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The first single from aircode's new album 'Surface Tension' (G&P025), out September 24, 2023 

Julia Svensson alias @aircode is a Swedish producer and sound designer based in London. In the past years Julia has been leisurely refining her signature out-there blend of gloomy yet elegant sound distinguished by an incorporation of slack piano tones and timid vocals intertwined with bleak samples and worn-out dub rhythm cameos. Since her first output via TT (fka Tobago Tracks) in 2019 she's been steadily releasing music via imprints like Alien Jams and Nostro Hood System, or just lowkey through her own bandcamp page. After helplessly drowning in her music since we first heard it, we are now more than honored to have the opportunity to present Julia's sophomore full-length album 'Surface Tension'.

Building on her past work, Surface Tension is an especially electrifying creation. Higher density sounds are gliding on an unfolded surface without ever being fully submerged, complementing each other into an enticing and immersive listen. With Julia's music, the long-depleted term 'sonic landscape' suddenly makes much of a sense. Captivating with it's well-measured approach, it draws an attentive listener into a world of intricate and finely nuanced compositions in which an unrushed precision and intuitive approach to writing can be clearly sensed.
“Surface tension tends to make a drop spherical, gravity tends to flatten a sessile drop and elongate a pendant drop, and the electric field typically elongates a drop along the direction of the field” - says science. Similar to the dichotomy of a liquid dripping process, Surface Tension inherently shifts into two distinct mood opposites. Straight from the beginning of the record a palpable tension can be felt, hinting at a series of inevitable plot twists that keep the listener submerging in its enthralling waves. While most of the tracks start with a calm before a storm, halfway through 'Slow Burn' or 'Dissimilar Liquids' Julia delves into the very depths of dank dubstep bass. Surface Tension weaves a vibrant narrative - at times a confluence of serene comprehension other times bordering on a pleasure of suffocating in its intensity.

Written & produced by Julia Svensson
aircode.codes

Mastered by Charles Verni
charlesverni.com

Artwork by Jiri Macku
instagram.com/jiri_macku

G&P025 💧

Surface Tension

Digital & Cassette

aircode - Dissimilar Liquids

Intense and breathtaking new mix by @therealendgame out now!

SF.MIX.37 Tracklist

Skins  - my looking glass
Jjjacob -gephya
Embaci - tiniest whisper (estoc edit)
Deftones - Change (In The House Of Flies)
Age reform - die hard demo
Skeng x tommy lee - protocol 2
Endgame - sacrifice
TSVI - Disturbo
Sueuga -El Mensaje ft. Ice Eyes 
Noroi - asphyxia
Intence - Chipp
slikback - Mien
Entranas - Sombras
BENN - coming forth by the day
Imaabs - Demons Therapy
Safety Trance -Miserable
Hyph11E - Black Pepper (Nahshi edit)
Endgame (Bodies (MySword remix)
Kotrina - Sudando Sangre
StressMusik - 130 Batimentos
Vanyfox - Off White
Dj Pombero - Revoque Tool
Cocktail Party Effect - Fixing the Roof
Almaazz - 123
Surusinghe - Likshot
Desto - Bahamut
Rattlesnakke - 0 Atrapame (miss jay remix)
DJ GÄP - Burning Brakes
King Doudou - Chase the Red Lion
DQ - Disgracing 
Vein.fm - Wavery

SF.MIX.37 – ENDGAME

We have some lacerating, avant-club abstraction as @corinmusic returns to Lee Gamble’s @uiqmusic label.

Back on UIQ following 2021’s 'Enantiodromia' release. Where that explored ideas of machine learning, specifically memory retention in AI, ‘Lux Aeterna’ imagines sound as sentient across a suite of tracks indebted to sci-fi soundtracks and baroque-era beauty. It’s a fierce and forward investigation into texture through the prism of granular synthesis and club-focused concerns. 

Our premiere, ‘extasis’, finds the multidisciplinary artist marrying spectral trance and industrial maelstrom to exhilarating effect.

'Lux Aeterna' is out July 14th on UIQ.

Pre-order: uiqmusic.bandcamp.com/album/lux-aeterna

Lux Aeterna

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Premiere: CORIN - extasis [UIQ]

Soda Plains - Meet Me At Escados [YGK021]

Format: Digital/Single
Release Date: 22 September, 2023
Mix & Master by Soda Plains
Cover by Diane Severin Nyugen

Soda Plains - Meet Me At Escados [YGK021]

The latest podcast sees Petrola 80 bosses @lyravalenza take a restrained approach while placing specific focus on their local Copenhagen scene.

A collaboration between longstanding friends Jens Konrad and Hjalte Lehman, the LV blueprint transcends genre. It’s day-glo rave ordnance that draws from eurodance, techno and the so-called hardcore continuum – nostalgic and undeniably fwd-facing at once.

Distilling the euphoria of their live sets into 8 distinct tracks, debut full-length ‘Low Gear No Pressure’ spanned everything from blissed ambience to precision-tooled breakbeats and trance-tinged jungle. Dipping into downtempo territory for the first time, it also represented a broadening of their already eclectic palette, and this mix certainly continues in that vein.
 
