Mastered by Dominic Clare at Declared Sound https://declaredsound.com/

Sweetness (Back to the Dance)

May Day

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/kill-the-bill-my-spirit-is-not-for-kettling-ep

Joshua Idehen, Sons Of Kemet collaborator, and fresh from a release working with Daedelus joins forces with former alt-J Musician Gwil Sainsbury aka LOOR.

LOOR and I met on instagram. I was falling back into trance heavily so it felt so I really got into his Waters Album, and this was before I found out what he’d been doing prior. We talked about collaborating on a track, but then we ended up ranting hard about The State Of Things - it was clear we were on the same wavelength, politically,  Angry An  Feeling Numb At The Same Time. When he sent over the beats for me to choose one, I had a listen through and I knew I was gonna ask to do an EP with him. We settled very quickly on the four themes of the project: Politics, Hope, Despair, Rage

The last track I wrote was Kill The Bill.  It’d taken a few tries to nail the verse at first; I knew I wanted a punchy opener, something that set the tone and captured the emotion. I follow James O’Brien on twitter, and for a while he started the day with the line “what fresh hell is this”. And I was like, yeah, that’s it; incredulousness. 


What fresh hell
The sun fell
like a baton on the back of London town
sirens blaring

ANYWAY

Things are bad, 
the phone-lines are dead
the road is dark
 and the wolf is a cop
The devil don't rest
Is it even a protest
If your oppressor said yes
the rot is settling IN
But understand this is the Tea, 
fake lords and gentlemen
My spirit is not for kettling


Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce on March 4th 2022.

OMDD 41 - Joshua Idehen & LOOR - Kill The Bill (My Spirit is Not For Kettling) EP

1) UIUAWIO
2) Psychedelectricity

Man Power returns to Optimo Music with this splendid dance floor tested 2 tracker. He says -

“UIUAWIO is me killing time by covering Odyssey and singing into my laptop in a budget hotel in Mexico while my wife met with her lawyers next door. I think most of the best stuff people make comes in those loose moments that take place between doing everything else properly. Psychedelectricity is me writing lyrics for a fictitious song title that I read in a comic book story by Grant Morrison almost 30 years ago."

Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce on March 18th 2022.

OMDD 42 Man Power - UIUAWIO / Psychedelectricity

https://saradziri.bandcamp.com/album/close-to-home

Description c/o Boomkat -

Landing shades away from styles explored by France’s Acid Arab ensemble, Dziri’s take unpackages it along further lines into more brooding coldwave trance and new beat electro, resulting in some uniquely absorbing avenues of exploration.

Cinematic in scope, yet anchored to proper club rhythms, the eight tracks see Dziri draw on her heritage and her current position at the locus of Belgian dance music. ‘Ali Lam’ opens with night-vision pads and hints of the Arabic percussion that come into play in the full body proper, sweeping from the mid-tempo flow of chewy 303s and microtonal drones in ‘Horizons’ to the furtive spy theme acid of ‘Fille de Racaille’ , with the widescreen design of ‘State Of Existence’ recalling the coldwave feel of earlier Marie Davidson, and ‘The Nowness’ tucks it to the darkside of slow Belgian new beat, saving a real highpoint for the lustrous finale of ‘Ka Ya Makan’.

Out on Optimo Music as a digital release on March 25th 2021.

OM 49D Sara Dziri - Close To Home (album sampler)

The relationship between Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Shun begins in 2018, when the British label decamped to Tokyo to throw a party in the Japanese capital. Alongside a lineup which contained the likes of Fleck E.S.C., Shun was one of the local artists who DJed that night. Now, four years on, he links up with the Sheffield imprint in order to deliver dancefloor destruction in the form of new EP The Door.

There is some seriously tough club tackle here. Regular followers of CPU will be able to identify many of the sonic archetypes which have made the label a leader in the field of modern electro. These four tracks are backed by broken-beat machine-funk snaps in the vein of Drexciya, Jensen Interceptor and the like, and one finds a sense of dystopian futurism running through The Door which links it to other CPU drops.

However, there is also a gritty, saturated feel to these productions which marks Shun out from the pack. With their writhing, insistent bass melodies and heat-treated drum programming, opening cuts ‘Digital Slave’ and ‘Kishibi’ have plenty in common with the underground wiggle of labels like Super Rhythm Trax, while prominent use of 303s also provide these tunes with an acidic tang.

