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While this may be the first release on Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit from Global Goon, the one known to friends and family as Johnny Hawk brings a whole heap of experience to the Nanoclusters mini-LP.

Hawk started dropping Global Goon records on the legendary Rephlex Records back in the 1990s. The project’s subsequent releases have taken in imprints as esteemed as WéMè and Balkan. Factor in a whole host of other aliases which have delivered missives via the likes of Planet Mu, and you know even before you press play on this witty, wily record that you’re dealing with a master at work here.

The confidence with which Global Goon approaches Nanoclusters shines through in Hawk taking much of the mini-album at midtempo. Cuts like ‘Khroxic Mould’, ‘Metallik’ and ‘Syntheseers’ sound like Bochum Welt heading down a dark alleyway. The former in particular is a seasick lope, the tuned synths lurching around like sailors on deck in a storm as bass ebbs and flows underneath the mix. 

The influence of Kraftwerk comes through prominently at times here, particularly in the way ‘Calcula’ and ‘Digit Six’ play pensive, slightly sombre synth chords off some simple but effective forward motion in the drum programming. That is not to say that Nanoclusters is not full of invention, though. None of the productions are overly flash, but this approach allows the little details to shine through more clearly, from cleverly panned hi-hats to hissing synth counter-melodies which flit in and out of the mix. Enthralling and packed full of ear candy, they’re further evidence that Nanoclusters is the work of an expert craftsman.

While the pulse of Nanoclusters remains relatively steady throughout, it’s still a rather lively record. Plenty of these tracks will get the dancefloor moving if deployed correctly - though whether they’re heard at home or in the dance, it’s the attention to detail which makes them stand out.

‘Snapterisk’ is as perfect an example of machine-funk as you’re likely to find - the drum programming is razor-sharp but rubbery with bongos, the bass a lithe burble, and those wobbly stabs of keys that put a bit of wiggle in the beat? Delightful stuff. Elsewhere the ever-looping arpeggio of ‘Metro Esc’ has hints of Frankie Knuckles’ house classic ‘Your Love’, though an array of interesting sonic nuggets - snippets of vocal, radar-like bloops, a gently insistent low-end pulse - soften the track’s clubbier elements with a pillowy sheen. And Hawk throws us a curveball right at the end of Nanoclusters, tapping back into that old Rephlex sound for the fizzy, braindancing ‘Metal Glass’.

Global Goon doesn’t need to show off on Nanoclusters - from brilliantly slick machine-funk to Kraftwerkian reveries, the CPU debutant lets the music do the talking here. It makes for a confident and vivacious mini-LP, one which wears its expertise lightly.

RIYL: Cardopusher, Bochum Welt, Cygnus, D’Arcangelo

Nanoclusters

Global Goon - Nanoclusters

Acid Drones is a new recording and live project by Thomas Lea Clarke, a musician, journalist and ex resident DJ of the Art School Club in Glasgow, now based in Berlin. 
This is Acid Drones debut album.

releases September 14, 2023 

Music by Acid Drones. 
Recorded and mixed by Thomas Lea Clarke in Turkey, France and Luxembourg between 2020 and 2023. 
Mastered by Enrico Mercaldi 
Artwork by Percy.

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Acid Drones - Acid Drone 4 (snippet) - OFFEN D002

Bio & TL:

k_schreiber is a London based DJ and producer with a passion for eclectic electronics: electro, techno, IDM, acid and house

Nurtured on a diet of soul, funk and hip hop, his musical horizons were broadened by John Peel and Gilles Peterson leading to a vinyl obsession that persists to this day.
Having earned his stripes as a DJ and promoter, it was only a matter of time before his love of moving the crowd paved the way for a natural progression into music making.
Detroit, Chicago & Berlin are huge influences in his techno and electro productions, with the melodic and deep side of house reserved for his Sarru Project alias.

