Extra nerdy IDM and Techno B2B set with Victrix boss Moot for the one of the best radio stations around - Operator in Rotterdam. Recorded 9 May 2024 

⭐  ⭐  Selected for Operator staff pick of the week! ⭐ ⭐ 

Tracklist:

Intro
Gescom - Viral Rival (Autechre remix) [ Skam ]
Riccardo Rocchi - Immediately [ ACV ]
Link - Antacid [ Warp Records ]
Traxx Boy - A Trip Toward Chicago [ ACV ]
Acid Junkies - Theme from Acid Junkies [ Djax-Up-Beats ]
LA Synthesis - Agraphobia (Kenny Larkin rmx) [ Elypsia ]
Vulva - Doggy Bag [ Softcore Records ]
Russ Gabriel - Digitec 727 [ Input Neuron Musique Ltd. ]
John Dalby - Skil N Frank [ General Productions Recordings ]
Germ - Ssong [ General Productions Recordings ]
Sterac - Skreel-ah [M-Plant ]
Maghreban - Not Good [ Zoot Records ]
Dave Angel - Jellyfish [ Rotation Records ]
Audiotech - Techno City 95 [ Metroplex ]
Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb [ Warp Records ]

Moot B2B Selene - Operator - 9 May 2024

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

Live from Berlin: Lazercat guides us through the last hour!

Lazercat [28.04.25]

May edition of the PT show on GFR with very special guest mix from Rio via London from the amazing GOIA alongside ADJ live from US. 
Tracklist to follow

PT SHow May with ADJ and GOIA

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

Release date: September 1, 2025
As usual, this is a limited 12" release, so pre-orders recommended.

Will be available via the following shops (more to come):

Clone: https://clone.nl/item80135.html
Juno Records: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/gauss-latent-space-ep-vinyl/1098290-01/
Deejay.de: https://www.deejay.de/Gauss_Latent_Space_EP_GAUSS06_Vinyl__1165036
Redeye: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/184771-gauss06-gauss-latent-space-ep

Distributed by Clone.

[GAUSS06] Latent Space EP (Out Soon!)

Undveld Live at Yaga Gathering festival in 2024 for Amulet of Tears showcase. It was a very very rainy evening and not many people showed up because of the heavy rain, so giving this programme another chance to be heard since I enjoyed it very much and listened to it myself more than a couple of times.

Undveld LIVE @ Yaga Gathering 2024

aqute aroana

https://osare-editions.bandcamp.com/album/oe-024-elena-colombi-live-at-cafe-oto-2

[ OE 024 ] : Elena Colombi - Live at Cafe Oto (Snippets)

Falsa Propaganda 023 w/ Bravo Tounky (22.07.25)

"This little mix is a documentation of a magical summer in my house. I've had friends stay over during an intense long heatwave, and these tracks have been sketched out while hanging out drinking aperol spritzes and chilled wine, and after my friends have gone to sleep. It's a combination of sketches, short jams, almost finished tracks and repurposed bits. 
For those wondering who I am, I am a guy operating, quite comfortably, from the shadowy underbelly of the european experimental techno scene since the early 2000s. I was talked into releasing an EP on 030303 Records in 2014. Since then I've put out more stuff on Analogical Force, Love Love Recs, U.T.T.E.R., Furthur Electronix. 

I’ve gotten reports that both Autechre and Aphex Twin have DJ:ed my tracks, which is perhaps my biggest (second hand) achievement so far, since they are known for quite different styles of music.

Big thanks to Giovanna Elia for inviting me, and to anyone listening, buying my records and/or playing them out."

VERBS Files: Rolando Simmons | live

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.