Daily Drops

7embre23

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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

Article

Premiere: Aircode - Bed Spring

Revanchist

On Embers

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

Welcome 2 London

Diesel (@diesel_wav) is a DJ Artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau and one of the co-creators of NYMPHO, an underground queer club night for reclaiming body and sound. Equipped with a curated arsenal they weave club music into high energy electronic sets to unlock hips and shed skins across the dance-floors of Aotearoa.

RA MIX 038 - Diesel - NAGA Mix

Premiering "Starship Shaped Biscuit" by Universe Of G.ear taken from 𝖛𝖆 - 𝖛​𝖊​𝖗​𝖓​𝖆​𝖈​𝖚​𝖑​𝖆​𝖗 𝖋​𝖔​𝖗​𝖊​𝖎​𝖌​𝖓​𝖊​𝖗​𝖘 𝖛​𝖔​𝖑​.​𝟔 out on 30th June  via 𝕍ᴇʀɴᴀᴄᴜʟᴀʀ ℝᴇᴄᴏʀᴅs

Pre-order: https://vernacularrecords.bandcamp.com/album/--6

After almost 2 years since the last one, Vernacular Records is proud to announce the sixth opus of its Vernacular Foreigners' series. 
This compilation regroup 21 artists from all over the European electronic scene, from Paris to Marseille, through Bristol, Montpellier, Sheffield, or Plougrescant. 

Links:
Universe Of G.ear
https://soundcloud.com/universe-of-gear
https://universeofgear.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/universeofg.ear
𝕍ᴇʀɴᴀᴄᴜʟᴀʀ ℝᴇᴄᴏʀᴅs
https://soundcloud.com/vernacularmusic
https://vernacularrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/vernacular_records

pre-order / bandcamp

[Premiere] Universe Of G.ear - Starship Shaped Biscuit (𝕍ᴇʀɴᴀᴄᴜʟᴀʀ ℝᴇᴄᴏʀᴅs)

COY036
URTE
Parallel Heights

1. Public Universal Friend
2. Hold On To Me
3. Off World
4. Rave Kids 23
5. Parallel Heights

Stream/Download: https://lnk.to/URTE_HoldOnToMesgl
Stream/Download 'Parallel Heights' in full: https://lnk.to/Urte_ParallelHeights

COY036 | URTE - Parallel Heights

URTE - Hold On To Me

Arieshandmodel careens through a high-velocity barrage of Latin club, hard techno and earworm edits.

https://www.factmag.com/2023/06/05/fact-mix-arieshandmodel/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 911: Arieshandmodel (Jun '23)

Boiling Over

OUT NOW

Diessa - Boiling Over - Extended Instrumental

Toronto-based producer and DJ, Daniel 58, makes his debut on Electroménager with a four-track club-ready EP. Taking cues from trap and dancehall, the Canadian artist showcases his taste for trippy sirens, intricate drum patterns and low-end heavy frequencies.

An edition of 30 clear lathe-cut dubplates will accompany the digital release.

@58daniel
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Release date: 14.09.2023
Pre-order: electromngr.bandcamp.com

Music composed & produced by Daniel 58
Photography by Olly Geary
Creative direction by Yanni Caloghiris

Crunch Crunch Gloop Gloop

EM006

EM006 — "Crunch Crunch Gloop Gloop" by Daniel 58

Slow Burner, Hard Drifter out 13 September 2023 ☆ 
Strange Days ©
Artwork by Igor Lorok
Mastering by Boudy Scholten

Bandcamp: knowva.bandcamp.com/album/slow-burner-hard-drifter 
Stream/buy: https://tr.ee/Rs4UohNKSm

buy/stream

Drifter

Crystal Energy - Wibeout 2097

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

systematic overcoming of longing since 2016
record label, collective & common spirit 

http://ginandplatonic.online

~ press ~

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