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

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from the album, vol. 3. available 10/08
order now: https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/vol-3

Vol. 3

Topdown Dialectic - B1

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.
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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

VA #INTERNETGHETTO 2024

Bandcamp: https://internetghetto.bandcamp.com/album/internetghetto-2024
Stream: https://band.link/internetghetto2024

#internetghetto is proud to introduce the new compilation of emerging artists from the depth of the web's black holes and long-standing members of the platform community. Bringing together 23 different producers from over the globe, #INTERNETGHETTO 2024 is the result of the unstoppable network that has been weaving since the start of Soundcloud activities in 2014.

From ambient pop to avant club, from beatless trance to radical sound art: the music showcased here is diverse and passionate, presenting a variety of genres and highlighting the new music extremes. Each contribution pushes the boundaries of the #internetghetto sonic map and presents a chaotic delight of forward-facing music carefully selected by the platform curators.

Tracks by Lorenzi, FMSAO, KAGAMI smile, tillugrow, Kenji Araki, Shoom Berez, leop4rdi, Broosnica, Gsmgarden, Palica, NWIII, Cloower Wooma, The Other Side, Sensi Affect, Active Cor, mishxn, Raumskaya, VDXA, N95, Arté, 3XPERIENCE, Circuit Aesthetics, hatamazzy, WOLS, Koett

#INTERNETGHETTO 2024

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tillugrow - I'll Be Around

This project began as a collaborative sound art commission for Dublin Digital Radio titled Tirdreacha/Krajobrazy/Landschaften/مناظر الطبیعة in collaboration with Tom O'Dea and participants based in Berlin, Warsaw and Bethlehem. These songs were composed from found sounds recorded on ferries across the Irish and Atlantic Seas, with lyrics and vocal arrangements developed and written over a series of shows in Dublin, Berlin and Lisbon. Spoken word adapted from Kate Chopin's novel 'The Awakening'.

Labyrinthine Thread

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)

sykurél - geimskvíza

“The Overload flooded us. Consumed Us. Made us whole again”. As the time when "Transmute" was taking shape, so did the multiple global crisis. "Transmute" is an effort to represent the human spirit and its resiliency amidst the uncertainty, hopelessness and chaos of the current era.

Burnt Offerings is a duo consisting of Arthur Bdt (Incendie) and Andres Leon (Laopé). Their music oscillates from Drone to Cuban music, incorporating everything from traditional Latin instruments to modern sound design tools. These influences converge outside of their original contexts through heavy digital audio processing, deconstruction, and arrangement.  The sound can be best described as a disjointed yet symbiotic relationship between the past and the now.
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releases June 21, 2024

All tracks producing & mixing by Burnt Offerings
Mastering by B E N N
Visual by ERRANTH

NÜ PREMIERE : Burnt Offerings -  Reshape (OVER MY BODY)

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 - Red Sky

The idea for this track came to me in a dream. It’s not exactly a recreation of it, but that dream was the spark that pushed me to create it.

Water Peak

+++ 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

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

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