Rephlex Records

Bochum Welt’s 2019 LP ‘Seafire’ and its accompanying remix album are two of the Central Processing Unit label’s most beloved releases. However, links between the two parties run far deeper than just those records.

You see, the tracks that Gianluigi Di Costanzo cut as Bochum Welt in the 1990s and 2000s are in the very DNA of the celebrated Sheffield imprint. Bochum Welt’s drops on labels like Rephlex made for some of the most celebrated electronic music releases of the era and went on to influence producers the world over - including many of those who have turned up on CPU since it launched in 2012.

As such, it makes sense that two of the most crucial EPs from Bochum Welt’s first wave are now being given new life by CPU. ‘Desktop Robotics’ and ‘Feelings On A Screen’ initially emerged in 1997 via Aphex Twin’s Rephlex imprint. Now, Di Costanzo has curated this special CPU release to celebrate both of those EPs making it to 25. This is a reissue with a twist, though. While ‘Desktop Robotics / Feelings On A Screen’ features many crucial cuts from the original pressings, the record also serves up other gems gathered from Bochum Welt’s original master tapes - all of which have never previously been released on vinyl.

The ‘Desktop Robotics’ cuts which make for the record’s first half are dreamy, impressionistic things. On this quartet, Bochum Welt plays painterly synth work off of idiosyncratic drum programming to illuminating effect. The opening title-track, for instance, blooms from a clattering, distorted beat into an icily beguiling electronic soundscape, a vibe which carries through to following number ‘HMT (202 Mix)’.

Things become more weightless on ‘Leafs Brought By The Wind’, a potent vignette where you can almost see the leaves falling amidst its reverb-drenched haze. We then get ethereal ‘Marylebone (Demo Version)’. Anyone who’s heard the iteration of ‘Marylebone’ which appeared on Bochum Welt’s 2017 LP ‘April’ will be pleasantly surprised by this alternate mix. Here the track pulls away from pretty post-minimalist piano composition to widescreen ambience - it’s so warm and intimate that it feels like peeking behind a curtain to observe an artist at work.

Things ramp up a notch with the tracks taken from in and around ‘Feelings On A Screen’. The title cut kicks off the record’s second half in limber fashion, its nimble percussion programming dancing around a pulsing bassline. Like A Tim’s mix of ‘Greenwich’ is still as much of a party-starter as it was on the original ‘Feelings On A Screen’ release, with the Djax-Up-Beats veteran setting buoyant rhythm work against a playful, eccentric lead-line. 

Between these tunes we are treated to one of the gems of the Bochum Welt discography. In 2007, Di Costanzo split an EP with Heinrich Mueller, an artist best known as Drexciya’s Gerald Donald. That record featured Mueller’s ‘Z Version’ of Bochum Welt’s ‘Saint’, and the track’s appearance here, with machine gun bass burbling alongside strange textures, joins the dots between Di Constanzo’s style and the pulsating machine-funk that Donald helped popularise. Things close out with ‘North’, a frostily beautiful ambience which makes for a fitting bookend to this album when taken alongside ‘Desktop Robotics’.

This 25th anniversary re-release of Bochum Welt’s ‘Desktop Robotics’ and ‘Feelings On A Screen’ EPs reminds us that, while time may have passed, the appeal of Bochum Welt’s electronic music remains as strong as ever.

RIYL: AFX, Mike Paradinas, Boards Of Canada, Mrs Jynx

Bochum Welt - Desktop Robotics & Feelings On A Screen (25th Anniversary Edition)

From KR105: hÄK/Danzeisen - same
LP / DL / limited edition tape out on april 28th

