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TL Premiere #655 (2021.08.06) : Fleck E.S.C. - That's It (Pablo Splice Fan Boy Revision) [Woodwork Recordings]

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For this 207th Premiere of 2021, we have the "Pablo Splice Fan Boy Revision" of the track by French electronic music producer, now based in Tokyo, Japan "Fleck E.S.C." (aka Franck Collin) titled ‘That's It’ from his forthcoming EP "Responsible Grown Up Remixes" on the Canadian Label operated by Pete Grove : Woodwork Recordings.

"Fleck E.S.C. – Responsible Grown Up Remixes" will be available from August 13, 2021 in digital here : https://fleckesc-woodwork.bandcamp.com/album/responsible-grown-up-remixes

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Release Info :

Fleck E.S.C. – Responsible Grown Up Remixes [Woodwork Recordings - WOOD092]

This set of remixes provides an intriguing companion to Fleck E.S.C.'s 'Responsible Grown Up' EP,
released on Woodwork in May. The four inventive producers enlisted for this project went to task recontextualizing the original parts, each crafting a personal shout out the original EP.

ADJ's powerhouse take on 'Substitute Placebo' enhances the bubbling, freakish qualities of the track
while adding some signature muscle and swagger and a subtle dark rave essence.

Kim Cosmik ups the ante with a tidy smackdown version of 'Grassland'. Kim's version brings a hefty
sub and a bouncy break into the arrangement while the main parts remain intact but slanted with a
cracking new style and urgency.

UnSonore, a childhood friend and close acquaintance of Fleck E.S.C., stretches boldly into the outfit
of 'Responsible Grown Up'. A wandering abstract progression slowly twists into a retro synth pop jam
sounding a lot like it could be an instrumental of Duran Duran or Tubeway Army.

Pablo Splice then sticks the landing with a dizzying spin on 'That's It', blending melodic phrases of the
original version into a droning, disoriented tech-noir tribute.

Tracklist : 
01. Substitute Placebo (ADJ rewarp)
02. Grassland (Kim Cosmik remix)
03. Responsible Grown Up (UnSonore remix)
04. That’s It (Pablo Splice fan boy revision)

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Follow Fleck E.S.C. :
Bandcamp : www.fleckesc1.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/fr/artist/2109580-Fleck-ESC
Facebook : www.facebook.com/fleckesc
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/fleck

Follow Pablo Splice : 
Bandcamp : www.pablosplice.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/PabloSplice
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/pablosplice

Follow Woodwork Recordings :
Bandcamp : www.woodworkrecordings.bandcamp.com
Beatport : www.beatport.com/label/woodwork-recordings/75139
Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/8080-Woodwork-Recordings
Facebook : www.facebook.com/woodworkrecordings
Instagram : www.instagram.com/woodworkrecordings
Mixcloud : www.mixcloud.com/woodworkrecordings
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/woodworkrecordings
Twitter : www.twitter.com/woodworkrecords
Website : www.woodworkrecordings.com

Responsible Grown Up Remixes

That's It (Pablo Splice Fan Boy Revision)

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TL PREMIERE : Fleck E.S.C. - That's It (Pablo Splice Fan Boy Revision) [Woodwork Recordings]

TL Premiere #716 (2021.10.07) : Hidonash - Obdel (Jauzas the Shining Remix) [Soil Records]

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For this 268th Premiere of 2021, we have the "Jauzas the Shining Remix" of the track by Düsseldorf, (DE) based musician, DJ and software developer "Hidonash" titled ‘Obdel’ from his forthcoming Album "Verbose Liturgy" on the Spanish label : Soil Records.

▶︎ "Hidonash - Verbose Liturgy" will be available from October 14, 2021 in Limited Edition Cassette + Digital on Bandcamp : https://dearsoil.bandcamp.com/album/hidonash-verbose-liturgy

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Release Info :

Hidonash - Verbose Liturgy [Soil Records - SOTA052]

Electro + Industrial = 💥💥💥
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Hidonash release his first album on Soil Records after some collaborations and one ep finally arrives an entire release, dynamic, full of textures, working between electro, industrial, techno and noise. A completly trip that you would enjoy.
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Verbose Liturgy it`s a 8 orginal tracks album plus 2 remixes, one by Jauzas the Shining who show a more clear version of Electro and the other one by SOJ who show more an EBM stylish.

