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Mike Golding - The Beginning EP
Delsin Records (135dsr) 

a1.	Game Of Chance
a2.	Source Codes
b1.	Semaphores	
b2.	Boosenbender	

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6231
https://delsinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-ep

Mike Golding, also known as one half of B12, debuts on Delsin. Since the early nineties he has been a key artist in shaping the sound of IDM and electronic as part of B12. Releases on Warp and their own B12 Records have become landmarks that sounds as good today as they did 25 years ago and now he steps up on Delsin under his own name with four more timeless cuts. This is his first official EP for more than a decade since the last B12 material with Steve Rutter, which itself came after a ten year hiatus, a welcome return with more to come. 

'Game Of Chance' is a bristling mix of drum grooves and tender pads that tugs at the heart strings while also making a dance floor impact. ’Source Code' is a futuristic slice of electronic with Detroit drums and spinning hi hats run through with cosmic synth lines that glisten brightly. There is a skittish energy to the IDM tinged techno of ’Semaphores', with its whirring machines and sombre synths, while closer 'Boosenbender' bumps along with impish spirits sinewy pads tying you in knots. This is avant guard machine music with a very real sense of soul.

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Mike Golding - The Beginning EP (135DSR)

James Bernard’s live recording, ‘Atwater’ demonstrated the potential beauty to emerge from the simplicity and gentle manipulation of modular synthesizers. Such a raw moment captured that day, packed full of melody and escapism, presented a perfect opportunity to invite some of our favorite musicians to remix the original material recorded in North Atwater Park.

The remix lineup was purposefully selected to highlight electronica and a genre that grew from the manipulation of the synthesizer - a new toy for many bedroom producers, that grew in commercial success and helped define a new sound in the late 90’s and early 00’s. With this in mind, we invited six producers who go some way in reflecting this approach over the years, with James Bernard’s original synthesizer recordings providing the basis of each experiment. 

Arovane opens the release, with a sweet and sharp electronic punch, followed by Christian Kleine’s guitar-hook driven take, who as many will know, were two crucial producers that helped place electronica on the map through their releases on City Centre Offices. Alongside Uwe and Christian, also representing the early pioneering years of the sound and housed by the seminal label, Warp over the years; B12’s Mike Golding, who takes James Bernard's sound to the limit across 9 minutes of additional modular manipulation.

Joining them, are three producers taking the electronica sound in new directions in recent years. James Clements, known to many under his own name or as ASC, guides us into the relatively unheard realm of his electronica-inspired Comit alias, combining the energy of his drum’n bass-led releases with the nostalgia and escapism heard amongst his ambient works. Bluetech, producing since the late 90’s and known for many approaches from psychedelic to downtempo, turns in an inspired, glistening take on the original, unearthing even more melodic moments. And lastly, Milieu, a firm favorite of ASIP's for many years now, uses nothing but the source material, to create a chugging and serene take on the original, closing out the Atwater remixes.

ASIPV014R James Bernard - Atwater (Remixes) [PREVIEW]

Colophon 'Sea of parts' Lower case life
Colophon 'Monospace' Bold monday
Mike Golding 'Boosenbender' Delsin
Entrave 'Neuron' House Plants
Entrave 'Ancient Spaceship' House Plants
Cignol 'Kingrah' Alphabet City
Lou Karsh 'Robotnik' X Kalay
Aural Imbalance 'Control Me' (RMX) Within Records
Ron's Mobile Disco 'Subconscious Threat' Seven Hills
Low Tape 'Acid Pathway' Zyntax Motor City
Jared Wilson 'Homebrew Galaxy' Detroit Dancer
Appian '2 another place' Anima
Gosub 'Take Your Time' Libertine
Luke Vibert 'I Candy' Libertine
Gilbert 'Illumination' Distorted Sensory Perception
Hower & Geizz T 'Diagraph' RKOD
Tang 'Bass Synergy' Emphasis
Gerd 'Brave New World' Frame Of Mind
Marco Bernadi 'Mystery Of Nazerus' Clone
TR One 'Sleeptown' All City
Alien Rain 'How Long Is Now' Alien Rain
Mount Palamar 'Night takes pawn' Ursa Minor
Dawl 'Sector 7g' Better Sound

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Here is my first live jam on the modular that I have been building over the last few months. Track name, "Sand Stones", recorded in one take (and only one take).
See the live performance on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr7rD2HGRu8
Here is my first live jam on the modular that I have been building over the last few months. Track name, "Sand Stones", recorded in one take (and only one take).
Patch Notes
Master Clock(s) Pamela's New Workout
Drums: Behringer RD8 being clocked by Pam
Pad: 4 Oscillators tuned together (2 x ACL and 2 x AJH Mini Mod) being played by the Metropolis (CV and Gate) and controlled by the Sinfonion.
Lead: Played by the Atlantis, going through the AJH slide module sequenced by Make Noise Pressure points (CV) controlled by the Sinfonion, but gates from the Intellijel, Steppy.
Metallic Bass: Noise Engineering Ataraxic Iteritas, through a WMD filter, played by channel 2 of Make Noise Pressure points (CV), gates from ch2 of Steppy.
Mixing via the WMD performance mixer, 6 channels out to Ableton Live for mixdown where compression and eq was added.
I hope you like it... if you are interested in more leave a comment.

