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

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Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/424941-Central-Processing-Unit
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Website : www.cpurecords.net
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Field Lines

Inhibitor

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

Summoning - Friendly party series, formed 4 years ago near Tbilisi. After throwing parties at Tbilisi’s finest clubs such as Drama Bar, Cafe Gallery, TES, Prague’s Wildt, Luzern’s Klub Kegelbahn and collaborating with finest names of local scene and likes of Dj Normal 4, Dj Playstation, DJ Spit, it has grown into podcast series and now proudly presents it’s first ever digital release with very first supporters, lineup members and good friends of the label: Generali Minerali & Rydeen, founders and infamous duo mates - Digital Groove Affair, flesh & soul of the label and emerging talent: Nikusha Kakoishvili and a very good friend, long time DJ & producer straight from the icy clear fjords of Norway - Kim Durbeck!
Artwork: Nika Minashvili

Generali Minerali - J For Garage

@ritcheykevin

We have put together 20 timeless heavy rave tunes from both up and coming and well-respected artists around the world for our first various artist compilation. A collection of breaks, electro, juke, and techno for the people that both slam and vibe. Enjoy the electric, eclectic energy and get outside your local sphere of influence: these dance gems are inspired by the sounds of Detroit, LA, and Berlin, and produced by artists from Australia, Canada, Israel and beyond.

Native Boundaries VA 001 will surely turn heads among electro, bass and techno fans as the label takes a decisive turn into heavier and harder territory. Brimming with raw rave energy for the fresh new year, each track is sure to get people moving on the dance floor in 2023.

[NB006] Qulim - Detroitism

For its fifth episode, the last of the year, the rising & shining British label Sound Du Jour welcomes skilled producer Robert Woodward aka Demetae and his exciting three-track “Space-Time Sleaze” EP. Pleasantly troubled by his many influences, the promising Manchester-based artist has a sonority that spams throughout many spectres of dance-floor-oriented electronic music. From House and Acid to Techno and Electro, his output allows him to flirt successfully with a great deal of genres. His brand-new endeavour, for instance, presents heavy doses of Electro Funk – and it’s simply outstanding!

Premiered here, the title track comes packed with a psychedelic and hypnotic but extremely rocking gait. Vocoded lyrics topping rhythmic breakbeats and percussive elements help to set the retro-infused tone and trigger sweet memories of Afrika Bambaataa and Warp 9. The acid atmosphere delivered by the sequenced synth riffs cannot go unmentioned. Kudos!

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://sounddujour1.bandcamp.com/

Follow @demetae and @sounddujour, peeps!

PREMIERE564 // Demeate - Space-Time Sleaze

My first finished track of the year. Some usual stuff. ;)

Radiojet

Dalmata Daniel ‎– DDS09
Timothy J. Fairplay / Norwell
[12" Vinyl / Digital]

Neither Timothy J. Fairplay, nor Norwell are strangers to the Dalmata Daniel family: both of them are trustworthy contributors to DD compilation albums of earlier years, plus Norwell has released his 'ODD' EP and ‘Joint Spaceflights’ EP back in 2017 and 2019 on the label. So this time, it’s a return for Norwell, and a debut for Mr. Fairplay: their DDS09 split EP is here to present 4 tracks full of outer space lights, eerie vibes, mesmerizing beats and cosmic energies.

Timothy J. Fairplay’s side A starts with the explicit kicks and ominous basslines of ‘Caliber 9’. Slowly and steadily, the laser blasts and relentless drums all add up to define a world of space cadets on the run, where any odd-looking figure can turn out to be a malignant, speedy alien. ‘TV Tower’ takes us to another planet with an even higher rotation velocity. Fast percussion elements and squished lower frequencies take center stage in this intergalactic episode, but the whistle-like melodies and descending, bubbling robot signals make the journey complete. 

