Escapology by Kode9
‘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.
Tracklist
| 1. | Trancestar North | 0:55 |
| 2. | The Break Up | 3:57 |
| 3. | Toxic Foam | 2:06 |
| 4. | Orbex | 0:41 |
| 5. | Angle of Re-Entry | 4:24 |
| 6. | Freefall | 1:13 |
| 7. | In The Shadow Of Ben Hope | 1:37 |
| 8. | Sim-Darien | 2:11 |
| 9. | Cross The Gap | 2:40 |
| 10. | Uncoil | 3:51 |
| 11. | Astro-Darien | 1:22 |
| 12. | Lagrange Point | 3:34 |
| 13. | Docking | 1:03 |
| 14. | Torus | 3:32 |
| 15. | T-Divine | 1:56 |
Credits
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).
