Escapology

'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-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). CD is the only physical format for this release, 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