For this @DarkScienceElectro Rewind we take a listen to a track from @kan3da originally from his debut album on Transient Force.

Swedish artist Kan3da has always had a way of making emotionally charged Electro music that cuts straight to my heart. When I first heard this album in 2008 I felt like it needed its own genre. Kan3da's music has all the charm of New Romantic music with the cold sounds of Gerald Donald. The track that I chose to highlight has been played out by me so many times that I couldn't possibly count. This album was re-released by Kan3da after the collapse of Transient Force. 

Find Kan3da:
https://www.facebook.com/kan3da/
https://kan3da.bandcamp.com/music
http://kan3da.com/
https://www.instagram.com/k.a.n.3.d.a
https://www.twitter.com/kan3da

Swan Machine

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Electro Rewind: Kan3da - OutputVector (2008)

We find ourselves in a distant future where the remaining population of Earth is ruled by a mysterious AI that calls itself EVA. EVA has sent human-piloted research vessels to the farthest reaches of the galaxy to scout for potentially habitable planets and report any findings. These are the Occupants and they're slowly awakening as EVA's grip on their minds erodes.

Releasing February on double 12" orange vinyl with color cover jacket.

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A2 Kim Cosmik - Morning Star

Tensor Norm is back. In this ocassion, we visit differents locations of the world geography to bring you an 12" EP full of electro, breaks, acid and IDM.
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Various - Almost Everywhere
A1 - Clone Theory - Cell Reprogramming
A2 - Sigma_ALgebra - Automorphism
A3 - LectrO cOd_E - Morphology
B1 - Liðvarð - Amenacid
B2 - Jaquarius - Phanaire Luses
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Artwork by demartes estudio
Mastered by Steve Voidloss at Black Monolith Studios (London)

Various - Almost Everywhere (NORM002)

Rise of the Machines is the debut collaboration between two exciting new players in the electro scene - Erik Griffoen & Ben Evans aka The Droid, who have been forging new sounds across a multitude of heavy tracks over the past two years that have picked up strong radio support from Dave Clarke on White Noise, Ralph Lawson on Exit Planet Earth and Qamar Sol on Space is the Place, alongside plays from by ADT, Paul Hierophant, Damo B and Dexorcist.

ROTM features four tracks of cutting edge electro that transition from peak time in the club to moments of pure tripped out musical bliss, all delivered with expert production and sound design.

Kicking off the release comes the title track ‘Rise Of The Machines’, this quirky yet nuanced excursion sets the pace, allowing it’s nifty ricocheting sequences, slick 808s, and tripped out ear candy to hit the clubs. ‘Prisoners features a wiggly bass led jam, plastered with synths and finished with a dash of vocoded vocals.

Onto the flip side - ‘Room And Pillar’ grabs the bull by the horns with a tough and aggressive bass line driven banger. Shrieking, twisted synth lines and FX are shattered across the track, keeping tension levels peaking, while TR808 rhythms cut through with military precision. Contrasting ‘The Neutral Zone’ sucks us into a deep atmospheric orbit of blissful yet inquisitive FM synthesis, distant emotive pads, fortified by warm stately bass tones.

A1 - Rise of the Machines
A2 - Prisoners
B1 - Room and Pillar
B2 - The Neutral Zone

VIS327: Lloyd Stellar X The Droid - Rise Of The Machines

When talking about eccentric electro, issu has got to be mentioned as one of the up and coming producers of 2022. His hard and edgy brand of electro leaves no survivors as it rips through the auditory system of listeners. He's back at the Dallas, Texas based Science Cult as one of their core label family and continues to deliver high octane releases.

issu - Edge Connector

TL Premiere #857 (2022.03.04) : Fleck E.S.C - Rough Silk [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 55th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by French electronic music producer, now based in Tokyo, Japan "Fleck E.S.C." (aka Franck Collin) titled ‘Rough Silk’ from his forthcoming EP "Rough Silk" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (CPU Records).

"Fleck E.S.C - Rough Silk" will be available on March 18, 2022 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl EP + Digital.

