‘Inside The Microbeat’ is the long-awaited debut album by Sync 24. 

London’s Phil Bolland, known as Sync 24 has been flying the electro flag for over two decades via his popular Scand parties and beloved Cultivated Electronics label which he launched in 2007 as a direct response to the dwindling electro scene in the UK at the time. The label has gone on to feature many of his own releases, his collaborations with the likes of Silicon Scally (Carl Finlow), DMX Krew (they collaborate as MMT-8), The Exaltics and Morphology as well as playing host to many of electro’s leading lights, eventually becoming instrumental to the scene’s resurgence in more recent years.  

Now it’s time to turn the spotlight firmly on his solo work. Across it’s eleven tracks ‘Inside The Microbeat’ is not just a collection of 12”s although tracks like the album’s name sake, ‘Oriental Sunset’, ‘Drunk on Delays’ and ‘Lightwire’ are firmly primed for the dance floor, there’s also more experimental beat-work like ‘Inspired Law’ and ‘Sluper Smashed’, or retro electronica like ‘Haunt Times’ and ‘Spatial Racing’, as Bolland drives you through his own intimately constructed landscape.

 The limited-edition version of the record is pressed on triple colour vinyl and comes in a gatefold sleeve, with a 12-inch original canvas print taken from a section of the artwork and hand-finished by Will Barras. Packaged in a high-quality tote bag exclusive to the album bundle.

  Will Barras is an award-winning animation director based in London. Alongside his moving image work, he has gained massive recognition as one of a new crop of artists associated with Bristol's renowned street art scene. He was also a founding member of the famously progressive Scrawl Collection and exhibits his paintings and illustrations worldwide with his original artwork selling from £1000 - £5000.   

“I have been a huge fan of Will's work for a long time, so I was really pleased to get the chance to collaborate with him on this album project. Will and I worked on the concept of ‘Inside The Microbeat’ together, creating a technological spaceship-like tunnel made from synthesisers, drum machines, and wires that fade into the distance. We wanted these to be two original pieces that could be used as the sleeve artwork for the record. The idea was to create one image for the outside of the record and a second image for the limited edition gatefold version. Each of the limited edition packages will include a piece of original artwork hand-finished by Will making each one unique.” - Sync 24

Colour 3x12", Canvas, Tote Bage (Bandcamp) - bit.ly/39nZSol
Black 3x12" (clone) -  bit.ly/3EyGvaj

ALL TRACKS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY SYNC 24 (PHIL BOLLAND)  
ALL TRACKS WRITTEN AT DEVON ANALOG STUDIOS
 MASTERED BY MATT COLTON AT METROPOLIS STUDIOS
 VINYL DISTRIBUTION BY CLONE 
PRESS BY EPMMUSIC 
ARTWORK BY WILL BARRAS
DESIGN BY GEOMETRIC LOVE

Inside The Microbeat

03.11.2021

CE040 - Sync 24 - Inside The Microbeat

Seasoned heads may already be aware of dynArec. The project of one Chris Kalera, dynArec has been a force in the electro underground for more than two decades at this point, releasing numerous records and helming the Vaporwave label to boot. He has marked himself out as a purveyor of top-quality machine-funk during his career, a producer who runs with the spirit of Detroit to craft club traxx of wicked intensity.

After a period of relative quiet in the late 2010s, Kalera has roared back into action recently, with a run of releases emerging in 2021 and 2022 across labels including Cultivated Electronics, Superluminal and Umwelt’s New Flesh. Now the Vaporwave Records founder takes his Central Processing Unit bow with the Force In The Sum EP, and his hard-hitting electro style is immediately at home on the Sheffield imprint.

Force In The Sum commences with ‘A Dispatching Role’, a track where eerie vocal snippets and delay-drenched anti-melodies cluster around a volatile low-end wobble and crisp 808 snap. It’s equal-parts ominous and invigorating, kind of like the Thom Yorke of ‘Kid A’ times if he’d been granted an audience with Gerald Donald. ‘A Dispatching Role’ is prime slalom music, and the mood carries through to following cut ‘Stabilized’. After a stentorian opening of unerring kick drums and fizzing keys, ‘Stabilized’ soon blooms into a retro-futurist robo-electro joint which comes off like a more textured iteration of Unit Moebius.

