelve tracks of top-quality machine-funk that draw down from electro’s classic artists while also imbuing proceedings with a playfulness that very much gives things a signature Blackploid-ish flavour.

Cosmic Drama sets its stall out from the off. The opening run of ‘Alien’, ‘World Construction’ and ‘Virtual State’ all deliver piston-snapping beats which anchor pleasing melanges of B-movie synth lines. Alongside this, Blackploid adds little flourishes which add buoyancy to each joint - a syncopated bassline reminiscent of I-f’s late-90s classic ‘Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass’, crackling robo-voiced commands, skittering synth chords which wash across the mix and so on. It’s the work of someone completely at ease with their craft, comfortable enough to take risks without upsetting the apple cart of their sound’s core appeal.

Blackploid’s idiosyncratic approach to synth work is something which distinguishes Cosmic Drama from the pack. Electro has long been a genre which prides itself on innovation on the keys, but few producers are willing to push their sonics as far as Blackploid does - take the seasick churn of pads and processors on ‘Multiverse’, for instance, or the way John Carpenter-esque single-note lines dovetail with gurgling synthetic pulses and eerie, spacious chords on ‘The Lab’, a highlight of Cosmic Drama’s midsection.

Cosmic Drama skips along at club tempo throughout - every one of these joints will get bodies moving in dark rooms across the galaxy. However, even when tracks maintain their single-minded pursuit of machine-funk perfection, they never forget to deliver on the hooks. Blackploid has lead lines (and counter-melodies) to burn here, and each track knots them together in ever-more intriguing ways as they plough onwards. Drexciyan heads will be thrilled by the sci-fi delights of ‘Species’, for instance, while Blackploid brings melodies as cold as they are catchy on the aptly-named ‘Polar Dunes’. By the time Cosmic Drama hits upon the vroom-vrooming bassline line of closer ‘Contact’, you’re fully enthralled to the album’s combination of broken-beat heft and synthetic melodiousness.

RIYL: Drexciya, I-f, Cygnus, AFX

Cosmic Drama

Blackploid - Cosmic Drama

n space you can't hear the screams! However, the movement of celestial bodies can be translated into arithmetic and musical frequencies.This episode is an induction into hyper sleep, a journey through the past, present and future of the mind of a human being dreaming in space.

TRACKLIST:

https://radiorelativa.eu/episode/tears-in-rain-hypersleep



RR- TEARS IN RAIN 04 - HYPERSLEEP

https://funkscapes.bandcamp.com/album/eoism-live-funkscapes-011

@eoism live. 60 minutes of pure electro bliss on tape. The duo from Jena and Leipzig respectively recorded a live set with lots of unreleased and soon to be released tracks. From darker tunes to more acidic ones, always powerful and energetic. Everything skilfully generated on their Korg Electribes ESX-1 and EMX-1. Watch out for their upcoming 12" on their label Pulse Drift later this year.

funkscapes 011 | B1 Eoism - Direct Drive | Preview

This is an interstellar transmission:

No more sun.
No more soil.
Just signal...
and space.

Earth is fading…
The stars await.

R. R. TEARS IN RAIN 06: EXODUS

IGNA is a Patagonian artist based in Tenerife with a deep passion for electronic music.

Co-founder of Toscal Records alongside Santiago Ritacco, with whom he also produces under the alias Ritacco & Igna. Additionally, he is part of the duo Good Neighbors with Jaisiel [Ears On Earth] and develops his solo project under various AKAs.

He is also the co-founder and coordinator of Medianía, an open space dedicated to the development and dissemination of knowledge about electronic music production.

"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
Few sci-fi books have impacted me as much as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a story that brilliantly embraces the absurdity of the universe.
When Luishock invited me to TIR, I knew I wanted to honor this book. In this session, an AI (with a cloned voice of the original BBC narrator) will read selected excerpts, woven together with a fitting musical selection full of nods and references.

Follow him on:
@ignahq
@toscal-records
@mediania__

Full tracklist:
https://radiorelativa.eu/episode/tears-in-rain-don-t-panic-w-igna

RR - TEARS IN RAIN 05 W:IGNA - DON'T PANIC!

