_ synth wave / synth pop / minimal synth _ Set 16

Pool

“The ceiling doesn’t know it’s being watched by so many liquid-sick eyes”

Cult duo VACUUM turn their gaze from the mechanical to the mortal with their second single ‘I’ll Call You’, which explores Western end-of-life rituals.

Cavernous soundscapes are cut razor-sharp and met with Andrea Blake (ASPS/CHROME DOME) and Jenny Branagan’s (NUN) dual deadpan recitations, reminiscent of early Anne Clark. An ominous sub-bass sets the tone while the squeak of a rubber sole on waxed hospital floors is dressed in an echo of New Wave delay. Empty platitudes are uttered down the phone line - diegetic and delivered like an infernal Shangri-las. The anticipation of a flatline extracts the sacred from the mundane – the Temenos of a waiting room, the Oracle of the Yellow Pages and an Ambrosia of instant coffee.

The album VACUUM S/T will be out Feb 18th 2022
credits
released November 25, 2021
Recorded by Josh Wells (Naarm Melbourne) and mastered by Enyang Urbik (Berlin).

Cover Photograph by Nicole Reed
Design by Luke Fraser at Grin Creative

VACUUM - I´LL CALL YOU

Master Kh040 Digital 16Bit 9

B3. Jimmy Smack - Death Is Certain

TL Premiere #931 (2022.05.13) : John Shima - 011 [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 129th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by UK Producer John Shima titled ‘011’ from his forthcoming EP "CPU Modular 1" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (CPU Records).

The EP will be available on May 20, 2022 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl EP + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/cpu-modular-1

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Release Info :

John Shima - CPU Modular 1 [Central Processing Unit]

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.

Tracklist :
1. 003
2. 010
3. 011
4. 005

Modular used : www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1013029

All tracks written and produced by John Shima.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

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Follow John Shima :
Discogs : www.discogs.com/artist/1353605-John-Shima
Facebook : www.facebook.com/shimarecords
Instagram : www.instagram.com/john.shima
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/john-shima
Twitter : www.twitter.com/johnshima

Follow Central Processing Unit :
Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/424941-Central-Processing-Unit
Facebook : www.facebook.com/cpurecords
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SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/cpurecords
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Website : www.cpurecords.net
YouTube : www.youtube.com/user/cpuoutput

CPU Modular 1

TL PREMIERE : John Shima - 011 [Central Processing Unit]

A few more songs about sticky thoughts and background fear, this time dancing hypnotically in place with pink sheer flesh and creeping tendrils.

Bodies Aren't Ours

Silenced (only see what they want to see mix)

Track from the album “Shelter” (2023)

Music/Instruments/Lyrics/Recording/
Mixing/Production/Mastering: Enzo Kreft

Email: enzokreft@live.be
Official site: enzokreft.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/enzokreftmusic/
Bandcamp: enzokreft.bandcamp.com/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/enzokreft
Twitter: twitter.com/EnzoKreft

There Is No Tomorrow

Programa 131 de habitacion615

Especial: EBM Day- Review 80s EBM tunes

Habitacion615 radio show, every Friday on TechnoRoomFm.com , from 19:00 to 20:00 hosted by Hugo Tasis
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Habitacion615 Radioshow @TechnoRoomFm- Hugo Tasis - 131-EBM Day

https://synthesizer.bandcamp.com/album/283-leather-predator-leather-predator

Leather Predator

Second digital bonus track from Drvg Cvltvre that comes with the "Into The Endless" night album. Pre-order and download this track together with two other joints right away. ONLY available on the Pinkman Bandcamp page.

https://pinkman.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-endless-night-pnkmn-lp-01

Drvg Cvltvre - Early Light (Bandcamp Digital Bonus #2)

Remix from the track "Wek" from Heimat s/t LP on Teenage Menopause RDS:
https://soundcloud.com/teenagemenopause/10wek
https://soundcloud.com/teenagemenopause/sets/tmr015-heimat-st

Heimat - Wek (Volcan Acid Rain remix)

Phase Fatale - Day Today

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