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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

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

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

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

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

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

Splitradix

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Splitradix ontinues to rep his area with 51º53'43''Nord 8º25'09''Waldorf, a four-track EP which marks the debut Splitradix drop on Sheffield's Central... more...

• 1 3350 Beach Electronic
• 2 Zassenhaus Lemma
• 3 PS31 Sideways Rain
• 4 PS31 Moxie

Cygnus

100% Dope

Recommended by: Clone

This EP also shows just how much both artist and label have grown over the past nine years. At its heart '100% Dope' is a set of prime machine-funk fr... more...

• 1 Bad RGB Controller
• 2 CPU Records
• 3 Float Back to the Surface
• 4 Throwing Shade

Nullptr

Terminus

The Terminus EP sees electro don NULLPTR (Eddie Symons) deliver four slices of unadulterated machine-funk heat.

• 01 Connected
• 02 Mesospheric Cruise
• 03 Syndicate
• 04 Terminus

Silicon Scally

Revelations

Recommended by: Clone.nl Spotify Chart

Silicon Scally (Carl Finlow) continues his fine run on Central Processing Unit with the Revelations EP, a set of steely electro bangers which comes ba... more...

• 1 Revelations
• 2 Walk Over
• 3 Walk Over (Carl Finlow Remix)
• 4 Revelations (Fleck E S C Remix)

London Modular Alliance

Cracked Dice

The Cracked Dice EP represents the first time that the trio have come through on CPU in full force, with Simon Lynch completing the lineup alongside K... more...

• 01 Cracked Dice
• 02 Head of the Keeper
• 03 Chemical Peel
• 04 Lemon Mishap

Blackploid

Cosmic Traveler

Recommended by: Dr Troy (Medical Records)

Cosmic Traveler, a four-track affair, marks Matiske's debut appearance on Sheffield's Central Processing Unit. Given the long wait, it's great just to... more...

• 01 Electric Engine
• 02 Night Drive
• 03 Pleasure Activism
• 04 The Race

Tim Koch

Tourbillon

Recommended by: Alex Jann

Tourbillon is a four-track EP which dazzles with its perpetual-motion post-IDM productions. The term 'tourbillon' has two meanings - it is the French... more...

• 01 Estranger
• 02 Disfugue
• 03 Dreitark
• 04 Hankert

Proswell

People are Giving and Receiving Thanks at Incredible Speeds

The core sonic palette of PAGARTAIS is one schooled in the IDM and electronica sounds of imprints like Rephlex Records, B12 and Skam. These tracks are... more...

• 1 PAGARTAIS I
• 2 PAGARTAIS II
• 3 PAGARTAIS III
• 4 PAGARTAIS IV

Biochip

Crux Alley

Synthase found Biochip twisting up Braindance, IDM and electro to their own ends, and Crux Alley is an album which hits similar sonic sweet-spots. Bio... more...

• 1 Mind Bubbles
• 2 Polymorphic State
• 3 Orbital Rendezvous
• 4 Antagonist Part 6

Silicon Scally

Dormant

Recommended by: Kessler

Silicon Scally is the most prolific of Finlow's alias projects, and on Dormant, the third Silicon Scally release for Sheffield's Central Processing Un... more...

• 1 V Electro
• 2 Bode
• 3 Proximity Sensor
• 4 Dormant