 Nullptr - Visions of the Future (Fanzine)
Polyfan Polyphonix - Polymorph (Rawax)
Armec - Ethereal (Nebulae Spain)
Sinitsin - PKD (LDI Records)
E.R.P - Eagle Nebula (Solar One Music)
Plant 43 - Forcefield Deactivation (20/20 Vision)
Russ Gabriel - Matchstick Cathedral (FXCL)
Sound Synthesis - I Guess You Know (Infiltrate)
Versalife - Shadow Union (20/20 Vision)
Versalife - Omikron (We’re Going Deep)
Matti Turunen - Memmonia (Cultivated Electronics LTD)
Versalife - Transient Vesicle Fusion (Transcendent)
Dopplereffekt - Z-Boson (International Gigolo)

CyberDomain - k.schreiber

Horizon JV

Lectromagnetique - Flow

Taken from Noamm's Electroporation EP on Tiger Weeds, out October 20.

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Premiere: Noamm - Electroporation

TL Premiere #1409 (2023.10.26) : AMP3R - A.I. (Machine Learning) [Urban Connections]

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For this 274th Premiere of 2023, we have a track by AMP3R (aka Amper Clap) titled ‘A.I. (Machine Learning)’ from his forthcoming EP "Binary Rhythm" on his own label : Urban Connections.

▶︎ The EP will be available from November 1, 2023 in digital on Bandcamp : www.urbanconnectionsnetlabel.bandcamp.com

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Release Info : 

AMP3R - Binary Rhythm [EP] [2023] [Urban Connections // URON-33]

Tracklist :
01. Enigma
02. Binary Rhythm
03. The Great Filter
04. A.I. (Machine Learning)
05. Electronic Infection

November 1 on Bandcamp
Catalog Number: URON-33

All music and production by Amper Clap
Mastered by Amper Clap

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Follow AMP3R :
Discogs : www.discogs.com/artist/3538584-Amper-Clap
Facebook : www.facebook.com/amperclapproductions
Hearthis : hearthis.at/4wj8kv9b
Instagram : www.instagram.com/amperclap
SoundCloud : @amper-clap
X [Twitter] : twitter.com/AmperClap

Follow Urban Connections :
Bandcamp : https://urbanconnectionsnetlabel.bandcamp.com
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/urban_connections_label
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SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/urbanconnections

Binary Rhythm

A.I. (Machine Learning)

TL PREMIERE : AMP3R - A.I. (Machine Learning) [Urban Connections]

MECHANICAL RAIN w. Ian Martin [08.11.2023]

Artist: Van Morph
Track name: Chtonic Offerings
Release name: Winter Nights
Catalog Code: InirecVA001
Mastering: Brice Deloose (Pattrn) 
Artwork: Leslie Deboeur. Pictures used for artwork by Mod21

For Christmas we’re delighted to bring forward a compilation spanning ambient, techno and bass music, in short, everything we love!

With this compilation we wanted to go outside our artist pool, to bring forward producers whose music we cherish. It’s thus a pleasure for us to bring this forward into the light of day.

As a way to connect all the pieces together, we asked the artists to follow the theme of “long winter nights” and to translate that emotion into music. What results is a varied compilation going from lightness to darkness.

We’re proud of the outcome and are very happy to share it with you. We hope this music will bring you comfort and happiness throughout the winter months.

Take care and keep listening.

The Initiate family

Support the release: https://initiaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/winter-nights

Follow Van Morph:
IG https://www.instagram.com/vn_mrph77/
FB https://www.facebook.com/MorphVan
SC https://soundcloud.com/morphvan1

Follow Initiate: 
IG https://www.instagram.com/initiate.concept/
FB https://www.facebook.com/initiate.music
SC https://soundcloud.com/initiate_concept

Follow Dirty Epic:
Website: www.dirty-epic.com
Merch: shopby6am.com/collections/dirty-epic-collection
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DirtyepicLA
Twitter: twitter.com/dirtyepicla
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtyepicla/

Winter Nights

Premiere: Van Morph - Chthonic Offerings [Initiate]

Taken from my vinyl Kronotop (Kvalia 2023). 
Fourtracker including remixes by Luigi Tozzi and Svreca. 
Get it here: https://kvaliarecords.bandcamp.com/album/kronotop

Tilliander - Veia (Kvalia 2023)

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Luminous Machines' release date 5th February 2024. Pre-order vinyl and digital at:
https://plant43.bandcamp.com/album/luminous-machines

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WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY EMILE FACEY
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION BY EMILE FACEY
© PLANT43 RECORDINGS 2024
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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