Fro - That's Not What I Was Built For - URBAN DISTORTIONS
RXDX - Microgravity - Bass Agenda Recordings
Anthony Rother - Emulation - Anthony Rother
Fal$e Prophet - L Eck Troh - Space Is The Place Radio
Intergalactic Noize Commander - Unit - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Krypton 81 - Telephone Operator - umx-records
Anthony Rother - Me Myself Into The Future - Anthony Rother
Gravitational Effect - Celestial Depths - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Mumm - Biological Research - STILLEBEN-RECORDS
PL_anet - Say It - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Commuter - Cooper's Dreams - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Univac - Helicon - Pinkman
Jauzas The Shining - Roman Photos - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Carl Finlow - Phalanx - Fanzine Records
Juno Lazermachine & Various - Pursuit (Fleck E.S.C remix) - Bass Agenda Recordings
Thomas Kress - Weaponized Robots - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Krypton 81 - Double-Slit Experiment - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Mum - Star - STILLEBEN-RECORDS
Deimos Defender - Son of Schael - Space Is The Place Radio
214 - Easing Into The Night - Frustrated Funk
Morphology - Water Columns - AC Records
Fleck E.S.C. - Hyde And Shrink - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Mumm - Cell Phone - STILLEBEN-RECORDS
Nessbeth - The Silence of Kindness - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Das Muster - Fern Und Nah- STILLEBEN-RECORDS
Carl Finlow - Terminus - Fanzine Records
Univac - Alamogordo Test - Pinkman
CYBEREIGN - Rew - URBAN DISTORTIONS
Sound Synthesis - Reflection Patterns - 20/20 Vision
Versalife - Instinct - Conforce
Alex Jann - Collective Paranoia - brokntoys
Lloyd Stellar - Slowly Orbiting Around The Earth - Space Is The Place Radio

Large portion of this mix is based on 2 beautiful compilations
urbandistortions.bandcamp.com/album/elec…future-iii and
spaceistheplaceradio.bandcamp.com/album/sp…vibes-va
Both of them represents Electro music perfectly!

Set 47.7

Matti Turunen - Arsia
Taken from Tharsis EP (VTX016)

Tharsis EP mid June 2025
https://soundcloud.com/vortex-traks/matti-turunen-tharsis-ep

Matti Turunen SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/mturunen
Matti Turunen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/turunen_turusta

Tharsis EP on Bandcamp:
https://vortextraks.bandcamp.com/album/tharsis-ep

Order the limited 12": 
https://bit.ly/VTX016-Bordello
https://bit.ly/VTX016-Clone
https://bit.ly/VTX016-Decks
https://bit.ly/VTX016-Deejay
https://bit.ly/VTX016-HHV
https://bit.ly/VTX016-Juno
https://bit.ly/VTX016-RedEye
https://bit.ly/VTX016-WAS
https://bit.ly/VTX016-BiitMe

Matti Turunen - Arsia

L'artiste: Mika Regards (@@mikaregards / @strangebutdancemusic)
Le mixtape: Stock 080
 L'esthétique: frenetic stitch of feverish, lawless sounds

La sélection:
Vema-Diodes - Darkness [Diodes]
Pomposo - Acid Past [Bass Agenda]
Carl Finlow - Gonk [Fanzine]
Rebel Chipset - Lines Of Data [deadbeat]
Mechanoreceptor - Moonlit Avian Glide [Connectome]
G13ck - Kiss Ma Bass [Diodes]
Spectrums Data Forces - Form 900 [New Flesh]
Liza Aikin & Monolog - Omura [Void+1]
Golden Virgo - Unlogix (6SISS remix) [Strange But Dance Music]
Lazarus - Bearing Load [Ghosttown]
Gum Takes Tooth - Waiting Game [Selvamancer]
Sorbitol Drops - Ryzec (Count remix) [Fungus]
Count - Firewall Block [Markham Road]
Syrte - Tardigrade Pomona [EC Underground]
Baka - Androids Hate Marching [Zodiak Commune]
Gum Takes Tooth - Liberte-me [Selvamancer]
Monoconda - Progression [Salon Imaginalis]
Nahash - Not Made for this World [SVBKVLT]
S.H.I.Z.U.K.A. - Guided Bomb [CHEZ.KITO.KAT]
COIDO - Final Reason [YUKU]
POL100 - No Mono [YUKU]
LDS - Stadion Progg [Tresor]
noRecall - Junkyard Cat [Erbium]

Recorded in spring 2025.

Stock 080 par Mika Regards

Still plenty of these cassettes available. Released 2023 when I found myself again. Had to delete some private tracks to upload this. https://virtualurbanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/semantic-memories

Squaring the Square

Fabio Vinuesa is an audiovisual creative, music producer, vinyl collector, and DJ based in Madrid. As one of the most active promoters of underground electronic music in Spain, he’s also the co-founder of Solid Tapes and Distrito 91 — one of the most exciting electro labels on the scene today.

