completely forgot how brilliant this is 🥰

Beautiful melodic take on Electro, hut ab! 

i dont have words to express my love for this track!

Cosmic electro with a proper dose of acid, perfect!

2021 has been something of a banner year for Central Processing Unit. Less than a decade on from its first release, the Sheffield imprint brought up a century of catalogue items earlier in 2021 with Cygnus’ fittingly-titled ‘100% Dope’ EP. 

Reaching such a milestone would cause many to pause and reflect on their achievements. However, as well as taking stock, CPU has continued to drop new music at an impressive clip - Blackploid, Silicon Scally and London Modular Alliance are just a few of the cult favourites to issue new material via CPU in the past twelve months.

With FASME & Maelstrom’s Lotus 48 EP, CPU round out 2021 with yet another cracking electro collection. For the latter, this is par for the course - Maelstrom’s catalogue stretches back to the 1990s, and the one born Joan-Mael Péneau has already delivered two fine records on CPU in the past. However, Lotus 48 represents another line in the sand on account of it being Fasme’s label debut.

No matter who is at the controls, Lotus 48 carries itself with a panache which signifies that Fasme & Maelstrom are both in their element here. Many of the tracks are anchored by the sort of snapping machine-funk grooves which have become something of a calling card for CPU down the years. 

That said, as well as club-ready rhythm work, Fasme & Maelstrom also deliver some gorgeous synth textures which evoke the golden age of Boards of Canada and AFX. A-sides ‘Almond Blossom’ and ‘Ciliae’ both follow this formula fabulously well. The bass and drum programming will delight those who have enjoyed recent CPU drops from Cygnus, Silicon Scally et al, while technotronic synth pads open up hidden depths.

The title-track kicks off Lotus 48’s B-side with another sleek, slick beat. After introducing gurgling basslines and ghostly tinklings of synth, ‘Lotus 48’ soon locks into a slamming breakneck groove which is sure to send the dance into raptures. It’s an energy which carries through to closer ‘Moneres’, a joint which contrasts booming drum programming with chordal washes taken straight out of the dub-techno playbook.

Fasme & Maelstrom expertly combine machine-funk grooves with deft synth play on the Lotus 48 EP.

RIYL: Automatic Tasty, Silicon Scally, Cygnus, Splitradix

Lotus 48

Fasme & Maelstrom - Lotus 48

Artist: ALONZO
Track: Murmurio
Release: Imamiah
Cat: AS009
Label: Hilltown Disco https://soundcloud.com/hilltown-disco
Release date: 30 Sep 22
Format: Digital
Pre-order: https://hilltowndiscouk.bandcamp.com/album/imamiah

DT PREMIERE: Alonzo - Murmurio [AS009] (2022)

Distance

Pleasure Seeker | Distance

https://www.discogs.com/Lost-Trax-Life-Out-Of-Balance/release/8061486

Life Out Of Balance

‘Plannt’ begins with some unaccompanied moody chords which quickly fold in favour of a truly arresting electro composition, and this is where @shinra truly allows himself to shine. The underlying rhythmic sirens help to highlight the sheer density of this track and its elements: the flexible and richly layered nature which persists throughout means that ‘Plannt’ is one that can suit both listening on the floor and on headphones in equal measure.

The Meteor EP is out May 12th on @analogicalforce.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2pySXQo

Premiere: Shinra – Plannt [Analogical Force]

Taken from [BT20] Caron - Haunted Memory, out this week

Caron - Reflection

Vertical67 - Sapphire Blue taken from Out Of The Void (VTX009)

Out Of The Void is out now
https://vortextraks.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-void

Bordello A Parigi: bit.ly/VTX009-Bordello
Clone: bit.ly/VTX009-Clone
Juno: bit.ly/VTX009-Juno
Deejay: http://bit.ly/VTX009_Deejay
Decks: bit.ly/VTX009-Decks
HHV: bit.ly/VTX009-HHV
Redeye: bit.ly/VTX009-RedEye

Vertical67
Website: http://www.vertical67.com/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/vertical67/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vertical67/

Out Of The Void

Vertical67 - Sapphire Blue

Bandcamp

In Stasis ( Conflux 2 EP - AC Records)

Through organized chaos we seek resurrection and inmortality. Sound and fury to the system, Electro-Ambient from the south: Mekas send the message, from Buenos Aires to the unknown. 

