In recent years, Blackploid has come to be one of Central Processing Unit’s signature artists. The German producer has averaged more than a record a year for the Sheffield imprint since he first landed on CPU in 2021. This prolific run continues with Cosmic Drama, Blackploid’s second LP for the label. The album takes the baton from its predecessor Enter Universe in style, delivering twelve tracks of top-quality machine-funk that draw down from electro’s classic artists while also imbuing proceedings with a playfulness that very much gives things a signature Blackploid-ish flavour.

Cosmic Drama sets its stall out from the off. The opening run of ‘Alien’, ‘World Construction’ and ‘Virtual State’ all deliver piston-snapping beats which anchor pleasing melanges of B-movie synth lines. Alongside this, Blackploid adds little flourishes which add buoyancy to each joint - a syncopated bassline reminiscent of I-f’s late-90s classic ‘Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass’, crackling robo-voiced commands, skittering synth chords which wash across the mix and so on. It’s the work of someone completely at ease with their craft, comfortable enough to take risks without upsetting the apple cart of their sound’s core appeal.

Blackploid’s idiosyncratic approach to synth work is something which distinguishes Cosmic Drama from the pack. Electro has long been a genre which prides itself on innovation on the keys, but few producers are willing to push their sonics as far as Blackploid does - take the seasick churn of pads and processors on ‘Multiverse’, for instance, or the way John Carpenter-esque single-note lines dovetail with gurgling synthetic pulses and eerie, spacious chords on ‘The Lab’, a highlight of Cosmic Drama’s midsection.

Cosmic Drama skips along at club tempo throughout - every one of these joints will get bodies moving in dark rooms across the galaxy. However, even when tracks maintain their single-minded pursuit of machine-funk perfection, they never forget to deliver on the hooks. Blackploid has lead lines (and counter-melodies) to burn here, and each track knots them together in ever-more intriguing ways as they plough onwards. Drexciyan heads will be thrilled by the sci-fi delights of ‘Species’, for instance, while Blackploid brings melodies as cold as they are catchy on the aptly-named ‘Polar Dunes’. By the time Cosmic Drama hits upon the vroom-vrooming bassline line of closer ‘Contact’, you’re fully enthralled to the album’s combination of broken-beat heft and synthetic melodiousness.

RIYL: Drexciya, I-f, Cygnus, AFX

Cosmic Drama

Blackploid - Cosmic Drama

It's No Consolation

Mike Tansella Jr. is a Berlin-based DJ originally from Bari, South Italy. Class Of 1984. Sons Of Traders Boss and Co-founder His mix style is a blend of the House school of Chicago, Detroit, New York, with experimental sound and no waves displaying always eclectic taste without compromises.

HERE PLAYING MUSIC BY:
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markgrusane.bandcamp.com/album/a-house-of-my-own
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studio mix 150325

Lowfish Live 2001 (Remastered 2025)
Now Lounge Toronto, Canada.

This is a remastered recording of a live set I did at Now Magazine’s Lounge in Toronto in 2002. The venue was literally just up the street from my studio and home at the time, and you can tell by the length of some of my delay feedback transitions that I was pretty self-assured in the music I was making at the time (“they will love this two minutes of feedback as much as I do - I know it” :) 

My live setup at the time was centred around a Roland VS-880, TR-808, SH-101, Korg SDD-3000 delay, and a Deltalab Effectron delay, plus a mini-disc player and mixer, etc. I had no intention of maintaining momentum throughout the set it would seem and I played what I wanted. The version of Fatblex was improvised, as was the first track (the never-released “Precision Hell”).  I have just completed the remix of Solvent’s “A Panel of Experts” and finished the set with that. It's somewhat weird to play a remix of another artist in your live set, but I was (and am) super proud of how it turned out and remember wanting to hear it loud. 


Setlist:

Precision hell (never released)
No longer accepting complaints 
Fatblex (version) 
Cadmium Red  (version)
Agamemnon (version)
Theme To Parked Cars (version) 
Glued Smile 
A Panel of Experts (Lowfish remix)

Lowfish Live: Now Lounge, Toronto 2001 (remastered)

Body Heat - Guest Mix #12 - Ali Renault

Basics. Deep techno, electro, ambient, and beyond with BiLla & guests.
Listen live - 2nd Tuesdays, 7-9PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

Guest Mix ~ Selene 

~Tracklist~
Analogous Doom - Collapsar [Vortex Traks]
Unit Moebius - Swamp Thing [Acid Planet]
Pasiphae - Moral Of The Story [Pinkman]
Mule Driver - Hidden Subroutines [Confused Machines]
Norwell - Clang [Zodiak Commune]
Automat - DNG [Mille Feuilles]
Chupacabras - Perception of Time [L.I.E.S. Records]
VC-118A - Click [Lunar Disko Records]
Sandwell District - Dreaming [The Point Of Departure Recording Company]
Rrose - Nest of Queens [Eaux]
Regis - I See Fire [Downwards]
Ekman - Verdraaide Logica [Shipwrec]
Umwelt - Mankind Origin [Mechatronica]
Claro Intelecto - Tone [Delsin]
Convextion - Torc (E.R.P. version) [Syncrophone Recordings]
Morphology - Linear Fractures[Vortex Traks]
214 - Sidestepping [Frustrated Funk]
XY0815 - Tool Matter [Brokntoys]
Cestrian - Lard (Obergman & Eargoggle Remix) [E-Beamz]
CYRK - Needler [Cultivated Electronics]
Dopplereffekt - Eukaryotic Chromosomes [Leisure System]
KafkaCtrl - KERNEL Engine [Vortex Traks]
Sterac Electronics - Reinstated [Tronic]
Radioactive Man & Ben Pest - A Gentleman From London Was Very Upset [Asking For Trouble]
Shun- SSG [Science Cult]
Jensen Interceptor - Kode [E-Beamz]
Annie Hall - Promeses De Fusta [Central Processing Unit]
Das Ding - Analog Devices [Vortex Traks]
Aura Nox - I Should've Known [Mechatronica]
Anodyne - Closer [Offshoot Records]