“I lost count of how many times I watched Terminator as a kid — I was completely fascinated by the robot. As an adult, that fascination shifted toward the story itself: a self-aware AI that, in order to avoid being shut down, initiates a plan to wipe out humanity, triggering a full-scale war between humans and machines.”

This episode is a sonic landscape shaped around artificial intelligence and cybernetic dystopia, curated by Fabio, and includes exclusive, unreleased tracks soon to be released on D91.

Stay tuned!


TRACKLIST:

1 - Franck Kartell - Marqué par una image d’enfance (Bass Agenda)
2 - Boris Divider - You Know What I Know (Drivecom)
3 - NRSB-11 - Commodified (Intro) (Micron Audio / Dataphisyx)
4 - Anthony Rother - Replica (Monumental Mix) (Psi49Net)
5 - KafkaCtrl - Hidden Light (Distrito 91)
6 - Transpac- Speech Synthesis (Forthcoming Distrito 91)
7 - Anthony Rother - The CCM Corporation (Monumental Mix) (Psi49Net)
8 - Transpac - Panne Informatique (ER)
8 - Protocolo Sysex - God’s Network (Forthcoming Distrito 91)
9 - Der Zyklus - Biometric ID (Dataphisix)
10 - Xor Gate - Hyperbola (Tresor / GU002)
11 - Transpac - Telecom 1B (ER)
12 - Dopplereffekt - Athanatos (Leysure System)
13 - Nebenprodukt - Police Station Massacre (ER)
14 - Nebenprodukt - Chasing (ER)
15 - Arpanet - Twin Paradox (Record Makers)
16 - The Exaltics - We Don’t Take Humans (Solar One Music)
17 - Protocolo Sysex - Virtual Geometry (Part I) (Forthcoming Distrito 91)
18 - Transpac - Speech Synthesis (Computer Algorithms) (Forthcoming Distrito 91)
19 - Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata (Leysure System)
20 - Franck Kartell - Anti Submarine Warfare (Noise To Meet You)
21 - NRSB-11 - Living Wage (Micron Audio / Dataphysix)
22 - Boris Divider - Aeon (Drivecom)
23 - Boris Divider - Your Fate (Forthcoming Distrito 91)

TEARS IN RAIN 07 - RISE OF THE MACHINES  by Luishock w_FABIO VINUESA_JUNIO

Systematic

"You wake up in a borrowed dream…
a simulation within another,
code dreaming of flesh,
memories grafted in silence…
and far away, a voice:
Is this real—
or have you dreamed it a thousand times before?"

FULL TRACKLIST:
radiorelativa.eu/episode/tears-in-rain-virtual-dreams

TEARS IN RAIN 08 - VIRTUAL DREAMS W: LUISHOCK

buy here: whoispaula.bandcamp.com/album/shapeshifter

@featherstone_adl - Shapeshifter

12" Vinyl

A Side (45 RPM)
A1 - Underpass
A2 - Shapeshifter

B Side (33 RPM)
B1 - The Ascent
B2 - Departure
B3 - Morning Star


Who Is Paula WIP008

Format 12” (incl. Free DL Code)
Digital Formats (Bandcamp only)

Written & Produced: Ben Featherstone
Mastering: Dubplates & Mastering
Pressing: OBJECTS Manufacturing

Paula looked at her arms to see skin start to shimmer,
limbs stretching, shapes shifting as the weight of her old self passed like a wave.
She soared through the open window,
metamorphed, shapeless, but a sonic whole.

WIP008 - Featherstone - Shapeshifter - Snippets

ReXistenZ_Live_Allumynd_2025

Transpac - Text To Speech LP (D91013)

A1. Speech Synthesis
A2. TTS
A3. Langage Translator
A4. Synthèse Vocale
B1. Digital Voice
B2. Speech Synthesis (Computer Algorithms)
B3. Reconnaisance Vocale
B4. Phonetic Transcription
__________________________

[Data message encrypted using the X25 standard] 

Received via Minitel:

"Speech synthesis, also known as text-to-speech, is the process of converting written text into spoken
words using computer algorithms.
The goal of speech synthesis is to create a synthetic voice that sounds as natural and human-like as
possible, with the ability to convey emotions, tone and intonation."

Artist: Transpac
Title: Text To Speech LP
Catalogue: D91013
Format: 12” Vinyl – 33rpm
Mastering: Boris Divider
Artwork: Luishock
Genre: Electro / Techno
Distribution: Melting Pot
Label: DISTRITO 91 - SPAIN
Release date: September 01, 2025

RR - TEARS IN RAIN 03: IS THE END NEAR?

LUISHOCK

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