Modular techno obsessive and dark pop connoisseur: Julia Bondar’s fourth studio album Bonding sounds like nothing else you’ll hear this year.     

Julia Bondar is a Ukrainian born, Barcelona based electronic music artist, singer, and songwriter. Her journey as a musician started when she was making demos for Endorphin.es modular synthesizers to help her partner, Andreas Zhukovsky, to promote and develop freshly engineered modules for his Endorphine.es brand.  Bondar soon became a co-founder of the brand and moved the company from Kiev, to Barcelona, where her obsession with modular synthesis truly took root. 

Prior to Bonding, Bondar has released three albums, the latest of which was 2020’s Industrial Symphony LP which demonstrated her innate ability to extract orchestral sounds from synthetic equipment. A blend of techno rhythms and dark pop, it paid tribute to Bondar’s idea of a modern industrial symphony, employing the powerful and unique characteristics of analog machines while also being harmoniously linked to the pleasant, danceable, and hypnotic atmosphere of industrial rhythms: themes that are explored further on this new album. 

Across nine distinct and engrossing tracks on Bonding, Bondar blends and plays with genre, from industrial, techno, electro, avant-garde pop, dark wave and more. Danceable and melodic, often moody and sinister, sometimes euphorically melancholic, she puts a unique stamp on every track she produces, giving the album a traceable through-line despite its myriad and often disparate influences and tones.  

Album opener Ruby Red sets the tone in dynamic fashion: a pummelling techno thumper that gives way to two further full on industrial techno bangers in Pleasure & Pain and Flamboyant – visceral, no-holds-barred cuts that see Bondar fully cut lose with her driving, highly energetic modular programming.  

From there the album drifts into perhaps its most self-reflective moment, with the intro to La neige et ses messes noires. This arresting track was made as a love-letter to French electro in collaboration with Maman Küsters, a French duo formed by Gaël Loison and Cyril Pansal, with Pansal penning the lyrics to Bondar’s music and Loison producing. This love of dark French electro is further explored on Obey: a haunting, mid-tempo slice of crushing electronica that simply demands your attention. 

The title track offers a brief respite from the intensity of the previous tracks, offering a space to move your body in a tribal, hypnotic dance. Antisocial is about embrace your true self, explored by a broken beat pattern and sidewinding synth lines that ebbd and flows between crushed drums and ethereal pads, and the broken beat structure is continued on the closing track In Flame: a gorgeous, expansive redemption offering the listener space to reflect. 

An arresting, beguiling listen from start to finish, Bonding is a call for emotional transformation, with Bondar evoking different states and feelings: starting from superficial but reaching to the deepest corner of your mind. This album is designed as a conversation between Bondar and her audience through the music and track names, a call for reflection and conscious approach to listening.

PREMIERE : Julia Bondar feat. Maman Kusters - La Neige Et Ses Messes Noires

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Premiere of 'Silky Rough' by Julia Bondar, forthcoming on Endorphin.es Production

Label: Endorphin.es Production
Artist: Julia Bondar
Title: Silky Rough
Cat: JB09
Release Date: May 1st, 2024

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Silky Rough (Single)

Julia Bondar - Silky Rough [Premiere | JB09]

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 release date: 08.05.2024 
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Even More Dramatique Waters (Single)

Lost In Ether | P R E M I E R E | Julia Bondar - Even More Dramatique Waters

Synthesist, producer and co-owner of the modular synthesizer company Endorphin. es Julia Bondar, releases a brand-new EP I Want Forbidden, encapsulating the electric power of her live sets and her affinity with the darker side of underground club
music.

Raised in Ukraine, Julia spent her early years in the shadow of the post-Soviet regime, the afterglow being that of an integral desire to rebel; her exposure to electro legends such as The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy led her to connect spiritually with the fiercely energetic live outlier acts such as Crystal Castles and Lorn, and translating this into her own newly-found music creation. With live sets commended by the likes of Aphex Twin, Julia is an underground prodigy, beginning to make her own music heard within the walls of performances in her current favourite base, Barcelona.

‘Lust’ begins with a cinematic melody blended with industrial overtones, building slowly to reveal a layered gem of sparkly synth-work and glitchy drums, dancing between the fringes of experimental techno.

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I Want Forbidden

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PRÈMIÉRE: Julia Bondar - Lust [Endorphin.es Production]

Remix by Julia Bondar
@juliabondarmusic — http://juliabondar.bandcamp.com

Written, composed and originally produced by Matthieu Roche 
Mastered by Hélène de Thoury (Synth Religion)

Artwork by Atelier Belle Lurette 
Picture by Marie Rouge 
Mask design by Tiggy Thorn

Original song is taken from 'Now That I'm Real' LP :
fragrancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/now-that-im-real

℗ & © Synth Religion - 2020

So Typical - Julia Bondar Remix

IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD

Broken Elevator

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In My Neighbourhood

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Management: production@endorphin.es

Moon In Sagitarius

JULIA BONDAR