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.

RIYL: Jerome Hill, London Modular Alliance, Matt Whitehead

CPU Modular 1

John Shima - CPU Modular 1

@soundsoflaluna @wexrecords @glovedhands

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The debut full length album from Gloved Hands, entitled Empty Terminal, finds the musician straying from the dance floor in search of something amorphous and less tangible. Ambient in nature, the eight tracks that comprise the LP have a deep focus on texture, space, and human feelings rather than a need for constant propulsion and momentum.

The A-side, the more rhythmic and percussive of the two, is awash with vague echos and smudged, slow-moving chords. Subaqueous drums shift in and out of focus. Sound sources are at once distant and intimately close. The curtains part to reveal a glimpse of a crystalline melody or a fraction of a vocal phrase only for the room to fill with fragrant smoke and go dark. It is a place beyond the dance floor. Perhaps it's a place without any floor at all.

The B-side is even more fragile and diaphanous. The foreground and background are obscured, leaving a hazy mesh of delicate, interwoven forms and rhythms; glistening and brushing against one another in the warm, dimly-lit space in between. With a swirling mix of cavernous bass and sweet-but-never-saccharine melody, the details are stretched and abstracted into something new yet familiar. The compositions ripple in midair, appearing and vanishing, close but just out of reach.

[PREMIERE] A Pummeling Light - Gloved Hands | La Luna [2022]

Sélection de musiques mazoutées, à écouter un dimanche d'été ensoleillé.

Tracklist 🌞
Qlowski - Interlude (02-11-1975)
Bodah - Pazuzu
Pye Corner Audio - De-Hibernate
Thomas Bush - Cadence
M. Geddes Gengras & Psychic Reality - Staota Yasna
Veik - Free Rein
Dag - J.B.
Alone - Folie 2
9ms - Bobby
Juan Belda - Ytak
Raudie - 6 Helixes
Naomie Klaus - Can You Tell Me What Is Micronet?
Ostseetraum - Auf Grosser Tournee
Ignatz & de stervende honden - You Can't See Me
Basic Mind - Sicilian Slide
Brittany Dubson - Querelle
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
Camera - Reindenken/Raus
DLRM - Bogancs
Pye Corner Audio - Warmth Of The Sun
Camera - Tribal Mango
Bodah - Gennaio
Camera - Affenfaust
GLAAS - Easy Living
Slimex - Visitor

L'Oiseau Mazouté #3 · AASANA

It took over a year, but finally here's the recording of the live broadcast from our 3rd attempt to get through all the demos you sent us. This time, we were joined by special guest Telefon Tel Aviv, aka Josh Eustis, the Ghostly-signed producer whose long career in electronic music as artist, engineer, and more informs his articulate, knowledgeable, and sympathetic stance as reviewer. You can also watch the vod (until end of Oct at least) at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1610206631

Ep. 7 reviewing demos with Telefon Tel Aviv

Teinture Mère w/ ENVSRL (13.11.2022)

Funguses Sower - Pont-Levis (Novembre 2022)

@unknowncitizen3

Part 1 : Unknown Citizen

Charlotte aux Fretz invite Unknown Citizen. Unknown Citizen is one of the most promising artist of the upcoming, fearless and loud generation of artists in Zurich, bringing new impulses to the local scene. In his early stages as an artist in 2018 he, the 23-year old quickly gained recognition for his genre-bending, quick-fingered DJ-sets. His futuristic approach to dance music makes him an unmistakable character behind the decks. Inspired by labels like Analogical Force, Deep Medi, Lumbago or Puzzle Box, he created his sharp, intelligent signature sound by spicing up functional club cuts with Bass, Dub, Electro and Breakbeats.

Charlotte Aux Fretz invite Unknown Citizen

Human Disease Network présente une rétrospective des sorties du label depuis sa création.

Rinse France Podcast

Human Desease Network rétrospective 2020-2022 avec A-Sim - 20 Janvier 2023

Profondeurs - RM Estali & Solma (Février 2023)

Another episode of Dekadancing with Makropulos, another multi-genre rodeo. A tracklist full of his favorite tracks from spring 2023 only. There are no borders in genres, nor bpm. DEKADANCING on Infame Radio are mixes of carefully picked new releases.

Cortex of Light - Future Curvature [Comic Sans Records]
A-Tweed - Acryl Block
Body Logic - Unkind Cut [Maison Fauna]
Keppel x Yushh - Yuppel [Pressure Dome]
Maara - Erotics Of Betrayal [Step Ball Chain]
Sin Limites - Sin Limites (Ambien Baby Remix) [Delicate Records]
Lucas Croon - InFactory [Ediciones Villasonora]
Cosmic G - Universe Phunk [Comma Traxx]
Damian Rausch - Man On A Train [Monologues]
A-Tweed x Oltrefuturo - Ashtray Lips (Odøn Remix) [Haus Of Beats]
Gabriel Ide - The Thing [Sorry Daddy Rec.]
Pletnev - When The Job Is Done [Burnin Music Recordings]
Baraka - World of Content (Glen's Spacefunk Remix)

Dekadancing 17 - Makropulos

towLie has a penchant for unorthodox sounds and watermelons. The multiplicity of her sonic interests is reflected on the diversity of the identities she has taken to put out music: you can know her as skitungen, empfänger or sugaR, and the result never disappoints. With output in labels as Lux Records, Lena Williken's Dekmantel compilation or her most recent release with Five o’clock Traffic in CAF?, her sound is diverse and heterogeneous, from caustic to playful, always with an unique trademark.

@towLie

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webradio-communauté hétéroclite, plurielle et singulière 

Label @olga_productions
https://olgaproductions.bandcamp.com/releases

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Charlotte Aux Fretz invite Unknown Citizen

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