Tracklist :
01. Hidonash - Obdel
02. Hidonash - Witep
03. Hidonash - Werl
04. Hidonash - Rae
05. Hidonash - Meryk
06. Hidonash - Ieji
07. Hidonash - Kjatsu
08. Hidonash - Tojin
09. Hidonash - Witep (SOJ Remix)
10. Hidonash - Obdel (Jauzas the Shining Remix)

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Follow Hidonash :
Bandcamp : www.hidonash.bandcamp.com
Instagram : www.instagram.com/hidonash
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/hidonash
Website : www.hidonash.com

Follow Jauzas The Shining : 
Facebook : www.facebook.com/jauzastheshining
Instagram : www.instagram.com/jauzas_the_shining
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/jauzastheshining
YouTube : www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9VZiyQXft3_5RTSmvY4Gg

Follow Soil Records :
Bandcamp : www.dearsoil.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/1480651-Soil-Records
Instagram : www.instagram.com/soil_records
RA : www.residentadvisor.net/record-label.aspx?id=17351
Facebook : www.facebook.com/DearSoil
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/dearsoil

Verbose Liturgy

Obdel (Jauzas the Shining Remix)

TL PREMIERE : Hidonash - Obdel (Jauzas the Shining Remix) [Soil Records]

TL Premiere #726 (2021.10.14) : Blackploid - The Unseen [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 278th Premiere of 2021, we have a track by the veteran German Electro DJ, producer & composer Martin Matiske, aka "Blackploid", titled ‘The Unseen’ from his forthcoming EP "Strange Stars" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (CPU Records).

"Blackploid - Strange Stars" will be available on November 5, 2021 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl EP + Digital here : https://centralprocessingunit.bandcamp.com/album/strange-stars

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Release Info :

Blackploid - Strange Stars EP [Central Processing Unit]

Preview : www.soundcloud.com/cpurecords/blackploid-strange-stars

German electro producer Martin Matiske has recently breathed new life into his Blackploid alias. The project’s revival continues to bear fruit with the Strange Stars EP, Matiske’s third Blackploid release of 2021 and second for Central Processing Unit after issuing March’s Cosmic Traveler EP through the Sheffield label.

Blackploid’s two CPU drops have more in common than just stargazing titles. Those who enjoyed Cosmic Traveler will find plenty to like again in these four tracks, with Matiske serving up another quartet of snappy machine-funk joints this time around. However, while there is certainly a throughline between Cosmic Traveler and Strange Stars, this EP also finds Blackploid pushing the envelope at points by taking risks with his synth tones which thrill and enliven the record.

In keeping with the cosmic theme of Blackploid’s recent output, Strange Stars kicks off with ‘Star Patrol’. While this opening cut is full of the same needle-gun basslines and dinky synths that characterised Cosmic Traveler, the drum programming eschews the broken beats favoured by many in the scene for a straight house/techno snap. It makes for a very groovy jam, one with Drexciya, Computer World-era Kraftwerk and a pinch of Space Dimension Controller in its mix.

Indeed, the only track on Strange Stars which skips along on a broken beat is second entry ‘The Signal’. ‘The Signal’ also features some of Blackploid’s most impressive electronics programming to date, announcing itself with a brilliantly unusual synth that sounds like an old video game unit which has just gained sentience. When this alien tone is combined with another precision-engineered bassline the track invokes the grizzly bangers of the L.I.E.S. label, though the keyboard stabs which enter periodically also hint to the funkier electro of, say, Egyptian Lover.

‘The Unseen’, the first B-side of Strange Stars, finds Blackploid bringing together many of the things which made the two previous tunes such standouts. A steady four-on-the-floor and a slightly haunted feel to the synth choices casts back to ‘Star Patrol’, but much like ‘The Signal’ this joint also features some rather weird tones which are a hair’s breadth away from machine malfunction. It’s a feeling which runs through to closing cut ‘Light Corridor’, a number where melodies and anti-melodies zip around an array of gurgling electronic cells.

Martin Matiske’s fine run of Blackploid EPs continues with the intergalactic electro stylings of Strange Stars.

