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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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

From "Loose Ends"

Bits from across the years. 2017-2021.

Spanning the Dancehall/Chuggers/Sludge thing to pingy UK Techno and Original Recipe Hard Drum.

Available from Bandcamp

Loose Ends

From Stun To Kill

upsammy - Germs in a Population of Buildings
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 132
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/GerminaPopulationofBuildings

On her sophomore album "Germ in a Population of Buildings”, upsammy moves through her surroundings with the curiosity of a place-bending landscape architect. The album is rooted in her interest for ambiguous environments in constant shift, and the feeling of discovering strange patterns in different ecosystems. Often, the Amsterdam-based artist finds herself zooming in and out beyond a place's most recognizable surface features to inhabit the microscopic and gigantic. Gathering field recordings and evocative environmental sounds, she shapes this source material into vibrating electro-acoustic rhythms and unstable, psychedelic textures.

upsammy's debut album, 2020's critically-acclaimed "Zoom", was praised for its careful reimagining of IDM, evolving vignettes that nodded towards the dancefloor without being shackled to its rigid set of rules. On "Germ in a Population of Buildings" her process has evolved considerably; the skeletal trace of IDM is still present but it's been trapped in amber, allowing her unique sonic landscape to develop organically. 'Being is a Stone' is a proof of concept in many ways, layering upsammy's contorted voice in rickety patterns beneath a lattice of fragile rhythms and faintly melancholy synths. It's never immediately obvious where the sounds are coming from - a hiccuping beat might be glass cracking underfoot, and larger pulses could be wet concrete, rusted iron or bent plastic. As the sounds develop they morph into each other, demolishing what came before and building on top of the ornamental wreckage.

On the dynamic 'Constructing', upsammy's sound design fluxes through hyperactive bass music structures, abstracting expectations at every turn. Often her sounds are whisper quiet, rattling and vibrating until heavier masonry drops and disrupts the structure. And when discernible rhythms subside into the background, like on the album's eerie title track, they become almost illusory, morphing between the real world and the electronic. upsammy's processed voice works like a bridge between these realms, snaking between stark, whimsical melodies on 'Patterning', arching from AutoTuned detachment into cooing, dreamy intimacy. By considering the harmonies between each location she's visited, upsammy has been able to build a unique topology that's an uncanny digital amalgam of her lived experience. It's a thoughtful alternative in an era more concerned with flatting the landscape than crumpling it and examining its peaks and troughs.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Mixed by James Ginzburg
Artwork by Jonathan Castro Alejos and Tharim Cornelisse

Germ in a Population of Buildings

upsammy - Square to Sphere (PAN 132)

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

sykurél - geimskvíza

Con Tactics

MOONPARNASE - Labyrinth

If you're lost, don't be sad, there's always only one way out - MUSIC

Labyrinth

Rain Dance

The Wheel of Time

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Ange Halliwell - Summer Night (feat. Odete)

+++ 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

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org