Kode9 - Dj-Kicks - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

'Nothing' is Kode9's first solo album and is about nothing. The album throws horror soundtracks, sampled library and j-pop records into a no man's land between grime, early dubstep and Chicago footwork. Mostly instrumental, it zigzags between hypnotic, downcast loops, growling drones, and jagged cut-ups of androids gone haywire, threaded through twitchy, transatlantic rhythms and sub-bass inaudible through your laptop speakers. Building slowly, but more upbeat than previous albums, many of these tracks have more in common with Kode9's recent singles from the last few years than they do with his two previous albums with collaborator The Spaceape, 'Memories of the Future' (2006) and 'Black Sun' (2012)Yet 'Nothing' is haunted both by The Spaceape's presence (he died in 2014 after a prolonged battle with cancer), on 'Third Ear Transmission', a communiqué from a zone of digital immortality, and his absence, on 'Void', whose spaces were originally intended for the vocalist, and 'Nothing Lasts Forever', which closes the album with a 9 minute silence. Album Tracks 1. Zero Point Energy 2. Notel 3. Void 4. Holo 5. Third Ear Transmission Ft the Spaceape 6. Zero Work 7. Vacuum Packed 8. Wu Wei 9. Casimir Effect 10. Respirator 11. Mirage 12. 9 Drones 13. Nothing Lasts Forever

Album Tracks 1. A Mother 2. Livin' Free 3. Spellbound 4. Give My Soul 5. Revolutionary Pilot 6. In Too Deep 7. Kauna 8. Never Say 9. Dadamnphreaknoizphunk? 10. Shaolin Satellite 11. High Noon 12. Keep on Believing 13. Que Dolor 14. Bass and Several Cars 15. Look Up Dere 16. Radio Burning Chrome 17. DJ. Kicks

'Escapology' - Kode9's first album since 2015's 'Nothing' - is the first audio document of a wider project, Astro-Darien, ongoing since last year. His most ambitious work yet as a multi-disciplinary artist, 'Escapology' is the soundtrack album to the sonic fiction Astro-Darien, which will be released in October on Hyperdub sub-tag Flatlines. The music reconfigures Astro-Darien's tense, off-world atmospheres into slices of high definition, asymmetric club rhythms, woven through thrilling sound design and vertiginous sonics. 'Escapology' is just one entry point into of the Astro-Darien universe, which had begun to surface in 2021 as a two-week audiovisual installation on the main dance floor at club space Corsica Studios in South London, and as a multi-channel diffusion on the 50 speaker Acousmonium at the invitation of INA-GRM in Paris, the institution founded in 1951 by the musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer, composer Pierre Henry and the engineer Jacques Poullin. The artwork for both 'Escapology' and Astro-Darien was produced by Kode9's long-time collaborators Lawrence Lek (digital world design), and Optigram (typography and gfx). CD is the only physical for this , packaged in a transparent Blu-ray style disc case. 01. Trancestar North 02. The Break Up 03. Toxic Foam 04. Orbex 05. Angle Of Re-Entry 06. Freefall 07. In The Shadow Of Ben Hope 08. Sim-Darien 09. Cross The Gap 10. Uncoil 11. Astro-Darien 12. Lagrange Point 13. Docking 14. Torus 15. T-Divine Album Tracks 1. Trancestar North 2. Break Up 3. Toxic Foam 4. Orbex 5. Angle of Re-Entry 6. Freefall 7. In the Shadow of Ben Hope 8. Sim-Darien 9. Cross the Gap 10. Uncoil 11. Astro-Darien 12. Lagrange Point 13. Docking 14. Torus 15. T-Divine