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For our seventeenth addition We are graced with the presence of London's own aircode, whose electronic obscurities have been found on such labels as DJ Pitch's 'Tobago Tracks' along with a recent EP on 'Alien Jams'. Julia's productions are truly worthy of being heralded by a label with the word 'alien' in the title - her work is enigmatic and astoundingly unique. It beckons notions of a faraway entity who occupied her mind and attempted to craft their world's music through her eyes using earthly soundscapes.

It is pensive and moving throughout, where aircode has used the absence of space and an unlikely palette of reverb-drenched, distant sounds to accentuate a sense of alienation. Nods to dubstep and UK-influenced genres leak through at times to reinforce the still-present movability and flow that Julia effortlessly melds into the sound design she has mastered. The tracks loop in and out of themselves, where she has broken down each track skillfully into a concise selection of resonances that undergo a perpetual sense of motion that subvert the tropes of contemporary club music. There is an uneasy air of endlessness and repetition throughout; a spiral further and further into an unknown unknown.

Artwork by Alessia Gunawan and Gregorio Nordio
Mastering by Fausto Mercier

Spiralling - EP

Buy EP

aircode - Concentric

@Aircode's 'Spiralling' see the producer use absence of space and an unlikely palette of reverb-drenched, distant sounds to accentuate a sense of alienation. Forthcoming on @nostro-hood-system.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/aircode-bed-spring

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Premiere: Aircode - Bed Spring

TR188 - gilgul - OS-22 [excerpt]

TR192 - Paul Abbott - 'Deorlaf Z (version) for XT Deorlaf X Live' [excerpt]

TR191 - Taku Unami - 'Stardust 3'

TR187 - The Mermaid Café - Alice

TR190 - Patrick Ward - 'Retroflexion'

When Bondage Fairies make a name for themselves for the very first time with their very unique musical mix of punk rock, indie pop and electro-clash with 8-bit sounds in 2006 the two Stockholm based musicians are not taken really seriously by many people. Despite or perhaps because of that the band stays an insider tip at the beginning – adored by some, laughed about by others. Songs like "He-Man," "Pink-Eye Paranoia" or "Indie Girl" are developing into real Undergound hits, which fans tinker their own videos to, and publish them on the web. This creates a fan base which is small, but loyal and spread over the entire globe. Especially in Eastern Europe is developing gradually a real Bondage Fairies hysteria.

Maintained constantly and ongoing touring by the two Swedes helps more and more to get the status of a serious band. It seems as if more and more people understand that behind "Two guys with funny helmets make strange music" is way more to find than it may be assumed at first glance.

All this is proofed by the second album „Cheap Italian Wine“ released in may 2009 on the German No.1 Electro-Punk Label. The songs are diverse and suddenly some media which had ignored them until constantly start deal with the band. New songs like "Zeta Reticuli" or „nv4.dll“ find many friends quickly and fit seamlessly into the live set.

During the "Cheap Italian Wine“tour Bondage Fairies travel more kilometers than it needs for one time around the world. Nearly 100 gigs across Europe were played. Two sold out tours through Russia & Ukraine and four tours in Germany (some with Frittenbude, Egotronic, Bratze, etc..).

The experiences found here, will once again have its way in the lyrics of songwriter Elvis Creep. The pre-published on the EP track "Shocked But Not Surprised" is based for example on a show in a Russian Swingers Club and other oblique tour matches. The single "1-0" is about breaking up and what happens afterwards.

Also 2011 Bondage Fairies will keep touring constantly and conquer new countries and continents and take their to date yet-untitled album in the world beyond. First preview from this promise a veritable explosion of hits


Bondage Fairies

Bondage Fairies - 1-0

new track w/ @iamoneheart

stream https://kurate.lnk.to/DS034
released by @dreamscapeyt

snowfall w/ Øneheart

Bondage Fairies  - Girls are sick

Love will tear appart

You're So Cool

TR038 - aircode - 'tunnel vision' [sample]

London-based Swedish producer aircode’s debut EP on Alien Jams is ‘basically a very tired EP’.

Written throughout a year of sleep deprivation, “Effortless” reflects a period of disorientation, social claustrophobia, and the unbridled feeling of a loss of focus. A navel-gazing introspective struggle of feeling apathetic and drowsy, yet simultaneously restless and constantly moving. Fractured machine fragments and riddled sleep-deprived speech alongside manipulated drum samples, distorted guitar, are symptomatic of her captivating work in electronic experimental music so far. Using self-generated ‘logical’ melodies, unexpected rhythms, and phone and vocal recordings, the EP offers a challenging, melancholic and ever-changing aesthetic.

Piecing together spontaneous text, and moments of glitch, like an anxious machine, or someone on auto-pilot; “the tracks represent this mixture of apathy and a scattered mind,” she explains, "On the verge of hyperventilation with constantly changing rhythms as you feel your heartbeat and breath loud and out of sync. The melodies are also somewhat dipping in energy," never reaching the whole way up, but giving up and falling down.

Dry my face up
It’s easy, why
Heavy air
Pacing around the third floor
Your voices intrude
On my skin
Must be fed
Accelerating ahead
It’s easy at a high pace

I don’t believe in effort
The third time
Don’t shake
If it’s not enough

Releases September 25, 2020
Pre-order- https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/effortless

Artwork by Ewa Awe
Mastering by Rupert Clervaux
Words by Flora Yin-Wong

Effortless

aircode- Effortless (clips AJ016)

taken from "Effortless EP" out via @alien-jams

insomnia anthem

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZJqVDrjUMo&t=276s

Dry My Face

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TR038 - aircode - 'tunnel vision' [sample]

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