Tracklist :
1. Star Patrol
2. The Signal
3. The Unseen
4. Light Corridor

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

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Follow Blackploid :
Discogs : www.discogs.com/artist/520721-Blackploid
Facebook : www.facebook.com/Blackploid

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

Strange Stars EP

The Unseen

TL PREMIERE : Blackploid - The Unseen [Central Processing Unit]

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@deviantpleasures are back with their next x-rated effort courtesy of Antoni Maiovvi’s (@antonmaiof) project Ye Gods, @rgamble provides a stripped-back remix that feels robotic in the best possible way.

Pulvis et Umbra

Ye Gods - Korsia (R Gamble Juiced Remix) [Deviant Pleasures]

Artist: Romphea @rompheamusic
Release: Guerrilla Tactics EP
Catalogue: FERMA007
Format: Digital
Release Date: 23th of December

Mastered by Georgios Anyfantis
Artwork by Dimitris Evagelou

Tracklist:
1. Romphea - 1611 [5:54]
2. Romphea - Guerrilla Tactics [5:59]
3. Romphea - Nuance [6:14]
4. Romphea - Midnight Trolleybus No.11 [5:40]

Available for pre-order through our Bandcamp page.
https://ferma.bandcamp.com/

Romphea - Guerrilla Tactics EP [FERMA007]

TL Premiere #818 (2022.01.20) : Silicon Scally - Inhibitor [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 16th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by veteran UK Electro producer, now based in France, Carl Finlow, aka "Silicon Scally", titled ‘Inhibitor’ from his forthcoming LP "Field Lines" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (CPU Records).

"Silicon Scally - Field Lines" will be available on February 11, 2022 in Limited Edition 2 x 12" Vinyl LP in gatefold sleeve + Digital.

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

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Release Info :

Silicon Scally - Field Lines [Central Processing Unit]

Carl Finlow keeps on keeping on. As the world changes around him, the veteran producer continues to do what he does best - craft top-quality electro tunes which invoke the sound’s Drexciyan heyday, yet carry themselves with an assurance that is all of Finlow’s own. 

Finlow remains a prolific producer more than a quarter of a century on from his emergence. Still averaging several records a year across a variety of aliases, recent times have seen Finlow forge particularly strong links with the Central Processing Unit label. Now, after a run of EPs for the Sheffield imprint which began with 2018’s ‘Projections’, Finlow’s Silicon Scally project offers up CPU’s first drop of 2022 in the form of the ‘Field Lines’ LP. 

Silicon Scally productions have long been marked out by how they combine piston-precise beat programming with more textured synth play. ‘Field Lines’ runs with this formula to deliver some of Finlow’s most atmospheric material to date. At once shadowy and expansive, listening to ‘Field Lines’ is the aural equivalent of taking a night-time drive around some futuristic metropolis. 

The beats cruise sleekly here. Many of these burbling machine-funk numbers hover at mid-tempo, the crisp clip of their drum programming given shape and depth by all sorts of percussive tones fizzing around at the fringes of the mix. Even when ‘Field Lines’ seems to set its sights on the club - the Bunker Records-aping ‘Amino’, for instance, or the dystopian whizz-bang of ‘Static Fire’ - the tracks here strut sturdily rather than giving in to full-on freakouts.

However, from this sturdy base, Finlow moves outwards. Working with tones which range from rapid-fire machine-gun bass to keening, dawn chorus keyboard pads, Finlow leads us through the futurescape with the expertise of a seasoned guide. Cuts like ‘Submerged’ and ‘Yield’ are brilliantly cinematic, blooming from those reliable drum pulses into miniature masterpieces of nocturnal electronics. Elsewhere on ‘Field Lines’ there is a mechanical majesty to ‘Inhibitor’ and ‘Altered Domain’ which invokes the brave new worlds that Kraftwerk repeatedly conjured in their heyday.

Central Processing Unit’s first release of 2022 is ‘Field Lines’, an LP of electro-funk explorations from Carl Finlow’s Silicon Scally project which will thrill regardless of whether it’s experienced through headphones or out on the dancefloor.

