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Beatrice M. ~ Proximity

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

Masters

Lamella - rework feat. MC Yallah

https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/speleogenesis

Wisconsin-based producer and drummer Chants (The Trilogy Tapes, Maximum Airtime, Astral Plane Recordings) meets master drummer Dave Schoepke on this all-drums LP for Brussels-based Maloca Records. ‘Speleogenesis’ blends live drumming with dub techniques and dancefloor-informed production, guided by imagery of a subterranean world. It’s a full-circle moment, as the two met when Chants (aka Jordan Cohen) took drum lessons from Schoepke during his teenage years.

The recording process began with Chants creating skeletal demos for Dave Schoepke to improvise on. Schoepke recorded many layers of drums and percussion, running some of them through his hardware synthesizers. Chants then shaped these recordings, resulting in the cavernous dub techno track ‘Pressure Slide’, the Brazilian-influenced ‘Ritmo Crudo’ and ‘Ritmo Puro’, and the uptempo, slippery dancehall dub of ‘The Quickstepper’.

Chants then assembled a new palette of samples from this core and constructed dancefloor-focused bangers like the hyperactive ‘Cyclone Rhythm’ and minimal 170 bpm ‘Rafter’, adding his own homegrown breakbeats. As the album took shape, the music kept evoking mental images of caves, tunnels, and underwater caverns that in turn influenced the final pieces. ‘Notes from Underground’ and ‘Speleogenesis’ present a more unfiltered view of Schoepke’s nuanced drumming. ‘Airbell Dub’ was also created using material from one of Schoepke’s meditative solo performances. Finally, ‘Cavernicole’ features both drummers in full duet mode, trading phrases over an insistent kick drum pulse.  

Credits :
released October 11, 2024
2024, Maloca

Music by Chants & Dave Schoepke
Artwork by Rémi Volclair
Mastered by Hypna

Speleogenesis

Chants & Dave Schoepke - Ritmo Puro

Tek Nena - Fume Chaser
Produced and mixed by Tek Nena 
Mastered by Thomas Carney
2025

Tek Nena - Fume Chaser

From the depths of an intimate world where silence multiplies and transforms, Tendre Ael delivers her new EP: Thousands of Silences. Blending experimental folk, avant-pop, and dark ambient, this project stands out as a hybrid, elusive work. The tracks oscillate between tension and serenity, evoking fragments of solitude, resilience, and hope. This chiaroscuro comes alive through complex vocal arrangements, sequences of field recordings, and the repurposing of acoustic instrumental elements into a nostalgic, modern, and post-electronic realm.

Artist: @tendreael
Label: @howaboutplor
Release date: 24.01.2025

BC: https://howaboutplor.bandcamp.com/ 

Mastering: Antoine Alcaraz
Artwork: Tom Polleau & Léa Paintandre

premiere: Tendre Ael - C'est comme Hier [label: Plor]

ESTATE is the debut AKHET Edizioni issue: an assemblage of unreleased works contributed by the many artists who participated in AKHET’s first year of site-specific programming in Naples historic centre.

The 26-track compilation features Aspec(t), Ausschuss, Cadaver Mike, Canedicoda, CECILIA, Ciro Vitiello, Compsa, D.Ham, Deskulling, Eks, Elisha Morningstar, Elvin Brandhi, Eraclio, Flora Yin-Wong, Forest Factory, Franco Franco, I Jahbar, Koenraad Ecker, las vegan, Le grand K, Lorenzo Abattoir, Luigi Monteanni, MIIIN---AMOR, Nocturnerror, NPLGNN, NZIRIA, Radford Electronics, Rabit, Renato Grieco, Sara Persico, STILL, Talpah, Tarawangsawelas, Tati au Miel, and Yokel, serving as a convergence of dissonant practices and collective gestures. Traversing the volatile terrains of noise, improvised sound, avant-garde folk, experimental rap, and post-club mutations, each piece embodies the tension between transient environments and enduring creative dialogues.

ESTATE, the Italian word for “summer”, concludes AKHET’s first cycle of programming. This cycle, reflecting on the impermanence of seasons, unfolded through three mini-festivals ("Autunno", "Inverno" and "Primavera") and a traveling review ("Caldo Astratto"). In a time when seasons melt into one another and winter feels disturbingly melded, ESTATE serves as a temporal marker, reimagined here amidst shifting climatic and cultural cycles.

Conceived as both artifact and reusable ephemeral, the release materializes as a limited edition of 101 tin cans designed by Canedicoda, each containing a USB microchip and other delicacies, while photographs by Salvatore Pastore document its materiality. The digital artwork by Augusto Fabio Cerqua extends this material dimension into a visual language that resonates with the conceptual and aesthetic framework of the release.

Curated by AKHET.

Mastered by Heba Kadry (Track 1) and Guido Marziale (Tracks 2 to 26).
Design by Canedicoda.
Photography by Salvatore Pastore.
Artwork by Augusto Fabio Cerqua.

Cat. No. AKHT001
© AKHET Edizioni 2025

Nocturnerror - Seashell

Final track from Grykë Pyje's latest album Crepuscular Elixirs on Artetetra.

Built around skew and oddly-hypnotic grooves, this album pulses with the inconsistent rhythm of the wild—woodpeckers hammering, frogs croaking, ants scraping—transforming pseudo-fauna into sound. A seemingly alive bag of sonic illusions, tangled beyond retracing, compelling us to listen as a whole.
"Potion Seller, I am going into battle and I need your strongest potions."
"My potions are too strong for you, traveler.”

Get your colored vinyl now via Bandcamp or a trusted local store—because interdimensional shipping rates are no joke.

Exceptional Species Collectively Dreaming

Together Now

Shanghai/Taipei-based producer Tzusing returns with  一瞬千擊 (In a Moment a Thousand Hits), continuing his exploration of the seamier side of life as his music mutates from industrial and EBM roots into stranger territories. Like the titular martial arts master of his recent LP 東方不敗, who can only achieve invincibility by denying  his own masculinity,  一瞬千擊 asks if obsessive pursuit of a specific identity can only lead to its negation, the opposite of the intended image. Amidst the malevolent throat singing samples, suona-like drones, and occasional shouts and howls in Taiwanese, the music’s slamming percussive weight nods towards the most reviled forms of mainstream dance music. Treating every available tool as valid, Tzusing interrogates taste, constructed identity, and the desire for power through five tracks of destabilized funk and thundering processions.

TRACKLISTING:
A1 Flow State ft. Illsee 
A2 Shame 
B1 風雲再起 
B2 地心引力抓不住你 
B3 得意先生

Digital: https://bedouinrecords.bandcamp.com
Vinyl :http://honestjons.com/shop/label/Bedouin_Records

Tzusing | 一瞬千撃 (Snippets)

From album "SF02 States of Fugue" by @zoemcpherson
Preorders >> https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/states-of-fugue-sf02
Performed, produced & engineered by Zoë Mc Pherson
Final mixdowns by Matt Karmil
Mastering and lacquer cut by Mike Grinser @ Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Artwork by Szilvia Bolla & Jonathan Castro

[Sf02] States Of Fugue

Tenace (dogs road)

TENACE (dogs road)

extract the purest signal of peace from the noise

@bedouinrecords
@netherstudio

Tzusing | 一瞬千撃 (Snippets)

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