In a convergence of two of the most celebrated names in contemporary electronic music, Karsten Pflum steps out on Central Processing Unit with the Liars EP. As anyone who has followed either Pflum’s work for labels such as Worm Interface/Furthur Electronix or the Sheffield imprint’s recent run of top-quality electro joints will have expected, this coming together proves to be a match made in heaven.

What we have here is a tour de force of modern machine music. With Liars, Pflum achieves that rare feat of making something that is at once boundary-pushing yet also thrillingly immediate, his attention to detail shining through with each well-placed snare hit or leftfield structural choice. Equally apt for home listening or dancefloor deployment, Liars is a delight for heads and hedonists alike.

Constantly evolving while also cleaving to a relentless groove throughout, opener ‘WAN1’ is a brilliant scene-setter for Liars. The track slinks between sections of seething post-Drexciyan acid and eerie vignettes which balance out haunted house synth licks with the sort of punishing bass blasts that recall early grime classics like Youngstar’s ‘Pulse X’. A sly shift of key halfway through the track only serves to redouble ‘WAN1’s restless brilliance.

After ‘WAN1’, ‘LOLA’ represents something of a gear-switch. The track’s wiggly opening bassline is a red herring - make no mistake that we’re fully into braindance territory on this one, the drums skittering across the mix as Pflum fills the track out with jungle-adjacent delays and softly insistent synth pads. As ‘LOLA’ goes on, blurts of synth and some stiffening in the drum work pushes the track into pure rhythm workout territory.

First B-side ‘MOUSFOLK’ somewhat splits the difference between Liars’ A-sides. This track has ‘WAN1’s unyielding stomp and prominent acid bass line, but the helter-skelter drum breaks and wandering keyboard lines are very much pulling from ‘LOLA’s zanier energy. As with the other joints here, ‘MOUSFOLK’ is elevated by Pflum’s composerly touch, the Dane frequently throwing in new sonic tidbits - a skippy snare tattoo, a single-note synth loop which sounds like a hovering spaceship - that reinvigorate the mix.

Pflum’s musicality is at the fore once more on closer ‘BALM’. For the first section of ‘BALM’, a rich and sombre keyboard fugue, you’d be hard pressed to say whether you’re listening to a producer of club music or a contemporary classical maestro. The way Pflum builds this central motif up with deft broken-beat drum programming, a wheezing synth countermelody and distant vocal sighs is equally delightful, the whole track coming off like a kindred spirit of the electronica-infused experiments on Radiohead’s 2000 masterwork Kid A.

A brilliantly unorthodox collection of electro-braindance hybrids, Liars is a barnstorming Central Processing Unit debut from the seasoned Karsten Pflum.

RIYL: AFX, Silicon Scally, DMX Krew, Matmos

Liars

Karsten Pflum - Liars

A b2b for this month's show with French II and Tramma in the studio following the first PF event at the Love Inn last week. Loads of new music like always!

Saskia - Biophoton (Accidental Meetings)
Plebeian - Contrast (forthcoming Grid Records)
French II & Bastian Benjamin - Hive (Nerve Collect)
Kimber - Candy Kitchen (Miracle Drug Recordings)
Alan Johnson - Many faces of Tuto (forthcoming YUKU)
NVST - Monster of Business (SSPB / Seilscheibenpfeiler)
Customer Service &  Finnaman - Useless Knowledge (Control Freak Recordings)
Tammo Hesselink - Nut Wandel (Midgar Records)
Kassian - Yena (forthcoming !K7 Records)
Coralie - Barry Tubber (forthcoming Spitskool Records)
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Alan Johnson - Portal (forthcoming YUKU)
Anastasia Kristensen Irregularity (Christian Coiffure Remix) (abosrb emit)
Konduku - Ebedi (Nous'klaer Audio)
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Originaly broadcast live from Mickey Zoggs on Noods Radio 9th February 2024

Noods Radio | Positive Feedback w/ French II b2b Tramma

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Tooflez returns with their latest serving, the "Bass Control’’ remix LP, exploring the different dimensions in the multi-faceted universe of ELECTRO. 

The original cut was cooked up by label head-chef ANDI A. Once upon a lock-down, when humans had only machines for company… a Juno 1, an old Yamaha groove box, a glitchy noisy synthesizer and a cheap microphone transpired ‘Bass Control’ into space and time. 

Never intended to be released, 3diz asked Andi A. for the stems one day, and the rest is h̴i̴s̴t̴o̴r̴y̴  the f u t u r e. 

Along with 4 other unique remixes, The Detroit Electro veteran, DJ Di’jital, delivers a bass-heavy, deep dive into the underground; proving once again why no one does it like Detroit does it.

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releases May 20, 2024

Produced by Martin Mikolai

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This is the final track from my 'Hix Hax' EP, influenced by the early works of Autechre combined with a contemporary jungle, dnb, bleeps interpretation!
Enjoy listening!

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Pera Sta Ori - Hix Hax EP
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Official Release Date: 17/05/2024
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.. Pera Sta Ori returns at To Pikap Records with a 90’s rave scene inspired EP. Old school jungle vibes meet modern production skills in four tracks of furious breakbeat manipulation, pitched vocal samples and heavy bass, made up for the dance floor.

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Matching his signature melodic futurism with enduring club music structures, Pev brings the Pulse series to a natural conclusion with the Pulse Phase EP. On this third release he underlines the broader approach to tempos and styles he’s taken across this latest period of his output, soon to be coalesced into a new live set. 

If there’s been a nostalgic streak detectable amongst the crisp modernism of the Pulse series, it comes through clearer than ever in the looped-up house jack and starry-eyed techno synth hooks of ‘Pulse IX’. ‘Pulse TEN’ pares back for a lean soundsystem workout driven by a strafing arp and fractured drums while ‘Pulse XI’ revisits 90s bleep techno with a deep, dubby intention. ‘Pulse XII’ completes the picture capturing the skeletal pressure of 2-step at its most slender and deadly.

There’s never a sense of over-familiarity — the exacting angles of the drums and alien hue of the synths maintain Pev’s distinctive sound first and foremost. But this series has also been an opportunity to hear some of his musical DNA more explicitly than before, cast in universal rave motifs propelled by the unrelenting pursuit of new forms for the dance.

Peverelist - Pulse TEN

Forward-thinking sounds from across the bass spectrum from NTS WIP artist re:ni and Timedance/Ilian Tape producer Laksa. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/relax-w-reni/episodes/relax-w-reni-26th-may-2024

re:lax w/ harba 260524

'Insomnia' by FAITHLESS
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• 06/05/22: Won Tones at Romantso (ATH/ GR) w/ Pera Sta Ori,  Athens Computer Underground, Metaman, Saber Rider, Reaktiv
• 13/03: POSTPONED/ (F)ear This w/ Kocmoc, Emdy & ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ at Bord De L’eau (Thessaloniki/ GR)
• 07/03: POSTPONED/ Ninos Du Brazil w/ Jay Glass Dubs + ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ live at Temple (Athens/ GR)
• 05/03: ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ, Music Selection/ Strictly CD's Kazu(Athens/GR)
• 23/02: ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ, Strictly Vinyl-Set @Ηλεκτρον (Thessaloniki/GR)
• 26/01: Numb Capsule Records at To Pikap // Konstantinos Kouzas | Live, ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ + emdy | DJ-Sets_(Thessaloniki/GR)
• 20/12: Planet Mu Showcase | μ-Ziq, Ziur, Rian Treanor, ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ, Turbo Teeth + more at Temple (Athens/GR)

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