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TL Premiere #1752 (2024.09.20) : Maelstrom - Suede [Central Processing Unit]

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For this 282nd Premiere of 2024, we have a track by the French electronic music producer and co-founder of RAAR (@raarraar) "Maelstrom" (@maelstrom) titled ‘Suede’ from his forthcoming EP "The FM Tapes" on the independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 2012, specialising in electronic music : Central Processing Unit (@cpurecords).

The EP will be available on October 4, 2024 in Limited Edition 12" Vinyl + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://centralprocessingunit.bandcamp.com/album/the-fm-tapes

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Release Info :

Maelstrom - The FM Tapes

Preview here: https://soundcloud.com/cpurecords/maelstrom-the-fm-tapes

Maelstrom returns to Central Processing Unit for the fourth time, and it's the one born Joan-Mael Péneau's lengthiest drop on the Sheffield label yet. The French artist has been a mainstay in the European electro game since the 2000s, and Malestrom brings that experience to bear on new LP The FM Tapes. He goes about this album with the assurance of a seasoned pro, combining his mastery of electro production techniques with a trademark guile to craft an expertly-paced eleven-track affair.

The first section of The FM Tapes sets out the album's stall with style and aplomb - listeners are in store for a rich feast of off-kilter machine-funk which will feature no shortage of intriguing detours. On opener 'Ondes Courtes' the mix throbs with all manner of strange electronic gristle: a distorted bass hum rattles the monitors; wisps of distortion float across the mix; eerily pretty keys wax and wane before giving way to a radar pulse.

'Ondes Courtes' is an ominous slouch of a scene-setter, and it lines things up perfectly for following cut 'Alt50ser' to lock in. This track's churning, gurgling mid-tempo rattle brings to mind the wacky insistence of Modeselektor. Maelstrom repeats the slow-fast one-two again directly afterwards - 'La Vie Sociale Des', a strange nugget that sounds like an early Eski instrumental stripped for parts and blasted into the cosmos, is an ideal prelude to the twitchy space-funk of 'My Digitone'. 

Maelstrom's staying power in the electro world comes, in no small part, from his ability to apply his delightfully idiosyncratic choices to some of the genre's staple production tropes. On The FM Tapes, he marks himself out once more as a pleasingly unorthodox talent by taking tracks in unexpected directions to produce surprising - and often rather moving - results. 

There are multiple cuts here which channel the more cerebral end of Richard D. James' AFX/Analord output: 'My Digitone' may be a quicksilver techno-electro number, but there's still something cinematic about the synth treatment here which softens the edges; 'Suede's minor-key oscillations bring other CPU veterans like Cygnus and Bochum Welt into view; 'Res 06', one of two Fasme collaborations on the record, is full of pathos even as the beat programming bangs and whirrs throughout. 

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Maelstrom's latest drop for Sheffield's Central Processing Unit label is an album of leftfield electro numbers that bring both pounding beats and poignant production. 

RIYL: KiNK, Modeselektor, Cygnus, Bochum Welt, AFX

Tracklist :
01. Ondes Courtes
02. Alt50ser
03. La Vie Sociale Des
04. My Digitone
05. Res 06 (Feat. Fasme)
06. Suede
07. Target003
08. The Operator
09. Trempo (Feat. Fasme)
10. Upside Down DX7
11. Algo Tango

releases October 4, 2024

All tracks written and produced by Joan-Mael Péneau.
Tracks 5 & 9 by Tom Ferreira & Joan-Mael Péneau.
Mastered at Computer Club Sheffield
Design by Human / www.humanstudio.com

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