“Our recent DJ appearances and mixes have been hazy peak-hour sets, so here, we wanted to dive a little deeper and explore slower BPMs and tracks we rarely get the chance to play out, combined with tunes we usually play in the beginning of our sets. It’s also the first time we chose to work with a strict gender balance between the featured artists and producers. And as usual we focused on the booming Copenhagen scene, this time including local artists such as Gavnlig, Muskila, Capitana, DJ Paydar and Mbizo.” – Lyra Valenza

If-Only Podcast #127: Lyra Valenza

ZULI, experimental club producer and VENT co-founder hailing from Cairo hits the NTS airwaves to showcase his club wares: aggressively left-field.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/ZULI/episodes/zuli-9th-october-2023

ZULI w/ Ship Sket 091023

aya and BFTT - Up And At Them!

track list
endgame -
myen - equi
nammy wams - flock
wrack - bamboo shoots (cassius selct remix)
rodman - vendaval
kyyberwall 0 gil boy son
prakital - slight breeze
bogote - dntro
crrdr - nasty
vanyfox - lifestyle dos enjoados
DJ BBOY -chilly
imaabs- acecho
elmeka - shake dem
clementaum feat umathesua - deusa do brasil
la creme - liesss (slickback remix)
endgame -free dem edit

PM - NTS - Endgame & Know V.A (11.10.23)

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (13.10.2023)

Artists: @wulffluw94 & @moapillar

WULFFLUW XCIV w/ Moa Pillar @ Radio TNP 13.10.2023

@preciousmetalsx founder @therealendgame, AKA “the devil himself”, in the building for the latest podcast.

Co-founding the now-defunct Bala Club to launching Precious Metals, the NTS mainstay is one of London’s foremost underground operators: a prolific producer, DJ and label owner that counts the likes of Kamixlo, Yayoyanoh and Organ Tapes among his closest peers and collaborators. 

Committed to platforming emerging artists, no stone is left unturned in his label’s pursuit of dysfunction and emotive-driven, genre-bending cross-pollination. It’s music that draws from the chaos of the urban complex; intense, visceral, sometimes nocturnal, and, on occasion, violent in the extreme.

And where his own productions straddle the line between severe electronics, drill abstraction and Latinx styles, this mix treads a similar path. 

“The mix is the soundtrack to a inward spiral - propelled towards the blessed chaos of our inner most desires and fears, entwined in sacred rapture.” – ENDGAMƎ

If-Only Podcast #128: ENDGAMƎ

Robotic canine hymns to pull your strings.

Read more: pure-g.co/pure-guest048

SoundCloud: @asyncfigure

PURE Guest.048 Async Figure

NYC scene figurehead and podcast contributor Ex Wiish keeps things horizontal with a 45-minute exercise in total immersion. 

We're gassed to have the 29 Speedway founder on board for this one. Something of a luminary in the Big Apple scene, the sound artist and composer has grown increasingly experimental with age, culminating in  a widescreen debut for Anthony Naples' Incienso label.

Where that album oscillated between windswept arrangements, lacerating IDM and downbeat styles, his mix taps into the same vein of transcendent, meditative experimentalism. 

“For this mix I wanted to feature tracks by some of the artists who have recently been involved with 29 Speedway on tour alongside music I’ve found inspiring as of late. Picks from Flora Yin Wong, Lauren Duffus, Yolabmi, Eric Frye, bod [包家巷], KMRU, Exael and some other favourites”. – Ex Wiish

If-Only Podcast #129: Ex Wiish

Gassed to have arch futurist and @polaarsounds founder @flore on the podcast series.

As the brains behind a label constantly upending expectations and convention, the Lyon native has achieved cult status among discerning music heads. If you haven’t checked the POLAAR output, not to mention Flore’s own productions, you only have yourself to blame. It’s curation without compromise, defined by a voracious appetite for innovation.

Flexing a commitment to reckless abandon and clubwise experimentation, the mix treads a similar path. Bassbin accelerators and hardcore torque in abundance. 

“This mix is a collection of new and old tracks that represent my current mood: a mixture of introspection and excitement. In a few days we are starting the celebration of the 10th anniversary of my POLAAR label with a party at the Machine du Moulin Rouge in Paris (one of the biggest we have ever organised).

It proved the perfect occasion to delve back into the archives and it was surprisingly pleasant to see how far we have come. It’s also an opportunity to think about the new creative directions we want to take in the years to come. I've made the selection while working on this, and I think the mix reflects that state of mind.” - Flore

If-Only Podcast #130: Flore

Gauzy bliss-out and pop abstraction to forward-facing dancefloor pressure, @imgonebaby founder Jetty (@mystictearz) delivers the 131st podcast. 

67 engrossing minutes from a real one. Definitely the handiwork for the brains behind a label that trades in the tender, mutant, smudged and sublime.

RIYL: Madjestic Kasual, Slagwerk, Organ Tapes, blastah, TT

“Sometimes I’m catering to the imaginary techno-industrial board of directors… sometimes my eyes are closed and my brain is smooth. This one has been Schwinn and Salt Marsh approved - the true test of pure intent. All glory goes to the producers behind the songs I stitched together.” – Jetty

If-Only Podcast #131: Jetty

Tapping into the most vital

@noodsradio 3-4pm BST every 2nd Friday of the month

If-Only Podcast #128: ENDGAMƎ

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