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

This compilation unites music from Mutant Radio’s friends and residents, with all proceeds directly supporting political prisoners, their families, and activists across different regions of Georgia. The struggle continues until every political prisoner is freed and new elections take place.

Whether on the streets, in our space, or through the airwaves, we remain firmly alongside the movement. Without true freedom, creativity is silenced, culture fades, and Mutant Radio cannot exist.

We extend our gratitude to our friends and residents for their unwavering support and for sharing their music in these challenging times for Georgia.

Special thanks to TBZ and Alex Michalski for their invaluable contribution to mastering.

Curated by: Mike Tansella Jr., Robert Bergman & Jaba Ujmajuridze
Mastered by: TBZ and Alex Michalski
Photo by: Marika Kochiashvili
Artwork: Tako Skripnichenko

Chris Mitchell - Him Research

@nighttravelonablanketshow
After two years without a solo set, Low Bat returns with a mix full of unexpected discoveries. It kicks off with Macklemore—warped, ‘fucked up,’ processed through the cheapest AI converter to be find online. Along the way, you'll hear Low Bat’s collaboration with Amsterdam-based duo eoobe, an incredible unreleased track by MR TC, a Love-Songs release on Phase Group, and a remix by Michal Turtle of nICco on Estuary Tapes and other stuffsss.

See you next week at San Francisco in Amsterdam—Low Bat will be there with us.

Credit Picture : BASSINÄ

Knekelhuis # 115 - Low Bat

Elitepop is a monthly radio show by Enfant Terrible for Intergalactic FM (IFM/CBS). A new episode is transmitted every first Monday of the month on the Cybernetic Broadcasting System channel at IFM for 1 hour from 21.00h onwards… No talking... just music!

Episode 59 was transmitted April 2025 and this episode is another dive back into obscure 80’s synthpop and post-punk…


Elitepop #59

ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΑΚΗ ΑΠΑΤΗ - monthly show looting electronic beats and pieces taken from Athenian streets

Inspired by the evolution of 90’s electronic scene Zorz has consistently set in motion his rebellious creativity by delivering unpredictable dj sets. For the past decade, he has performed at various events, clubs and festival across europe, while recently co-announced untag label. Zorz is also a Pi Electronics and Prima Materia resident and in recent years he curates creatures of the light show on Lyl Radio.

soundcloud.com/zorz 
instagram.com/zorzdj

ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΑΚΗ ΑΠΑΤΗ 029 w/ Morphs invites Zorz (27.04.25)

Eexclusive dj set by Filmmaker for my monthly radio show on Rough Radio.


NEVERHOOD #06 w/ Filmmaker

Carne Tremula - From the long-winter Torino, two maestri of the Dark-Ambient lymbs teamed up for the very first time. 
Matteo Viani (Black Seed) and Andrea Marini (SabaSaba) gather their gears and influences to craft a narrative and figurative landscape through sounds and signals. 
These 8 tracks, as sounds experimentations, have been spontaneously recorded live, then enhanced by Tioma Tchoulanov (Nze Nze) mastering, create a navigation in some shallow waters, a Path of Paladin from the darkness to the light of brighter days. 

This comes as a tape, dubbed on recycled batches, wrapped in a very exclusive collage by Andrea Marini. 

Lim edition of 70.

https://soundcloud.com/blackseedacts
https://soundcloud.com/sabasaba_music
https://soundcloud.com/teenagemenopause

PREMIERE⚡️Carne Tremula - Memoria [TeenageMenopause Records]

Lowfish Live 2001 (Remastered 2025)
Now Lounge Toronto, Canada.

