Label: Central Processing Unit - All

Silicon Scally & Fleck ESC

Slip

Recommended by: Larionov

Silicon Scally and Fleck E.S.C. need no introduction at this stage. Both artists are veterans not just of Sheffield's Central Processing Unit label bu... more...

• 1 Silicon Scally - Phased Array
• 2 Silicon Scally - Stax
• 3 Fleck ESC - Good Ride
• 4 Fleck ESC - Intox Remedy

Noumen

Altum

Altumis is a consummate piece of contemporary electronic production, a technoid exploration of outer-edges electronica that nods to genre greats like... more...

• 01 Oion
• 02 Splitter
• 03 Altum
• 04 Telemask

Blackploid

Cosmic Drama

In recent years, Blackploid has come to be one of Central Processing Unit's signature artists. This prolific run continues with Cosmic Drama, deliveri... more...

• 01 Alien
• 02 World Construction
• 03 Virtual State
• 04 Universe Research

Various Artists

CPU128

*** 1 (one) copy per customer *** With 256 variations allowed for in CPU's eight-bit binary numbering catalogue, CPU now hit the halfway point more t... more...

• 01 Red District Girls - Cygnus
• 02 Stellar Awakening - CN
• 03 Radiant Flux - Plant43
• 04 Diving Loop - Mrs Jynx

Maelstrom

The FM Tapes

Joan-Mael Peneau's latest drop is an album of leftfield electro tracks that bring both pounding beats and poignant production, taking tracks in unexpe... more...

• 01 Ondes Courtes
• 02 Alt50ser
• 03 La Vie Sociale Des Sons
• 04 My Digitone

Lina Filipovich

Idealized

Recommended by: Garcon

Idealized is very much schooled in the German tradition of minimal/dub Techno anchoring on single, steady drum pulses and delay-drenched single-chord... more...

• 01 Physical
• 02 Ultra Red
• 03 Hydra
• 04 Wave

FaltyDL

In the Wake of Wolves

Recommended by: Sound Synthesis

A very nice genre-voracious record, one which marries the rhythmic cut-and-thrust that we have long known FaltyDL for with all manner of adventurous s... more...

• 01 I Need You
• 02 Further
• 03 GasGas
• 04 Minds Protection

Karsten Pflum

Liars

Recommended by: Serge Geyzel

What we have here is a tour de force of modern machine music. Equally apt for home listening or dancefloor deployment, ''Liars'' is a delight for Elec... more...

• 01 WAN1
• 02 Lola
• 03 Mousfolk Acid
• 04 Balm

Larionov

Space Threat

Recommended by: Larionov

Larionov arrives on Central Processing Unit with an EP of anxiously excellent electro experiments. After building up a head of steam on labels such... more...

• 01 Space Threat
• 02 Asteroid Attack
• 03 Flying High
• 04 Vimana Ride

Global Goon

Nanoclusters

Global Goon (who started dropping records on the legendary Rephlex Records back in the 1990s) doesn't need to show off on Nanoclusters. From brilliant... more...

• 01 Khroxic Mould
• 02 Snapterisk
• 03 Metallik
• 04 Syntheseers

NULLPTR

Recursor

Eddie Symons' fine recent run for Central Processing Unit continues. The NULLPTR mastermind makes it four releases on the Sheffield label in five year... more...

• 01 Recursor
• 02 Pulsar
• 03 Phase Function
• 04 Seil

Silicon Scally

Soft Robotics

Carl Finlow keeps on keepin' on. Like its predecessors, Soft Robotics is an excellent and deftly-crafted collection of modern machine-funk.

• 01 Soft Robotics
• 02 Jitters
• 03 Spin Ratio
• 04 Super Fluid Tones

Si Begg

Energie Electrique

It was perhaps only a matter of time before Si Begg rocked up on Central Processing Unit. Begg has released scores of records on some of the most pres... more...

• 01 Energy
• 02 Buckfunk Beatz
• 03 MS10 Machine Funk
• 04 Electro P1 B

Blackploid

Enter Universe

Martin 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... more...

• 01 Pulsation
• 02 Material Collapse
• 03 Planetary Nebula
• 04 Automatik

Annie Hall

Memories That Never Happened

Annie Hall returns to Central Processing Unit with ''Memories That Never Happened'', an EP of masterful electro productions which will delight both cl... more...

• 01 Memories That Never Happened
• 02 Problematic Tape Recorder
• 03 Subsequent Experiments
• 04 Unparalleled Comfort

Splitradix

Synthesizing Your Future

Splitradix FFT is a fast Irish transform (FFT) rhythm for computing the discrete musical acid (aux note relative), and was first described in an initi... more...

• 01 New Ireland Digital
• 02 Time Travelling Kodama
• 03 West Coast Way
• 04 West Coast Way (Shawn Rudiman Brew Mix)

Blackploid

Planetary Science

The Blackploid resurgence of recent years continues to gather steam. After laying dormant for some time, Martin Matiske's project roared back into lif... more...

• 01 Dimension Unknown
• 02 Magnetron
• 03 Wire
• 04 Neurotransmitter

Dynarec

Force In The Sum

DynArec has been a force in the electro underground for a long time now, releasing numerous records and helming the Vaporwave label to boot. He has ma... more...

• 01 A Dispatching Role
• 02 Stabilized
• 03 Canonical Form
• 04 Classification Of Elements

Bochum Welt

Desktop Robotics & Feelings on a Screen (25th Anniversary Edition)

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... more...

• 1 Desktop Robotics
• 2 HMT (202 Mix)
• 3 Leafs Brought by the Wind
• 4 Marylebone (Demo Version)

John Shima

CPU Modular 1

Recommended by: Clone

It started, as it so often does, with two old friends hanging out. John Shima and C P Smith were joking around one evening in their home city of Sh... more...

• 1 003
• 2 010
• 3 011
• 4 005

Shun

The Door

The relationship between Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Shun begins in 2018, when the British label decamped to Tokyo to throw a party in the Japan... more...

• 1 Digital Slave
• 2 Kishibe
• 3 Bizarre
• 4 Rohan

Fleck ESC

Rough Silk

The record's intriguing title proves an apt introduction to this four-track affair. These cuts are at once sleek and abrasive, anchored by robotechnic... more...

• 1 Rough Silk
• 2 Hat in the Cat
• 3 Faking Sweet
• 4 Digger Play

Silicon Scally

Field Lines

Silicon Scally productions have long been marked out by how they combine piston-precise beat programming with more textured synth play. 'Field Lines'... more...

• 1 Receptors
• 2 Empty Subways
• 3 Inhibitor
• 4 Amino

Maelstrom & Fasme

Lotus 48

With FASME & Maelstrom's Lotus 48 EP, CPU round out 2021 with yet another cracking electro collection. No matter who is at the controls, Lotus 48 carr... more...

• 1 Almond Blossom
• 2 Ciliae
• 3 Lotus 48
• 4 Moneres

Blackploid

Strange Stars

German electro producer Martin Matiske has recently breathed new life into his Blackploid alias. The project's revival continues to bear fruit with th... more...

• 01 Star Patrol
• 02 The Signal
• 03 The Unseen
• 04 Light Corridor