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

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Fleck E.S.C - Rough Silk [Central Processing Unit]

For more than a decade now, Fleck E.S.C. has marked himself out as one of the most playful and prolific producers in the electro game. Across dozens of releases for labels including Bass Agenda and Science Cult, the France-born, Japan-based artist has made his name through a production style which balances limber beats with exploratory textural work.

Fleck E.S.C. debuted on Central Processing Unit in 2018 with the Discrete Opinion EP. Now, after stopping by the Sheffield label last year on a Silicon Scally remix job, Fleck E.S.C. delivers his second EP for CPU in the form of Rough Silk. The record’s intriguing title proves an apt introduction to this four-track affair. These cuts are at once sleek and abrasive, anchored by robotechnic machine-funk grooves yet also full of strange, shifting shapes.

The opening title-track expertly sets out Rough Silk’s stall. Heralded by gurgling synths and all manner of whirring percussive tones, ‘Rough Silk’ blossoms around the minute mark with the introduction of a wickedly buoyant lead synth. This is music at once visceral and full of mystery, the sound of wending through the back alleys, and the feeling carries through to the following cut ‘Hat in the Cat’ - as the synth pads spool out overhead, the machine-funk snap of the beat has an almost aquatic quality that links it back to Drexciya.

Much like ‘Rough Silk’, the record’s first B-side ‘Faking Sweet’ also shifts gears. The opening strains of the track seem to be preparing for another insistent, expansive broken-beat pulse, but it stiffens its neck around ninety seconds in. Programmed drums whirr around a jittery machine-gun bass while discordant synths pull at the edges of the track, all of which brings a strong dystopian energy that increases further as the percussion sounds become increasingly bug-eyed.

After so much excitement, ‘Digger Play’ closes out the EP with a softer touch. There’s still plenty of low-slung bounce to the beat, but the track runs a little slower, and there’s a warm wistfulness in the synths which gives ‘Digger Play’ a painterly, almost poetic feel. However, while it may take its foot off the gas, the production here is as deft as it is everywhere else on Rough Silk.

With new EP Rough Silk, electro whizz Fleck E.S.C. brings the sort of casual mastery to proceedings that has characterised his career to date.

RIYL: Silicon Scally, Jensen Interceptor, Annie Hall

Tracklist :
01. Rough Silk
02. Hat in the Cat
03. Faking Sweet
04. Digger Play

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

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Follow Fleck E.S.C :
Bandcamp : www.fleckesc1.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/fleckesc
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/fleck

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

Rough Silk

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TL PREMIERE : Fleck E.S.C - Rough Silk [Central Processing Unit]

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Buy here: https://dvsnme.bandcamp.com/album/agitation-propaganda

Exactly one year after his 2021 release entitled 'The Electro Manifesto', DVS NME returns with a collection of new tracks that were produced between late 2021 and early 2022. This 25-track album is another thematic nod to class struggle with the hope to stir class consciousness in listeners. Every song title makes reference to some tenant of the destructive and unequal economic system called capitalism as well as its ever-looming shadow socialism. Even the album cover borrows inspiration from Soviet-era propaganda, re-adapting the artistic styles of many communist agitators. 

This album, as with the last, relies heavily on the sounds of classic Electro machines like Mono/Poly, MS-20, SH-101, Jupiter-8, Juno-106, SH-2, System 100, Juno 60, JX-3P, TB-303, Polysix, TR-606, OB-8, TR-808, ARP Odyssey, as well as some contemporary additions to his studio like Hydrasynth, System 8, MC-101, Prophet Rev2, Novation Peak, Minilogue, SE-02, and Microkorg.