RIYL: Drexciya, Kraftwerk, Cygnus, Annie Hall

Tracklist :
1. Receptors
2. Empty Subways
3. Inhibitor
4. Amino
5. Homage
6. Submerged
7. Static Fire
8. Yield
9. Altered Domain

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

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Follow Silicon Scally :
Bandcamp : www.carlfinlow.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/artist/5055-Silicon-Scally
Facebook : www.facebook.com/groups/272001402207 | www.facebook.com/groups/1060324197712077

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

Field Lines

Inhibitor

TL PREMIERE : Silicon Scally - Inhibitor [Central Processing Unit]

PREMIERE COMME DES LARMES – CDL

PREMIERE CDL \\ FIUME - Post - Human [L.I.E.S. Records] (2022)

Artist » FIUME - https://soundcloud.com/yasssa

Ep Name » II 

Label » L.I.E.S. Records - https://soundcloud.com/l-i-e-s

New York, USA

Format: VYNIL + Digital Album 

Release date:  April 01, 2022 

BUY HERE >>>  https://liesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ii

Croatia's Fiume delivers a full length eight track lp for L.I.E.S., following his cult 2019 Bunker Records release. 

Jasmin Mahmić, (who is also known for his Le Chocolat Noir project) returns with his absolute blackened industrial onslaught straight from the depths of the Balkans. 

Fiume takes us into a netherworld of  short circuited electronics, scrap yard soundscapes and foreboding, stark ,straight from your worst nightmare vocals. Barren wastelands, tropical depression, vast nothingness of the modern age, pillaged republics and metropolis' that have gone wrong, this is world downfall music. 

Let your own irrelevance stare you down in the mirror, minutes crawl like days, horror of life goes on. 

These are the sounds in your head, try to claw your way out. 

Limited to 250 copies worldwide

- https://liesrecords.com

Follow us:

• https://linktr.ee/commedeslarmes

Art/Designer CDL by Rennst

• https://soundcloud.com/RENNST
• https://www.instagram.com/_rennst_

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PREMIERE CDL \\ FIUME - Post - Human [L.I.E.S. Records] (2022)

L.I.E.S. Records

TL Premiere #910 (2022.04.21) : Livid Husk - Glitterrot [brokntoys]

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For this 108th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by the Producer and DJ based in Eindhoven "Livid Husk" titled ‘Glitterrot’ from the forthcoming Compilation "The Fifth Quarter" on the Electronic music label based in London, UK : brokntoys.

The digital compilation will be available from April 25, 2022. 

▶︎ Pre-order : https://brokntoys.bandcamp.com/album/the-fifth-quarter

Livid Husk : "I'm super proud to announce my track "Glitterrot" featured on the brokntoys V/A album "The Fifth Quarter". The compilation is a journey through odd soundscapes and heavy hitting rhythms featuring music by Timothy J Fairplay, MetaComplex, Lloyd Stellar, The Spy, Errorbeauty, Ex.Hale & user404."

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Release Info :

V/A - The Fifth Quarter [brokntoys]

All proceeds from the compilation will go to Haringey Welcome (https://haringeywelcome.org), a local campaign group to help migrants and refugees.

Tracklist : 
1. Livid Husk - Glitterrot
2. Timothy J Fairplay - Blood Tribute
3. Metacomplex - Precognition
4. Lloyd Stellar - Glossy Cities
5. The Spy - Top Op Het Bot
6. Errorbeauty - Space Pops
7. Morken - Perseverance
8. user404 - Clean Break
9. Ex.Hale - Realism

releases April 25, 2022

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Follow Livid Husk : 
Facebook : www.facebook.com/livid.husk
Instagram : www.instagram.com/livid.husk
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/lividhusk

Follow brokntoys : 
Bandcamp : www.brokntoys.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/619617-brokntoys
Facebook : www.facebook.com/Brokntoys
Instagram : www.instagram.com/brokntoys
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/brokntoys

The Fifth Quarter

Glitterrot

TL PREMIERE : Livid Husk - Glitterrot [brokntoys]

The Blackploid resurgence of recent years continues to gather steam. After laying dormant for some time, Martin Matiske’s project roared back into life in 2021 with a pair of EPs for Central Processing Unit. It doesn’t look like he’ll be taking his foot off the gas any time soon - not only does the new Blackploid collection Planetary Science complete Matiske’s hat-trick for the Sheffield label, but it also serves as a prelude to the full-length album which Blackploid will deliver on CPU in 2023.

If that LP is as good as the tracks we get here, then it’s safe to say that we’re on to a winner. This EP contains a quartet of top-tier machine-funk productions, the kind of crisp post-Drexciya joints we’ve come to know and love Blackploid for. Each track on Planetary Science makes good on the record’s title by delivering club tackle flecked with FX which sound distinctly like spaceships blasting off into the cosmos.

