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SYNAPTIC 030EP
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$22.50
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RELEASE DATE: 8/7/2026
Zeta-Kognition is a rarely documented perceptual phenomenon in which thoughts are no longer experienced in the order in which they are formed. The first reports appeared shortly after the promo release of this EP. Listeners described a strange effect while listening to pdqb's signature electro tracks: while the music was playing, memories, expectations, and present perceptions seemed to exchange places. Some felt they had already completed a thought before it had even occurred to them. Others reported that half an hour vanished in what felt like seconds, while a few minutes seemed to contain an unusual depth and density of experience. Intriguingly, those who experienced side effects after listening could restore their normal perception by playing the entire EP in reverse. It was said that the reverse playback would unwind the cognitive displacement caused by the original sequence, gradually returning memories, expectations, and present awareness to their natural alignment. Dr. Sascha Dornhöfer, who first documented the phenomenon, speculates that the remix by Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) may contain a unique balance of repetition and symmetry that survives both forward and reverse playback. This would explain why listeners experiencing the effects of Zeta Cognition consistently identify it as the point from which normal perception can be restored. In any case, dear listener, there is no cause for concern - the antidote is hidden in reverse. P.S. Then again, who knows. Persistent rumors suggest that Adam Pendleton's exclusive black-and-white artwork conceals a visual counterpart to the phenomenon, though no one has yet determined exactly what it reveals -- or to whom.
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SYNAPTIC 012EP
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$25.00
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RELEASE DATE: 7/10/2026
Six tracks. Six undeniable hits. Science can't explain it. Four dazzling pdqb originals: pop-infused disco house transmissions where retro dreams collide with absurdly modern groove technology and hyper-modern circuitry. Hooks everywhere. Basslines that flirt shamelessly with eternity. Rhythms that know exactly what they're doing. And then Roman Flügel arrives at the party. With two remixes of such dubby, technoid magnificence that they bend the laws of physics wherever they're played.
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SYNAPTIC 029LP
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$37.50
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 6/26/2026
pdqb shows no signs of slowing down. Relentlessly productive and constantly locked into transmission mode, this album delivers 13 tracks of its unmistakable electro-cognition sound. Sharp, futuristic, body-moving music wired straight into the nervous system. From precision electro workouts to mind-bending synth transmissions, every track hits with purpose, style, and identity. However, the remix lineup is equally heavyweight. Four elite reworks from four serious operators, each one twisting the source code into new dimensions. Half pinball table, half neural reactor, wired directly into a wall of aging synthesizers. The so-called "Transient Witness" (aka "Preconscious Data Quantum Buffer") records not what people did -- but what they almost did: Every flash of hesitation, every thought that vanished before becoming real, every dream erased at sunrise. At its center pulses a synthetic brain, decoding impulses too brief for language. These signal transients are micro-events that appear and disappear in milliseconds. When activated, the table will not play sound. It remembers it. Each collision of steel ball and sensor triggers forgotten futures, lost timelines, phantom rhythms from decisions never taken. Basslines from parallel selves. Melodies from unrealized lives. Percussion patterns from collapsing probabilities. The 13 original tracks featured on this release are a transmission recovered from one of its sessions. Electro pulses, synaptic breaks, machine funk, and signals from thoughts that never survived long enough to exist.
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SYNAPTIC 024EP
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pdqb is an entity without a fixed form, moving through multiple timelines at once, performing in all of them simultaneously. Every tone on this record was sampled somewhere else: in collapsed futures, unfinished pasts, and inside stress loops that never resolved. The tracks are not composed -- they are retrieved, stitched together from moments that already happened and moments that haven't happened yet. By filtering pdqb's multidimensional signal through machine discipline, they force a temporary alignment -- a version of a track that sounds the same to most listeners.
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SYNAPTIC 025EP
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Two pdqb tracks that will never be released were processed and discarded by AI. What remains is a machine reconstruction. It is precise, efficient, emotionally reduced. Any comparison to the originals is impossible. Pressed on green flexi. A soft, unstable medium for a rigid machine output. An attempt to re-inject fragility.