DVS NME is the man behind the weekly radio show/daily blog called 'Dark Science Electro' and has been a dedicated contributor for the Electro community for the last 11 years. He shares his love of Electro music by posting Electro-affiliated news, art, mixes, albums, memes, concerts, tracks, gear, and more. This album is available for $15 USD

25-Track Album for $15

DVS NME - Agitation Propaganda

PGM-014 - Ultradyne

Dalmata Daniel ‎– DD010
DJ Overdose - Powers Of Ten EP 
(w/ J. Mono Remix)
[12" Vinyl* / Digital]
*Two bonus tracks

Like meeting an old friend again, Dalmata Daniel welcomes DJ Overdose back to their catalog. Six years ago the infamous Dutchman’s ’05 Poly 800 Loop’ EP was released, which served as a powerful launch to Dalmata Daniel, opening the first chapter in their story. Later in 2019, a split release with Sematic4 was also a highlight in the life of the label; and now, 3 years later, DJ Overdose checks in with the ‘Powers of Ten EP’ with a J. Mono remix, available both in digital and vinyl format, the latter having 2 bonus tracks.

The distinct, crunchy sound of DJ Overdose, bearing aspects of old school hip-hop-infused sampling and contemporary analog vibes creates the perfect blend of both worlds. ‘Garden of Lust’ opens up the adventure with a combo of warm basslines and solid drum-programming. This initial track feeds us these cardinal elements as the bread and butter they are: subtle variations and fine spices do appear here and there as the track goes along, but the key, beating pulse in ‘Garden of Lust’ brings massive hits stable as a sledgehammer in the hands of a blacksmith.

‘Feed The Beats’ elevates the game to cinematic territories: its majestic string-like central melody makes me alert and ablaze, making me feel like I’m in a late 80s L.A. setting facing malevolent zombie-aliens in my Wayfarer shades. Blasting beats and Carpenterian coolness all over the place, while the spooky bassline just keeps sneaking up on me endlessly.

If you are wondering when’s the best time of the year to bring out your boombox at last, then this is your lucky day: with ’BOB’, the first bonus track on the vinyl, we can experience some roarin’ bassdrums, snappy snares, MCs with the speed of light and all that jazz. The low-bit sampling and vinyl scratching come and kick you right in the face so hard that it becomes pretty obvious you’ll can’t help but start some serious beatbox battles in your bathtub with your rubber duck.

A feverish groove in the prime time of a funky bash, in the haze of a sensual rave-up: that’s all one really wants when going for a Saturday night out. We definitely get this and much more from ‘Room 714’, another vinyl-only bonus track. A berserk voice and ethereal chords guide us through this mysterious track, but while we are busy trying to impress our crushes on the dance floor, things around us are slowly getting very, very freaky, maybe a bit way too freaky.

As wobbly and jolly as it gets, our Dutch friend ends his session with ‘Ðr ¡v€ M€ ¢r@z¥’, a vocoder-heavy disco banger, full of merry vocal FX and smart rhythmic glitches as he completes his flight. To close the EP, our local hero, J. Mono delivers an insane remix of ‘Ðr ¡v€ M€ ¢r@z¥’: one can clearly imagine how he grabs and turns the BPM knob all the way up, fires up some arpeggios on his mighty synths and casts a complete reimagination of the original track.

– Gabor Gyulai 

All Tracks Produced by @jayoverdose at Backstabber Basement.
Remix Produced by @j-mono-1

Mastered by A.P (GS Mastering & Post)
www.ghostsounds.net

Art Director / Artwork by Daniel Jani (Studio Jetski)
www.instagram.com/studiojetski

© 2022 Dalmata Daniel
www.dalmatadaniel.com

Triple Vision Record Distribution: https://distribution.triplevision.nl

Powers Of Ten EP

DD010: DJ Overdose - Powers Of Ten EP (w/ J. Mono Remix) [SNIPPETS]

E.L.E.C.T.R.O

Artists : 

Deemphasis
0=3
The Hidden Persuader
The Droid
Lloyd Stellar
Sin:it:sin
Isolated Material
Fotoapparat
Datawave
Kretz
Maschine Brennt
Francois Dillinger
Sound Synthesis
DVS NME
Fleck ESC
Franck Kartell
Commuter
SIAK PHD
Jauzas The Shining
MicroControlUnit
MetaComplex
Automat
Dexterous Numerics
The Outsider
Pi-xl
TNT
Offset

Remixers :

Dark Vektor
Pip Williams
Magik Bitum
Oort Cloud

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