There is also progression across Planetary Science. While it still aims for the dancefloor, Planetary Science is a somewhat more textured listen than either Strange Stars or Cosmic Traveler, Blackploid’s previous CPU drops. Most notable is the increased use of synth pads, with Matiske draping chord progressions over all of these tracks in order to give his music a newfound depth.

Blackploid’s subtle evolution is clear from the opening track. ‘Dimension Unknown’ may begin with a precision-engineered groove reminiscent of an early Legowelt joint, but things soon soften with the introduction of some rich keyboard chords. A few well-chosen bleeps and bloops flit in and out of the mix, but whereas some would use these to scuff up the track further here they are warm and playful.

The more confrontational stance of following cut ‘Magnetron’ makes it a yin to ‘Dimension Unknown’s yang. Blackploid works with similar tools here - machine-gun beat programming, chords playing off boinging bass - but there is a tension and buzz to the track which isn’t apparent on its predecessor. The synths have a slight Eighties deep space thriller vibe about them, and the FX cut through the mix with more bite.

‘Magnetron’s energy carries through to ‘Wire’, the first track on the Planetary Science B-side. Here a big, brutish bassline takes centre stage from the off, a chunk squarewave equal-parts Dopplereffekt and early Eskibeat. Around this swirls a queasy brew of synthesised tones, with the component parts all arranged in order to channel ‘Magnetron’s sense of unease.

Planetary Science closes out with ‘Neurotransmitter’. On this cut, Blackploid returns somewhat to where we started off, finding a midpoint between ‘Dimension Unknown’s more spacious feel and the livewire flavour of ‘Magnetron’ and ‘Wire’. Tension remains, particularly when Matiske serves up one of the EP’s snakiest basslines, but there’s also a deftness to the synth pads here which makes ‘Neurotransmitter’ a little softer around the edges.

Blackploid limbers up for a forthcoming full-length on Central Processing Unit with Planetary Science, an EP of stargazing electro joints that quietly expand the project’s sonic world.

RIYL: Drexciya, Dopplereffekt, DMX Krew, I-F, Annie Hall

Blackploid - Planetary Science

It begins in your face with booming bombastic rhythms, almost pummelling, and you immediately know the world you’re inhabiting but then abruptly there’s a sugary melodic left turn that would make Aphex Twin blush.  This piece Wooly Mammut is something as a signifier of the album as a whole. Just when you think you have Tim Koch pegged, suddenly a whole other world appears.  

Volplaning is a master class in edgy machine funk, a dance party on the edge of the circuit board, where a feverish psychedelia breeds within the rigidity of locked grids and sequenced loops. It’s subtle but it grows throughout the pieces, whether it’s the periodically exuberant hyper energised squelches, the dystopian pitch downs or mournful synthetic Blade Runner laments, these flourishes are the sounds of subversion, of a refusal to adhere to expectation. They’re anti-establishment electrics – because Volplaning is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. 

Do electrics dream of scattered nightmare dubs?  Or do they prefer complex skittery rhythms, taut ironclad bass and oscillating synthetic flourishes? Volplaning is new world electronica, a place where genres collide, techniques collide, tempos collide and expectations collide.  

So much is happening beneath the surface, more often than not the foreground keeps you rhythmically locked, while all manner of atmospheric weirdness roams freely behind. At first you think this music is rigid, percussive, even repetitive, but Volplaning is the audio equivalent of those magic eye pictures where if you focus on the beats and taut machine funk, and relax your ears, a whole other world appears often moving in an entirely different direction. So turn on, tune in and open your earlids. It’s all here.

RIYL: Plaid, Autechre, Jega

Tim Koch - Volplaning

Splitradix FFT is a fast Irish transform (FFT) rhythm for computing the discrete musical acid (aux note relative), and was first described in an initially little-appreciated paper by R. Yavne (1978) and subsequently rediscovered simultaneously by Central Processing Unit label owners in 2021. (The name "Splitradix" was coined by one of these re-inventors, S. Hennelly.) In particular, Splitradix is a variant of the Electro-Vocoder FFT rhythm that uses a blend of analogue 2 and 4: it recursively expresses an emotion of length N in terms of one smaller aux of musical N/2 and two smaller DFT of Fenix PCM/70.

