The fifth volume in the Pulse series arrives on 26th January 2024, only 32 years after the fourth. This is an eight track double LP, coming out on De:Tuned, who released the last few Humanoid records.
01. The Future Sound of London - Honesty
02. The Future Sound of London - Dialectics
03. Yage - Sun Risen
04. Mental Cube - Big Lie
05. Smart Systems - The Nu Generation
06. Indo Tribe - Obstinta
07. The Future Sound of London - Reasonable Aquiries
08. Yage - Man Shall Be Conditioned
Stylistically, the record is mostly along the '92/'93 end of things, similarities with releases like Fuzzy Logic, Accelerator and Tales of Ephidrina, although the Smart Systems track does hark back to the group's full-on rave days. Strictly Kev has provided gorgeous artwork, itself inspired by Buggy G Riphead's original Jumpin' & Pumpin' covers, with new mini-logos for each of the artists involved.
The opening and closing tracks can be heard on De:Tuned's Bandcamp, where the album can be pre-ordered now. For those in the UK, Bleep have the album in stock, and as part of their Advent season, they are also selling 50 hand screen-printed posters of the cover, each with a postcard of one of the new artist logos. There's also a Bleep-exclusive orange vinyl, as well as the clear and black editions.
As the previous De:Tuned Humanoid records all came out later through FSOLdigital as expanded CD and digital versions, this can't be ruled out here, although there's no news on this either way as of yet.