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SYNAPTIC 019LP
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pdqb, the producer, whose name sounds like a coded message, has surpassed the need for introduction. It emerged from nowhere, becoming omnipresent almost instantly, leaving every electronic music producer eager -- if not obsessed -- to work with it. Its original tracks are raw and elegant with warm synth lines, pulsing rhythms, and melodies that feel like echoes from forgotten futures. They always carry a strange magnetic pull. Presented here are eight stunning remixes of his already-released tracks. Each one its own universe, each one remarkable in its own way, each one crafted by an expert in their field. The eight pieces twist, stretch, break apart, and rebuild the originals. They mutate into technoid creatures, melodies dissolve into vapor, and rhythms reorganize themselves into something alien and alive, yet each still holds a faint spark of pdqb's DNA, buried beneath layers of transformation. Listeners will understand: this isn't just a remix album. It is an evolution -- eight reinterpretations of the same musical core, each pushing pdqb's world into a new dimension. Featuring remixes from G-MAN, Hardfloor, Silicon Scally, Annie Hall, Electro Nation, Martin Matiske, Lloyd Stellar, and DJ Di'jital.
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SYNAPTIC 017EP
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Synaptic Cliffs presents the release of the four-track EP Maximalism where pdqb collaborates with DJ Sotofett in the most effective way. pdqb's sleek and melancholic electro originals carry a sexy 1980s reminiscing vibe, not too unknown from classic US electro disco-styled pop music. They meet warehouse remixes from DJ Sotofett, known for his top-notch electro productions on Clone and Tresor, as well as funky breakbeat, afro-dub and all-things-house on his own labels Wania and Sex Tags Mania. The remix of pdqb's electrocognition-beauty 'Giallactrus' has heavier, almost p-funk styled electro beats, live scratching complementing the block party approach while retaining the vibe of the original.
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SYNAPTIC 014LP
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Synaptic Cliffs presents pdqb together with six black belt gamers (PRZ, Noise&Noise, Galaxian, CEM3340, Dark Vektor, Mesak), each a legend in their own right. They don't just replay pdqb's 8 1/2 Bit album; they become it. Together, they embark on a journey through legendary worlds, creating a place filled with soundscapes and challenges that blur the line between music and game. They move with the rhythm of the music and face the challenges within, weaving their own stories into the fabric of the iconic work.
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SYNAPTIC 003LP
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The 85-year-old video game queen and film composer pdqb (born on November 14, 1939) delivers a beautiful love letter to your boomer childhood, a wild ride through the golden age of video gaming. Hear how she dodges bullets, jumps over cosmic chasms, beats bosses, reaches bonus stages, uses cheat codes and even her last continue -- just to stay in a world of pixels and vectors forever. pdqb will bring you back all those fond memories of unburdened joy that you might have lost while growing up. She could be your savior. Synaptic Cliffs is filled with otherworldly pride to present these 14 timeless masterpieces to its beloved listeners.
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SYNAPTIC 011EP
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Synaptic Cliffs and the Missechusatts Institute of Elecronicity present the latest peer-reviewed sermons of pdqb, as well as the associated validation studies from the Dopplereffekt-Institut für Retroaktive Zukunftsforschung, located in section 334 of the Mariana Trench. The contributions to the data carrier presented here are characterized by the following features: Crescendos of swirling arpeggios; Synth lines arced like a bolt of cosmic energy; Resonant pulses that shake the foundations of existence; Quartz-precise timed snare hits. In the temple of the Electrofying Messiah, the beat is life, the melody is truth, and the drop is salvation.
