catalogue

KODE9

ESCAPOLOGY (HYPERDUB)

KODE9 - ESCAPOLOGY 153016
format:
1 CD
release:
12.08.2022
label:
HYPERDUB
genre:
Electro/Funk
item ID:
153016
barcode:
5056321638021
CD packaged in a transparent blu-ray style disc case. 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's sub-label 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).
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. TRANCESTAR NORTH
  • 1.2. THE BREAK UP
  • 1.3. TOXIC FOAM
  • 1.4. ORBEX
  • 1.5. ANGLE OF RE-ENTRY
  • 1.6. FREEFALL
  • 1.7. IN THE SHADOW OF BEN HOPE
  • 1.8. SIM-DARIEN
  • 1.9. CROSS THE GAP
  • 1.10. UNCOIL
  • 1.11. ASTRO-DARIEN
  • 1.12. LAGRANGE POINT
  • 1.13. DOCKING
  • 1.14. TORUS
  • 1.15. T-DIVINE