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

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

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": 
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https://bit.ly/VTX016-HHV
https://bit.ly/VTX016-Juno
https://bit.ly/VTX016-RedEye
https://bit.ly/VTX016-WAS
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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

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

TEARS IN RAIN 08 - VIRTUAL DREAMS W: LUISHOCK

LUISHOCK

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