Flip to side B, and enter the contemplating, otherworldly atmospheres of Norwell. ‘Midnight Rituals’ gives you the chills with its breath-like swooshes, grievous sirens and deadly asteroid belts. Yet, there is no need to worry: after an intense ride with your spaceship, eventually you end up in the same spot, where you started: in the stable and steady mid-tempo beats of an expertly-programmed drummachine. The orbital mission comes to an end with ‘Natives’, a dense and heroic hymn with emotive structures and well-crafted harmonics. The track starts with the bittersweet, lamenting synths of a solo voice, pouring their heart out in the spotlight, all alone on the stage. All of a sudden, a hard-hitting, rhythmic groove commences its last rush of dedicated cadences. It is full of breaks, it is full of 303s, completed with airy echoes and dreamy, light gestures. ‘Natives’ keeps on building its structure with elegant paces, providing a massive, yet delicate experience of Norwell’s defined aesthetics. The track lets the last strokes of its gloomy synths roll out, along with the final round of looping drums, thus putting an end to DDS09.

– Gabor Nemerov

A1* ‎– A2* Written & Recorded by ‎– @Timothy-J-Fairplay in Kingston Upon Hull, 2022
B1** ‎– B2 Written & Recorded by ‎– @Norwell in Pilisborosjenő, 2020

*Published by House Of Klart
**Aditional Vocals by Angela Santa

Art Direction‎ – Daniel Jani (Studio Jetski)
www.instagram.com/studiojetski

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

Executive Producer ‎– @maximilliansinclair

Dalmata Daniel: https://dalmatadaniel.com
Triple Vision Record Distribution: https://distribution.triplevision.nl

DDS09

DDS09: Timothy J. Fairplay / Norwell [SNIPPETS]

You know it when you hear it. It all makes sense. Then  it  doesn't. Then it does.

There and back

Pre-order: 
https://sevenhillsrecords.bandcamp.com/releases

This is a reissue of a short-lived and obscure UK dance music label. A compilation of tracks featured on releases across 3 EP’s between 1991 and 1993 incorporating recently emergent dub techno and progressive acid house sounds. Nation of Noise was conceived in the early 90's, following a meeting of minds between the producer Django and vocalist Jon Martin at the legendary Soho institution: The Brain. 

Plate 1 is a fully remastered reissue of the first Nation of Noise record - Xes Noiz, featuring 4 locked grooves. 

Plate 2 takes two tracks off both the Lockgroove and Super Bubble EP's. One side is smooth, after-hours deep house whilst the other reaches for two progressive, acid cuts. 

Fun facts: 

- Feel the Joy received airtime by Jon Peel on Radio 1 and Elvis Stole My Space Hopper was a favourite of Colin Faver and Colin Dale on KISS FM 
- Kris Needs awarded Xes Noiz record of the week in NME, putting it in the same group as Weatherall and Aphex! 
- Riley Reinholdt raved about Xes Noiz in legendary German publication Spex and travelled to U.K. to interview Jon and Django. 
- Piano Tilt was a playlist favourite of Derrick May 
- Progressive acid house pioneers like Scott Hardkiss began lauding the Nation of Noise imports on the West-Coast sound systems of the San Francisco Bay Area. 
- The A3 of Xes Noiz was a minor hit on the emerging jungle/breakbeat scene. DJ's used to pitch it up before Metalheadz and Photek really defined that abstract sound. 

Nation of Noise 91 - 93 is the first of many records to be released by Seven Hills. 

Plate 1 - Xes Noiz 

A1 - Untitled 
A2 - Untitled 
A3 - Untitled 
B1 - Untitled 
B2 - Untitled 
B3 - Untitled 

Plate 2 - 

A1 - Feel the Joy 
A2 - Piano Tilt 
B1 - Elvis Time 
B2 - Elvis Stole My Space Hopper 

Vocals and Lyrics by Jon ? Martin 
Production & arrangement by Django 
credits
releases August 9, 2018

Seven Hills Presents Nation of Noise 91-93 [PREVIEWS]

Wonders Ovze World - Edits by Alexis Le-Tan 
Medley Mix by @alexisletan

CD / Out 22.12.2018 

There was once The Path. The dusty core - always the reactor: Where bodies internally motivated the Robots Dance. We chose Different Ways of evolution To Move the epicentre of pace flux. But they took it and cast it from us: Who breaks Butterflies upon a wheel? Beating the Devil that haunted our concrete past, A  new  life  set  us  back On a Journey that belonged to transformation. Towards Heaven we continue, Once More Fanning the flames, In the eternalised valley of nowhere, here: The molten aural core - there are no books, no words. Has Van Gogh’s Ear reached its Destination?  We are Full Circle.

- Tom Colebrook

Mastered by Gordon Pohl
Designed by Ill-Studio

IP 03 © Idle Press 2018

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