Synthesizing Your Future

Splitradix - Synthesizing Your Future

Blackploid has become one of Central Processing Unit’s stalwarts in the past couple of years. Martin Matiske’s project contributed a trio of EPs to the Sheffield label across 2021 and 2022, with each of them showing off the kind of electro chops and production sensibilities that made Blackploid an ideal fit for an imprint which also boasts the likes of Cygnus, Silicon Scally and Bochum Welt among its catalogue.

Now, for CPU’s first release of 2023, Matiske levels things up with the debut Blackploid LP Enter Universe. Across these twelve tracks, Matiske leaves us in no doubt that he’s a prime mover in the world of modern electronic music. Enter Universe does not let up from start to finish, delivering a dozen pieces of leftfield electro that draws from the sound’s greats while also showcasing an unpredictability and flair that is all of Blackploid’s own.

The tone is set from the first frosty chords of opening cut ‘Pulsation’. The track traverses the starscape on pitter-patter drums and chirruping synths, a lively and slightly dystopian roller with an adventurous undercurrent reminiscent of classic Rephlex drops. It’s a style which Blackploid often draws for throughout the rest of Enter Universe, albeit with elements added or subtracted at each stage.

Indeed, this album features some of the most unusual production you will hear on any record this year. While the grooves pulse away in a manner reminiscent of Drexciya or Legowelt, Blackploid layers the mixes with a whole cornucopia of synth tones. ‘The Mission’ boasts a bleep-bloop breakdown that sounds like malfunctioning rotary telephones; ‘Silent Room’ is a ghoulish jam which harks back to Warp’s legendary Artificial Intelligence compilations; ‘Automatik’ and ‘Wormhole’ are defined by some brilliantly strange low-ends - you’ll be thinking of Mr. Oizo’s ‘Flat Beat’ with the wiggly former, while the gurgling, writhing anti-lead that dictates ‘Wormhole’ is oddly thrilling and more than befits the track’s title.

This inventive approach is also apparent in some of the structural choices on Enter Universe. While the tracks here all keep a steady, dancefloor friendly pulse, several of them surprise you by switching up the approach after a minute or two. ‘Pulsation’, ‘Automatik’ and ‘The Mission’ all feature moments where a new element - extra hi-hats, a synth line entering from leftfield - inject fresh impetus into the tune to keep the listener on their toes.

Blackploid may push the sonic envelope on Enter Universe, but this does not mean there is no room for melody. In particular, the cuts here which most strongly channel ‘Computer World’-era Kraftwerk do so by fronting some slyly tuneful work, particularly in the low end of the mix. ‘Unidentified’ serves up delightfully springy chords, ‘Cell Mutation’ leads from the bassline, and ‘Space Curve’ features little cells of melody and counter-melody working together to close Enter Universe out on a high.

Blackploid’s debut LP Enter Universe marries Drexciyan electro and Warp-school electronica with some brilliantly inventive production choices.

RIYL: Legowelt, Cygnus, Proswell, Jensen Interceptor

Enter Universe

Blackploid - Enter Universe

RunnyNose

DJ_HForce_remix_8010

Used tools:
- Renoise Tracker
- F-MDRIVE2612 VSTi by Aly James Lab.
- SPSG VSTi by Aly James Lab.

Creation date: 07.02.2022

Thexder II - The Second Contact (MSX) - Stage 3 [SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis Limitless Rearraged]

This @DarkScienceElectro premiere is for @sergey_am on @hypnoticconnection

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The 12th wave from a Hypnotic Connection, combining the international underground dance culture together in a special collection of the label - VA "Special International volume 2" , which was attended by musicians from different corners of planet earth -  Mexico, Sweden, Israel, Germany, Holland, US and also Russia ! In this compilation, you will hear bouncing techno and acid, some slow-motion synth grumbling and a banger electro & breakbeat tracks. Enjoy this one from Sergey Timoshov - Moscow based musician and dj, also one of main guys of Propaganda club. 

Release date July 31st.

Pre-Order >  https://hypnoticconnection.bandcamp.com/album/va-special-international-vol-2  
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Label on Instagram > https://www.instagram.com/hypnotic_connection

TL PREMIERE : Blackploid - The Unseen [Central Processing Unit]

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