Basics w/ BiLla - Selene Guest Mix

Welcome to the second episode of pH<7. Mau's Acid Machine will ease you in the world of acid music and showcase some different flavours. No basic music, just acid:)

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pH<7 w/ Mau's Acid Machine - 15th July 2025

01. Reel By Real - Surkit (Keith Tucker vs Strand 'DIODE Reprise' Remix) [EPM Music]
02. Minimum Syndicat–	Knowing That We Know Nothing [Zodiac Commune]
03. Client_03 - You Are A Machine [client03.bandcamp.com]
04. Dark Vektor & Nea - Algorythm Love [Mars Frequency]
05. Tiga - Easy (Gesloten Cirkel Remix) [Turbo]
06. Nachtlinie - Broken Circuit [Computer Controlled Records]
07. Intergalactic Mechanic - The Shadow [Computer Controlled Records]
08. Zeta Reticula & Helga Neuer - I Am Mensch [Mechatronica]
09. Jensen Interceptor - Strings Of Fear [Pinkman]
10. Alex Jann - Mind Control Uses [Cultivated Electronics]
11. Pye Corner audio- Underneath [Lapsus]
12. 214 - Side Binds [Borg Recordings]
13. Electronome -  een Drumcomputer en een Synthesizer [Interr-Ference Communications]
14. E-Bony - System Error (the Hacker Remix) [Dame Music]
15. DJ Di'jital - Return Of The Hacker [Mechatronica]
16. Drexciya -  You Don't Know [Underground Resistance]
17. Kluentah - the Return [Zement]
18. Nite Fleit - Empty Nest Syndrome [Return To Disorder]
19. Vitalic - La Rock 01 [International Deejay Gigolo]
20. E-Bony - Machine Code [Dame Music]

E-L-E-C-T-R-O mix August 2025

Electro special time on No Soap Radio!! Big 030 get-together on 808 day with Utrecht’s electro heads VOLPEVOLPE and Musah in a b2b2b with NSR host marienus.

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No Soap Radio w/ marienus, VOLPEVOLPE & Musah - 8th August 2025

L'artiste: MANASYt (@manasyt)
Le mixtape: Stock 090
 L'esthétique: perverse and slightly screwy resonations

La sélection:
Chaosy - Crime  
Soviet Gym - En el Bloque  
Narvalos - El Puma  
Clinical Order - Javel  
Vincenzo Maurice - Dysfunctional Mess 
Harlem - Chew It  
Bound by Endogamy - Idly  
King Rambo Sound - No 
Rapha - Aggressive Disorder  
Randstad - Spanish Caravan  
éstudy - Tough Luck (Aheadacheaday Remix)  
Le Syndicat Électronique - Until the Dead Are Gone 
Andreas Aprill - Aus Der Festung  
jungvieh – L’exploitation  
Clinical Order - Körperapparat  
Piska Power - Doom Room ald 52  
Soj - Ritmos Mutantes  
Eindkrak - End of the World Brane  
DAMAGER - Dario
AKKUMULLER- Tuesday 
The White Lines - Other Side of Town  
Lostsoundbytes - Mechanical Castle 
Le Syndicat Électronique - The Rescue Station  

Recorded in Xiamen in July 2025.

Stock 090 par MANASYt

Electro Challenge submission for the IFM Electro Challenge - 2024: intergalactic.fm

Tracklist

Bolz Bolz - Wersitime [Ersatz Audio]
The Operator - The Operator [Djax-Up-Beats]
214 - Drift Diving [Harbour City Sorrow]									
w1b0 - Pilex Driver [U-Trax]
KafkaCtrl - Markov Chain [Vortex Traks]
The Advent - Heights [Internal]
Synapse - Dust-mite [Interdimensional Transmissions]
XY0815 - Tool Matter [brokntoys]
Phoenicia - Odd Job (Ectomorph & Godfather Version)[Schematic]
Il.Ek.Tro - Nodes [Klang Elektronik]
Lazercat - Void06 (KafkaCtrl Remix)[Vortex Traks]
Drexciya - Bubble Metropolis [Underground Resistance]
Le Car - Eightpointfive	[Ersatz Audio]						
Shun - Bizarre [Central Processing Unit]
Soul Oddity - DJ Tokyo	[Astralwerks]	
Assembler Code & Jensen Interceptor - HRL6 [Mechatronica]
Chupacabras - Unaware [ L.I.E.S. Records]


IFM Electro Mixx Challenge 2024 - Selene

Former host of the Teahouse and Special Circumstances on Intergalactic.fm. Frequent IFM Mixxx contributor and IFM Fest Artist. 

Favorite music: Detroit techno, Chicago acid, anything from Caetano Veloso.

IFM Electro Mixx Challenge 2024 - Selene

Selene (US)

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