Sand Stones - (Modular and Behringer RD8 Live Jam)

Who is Bit Folder? There have been whispers about the identity of Central Processing Unit's latest signing, and many theories have been presented as to who's behind the project. Some say it's a young upstart fresh on the scene, others insist that this is the work of an old head. Either way, initial investigations have proven inconclusive, and the Bit Folder project remains shrouded in mystery.

There may be a way to untangle the Bit Folder riddle through listening to the artist's new EP Silicon Frontier. There is classic early Warp in here, a dash of Rephlex too. More contemporary styles also come to mind - FireScope, the label helmed by B12's Steven Rutter, and Analogical Force are two of the imprints recalled, and Bit Folder also shares some space with fellow CPU artists Datassette, Noumen and the aforementioned B12.

What's for sure is that Silicon Frontier is a futuro-rave adventure that conjures up the brave new world hinted at by its title. Like the classic 90s techno/IDM that it channels, this record gleams with the sounds of the android future. Keyboards glisten and shimmer, their tones at once stargazing and hallucinogenic; hi-hats open and close like steam valves; synth lines move in and out of each other to create all these lovely little cells of melody. Some tracks even play with tempo itself, beats glitching or slowing down completely as if you've just dropped a dose of (electro-)soma, but Bit Folder always manages to snap them back into place just as they seem to be breaking apart. For an artist's debut release it is very deft production - but then again, could it be that we've heard from Bit Folder before?

Silicon Frontier kicks off with 'Youka', a 150-bpm IDM-techno number that squiggles and squirms like AFX in Analord mode. The title-track follows, its beautiful opening zooming out into a unique melange of wobbling bass and final-frontier keyboards. 'The Tritan Cord' pushes us further out into deep space - there's something very Drexciyan about this track, though rather than pure revivalism 'The Tritan Cord' in fact displays the kind of dense worldbuilding we see in the work of Gerald Donald and James Stinson, its dinky synth lines and whirring drums sliding and out of one another to create a cinematic dancefloor trip. Silicon Frontier closes out with 'Legs Akimbo', a speedy number that injects those same chirruping drums/synths with the playful energy of DMX Krew and Squarepusher.

Even while it channels the sounds of some of electro's most important sites - Detroit, London, CPU's native Sheffield - Bit Folder's debut EP Silicon Frontier still manages to sound fresh and new. Now, if only there was some way to discern the man behind the mask…

RIYL: B12, DMX Krew, Datassette, D'Arcangelo, James Shinra

Silicon Frontier

Bit Folder - Silicon Frontier

Mike Golding marks his first appearance on Analogical Force with an EP full of emotive and acidic electronics. A dreamy journey through fragility and the ephemeral. Simply sublime from a true master.
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PREORDER 12" GREEN MARBLE VINYL + DIGITAL: https://bit.ly/3oS7g0r
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AF035
BIT FOLDER
NOGBAD THE BAD EP 
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A1   NOGBAD THE BAD                               05:26
A2   DIGGIGEL                                     04:52
B1   GRACULOUS                                    03:52
B2   YEAH                                         04:12
B3   NOGGIN THE NOG                               04:26
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©+Ⓟ Analogical Force 2021. Copyright Control 
Written, produced and mixed by Bit Folder
Mastering by Carlos Koschitzky at Koschitzky Studio, Gijón
Design by Acid Hazel, Berlin
Distributed by Clone, Rotterdam
www.clone.nl
www.analogicalforce.com

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[AF035] BIT FOLDER 'NOGBAD THE BAD EP' [2021]

Djing since 1987, on Pirate Radio since 1988, producing music since 1989. Co founder of legendary UK Techno/Electronica record label B12 Records. As (one half of) B12. "Mike has co-produced some of the most influential UK Techno music ever made through the seminal albums on Warp Records, "Electro Soma", "Time Tourist" and later "Last Days of Silence". After a move out of the UK to Germany Mike continues to write and produce electronic music and DJ from a vast techno and funk vinyl and digital collection spanning 3 decades." Errr yeah that's me !

Sand Stones - (Modular and Behringer RD8 Live Jam)

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