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SYNAPTIC 009EP
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Congratulations, Electro connoisseur! You are about to enter the Electrifying Dojo. A place where Sifu pdqb and Sensei Rolando teach a transcendental, one-of-a-kind neo-futuristic martial art that does not use hands but something far more delicate and powerful: MUSIC. Blending martial discipline with the art of electronic music is something deeper, something that no words can properly describe. The skills you will be taught here are feeling music, embodying it. pdqb and Rolando believe that true harmony comes when the mind, body, and soul are united in the sounds that vibrate through the air. The sounds of this first lesson are soft at first, almost imperceptible. But then they grow into a delicate, trembling melody that fills the room with an emotion that is difficult to place. It isn't sadness, nor is it joy, but something in between. The more you listen, the more you will be aware of something strange: tears will fall gently, silently. They are not forced, nor are they out of sorrow -- it is simply because the music feels so beautiful. Your deepest emotions will be triggered, every note will carry out an old truth, a secret truth, buried deep in your heart. Another quality drop from Synaptic Cliffs. Four dark and beautiful signature-style Electrocognition journeys from pdqb, playful with a modern twist while still remaining loyal to its roots. And on the flipside: two stunning, classic Rolando remixes, each with the potential to be the crowning moment in the club.
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SYNAPTIC 007EP
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Many of the greatest artists of all time found inspiration in their dreams, and pdqb is known to be an absolute pro when it comes to creatively exploiting the REM cycles. Recently, for example, he dreamed of Gunnar, who had witnessed the rise and fall of electronic dance music, which had once held simple-minded creatures in its thrall. The beats had a peculiar effect on them, drawing them into euphoric trances. But Gunnar, allergic to its hypnotic frequencies, stood apart, unaffected. However, eventually, in a hidden enclave in the highlands of Reykjavík, he met Dr. Amara El-Amin, a neuroscientist fascinated by his unique immunity. Together, they discovered that Gunnar's resistance was a gift, offering insights into human consciousness and the power of music. With this knowledge, Gunnar inspired a global movement celebrating frequencies that resonate differently. Though EDM had become a relic, Gunnar Oliasson remained a legend -- a bad taste survivor who embraced a symphony of pure electrical potential, a language of circuits and oscillations beyond sound. He woke with a jolt, the phantom music still echoing in his mind. He scribbled furiously, equations and diagrams mixing with strange, abstract notations. The dream, he knew, was a glimpse into a world where his inventions would dance, not just function. For Synaptic Cliffs, it is an extraordinary honor to be able to offer you, dear listeners, the soundtrack of pdqb's world-changing dream: Four beautiful genre-defining electrocognition tracks, embracing the depths of the human wetware. And three jaw-dropping sonic remodels from a human-like being called The Exaltics.
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SYNAPTIC 001EP
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Bad news: Not much is known about pdqb, and what is known is most likely either wrong or made up. The man who is credited for the productions is said to have gone insane due to being possessed by an alien parasite. His whereabouts remain unknown. Good news: Fortunately, Synaptic Cliffs owns about a dozen releases from whoever or whatever is behind the mysterious abbreviation and will publish every single one of them -- because they are ultra-awesome. With the original tapes of this mini-LP, pdqb left a fragmented note in the '90s stating that he decoded eight tracks originally produced with the NCO6.27 for test subjects who were all given some strange form of brain implants, and that a certain wetware could be unveiled in that manner, and that he conducted that research long before he developed a machine capable of hacking into the dreams of everyone who has ever lived. However, the music could best be described as playful and dark, old-school techno/electro/industrial blended with Chiptunes, IDM/braindance, and electronica. It is pressed on a beautiful green splatter vinyl.
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SYNAPTIC 005EP
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pdqb is a strange entity that claims to live in a sonic vessel and that only communicates via specifically organized sounds. Little to nothing is known about its wetware yet. However, Synaptic Cliffs reveals its first proof of existence with an übergroovy and supernatural Giallo Disco track that could easily be the brainchild of Claudio Simonetti and John Carpenter. The second track will bring you back to technoid earth again. But the journey isn't over then, because now no other than every producer's favorite producer Danny Wolfers takes over and chips in two outlandish electro-eargasm Legowelt remixes on the flip-side, just to ensure even more quality time under the tree.
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