hÄK/Danzeisen: Aufwärts

Global Goon - 30.03.23 / PhOsFox EDIT001

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/

https://www.discogs.com/release/7001452-%C2%B5-Ziq-Metal-Thing-2

µ-Ziq - Metal Thing #2

005

On this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report, 
we explore the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, in Stockholm, 1986.
Some time not long before midnight, Palme was walking back home with his wife, Lisbeth Palme, after cinema, on the flattened in snow cold streets of Central Stockholm, until they suddenly being shot at close range, leaving Lisbeth injured, and Olof dying on is arrival at the Sabbatsberg Hospital, at midnight. 
Official & independent investigations took place post-murder/crime, [even targeting South African government as a suspect,] resulting 4 potential perpetrators, setting the stage's light upon a particular individual who fitted the suspect profile, nicknamed "The Skandia Man", named after their working place at a building [under the same name] next to the crime scene. 
On June 10 2020, there had been a public statement, that Swedish prosecutors knew who killed the Prime Minister, naming Stig Engstrom as the murderer. He was one out of the 20 people who were the key witnesses of the assassination & got identified by 2 famous public figures, who also were witnessing the incident when it was occuring.
Whilst Engstrom was dead at the time, [by committing suicide in 2000], Swedish authorities closed the investigation on Palme's death.
Starting the first half of the show under sub-zero temperatures
with ice-cold Dungeon Synth soundscapes and razor-sharp Black Metal moments 
blended with an abyssal Power Electronics tornado that threateningly comes back and forth, 
[indicating the corrupt likewise K-Hole of politics and it's related parties,] several minutes before the end of the first half, reaches to a point that symbolizes a gun shooting that it penetrates the human body, the moment the first blood drop touches the snowy ground, and what was felt like a normal night, blackens the image of comfort with hatred & murder, we get into the painted-black second half, where we face a Raw Black Metal & Dungeon Synth assault, that bludgeons every form of innocence, in the depths of the depths of a snow-white Hell, blindly & desperately searching for accusations and the guilty,  in a room full of nameless & faceless suspects and deformed & decomposed corpses, both unidentified.

P.S. Both tend to engrave a pathway in experimentation using raw black/dungeon synth influences in the name of progression, through amps & electronics [by also streaming unreleased material from both sides], as an attempt to overcome the ever-changing modern routine's decay, fading like fresh blood on the streets, as time, seasons & people are passing by, no matter, how, where & why it got spilled.

For over two decades JZK has used his Crave project to fray rap at its fringes, using Memphis and Houston's low-and-slow legacy to inform sounds that have as much in common with Merzbow as they do Tommy Wright III.
Working under a variety of different monikers such as Lieu Noir, Sniper Bait, nevada_jerky_gurl23 and Soul Collector,  he is most prolific as Crave. 
JZK is also the person behind the [currently] Paris-based label P.I.T. [Paso Inferior Tapes], 
that focuses on the experimental sound & concept fields, such as noise, dungeon synth, raw black etc.

https://www.instagram.com/crave__________ 
https://www.instagram.com/p_i_t_________/
https://www.instagram.com/paso_inferior_________/
https://soundcloud.com/c-r-a-v-e
https://cccrave.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0tPIuumOO2D4zO8o72bqlT?si=r3FJLbpiScGjyU4spkGFsw

F.B.I. Pathology Report 005 w/ Morgan Hall invites CRAVE (22.07.23)

Global Goon - Shazbot / 03 // MetaGFS

Compilation of festival EPs ripped from cassette by ponkachonka and processed (noise reduction etc) by me. All content owned by Richard D. James / Aphex Twin / Warp Records. plz dont sue

Bristol 02.09.23

dgitne tst1e

Brianv2

xartprb39181101123

Module 2

That's Mutuality

Lunakhod

Mechanique

Radiopropulsive

TRISTAN - BOOM [OUTRAGEOUS REC]

ESX  - Pattern - 25 - Spontane Runde

SUNDAY MORNING RAVE

“I Care Because He Does.”









This is a page inspired by the artist Richard D. James, more specifically, his work on the Rephlex Records label, unreleased/rare releases, and the album he released under the alias “The Tuss”, called “Rushup Edge.” Leading up to this official release, there were multiple MySpace pages said to be accounts belonging to The Tuss. At this point in 2023, it is still unclear how much of these Tuss accounts Rich was involved in… the only confirmed RDJ Tuss material are the aforementioned “Rushup Edge”, and the ep the preceded it, called “Confederation Trough”.

This page also focuses heavily on the “SoundCloud Dump”, which was a series of releases uploaded to a number of anonymous accounts on SoundCloud that eventually became clear to the world to be Richard. It is an astonishing amount of material - spanning his entire artistic career. They eventually were taken down by his record label, but there are a number of folks that compiled each track in a zip archive and can be downloaded for free to this day on archive.org. 

Though this page is dedicated to and inspired by Aphex Twin - I came to a turning point with where to take this page. The main goal is to promote. In other words,  to provide a place online for fans of Aphex Tain to easily stream the best of their favorite artist, as well as showing younger fans of electronic music who I believe is the greatest electronic musician. 

I’ve also uploaded various tracks from a few other artists that are either collaborators, influencers or those influenced by Aphex Twin. You will find some original DJ mixes done by me and some straight up “mixtape” style hour long tracks arranged by and mastered by me. 

I do not profit in any way from this monetarily speaking, but I do get a lot out of seeing the comments and the joy that the songs uploaded bring about, and archives are important.

https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/adopt-me

https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/blackbox-life-recorder-21f-in-a-room7-f760

https://squarepusher.bandcamp.com/album/dostrotime-1

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/grush



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