TL Premiere #1153 (2023.02.03) : Blackploid - Silent Room [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 18th Premiere of 2023, we have a track by the veteran German Electro DJ, producer & composer Martin Matiske, aka "Blackploid" (@martin-matiske), titled ‘Silent Room’ from his forthcoming LP "Enter Universe" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (@cpurecords).

The album will be available on February 17, 2023 in Limited edition 2x12" vinyl LP + Digital. 

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

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Release Info :

Blackploid - Enter Universe 

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.

Tracklist :
01. Pulsation
02. Material Collapse
03. Planetary Nebula
04. Automatik
05. The Mission
06. Wormhole
07. Silent Room
08. IQ
09. Unidentified
10. Cell Mutation
11. Vacuum Movement
12. Space Curve

Enter Universe

Silent Room

TL PREMIERE : Blackploid - Silent Room [Central Processing Unit]

"Kri Records strike back with a cassette compilation under an appropriate name: Trust the Rust! One of the rust dealers is one of our fav electro producers Ole Mic Odd coming from LA and having released on Zement among others. The compilation will be out on 28th of April."

Ole Mic Odd 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ole-mic-odd
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/olemicodd/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olemicodd/

KRI Records
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kri-records
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/krirecords
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kri_records/

PREMIERE: Ole Mic Odd - Power Squad (KRI Records)

TL Premiere #1237 (2023.05.09) : Elektrotechnik - Exzess [Fanzine Records]

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For this 102nd Premiere of 2023, we have the title track from the mysterious German producer "Elektrotechnik" of his forthcoming EP "Exzess" on the Spanish label : Fanzine Records.

The EP will be available from May 12, 2023 in digital only on all platforms.

▶︎ Pre-order : 
Bandcamp : www.fanzinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/exzess
Beatport : www.beatport.com/release/exzess-ep/4094454

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Release Info : 

Elektrotechnick - Exzess EP [Fanzine Records // FAN029D]

Tracklist :
1. Elektrotechnik - Exzess
2. Elektrotechnik - Automatic
3. Elektrotechnik - Invasion
4. Elektrotechnik - Ghost Train

releases May 12, 2023

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Follow Elektrotechnik : 
Beatport : www.beatport.com/artist/elektrotechnik/1026722
Instagram : www.instagram.com/elektrotechnik_official

Follow Fanzine Records :
Bandcamp : www.fanzinerecords.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/542972-Fanzine-Records
Facebook : www.facebook.com/fanzinerecordsspain
Instagram : www.instagram.com/fanzine_project
RA : www.ra.co/labels/9467
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/fanzine-project
Twitter : www.twitter.com/fanzineproject
Website : www.fanzineproject.com

Exzess EP

Exzess

TL PREMIERE : Elektrotechnik - Exzess [Fanzine Records]

Artist: Drakkar Noir / @marcosegato
Album: Means of Control
Label: @fu-me-rec
Release date: 12/06/2023
Format: Digital & Cassette
Buy: https://fumerec.bandcamp.com/album/means-of-control

DRAKKAR NOIR – Means of Control
This is a soundtrack to imaginary nightime streetscapes in a world that resembles our own.
Crumbling asphalt slick with oil and grease reflects the woozy glow of late night bodegas in acrid pink, yellow and green. 
Drakkar Noir is a feceless figure who inhabits this world, an alias shamelessly lifted from a sleazy and long out-of-fashion scent, a brand name derived from a mashup of mythical pretensions and hollow advertising jargon. Part Human and part digital fiction, Drakkar Noir is, like the city itself, a shapeshifter who feeds and is fed by the collective dreams and nightmares floating above the buildings and into smoke-filled skies.

Side A
A1_All Fours 
A2_Calibrator  
A3_Fax of Doom  
A4_Glimmer  
A5_Clutchu  
A6_The Way Out (Digital Bonus Track)

Side B :
B1_Clutchu (Katatonic Silentio Rmx) 
B2_Calibrator (Marco Segato Rmx) 
B3_Clutchu (Moken Rmx) 
B4_Calibrator (Bakunin Commando Rmx)
B5_All Fours (MANASYt's Oxycution Mix) 

Written by : Richard Gamble.
Artwork: Baba IAga
Cat: FU.ME XIX
Limited Cassette to 30 items.

--lunacymodule.com--

PREMIER // Drakkar Noir - Calibrator (Marco Segato Rmx) [Fume]

Out now: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/count-8

EP playlist: soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/sets/out-now-credit-00-count-8

Following up on his Data Phobia and Beats For The Streets EPs, @credit00ratlife returns with a mind-bending blend of past, present and future, carefully pieced together in a way that could come from no other.

From the mind to the floor, from dark and cold machinefunk to blazed-out sun grooves, Credit 00 leaves no sonic traveler yearning.

A1 Count 8
A2 Ratlife In The Sunshine
B1 Breathe One Two
B2 The Mental Voice
B3 Cosmic Ghetto

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instagram.com/mechatronicamusic

Count 8

[ Buy on Bandcamp ]

Credit 00 - Cosmic Ghetto [MTRON032]

Timed Erase - Recombinant Identity [EP] [2023]

01. Human Substrate
02. Interlink
03. Neurotechnology
04. Recombinant Identity

July 15 on Bandcamp
Catalog Number : URON-31

Recombinant Identity

Timed Erase - Recombinant Identity [EP] [2023]

Release Info :

V.Artists - Reinforce

Mars Frequency Records presents "Reinforce". A compilation with different artists from different places of the planet. This time we can find Saigg (@saigg) with an original track and Alex Gordiy (@alex-gordiy), Cyberdom (@cyb3rdom), EKATA (@ekatamusic), Jessica Bellomo (@jessicabellomo), Kim Cosmik (@kimcosmik), Robert Cosmic (@robert_cosmic) and The Bandit (@thebandit808) as remixers.

The album will be available for free download and donations will go to charitable causes.

Tracklist :
1. Saigg - Ajmeb
2. Saigg - Ajmeb (Alex Gordiy Remix)
3. Saigg - Ajmeb (Cyberdom Remix)
4. Saigg - Ajmeb (EKATA Remix)
5. Saigg - Ajmeb (Jessica Bellomo Remix)
6. Saigg - Ajmeb (Kim Cosmik Remix)
7. Saigg - Ajmeb (Robert Cosmic Remix)
8. Saigg - Ajmeb (The Bandit Remix)

released August 2, 2023

PREMIERE : Saigg - Ajmeb (EKATA Remix)

Hardenberg vs. The Machines, produced in 2022/23.
Artwork by GenZArt.
Check my bandcamp!

bandcamp

Human All Too Human

WHOWHATWHEREWHEN?

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JAX CARTER (US) - DOECHI DRIVE.wav

This track was created in less than 24 hours as part of FORM's All Nighter Volume 10 event. I didn't get in but it was a great learning experience :)

@artbyform

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