Get it here__
Bandcamp: https://tinyurl.com/ydhl3er2
Clone: https://tinyurl.com/y94emums
Redeye: https://tinyurl.com/y98dx22v
Lobster Records: https://tinyurl.com/yc2pgl7e
Deejay.de: https://tinyurl.com/ycrhymku
Juno: https://tinyurl.com/ycjqoabr
Decks: https://tinyurl.com/ycelj6vq
HHV: https://tinyurl.com/y7yoznrt
Disco Piu: https://tinyurl.com/y4ysmlxl
Oye: https://tinyurl.com/y6c42nlt

Cat. number__ INS 4
Release date__ 05—02—19
Mastered__ Manmade Mastering, Berlin 
Distributed__ Lobster Distribution, London 
Pressed__ R.A.N.D. Muzik, Leipzig 
Artwork: Daniel Senior 
Photo: A work of Luz Peuscovich in collaboration with Janne Maria Lysen and Eli Cornejo. 

Tracklist__
A1 Mekas - Chaosmos 
A2 Mekas - Tension Lines 
B1 Mekas - Catalyze
B2 Mekas - Extrapolar

Mekas — Chaosmos — INS 4

Crisis returns with a new digital only series by Belgian producer Datawave, whose unique approach on electro was foreshadowed by previous releases on Mechatronica and Natural Sciences.

From the opening arpeggio bassline of Red Nebula, embedded into discrete yet tense energy, leading through Metathesis’ other-wordly noises, and finally breaking out of the cocoon with Chrysalis’ needle-sharp beat — Datawave’s Inceptive EP is infused with space themes and human emotions that echo through dreamy soundscapes.

Rounding up the EP is Exhausted Modern’s remix of Red Nebula. One half of Prague’s Endless Illusion crew, he has established his work as a producer on labels like Brokntoys and VEYL and contributes to Inceptive with a more organic and analogue re-interpretation that perfectly accentuates the original’s essence.

Release date: 28th June 2019

Datawave 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/datawave
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Datawave01/

Crisis
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/crisis-records
Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/crisisbp/

Exhausted Modern
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/exhausted-modern
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/exhaustedmodern/

Inceptive

PREMIERE: Datawave - Red Nebula - (Exhausted Modern remix) (Crisis)

Following up our 7“ series, here we go with our first 12“ release with a selection of inner circle artists.

Out of the “Internationale Normalitätszentrale” Bufiman delivers the soundtrack - a looong breakbeat piece loaded with Casio CZ sequences in form of sunbeams which are tickling your senses, Wolf Mülleresque kinda adlibs floating around your head and are stimulating your membrana tympanica. Precise snare drum samples from all around the globe transmitted via the MPC minister are throbbing. This is the “Members Of Warning Theme 2020”.

A darker and more disturbing approach comes from our family member Nadia D’Alò under her DALO alias. This track is more like - did you ever went to a dark and sweaty basement Electro party while in the middle of the floor at 04:20 a yellow purple sprinkled zebraseal named “ZAFRAM“ Mc Schnork wants to sell you liability insurance for a special discount? The 808 is bouncing, accents are placed carefully and harsh but also cute baby demon vocal effects are panning in between all 4 dimensions while the 303 hits you so hard that your legs are shaking? Then it gets really weird when this strange looking Otter from New York in a pink pony costume pops up and takes out the gear of his attache, offering you everything to pass the bat country safely? Well, it’s Philipp Otterbach's “Otter Space Mix” which put this special flavour on top.

Welcome to Warning 1201 - Enjoy your trip!

https://soundcloud.com/warningberlin

Pre-order

PRÉMIÈRE: Dalo - Zafram [Warning]

Record label based in Berlin
https://linktr.ee/vortex_traks
 
Distribution by Bordello A Parigi: 
https://soundcloud.com/bordellodistribution

Paintings by Alex Harders.

Vertical67 - Sapphire Blue

Vortex Traks

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