Dublin’s electrosoul heart beats strong in Splitradix’s return to the silicon bosom of CPU, backed with a remix by Detroit’s Shawn Rudiman.

Chasing last year’s ‘51º53’43″Nord 8º25’09″Waldorf’ and preceding turns with IDM-electro standard bearers 030303, Splitradix’s Stephen Hennelly wears his melodies in wistful and piquant style harking back to Eire’s Decal, Anodyne or label mate Automatic Tasty on three classy originals.

‘New Ireland Digital’ kicks off with a Bitstream-esque electrofunk gilded with synth contours and emotive harmonic developments sure to plug direct into flushed up dancefloors. ‘Time Travelling Kodama’ trims back the funk to a tangier acid-electro essence with Kraftwerkian vamps, and the off-kilter harmonic colours of ‘West Coast Way’ tap into a Black Atlantic current of Drexicyan influence that has had so much influence on the Irish electro scene since the ‘90s.

Submerge affiliate and Technoir CEO Shawn Rudiman proves an ideal candidate to remix the latter with a classy recalibration pivoting Linndrum snare cracks and blushing pads that split the difference between Egyptian Lover, Drexciya and Junior Boys.