"Hidden Curses" is our new compilation available as Digital & Tape Album.
The cursed soundtrack for this is provided by various musicians from the label cosmos. With 17 tracks this album takes you through the wide range of musical expression of Self Learning System.

All Tracks w & p by the Artists 
Artwork & Layout by Clemens Körner 
Mastering by Richard Wolf 

Dubbed at Prepaid Records, Leipzig 
Self Learning System 
2023

Hidden Curses

[SELFX001] Hidden Curses (Snippets)

@fixedrhythms @sweateronpolo

Fixed Rhythms is proud to welcome back to its roster one of their closest allies in sonic liberation, New York City’s Mali Mase, this time under his new techno alias MAL.E. Fixed Rhythms released Mali's "Travel International EP" under his beloved Sweater On Polo moniker. This go-around it's time to crank up the BPMs and stomp. This is serious techno but not for the serious techno chin-scratchers...calling all dance-floor freedom finders...hear the call and answer with your feet!

[PREMIERE] Passage 3 - MAL.E | Fixed Rhythms [2023]

- T'es qui mec ?

Hello à vous ! Tout d’abord merci de me recevoir ici, c’est mon premier podcast depuis un moment donc je suis ravi de remettre le couvert pour un crew local :)). Je m’appelle Maël, je fais de la musique sous le nom Lost In Material. Je suis plutôt le genre de producteur à être fada des machines et comme mon nom l’indique je me sers un peu de la pluralité de mes goûts pour me définir artistiquement. Ça passe par de l’ambient, de l’idm, de l’electro, du breakbeat, de l’EBM et parfois même un peu de trucs post-punky.

- Des projets en cours ?

Je bosse sur un live machine qui devrait être prêt d’ici octobre, c’est un des projets qui m’excite le plus en ce moment !

Sinon on bosse à fond avec Côme aka Selected Dream Memories sur notre projet Computer Love. Initialement c’était un concept de soirée dédié à l’univers Electro mais là on est en train d’étendre le truc à fond, j’en dis pas plus pour le moment mais ça s'annonce très cool…

- Quels sont les artistes ou projets qui t'inspirent sur la scène locale ?

Je suis allé au Positive Education festival pour la première fois l’année dernière et j’en suis revenu très marqué par tout ce que j’ai pu y voir, c’est un des projets de la région qui me réjouis à fond. Sur Lyon plus précisément j’aime beaucoup le taff de Warzou et ce qui sort sur son label Big Science Records. En termes de lieux, je recommande absolument le Sonic et le Grrrnd Zero, deux scènes hyper importantes pour la culture alternative lyonnaise à mon sens et où je suis régulièrement marqué par ce que je peux y voir. 

Enfin, je trouve beaucoup de force dans les différent.es copaines artistes de toute pratiques qui peuvent m’entourer de prêt ou de loin, je les salue très fort.

- Comment aimerais-tu voir évoluer la scène électronique Lyonnaise ?

Avec le climat politique extrêmement inquiétant qu’il y a en ce moment c’est difficile de mettre au premier rang des revendications artistiques même si je vais me contredire tout de suite car c’est évident que la culture va de pair avec les enjeux sociaux et environnementaux auxquels on fait face de plus en plus.
En tout cas culturellement faudrait commencer par avoir les politiques locales de notre côté pour accompagner les petits lieux et la culture qui s’y fait plutôt que de voir ça comme un problème. De notre côté faut se servir de ces espaces pour continuer de spreader des valeurs inclusives, retrouver un peu de force et s’opposer plus encore aux injustices, à l’état policier et au fascisme ambiant, le tout en faisant ce qu’on sait faire de mieux !

Podcast #61 - Lost In Material

TL Premiere #1432 (2023.11.17) : Global Goon - Calcula [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 297th Premiere of 2023, we have a track by "Global Goon" (@globalgoons) titled ‘Calcula’ from his forthcoming mini-LP "Nanoclusters" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (@cpurecords).

The mini-LP will be available on December 1, 2023 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/nanoclusters

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Release Info :

Global Goon - Nanoclusters [Central Processing Unit]

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. 

Tracklist :
1. Khroxic Mould
2. Snapterisk
3. Metallik
4. Syntheseers
5. Calcula
6. Metro Esc
7. Digit Six
8. Metal Glass

releases December 1, 2023

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

Nanoclusters

Calcula

Pre-order

TL PREMIERE : Global Goon - Calcula [Central Processing Unit]

Minimalsoul is an independent Record Label founded in 2003. They release a variety of soulful, modern and abstract electronic music. Changing the way you listen.. is the basic concept of the label. Featuring Dan Lodig, who is back at it, delivering another brick to his personal wonderwall. 

• www.minimalsoulrecordings.bandcamp.com

@lo-d
@minimalsoulrecordings

SIN PRISA

PREMIERE : Dan Lodig Feat. Aliou Omar Dia Rangel - Meloboy [MSR24]

vixara

Rec-2025-09-25.WAV

Written and produced by Gabriele Santucci
Mastering by Diogo Lopes
Artwork by Dimitar Grozev

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Gabriele Santucci - Ossigeno

Nous'klaer summer sampler '19! We compiled a small vinyl only sampler with some sunny tunes by our label regulars. We'll sell this at our coming labelnights and the remaining copies at a few shops after August 19. Here's @TammoHesselink's track.

Nous'klaer Summer Sampler '19

Tammo - It Is Not Entirely (Straightforward) - Nous'klaer Summer Sampler '19

https://thebirdsthatmimicsolitude.bandcamp.com/releases

JAY - Predictive Message Theory

The night was cold and dark as he skipped through an electronic maze of obscure shapes and patterns. This was his journey into digital sleep, a realm in which all things were unseen and built solely from pixels and flickering electronics. The world around him was not physical but virtual and as he dreamt in the darkness he began to shake and shuffle beneath the strain of the bright flashing lights which illuminated this fantasy world. Where was he? How had he got here? 

UNPOSED is a record label based in Germany, run by MSJY the imprint releases futuristic, experimental, electronic music with post modern tendencies. They have just announced a new compilation in aid of those under threat by the Yemen food crisis with all profits being donated. This track from the release is by Paz Shina.

PREMIERE: Paz Shina - Digital Sleep [UNPOSED]

The Birds That Mimic Solitude is a project that aims to unify the sounds of underground producers at a time of uncertainty to raise money for vulnerable communities during the Coronavirus outbreak.

Organised by @drumsofjay and @blankmindlabel