Another quality which distinguishes Shun’s vision is the inspiration he draws from anime. Track titles like ‘Kishibi’ and ‘Rohan’ are references to Kishibe Rohan, a figure from the manga ‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’ in which the names of characters and their specific techniques are drawn from musical sources. This give and take with influences outside of music is further felt in how Shun makes liberal use of keyboard melodies that nod to horror and sci-fi movies - the introduction of such synths into ‘Kishibi’ and ‘Rohan’ give The Door an almost cinematic quality which is amplified still further by the vocal snippets which flit around the mix on several tracks.

Japanese producer Shun debuts on Central Processing Unit with The Door, an EP of hard-bitten, acidic electro bangers.

RIYL: Jerome Hill, DMX Krew, Drexciya, Jensen Interceptor

The Door

Shun - The Door

TL Premiere #931 (2022.05.13) : John Shima - 011 [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 129th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by UK Producer John Shima titled ‘011’ from his forthcoming EP "CPU Modular 1" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (CPU Records).

The EP will be available on May 20, 2022 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl EP + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/cpu-modular-1

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Release Info :

John Shima - CPU Modular 1 [Central Processing Unit]

It started, as it so often does, with two old friends hanging out.

John Shima and C P Smith were joking around one evening in their home city of Sheffield. At some point, Smith challenged Shima that, if the latter could produce a record using nothing more than a small modular synth setup, then Smith would release it on his Central Processing Unit label. As heads will know, while Shima has drops on imprints like FireScope and Subwax Excursions to his name, he had never previously released anything via CPU. Shima accepted, and thus we now have his CPU debut, the four-track EP CPU Modular 1.

The specific setup that Shima worked with for these tracks was Smith’s Doepfer A-100P6 Suitcase, a small but mighty combination of modules and programmers. It’s no surprise that Shima was able to familiarise himself with the equipment in double-quick time - after all, Shima was an early adopter of the Eurorack modular format back in the day. What emerged from the CPU Modular 1 sessions was a quartet of devastatingly effective DJ tools, mid-set rollers which will get the dance moving something crazy.

Opener ‘003’ kicks the EP off as it means to go on. There’s something at once stiff-necked and buoyant about the rhythms here, all thwacking Roland tones and snares which crack like someone whipping a length of sheet metal. While the beat barrels unyieldingly onwards, the programming in the tuned modulars is more exploratory and even trippy, full of delay-laced bleeps and flighty rhythmic motifs. It comes together for a cracking mix in the vein of artists like Jerome Hill and London Modular Alliance. Second A-side cut ‘010’ is no different, the street-beat groove and grumbling low-ends underpinning all manner of modular wizardry.

CPU Modular 1 is really timeless stuff, a set of percussion-heavy, future-focussed beats which recalls Smith’s own CPU drop ‘DJ Tools Vol.1 - 808 Tracks’. ‘011’ kicks of CPU Modular 1’s second-half with a dose of Drexciyan dystopia, playing an atonal loop off of an insistent bass wiggle and neurotic hi-hats. Even when Shima tightens or slackens the modulars here, ‘011’ remains unyielding, a dose of pure ‘Wip3out’ energy that you could happily groove to all day long. The EP closes out with ‘005’, a gnarled, gurgling production which still retains the dancefloor punch of the rest of the record.

For his Central Processing Unit debut, John Shima was tasked to produce four tracks using a single small modular setup. Unsurprisingly given the pedigree of this seasoned machine-funk pro, Shima aced the assignment.

Tracklist :
1. 003
2. 010
3. 011
4. 005

Modular used : www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1013029

All tracks written and produced by John Shima.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

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CPU Modular 1

TL PREMIERE : John Shima - 011 [Central Processing Unit]

If you walk around
if you feel that something is not right
just relax and imagine you are walking in the far away worlds with these magical soundscapes and crystal drops melodies
May fairies sing for you

Wrong Uniform

The long method involves a shuffle of the feet that rocks the body back and forth. This is a style favored by fighters with long reach, who use more of jabs and straight shots. The short method sees the fighter move his head and body to the left and right, constantly slipping punches and moving in for closer body shots.

The term shadowboxing is also used in psychology, referring to the process of overcoming a negative self-image which, for example, prevents one from achieving success.

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