Things open up a little more on first B-side ‘Canonical Form’ - at least, they do before the track’s pretty opening flushes are interrupted by a vicious blurting bassline reminiscent of, say, Jensen Interceptor. There are no broken beats here, the track’s unyielding four-on-the-floor thud pushing the joint a little more towards techno mode than the A-side jams. This straight beat remains on Force In The Sum closer ‘Classification Of Elements’, with sputtering hi-hats playing off the groovy pings of the synths to devilishly danceable effect. Slip-sliding saw sounds and spine-tingling, almost ‘X-Files’-esque lead lines enter to up the ante, but the mood shifts after dynArec starts to lace lush chordal stabs and delay-drenched modular runs through the track. All the while, a voice repeats the mantra “what matters is the sound” - and who could deny the truth in this statement?

dynArec’s prolific recent run continues with the four track Central Processing Unit debut Force In The Sum. Tense, expansive and worldbuilding, this is wickedly danceable electro done right. Truly, what matters is the sound.

RIYL: Jensen Interceptor, Cardopusher, Cygnus, Silicon Scally

dynArec - Force In The Sum

Amersfoort based electro youngster audt98 makes his debut on Discos Atónicos with his EP ‘Ionic Bonds’.
These three banging electro tracks that are gritty, hypnotic and dance floor ready in which he beautifully translates the ways of nature into music. Topping it off with a remix from electro veteran Fastgraph this is bound to be a ride! Enjoy it!

TRACKLIST:                                                                                                        
A1 - Copper Cables                                                                                           
A2 - Portal Opening Procedures                                                                   
B1 - Trees Talk (audt98 Acid Mix)                                                               
B2 - Tress Talk (Fastgraph TTS Mix)

Release Date: 
Vinyl & Digital - 29th July

Mastering at @Spaventi
Artwork by @SusanDrone

Ionic Bonds

BUY IT HERE

OUT NOW ! [DATO10] AUDT98 - IONIC BONDS EP (INC. FASTGRAPH RMX)

STOP / START EP

In 2024, Eivydas K, hailing from the underground scene of Vilnius, Lithuania, drops his debut EP on Sons Of Traders. Known for his gritty and unpolished sound, he's a member of Digital Tsunami crew and a familiar voice on Radio Vilnius with his Eternal Sunshine show. This release is a raw, unfiltered foray into techno and electro, mirroring his no-frills approach to music and life.
credits
releases February 2, 2024

Design - Jogaila Jurgelis
Picture Video - Edvardas Volginas
Mastering - Matt Parent
Released By Sons Of Traders Records 2024
all rights reserved

B2 - Eivydas K - Abyss (Sons Of Traders)

Out now: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/voyager-1-w-luz1e-poly-chain-remixes

More tracks from the EP: soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/sets/viikatory-voyager-1-mtron038

Viikatory debuts on Mechatronica with an intergalactic set of electro explorations, backed by Poly Chain and LUZ1E remixes 🛰️🫧

@viikatory

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Voyager-1

[ Buy on Bandcamp ]

Viikatory - Universe [MTRON038]

The next release on Ara-u’s No Static / Automatic comes from Konerytmi aka Kiril Junolainen. The Konerytmi project began in 2020 combining electro, techno and acid sounds with a gliding and clean-edged production aesthetic. On Moottoritie EP he channels in the energy and flow of traversing the speed-limitless autobahn while giving a cool nod to the aesthetic of Scandinavian electro sounds a la Stilleben Records.

Konerytmi - Moottoritie (NSA009)

It started as a fun project and ended very seriously and dark. I loved composing it and morphing the German Intro of One Piece into a dark downtempo track.
Hope you like it! <3

König (One Piece Dark Downtempo rmx)

Lyrics<
We are the fire they couldn’t burn 
We are the voices they couldn’t turn 

Magic rising from the deep 
This is our time, now hear us speak 

Feel the power in my hands 
Ancient voices take their stand 

Time is shifting, can’t rewind 
Now the world is yours and mine 


Yours & Mine (Extended Mix)

Digital EP available now >> mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/mindscapes-ep

Check out other tracks from the release >>

https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/datawave-aetheria-mtrond005
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/datawave-catalyse-mtrond005
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/datawave-ixoran-mtrond005

Datawave whips up a dazzling, versatile electro EP for the fifth release in our digital series. 

On the Mindscapes EP, the new Belgian electro producer meshes an arsenal of crisp synths, sticky basslines, winks of acid and an already glaring ability to build groove and ambience, into a colorful ride through the cosmos - inward or outward, for the mind and the floor.

Other shop links >>
beatport.com/release/mindscapes-ep/2335613
junodownload.com/products/datawave-mindscapes-ep/3848550-02/

Datawave - Stratoforms [MTROND005]

Mutant Beat Dance- Sketch III

INFO: https://www.clubbingspain.com/noticias/2020/zobol-protagoniza-la-nueva-referencia-de-noise-to-meet-you.html

[N2MU005] Silver Lining of A Rain Cloud

Nimbostratus

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