Sleep Mathew - Welfare State Schrapnel on Cold Blow

Sleep Mathew delivers a new Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic), “Welfare State Schrapnel”, now available on Cold Blow. Released on 2025-09-26. Download now.

Album Insights

Artists: Sleep Mathew

Genre: Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic)

Release Date: 2025-09-26

Label: Cold Blow

Catalog: BLOW22D2

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Behind the Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) : Release Notes

A rehearsal room tucked behind a gym calledSisu. A microphone hanging from the ceiling. Thats where most of these raw hardware jams bySleep Mathewwere captured–live jams on MPC, Casio RZ-1 and Yamaha TG-33, captured with all their imperfections intact. Some were recorded straight to mono with patch notes scribbled on paper, echoing the spirit of 70s Tangerine Dream. Others came from treating the DAW itself as an instrument, each render producing a different, unrepeatable version. The music is inspired by 90s computer-free techno and the rougher strains of Dutch and American rhythm traditions, with touchpoints including Terrence Dixon, Jamal Moss, Ellis De Havilland, Delroy Edwards and Scan 7. Cold Blows Janne once called parts of it Actress-like, which amused the artist–Sleep Mathew hadnt encountered Actress until recently. But the comparison clicks: Actress, too, wanders deliberately along the edge of wrongness, a space where Sleep Mathew feels most at home.