Kode9 & the Spaceape - Black Sun - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

KODE9's grasp on the throat of bass music in 2010 is almost unparalleled. His trend setting record tag, HYPERDUB (home to BURIAL and KING MIDAS SOUND amongst others), is in it's sixth year of viral contagion; he's become a published author on the theory of sound abuse and sonic frequencies being used as weaponry in his book InchSonic Warfare? and his production work has mutated from a marriage of beats and sine waves into a fusion of dance floor Ebonics and discordant synths. Sonically Kode9's InchDJ-KICKS attempts to decipher he tangled state of UK dance music in 2010. The tracklist is heavy on UK funky, broken beat, grime and R&B, but surprisingly light on on the genre Kode9 helped vault into widespread popularity dubstep. Album Tracks 1. Once in a While 2. Revo 3. Blood Orange 4. You Don't Wash [Dub] [Dj-Kicks] 5. Phat Si 6. Bellion 7. Heston 8. Jelly Roll 9. Different Lekstrix 10. Move Down Low 11. Look Pon Me 12. Jumeirah Riddim Sequel 13. Pleaze Mugwanti 14. Natty 15. Re Spoken [Nubian Mindz Released Mix] 16. M.A.B 17. Dirty Illusions 18. Spiralz 19. It 20. Mr. Mister 21. 2 Much Chat 22. Stiff 23. Mountain Dread March 24. Godzilla 25. Mountain Dread March (Reprise) 26. Footcrab 27. Bad 28. Cargo 29. Work Them 30. Bruzin (Vip) 31. Run

'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. I. Presto 2. II. Largo E Mesto 3. III. Menuetto Allegro - Trio 4. IV. Rondo. Allegro 5. Moment Musical in B-Flat minor, Op. 16, No. 1 6. White Lies for Lomax 7. Amplified Soul 8. Variations in B-Flat minor, Op. 3