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The first single from aircode's new album 'Surface Tension' (G&P025), out September 24, 2023 

Julia Svensson alias @aircode is a Swedish producer and sound designer based in London. In the past years Julia has been leisurely refining her signature out-there blend of gloomy yet elegant sound distinguished by an incorporation of slack piano tones and timid vocals intertwined with bleak samples and worn-out dub rhythm cameos. Since her first output via TT (fka Tobago Tracks) in 2019 she's been steadily releasing music via imprints like Alien Jams and Nostro Hood System, or just lowkey through her own bandcamp page. After helplessly drowning in her music since we first heard it, we are now more than honored to have the opportunity to present Julia's sophomore full-length album 'Surface Tension'.

Building on her past work, Surface Tension is an especially electrifying creation. Higher density sounds are gliding on an unfolded surface without ever being fully submerged, complementing each other into an enticing and immersive listen. With Julia's music, the long-depleted term 'sonic landscape' suddenly makes much of a sense. Captivating with it's well-measured approach, it draws an attentive listener into a world of intricate and finely nuanced compositions in which an unrushed precision and intuitive approach to writing can be clearly sensed.
“Surface tension tends to make a drop spherical, gravity tends to flatten a sessile drop and elongate a pendant drop, and the electric field typically elongates a drop along the direction of the field” - says science. Similar to the dichotomy of a liquid dripping process, Surface Tension inherently shifts into two distinct mood opposites. Straight from the beginning of the record a palpable tension can be felt, hinting at a series of inevitable plot twists that keep the listener submerging in its enthralling waves. While most of the tracks start with a calm before a storm, halfway through 'Slow Burn' or 'Dissimilar Liquids' Julia delves into the very depths of dank dubstep bass. Surface Tension weaves a vibrant narrative - at times a confluence of serene comprehension other times bordering on a pleasure of suffocating in its intensity.

Written & produced by Julia Svensson
aircode.codes

Mastered by Charles Verni
charlesverni.com

Artwork by Jiri Macku
instagram.com/jiri_macku

G&P025 💧

Surface Tension

Digital & Cassette

aircode - Dissimilar Liquids

DJ Gustaf II - LIBERATOR

DJ Gustaf II  - Scared Money

Listen to the full songs from Civil Polis debut album on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6NE2eQtTQvXrraJoe4SJ7Z?si=C50Bq0GoRo228W_gx3lXmg

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DADA DATAIST is a paranoiac panic comedy about city life in a near future. Civil Polis uses a mixed production approach, with techniques such as randomly generated music, recording his friends doing free jazz improvisations, analog synthesizers and electric guitar, to generate his broken macintosh-punk. On top of the resulting sound collage, he mumbles lyrics about neoliberal hustling. The song Neural Model is dystopian Philip K Dick-like sci-fi story about dealing with unemployment through automation by searching for a quick buck on techno-society’s edges -  at model agencies for neural networks or as a research subject for neuroscientists. Private Jets (Don’t Fly Themselves) is an interlude about income inequality that is created from a chaos of tones and rhythms generated by the free hand of the market, or in this case by randomized computing. The Void Meter has spoken word about  a mind, cut and defined by the neuroscientific surgeon's knife, trying to reclaim its dubious soulful origin. The album takes us on a jog through the late capitalistic society in which the loser yells “Luck” and the slot-machines yell “Ka-Ching!”.

Main Vocals - Martin Puzzel, Vocals (The Strangler) - Ylva Zacharoff, Saxophone (The Strangler, The Void Meter, Ka-Ching) - Jonas Liberg, Guitar (Free to Starve, Neural Model, Hysterical Thang) - Martin Puzzel, Production: Civil Polis, Mixing: Civil Polis, Mastering: La Siesta del Fauno Estudio-Laboratorio.

Civil Polis - Dada Dataist (Cuts)

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