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The NTS Guide To Teklife 030622

Artist: VIVAY
Name: SCIRMISH x 528hz EP
Format: Digital
Genre: Techno
Tracks: 7
Release date: 2022.06.26
Remixes: INSECT, RZVX, OGMAH, Die+Rich, B Λ N D I 
Mastering: Trust True 
Links:
VIVAY:
https://soundcloud.com/vivayyy

PURE HATE 000:
https://soundcloud.com/purehate000

INSECT:
https://soundcloud.com/insect00

RZVX:
https://soundcloud.com/rzvx_official

OGMAH:
https://soundcloud.com/ogmah666

Die+Rich:
https://soundcloud.com/dietrich666

B Λ N D I :
https://soundcloud.com/bvnditechno

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𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄| VIVAY - SCIRMISH (Original Mix)

Artist: VIVAY

Name: SCIRMISH x 528hz EP

Format: Digital

Genre: Techno

Tracks: 7

Release date: 2022.06.26

Remixes: INSECT, RZVX, OGMAH, Die+Rich, B Λ N D I 

Mastering: Trust True 


Links:

VIVAY:

https://soundcloud.com/vivayyy

PURE HATE 000:

https://soundcloud.com/purehate000

INSECT:

https://soundcloud.com/insect00

RZVX:

https://soundcloud.com/rzvx_official

OGMAH:

https://soundcloud.com/ogmah666

Die+Rich:

https://soundcloud.com/dietrich666

B Λ N D I :

https://soundcloud.com/bvnditechno

VIVAY - 528hz

What You Need

The 5th track from L-Vis 1990's Resurrection Dubs series.

L-Vis 1990 - Run With It

REWIRE

The sixth track from L-Vis 1990's Resurrection Dubs series.

L-Vis 1990 - Screw'd Up

Maelstrom returns to Central Processing Unit for the fourth time, and it's the one born Joan-Mael Péneau's lengthiest drop on the Sheffield label yet. The French artist has been a mainstay in the European electro game since the 2000s, and Malestrom brings that experience to bear on new LP The FM Tapes. He goes about this album with the assurance of a seasoned pro, combining his mastery of electro production techniques with a trademark guile to craft an expertly-paced eleven-track affair.

The first section of The FM Tapes sets out the album's stall with style and aplomb - listeners are in store for a rich feast of off-kilter machine-funk which will feature no shortage of intriguing detours. On opener 'Ondes Courtes' the mix throbs with all manner of strange electronic gristle: a distorted bass hum rattles the monitors; wisps of distortion float across the mix; eerily pretty keys wax and wane before giving way to a radar pulse.

'Ondes Courtes' is an ominous slouch of a scene-setter, and it lines things up perfectly for following cut 'Alt50ser' to lock in. This track's churning, gurgling mid-tempo rattle brings to mind the wacky insistence of Modeselektor. Maelstrom repeats the slow-fast one-two again directly afterwards - 'La Vie Sociale Des', a strange nugget that sounds like an early Eski instrumental stripped for parts and blasted into the cosmos, is an ideal prelude to the twitchy space-funk of 'My Digitone'.

Maelstrom's staying power in the electro world comes, in no small part, from his ability to apply his delightfully idiosyncratic choices to some of the genre's staple production tropes. On The FM Tapes, he marks himself out once more as a pleasingly unorthodox talent by taking tracks in unexpected directions to produce surprising - and often rather moving - results.

There are multiple cuts here which channel the more cerebral end of Richard D. James' AFX/Analord output: 'My Digitone' may be a quicksilver techno-electro number, but there's still something cinematic about the synth treatment here which softens the edges; 'Suede's minor-key oscillations bring other CPU veterans like Cygnus and Bochum Welt into view; 'Res 06', one of two Fasme collaborations on the record, is full of pathos even as the beat programming bangs and whirrs throughout.

While there's a deep emotional undercurrent to The FM Tapes, though, Maelstrom's commitment to bringing the thrills surfaces time and again. If 'Res 06' had Maelstrom and Fasme getting wistful, the album's other Fasme link-up 'Trempo' is one of the hardest club joints here, a piece of old-school Detroit energy replete with some great cascading drum production. Indeed, 'Trempo' comes in the middle of a run towards the album's end where Maelstrom takes the handbrake off - there's a wild-eyed sense of fun to 'The Operator' and 'Upside Down DX7' which has one thinking of the zany cut-and-thrust of KiNK's best work.

Maelstrom's latest drop for Sheffield's Central Processing Unit label is an album of leftfield electro numbers that bring both pounding beats and poignant production.

RIYL: KiNK, Modeselektor, Cygnus, Bochum Welt, AFX

The FM Tapes

Maelstrom - The FM Tapes

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Benga / Fis T -Rhythm of the Night Hunter (L-VIS 1990 Edit)

Janet Jackson - Go Deep (nick force re/dit)

On 12 March I am releasing a collaborative single with PHOTEK!!!

<b>You can buy the vinyl + digital at Photek's <a href="http://photek.fm/store">online store</a>.</b>

PHOTEK + PINCH
a. Acid Reign [Pinch's Dubplate Version]
aa. M25FM

Janet Jackson - Go Deep (nick force re/dit)

Nick Force