Aircode

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In the vaults of radiation 03

Recorded in Lisbon, Winter 2017. I present the first volume of Synthesizer Ditties inspired by a bygone age of witches and wizards, knights and dragons, enchanted swords, haunted graves, sacred forests and regal kingdoms. Recorded almost entirely on a Korg Monologue + spring reverb / LN76 (TR-08 on some ditties also). I've not made the other volumes yet, but when i do, maybe i'll put it out as some sort of expensive compendium or do a limited dubplate run or something else annoying like that? Get in touch if your into it: Huzzah!

Medieval Ditties Vol. 1.

Precipitation - Deep Sleep

WET made for performance at first WET readings which took place at Budka in Tbilisi on 14.06

Sasha Zakharenko – WET

Next up on TT is Swedish producer aircode with the ‘Dislocated’ EP. Hear the fierce and meticulously designed club cut, ‘When It’s Said It Is’...

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Dislocated

Premiere: Aircode ‘When It’s Said It Is’

Following guest mixes on NTS and performances in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, TT are proud to present the debut EP from London-based artist aircode, Dislocated.

Characterised by a commanding use of texture, aircode’s production punctuates the spaces it inhabits with enigmatic precision. I Know My Life searches fitfully for the obscured; pairing sweeping synth motifs with distorted speech to create a sense of quiet knowing. Placing the listener in the midst of surrounding, bass-heavy intensity, Reform freezes and warps those surroundings until breathy gasps return the focus back to the body. Club-driven experiments such as Lipsill’s unnerving echoes and the suspended scratches of When It’s Said It Is combine a commitment to meticulous sound design with a recognition of the pleasure of masterfully navigating a chaotic club space.

Imbued throughout with a tangible sense of disruption and confusion, Dislocated presents a idiosyncratic club manifesto from one of London’s most exciting emerging producers.

Reform

I Know My Life

Lipsill

You Broke Down Into Four And a Half Pieces

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aircode

inexact 03 – aircode

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dj graffity

GUESTS 105 – dj graffity

music written by k.kotov
recorded during ejekt residency in kyiv, spring 2020
cover designed by ratx.cc

dj snork - u we

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taken from Simon J Karis 'Piovve' NM039

Simon J Karis returns to Nice Music with Piovve, his first release for the label since 2017’s Madrugada. Following from recent releases for Altered States and Vienna Press, Piovve offers up six tracks demonstrating the development and deepening of Karis’ obliquely emotive approach to electronic murk. Floating on clouds of tape hiss in smeared VHS fidelity, Karis explores a range of formal approaches, from the burbling monophonic synth lines and spoken text of opener ‘Infinite July’ to the four-on-the-floor kickdrum and wistful music-box melodies of half-remembered rave closer ‘Shale Pardon’. In between we’re treated to the drumless motorik propulsion of ‘To Think of You’, which calls to mind Moebius and Beerbohm’s Double Cut in its woozy rhythmic insistence before the mood is hijacked by a distorted devotional vocal sample that abruptly reroutes proceedings from the morose to the ecstatic. The opposite path is travelled in ‘On Ardour’ where jittering synth pads toy with euphoria before descending into pensive gloom. Across these six miniatures – each of which concludes with an abrupt cut to silence – Karis mines a vein where sonic experimentation and emotional reflection meet, crafting something uneasy but ultimately celebratory. -Francis Plagne

For fans of Cluster, Actress

Piovve

Simon J Karis 'Infinite July'

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Unline

Unline Frequencies – Earshot IX

Presented as a re-creation of two live sets performed in 2019, Patrick Gallagher deftly melds field recordings, a "fairly standard" synthesis toolkit, and prepared electric guitar into two peerless electro-acoustic compositions comprising his debut for the enmossed x psychic liberation (ENXPL) series.

As the album's title implies, "Set In the Bardo" embraces indeterminacy in all respects. An extreme range of timbral variety and complexity is employed, from pure sine waves to nearly-incomprehensible sonic blasts. With a formal education in mathematics, Gallagher's astute arrangements modulate between smooth glissendos and abrupt interruptions, reflecting the compositional process used: salvaging hitherto-abandoned recordings and live snippets from the artist's archive. Post-processing was eschewed on the album in order to preserve the improvisatory nature of a live performance, giving an organic quality to the album which is often lost in academic compositions.

While "Set In the Bardo" was created in pre-pandemic times, it also functions well at this particular juncture of history. We have been 'set in the bardo' ourselves, and Gallagher has made an engrossing set of pieces - encapsulating and unfolding sonic uncertainties as we venture through trying times. Well worth many listening sessions; high volume and high fidelity during playback are recommended.
credits
releases January 29, 2021

Patrick Gallagher is a sound artist and composer currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. Gallagher arose from the North Carolina avant-garde underground, perfecting compositional processes with numerous live performances; as well as cassette and vinyl releases on Tone Log, Hot Releases, Refulgent Sepulchre, and other independent labels.

Set In The Bardo

ENXPL05 -Patrick Gallagher - Set In The Bardo (Side A)

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