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 sound 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 tracks like '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 💧

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aircode - Surface Tension (G&P025)

aircode - Almost

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

aircode - Surface Tension

aircode - Disgust

aircode - Water Strider

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Gin&Platonic: Sounds plucked off the floor after dripping through a black hole (Easterndaze)
https://easterndaze.net/ginplatonic-sounds-seemingly-plucked-off-the-floor-after-dripping-through-a-black-hole/

Unlimited Editions: Gin&Platonic (The Wire)
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/unlimited-editions-gin-platonic

nesso premiere on IA:
https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-nesso-bouncer-toss/

sorbitol drops' Remízek Music on Foxy Digitalis:
https://foxydigitalis.zone/2024/08/23/the-capsule-garden-vol-3-17-august-23-2024/

Remízek Music on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2024/09/10/sorbitol-drops/

sorbitol drops video premiere on Swine Daily:
https://swinedaily.com/swine-premiere-sorbitol-drops/

Racine interviewed for Full Moon Magazine:
https://www.fullmoonzine.cz/julien-racine-hudba-vznika-skoro-vzdycky-v-izolaci-music-is-created-almost-always-in-isolation

Racine's Boue on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2024/05/15/racine/

Racine premiere on IA:
https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-racine-boue-iv/

aircode's Surface Tension among the best albums of 2023 on ATTN:
https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/feature-review-of-2023/

Surface Tension on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/33450-tenniscoats-ryosuke-kiyasu-spykidelic-aircode-cassette-high-bias

Surface Tension on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2023/10/26/aircode/

aircode on Crucial Listening podcast:
https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/crucial-listening-141-aircode/

SINERAW's MIMETIC FAUNA on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2023/08/28/sineraw/

paszka's lapton on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/33125-the-quietus-best-albums-of-2023-so-far

Somaticae's Kleis among the best albums of 2022 on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/32400-the-quietus-top-100-albums-of-2022-norman-records

Oroboro's SPIKYMEMORY video on If-Only:
https://ifonlyuk.com/video-premiere-oroboro-spikymemory/

Ursula Sereghy on SHAPE:
https://shapeplatform.eu/2023/ursula-sereghy-i-cant-hear-myself-in-a-city

Ursula Sereghy interviewed for The Wire Magazine: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/thinking-outside-the-box-milos-hroch-interviews-ursula-sereghy

Ursula Sereghy's OK Box among the best albums of 2021 on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/30903-the-quietus-top-100-albums-of-2021

hmurd's Flower Knight reviewed on RA:
https://ra.co/reviews/34044

toiret status' liquid house on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/30921-best-tapes-of-2021

liquid house on Juno:
https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2021/02/19/this-weeks-best-new-albums-7/

liquid house on Paynomindtous:
https://paynomindtous.it/toiretstatus-sabiwa-gnp/

Kindohm's Deserted / Reclaimed on Boomkat:
https://boomkat.com/products/deserted-reclaimed

Forces' Epoch on SBVRSV.press:
http://sbvrsv.press/premiere-forces-world-is-going-to-burn-gp012/

julek ploski's śpie on toneshift.net:
https://toneshift.net/2019/11/25/spie-by-julek-ploski/

śpie on nowamuzyka.pl:
https://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2019/11/13/julek-ploski-spie/

Queimada's Eremocene on Paynomindtous:
https://www.paynomindtous.it/ginplatonic-queimada-eremocene/

trngs' RLLY INTENSE .WAV FILES on Threshold:
https://www.thresholdmagazine.pt/2019/07/a-tecnologia-experimental-de-trngs-e.html

HIMERA featured on Ersa Magazine: http://ersamagazine.com/popnotes-penpals-three/

Strachkvas‘ mix of the month on A2larm: a2larm.cz/2018/11/mix-mesice-strachkvas/  

Kagami Smile’s Four Selves reviewed on RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/23134