This is a remastered recording of a live set I did at Now Magazine’s Lounge in Toronto in 2002. The venue was literally just up the street from my studio and home at the time, and you can tell by the length of some of my delay feedback transitions that I was pretty self-assured in the music I was making at the time (“they will love this two minutes of feedback as much as I do - I know it” :) 

My live setup at the time was centred around a Roland VS-880, TR-808, SH-101, Korg SDD-3000 delay, and a Deltalab Effectron delay, plus a mini-disc player and mixer, etc. I had no intention of maintaining momentum throughout the set it would seem and I played what I wanted. The version of Fatblex was improvised, as was the first track (the never-released “Precision Hell”).  I have just completed the remix of Solvent’s “A Panel of Experts” and finished the set with that. It's somewhat weird to play a remix of another artist in your live set, but I was (and am) super proud of how it turned out and remember wanting to hear it loud. 


Setlist:

Precision hell (never released)
No longer accepting complaints 
Fatblex (version) 
Cadmium Red  (version)
Agamemnon (version)
Theme To Parked Cars (version) 
Glued Smile 
A Panel of Experts (Lowfish remix)

Lowfish Live: Now Lounge, Toronto 2001 (remastered)

IPA [aɪ̯ pʰiː eɪ̯] podcast series // as.oo9.
Un chevalier noir @yasssa aka Le Chocolat Noir, aka Fiume this time under the NoirNoirNoir alias with some mighty electronic flair. 

Producer, vocalist and DJ from Sisak [HRV] whose broad work released on labels such New York based  @l-i-e-s and @kraftjerkz, @helena-hauff `s  @returntodisorder, Madrid based @frigio-records, Germans @shelostkontrolrecords and Gooiland Elektro, Bunker, @charloisrotterdam from the NL region. Besides collaboration with @zarkoff on @fffc (Florence Foster Fan Club) project, he`s ½ of the Black Dot duo with @allegedwitches landing releases on @italo_moderni and @murder_tbs.

His vision of clubbing was formed in the Zagreb underground parties already in the early 90s. In the music scene since the beginning of the millenium, both as DJ and music producer. As a part of Zagrebs bRave collective he's leaving his mark in the local clubbing scene. Anything wave, EBM, rarities and obscurities, he's got his name on it. 

It's an absolute pleasure having him as a guest on the podcast series, enjoy it and play it loud!


Tracklist available in our telegram channel: t.me/aipiei
Visit our socials and explore more: https://linktr.ee/aipiei

xoxo

Support the artist: @maspaventi @808-state-official @user-821602187 @galaxian @yourplanetisnext @j-a-66 @donato-dozzy @mickwills @bwanz @cygnus

Support the label: @volunar-records @muterecords @secret-mixes-fixes @syncrophone @micron-audio @returntodisorder @junk-yard-connections  @rubber-6 @ilsilenziodelrumore @l-i-e-s @naturalsciences @texasrecordingsunderground

Support the collective:
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IPA [as.oo9] w/ NoirNoirNoir

NEVERHOOD w/ Asynmetrical – [9th July 2025]

For this episode of NEVERHOOD, I invited Asynmetrical — artist, friend, and collaborator — for a set that dives deep into the raw edges of EBM, dark wave, and electro.
Expect a dark, driving selection that includes unreleased tracks from our upcoming joint projects, exclusive cuts from his label, and sounds that define his uncompromising vision.

Originally aired on Rough Radio.
Now streaming in full here.

ASYMMETRICAL: https://soundcloud.com/asymmetrical

#neverhood #asynmetrical #roughradio #ebm #darkwave #electro #undergroundsound #mixcloud #soundcloud



NEVERHOOD #08 w/ Asymmetrical

MNQ 012 /// Led Er Est / Ancien Régime 12'' ep SPLIT 2010

Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies in glossy and normal paper, it includes 2 inserts.

LIMITED EDITION LP cover on hand-made serigraphy on hard carton closed with black sealing wax for the first 50 copies.

Led Er Est - PS 18

No demos

🗓️ Mannequin Records showcases
alex@neptunemusic.net / sari@neptunemusic.net

Distro > http://www.rushhour.nl

Bandcamp http://bit.ly/NcCZYL
Beatport http://btprt.dj/1eGHvo5
Juno http://bit.ly/1hZtSIH
Boomkat http://bit.ly/MBEvCM