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

Taken from 'Kleis' (G&P021) by Somaticae, out June 5, 2022.

Active since 2006 with multiple projects, evolved in countless DIY or festival performances & putting out a handful of hardline releases, on their latest project 'Kleis' out in May via Gin&Platonic, the Saint-Etienne based musician and respected performer Amédée De Murcia alias 'Somaticae' examines the disturbing concept of dichotomy, fundamentally shaping the world around us.

Being a follow-up to his noise, electronica and techno-oriented past releases via Brainstorm Lab, Lost Dogs ent. or In Paradisum, Kleis (meaning key in ancient greek) offers two iterations (the third is a cassette-only bonus) of an epic and raw, yet genuinely fluid sonic riddle. Composed and recorded during 2020 in Lyon, Kleis is a rebus encrypted with grubby drums, entangled irregularly like sonic tentacles of an octopus, unpredictably rolling on tossed with the cold streams of sharp noises. „The symbolism of the key has a double connotation since it has the power to open and close. It commands access to a place, inside a box, and to an acquaintance. Conversely, it can forbid this same access, so the key has both a role of initiation and discrimination,“ says Amédée.
credits

Written & produced by Amédée De Murcia (soundcloud.com/somaticae)
Mastered by Fausto Mercier (soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier)
Artwork by Jiri Macku

G&P021 🔑

Digital & Cassette

Somaticae - Kleis I

Anima017 - Gribs - get out of town

Flashing Horizons is the new mix series by snufkin (@dj-snufkin), hosted by Stegi Radio Athens. The alter ego snufkin was created by artist, curator and self-proclaimed ‘organiser’, Pim Sem Benjamin. As driving force behind the platform Valley, curator for Sonic Acts and Audio Visual Arts BA, his relation to sound is a profound one. For every edition snufkin will invite an artist that has served them as an inspiration to share the 60 minute slot with. Expect a wide range of musical selections, unconventional stylings and insanely talented guest artists. Stay tuned!

For the second edition snufkin teams up with Kablam (@ka-blam), delivering a healthy dose of dancefloor confusion, everything-core and fuck you mixing. 

snufkin 00:00 - 28:59
KABLAM 29:00 - 01:00:01

Flashing Horizons w/ snufkin & KABLAM (29.03.2024)

Listen to "paragon of virtue" by jjjacob taken from CLM x GUN "Blown by the Wind" out on 5th June via Club Late Music

Bandcamp: https://clublatemusic.bandcamp.com/album/blown-by-the-wind

Blown by the Wind ,¸¸,.•.¸  ¸   .-  initiated by artist and GUN member Pénélope ! 

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Blown by the Wind is a project that highlights the voices of the Global URL Nation community, and the textures that can be created from them. The voices mingle and intertwine until a soundscape shimmering compilation is woven.

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It was a project in two phases. The first one consisted in the creation of a common pack of vocal samples - anyone from the GUN community could contribute with what they already had, or could create something specifically for the project. 
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´¯`·- It welcomed 116111 , Amselysen, Bademjan, Epiphagi, Eurrope, Griigg, Jeune Faune, jjjacob, MYEN, Pénélope, RougeHotel, & SNKLS for around 50 voice samples.


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In the second phase, artists from GUN could propose a track using this sample pack. The idea was to consider voices as key instruments, with the possibility of shaping, distorting and transforming them at will to create new textures. 
´¯`·- Amselysen, Bademjan, Clair X, Epiphagi, Eurrope, MYEN, jjjacob, Orqualyzer, RougeHotel, & Ziyiz contributed to this phase with 10 tracks. 

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10 whispers that rise from the depth of the soul, blown away across the lands into the most welcoming ears - for a burst of comfort, contemplation or excitement.

Links:
jjjacob
https://soundcloud.com/jjjacob
https://jjjacob.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/jjjacobdk
Club Late Music
https://soundcloud.com/club-late-music
https://clublatemusic.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/clublatemusic

Blown by the Wind [CLMxGUN]

Blown by the Wind

bandcamp

jjjacob - paragon of virtue (Club Late Music)

'sex - sex' is the first full-length digital release on the Appendix.files. ambigaze dedicated to love demons, the heartbroken and you

sex.co.gg
credits
released February 2, 2024

music by amos, ben & lukas
mastered by shy

APPX:SEX

Nichenka Zoryana - Acid Masa

Club Bizzare Tekk rmx

Rhythmic Storm -  Vistri

Taken from SBKT028: Zaliva-D - Calling
Release date: 12th July 2019

‘Calling’ is the new EP from Beijing based audio/visual duo Zaliva-D. 4 original tracks plus remixes from Dis Fig (PTP), Citizen Boy (Gqom Oh!) and Tayhana (Naafi).

Artwork by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Calling

Zaliva-D - Flutter (Dis Fig Remix)

+++ GUN UNITED 02 : P I T - Biotic Network +++

We’re truly happy to open the new year with another addition to our UNITED series, which for each EP in the series, one member of the GUN community collaborates freely with other producers and artists of their choice.

For the second piece in the series, multi-faceted producer and Biodiversità Records founder P I T brings together three up and rising talents : ASJ, myen and migu, whose activities of the past few years consistently kept pushing the boundaries of the electronic soundscape.

Biotic Network is a breeding experiment, a virtual field research that started with an open call to the GUN community to share data such as images, texts or sounds. These gathered multimedia specimens - an aggregation of personal experiences with nature, served as a substrate for the growth of a new life form inspired by mycorrhizal networks and internet archives.

From the moist synthetic echoes of Fungi on My Face.mkv to the interweaved chaos of Sculpting Mycelium.mkv and the encompassing symbiosis of Aggregate.mkv, Biotic Network transcends classifications and carefully crossbreeds counter-balancing sound species. 
The resulting EP is an interconnected web of sounds and imagery, providing us with a fertile ground for future generations of sonic ecosystems. 

++ TRACKLIST ++

01. P I T - Fungi on My Face.mkv
02. P I T, migu & myen - Sculpting Mycelium.mkv
03. P I T & ASJ - Aggregate.mkv

++ CREDITS ++

Track produced by P I T 
https://soundcloud.com/digiborg_pit

In collaboration with : 
ASJ https://soundcloud.com/weareasj
migu  https://soundcloud.com/miguzo
myen  https://soundcloud.com/myentericplexus/

Cover & visual works by Pacôme le Rouge 
https://www.instagram.com/pacomelerouge/

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

DOWNLOAD

P I T, myen & migu - Sculpting Mycelium.mkv

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