awash with tender spirit and expansive texture

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

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Cold Reading

Konna

Viennese label Jeopardize is a low-key umbrella for a wide variety of styles and low-threshold approaches. Its second instalment "VARIOUS ARTISTS 2" gathers takes on ambient, noise and drone music.

Mastered by YBsole
JO2 2024

Winonah - boy own 40c

Merera

Where does a person actually start to be themselves? For her third album, The Essence Of, Belia Winnewisser crawled into the rabbit hole in search of the origin of herself or of a certain kind of music. She found the origin of this, that, and then the origin of the origin, and then... No musical genre comes from nothing, no human being exists in isolation – these are the essences that the Zurich musician, after crawling out again into the clear light of day, was able to capture for herself. The Essence Of is a selfportrait that looks even further back into her own history than the previous releases. Memories of playful childhood days live on in moods and melodies drawn from the game Zelda. Impressions from movies and appreciations from life underpin the emotional layers of the seven (+1) tracks. Listening experiences across musical styles transport you to the UK of the early 90s or to quirky minimal floors 15 years later. And her most original musical experience is absolutely essential. Her voice breathes, floats, dabs and sings its way through the album and points deep inside. The Essence Of makes it clear: origins are not fixed places or points in time, but dynamic. The point at which something or someone begins shifts a little with every interpersonal encounter and every listen. The Essence Of is Belia Winnewisser's first album for the Cologne-based label SPA, on which she has already released the EP A Comet Blazing In the Empyrean (2020) and the track I Like Ferrofluid (2019 part of the compilation Safe Needing Attention).

releases July 1, 2024

Written, recorded and produced by Belia Winnewisser
Postproduction by Phillip Jondo
Mixed by Manuel Sékou
Mastered by Isabel Schröer (scape mastering)
Artwork: Sabrina Zeltner
Text: Friedemann Dupelius
Released on SPA

Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur and Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur

Belia Winnewisser - All Things Considered

Person to Person

short experimental rage EP made in under a week. probably my best project ever.

buy the EP: https://jackuw.bandcamp.com
watch on youtube: https://youtube.com/@jackuwmusic

dedicated to jude + cyl
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je veux que tu penses que je suis la bonne pour toi 
et si c’est à elle que tu penses tant pis pour moi 
je veux que tu me mentes en me disant que tu m’aimeras 
je continuerai d’espérer que ce sera le cas 

un jour 

pour toujours 

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and if it’s her you’re thinking of, then too bad for me
i want you to lie, telling me that you’ll love me
i’ll keep hoping that it will be true

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