Astro-Darien Kode9 SKU: FLAT002 Barcode: 5056321637901 36.00 £36.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Flatlines Released Date: 11th November 2022 Buying Format: 10" EP/Mini Album Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 10” Dark Green (Limited To 500) ‘Astro-Darien’ is a 26-minute sonic fiction about the break-up of Britain, narrated by synthetic Scottish voices and framed as an eponymous video game. It is the second release on Hyperdub sub-label Flatlines; a dark green 10” in triple gatefold sleeve, with artwork by Kode9’s long-time collaborators Lawrence Lek and Optigram, presented as a limited edition of 500 copies.From a Caledonian heart of darkness to a supernova Scotia? The documentary fiction spirals between the role of the catastrophic Darien Scheme in the late 17th century in the founding of the UK, when Scotland failed to colonise part of present-day Panama, and the contemporary disintegration of the Union. In a somewhat wild extrapolation of the race to become the Scotland’s first vertical satellite launch station currently playing out between Sutherland Space Port and the Shetland Space Centre, independence is speculatively framed as an exercise of escapology, a jailbreak and exodus to an orbital space habitat, with all the risks and dangers that entails. The loose plot follows a game designer from the fictional ‘Trancestar North’ company who, in attempting to lift the dark spell cast by Darien, models a counter-future by ingesting cosmism, the history of racial capitalism and the demise of Empire into T-Divine, the geopolitics simulator of the game engine. She follows the Brexit algorithm as it runs to its logical conclusion.Initially conceived as an audio essay for diffusion on François Bayle’s 50-speaker Acousmonium for INA-GRM in Paris in March 2020, but subsequently postponed by the pandemic, ‘Astro-Darien’ first surfaced as a three-screen A/V installation on the dance floor of Corsica Studios in June 2021, finally reaching the Acousmonium the following October. In July 2022, an instrumental rhythmic version entitled ‘Escapology’ was released on Hyperdub. A live A/V set relating to the ‘Astro-Darien’ game universe will debut at Unsound Festival in October 2022. Artist Kode9 Genre Electronica Label Flatlines Buying Options 10" EP/Mini Album Coloured Vinyl Format 10" , Coloured Vinyl , EP/Mini Album Condition New Country UK Track Listings Side A : Part 1 Side B : Part 2 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Kode9 and more from Electronica View Product Quick View Kode9 Escapology Electronica | Hyperdub | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd February 2023 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kode9 Escapology £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Hyperdub SKU: HYPLP004 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd February 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jacques Greene Relay Electronica | Lucky Me | 12", Single Released 7th October 2022 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jacques Greene Relay £16.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Lucky Me SKU: LM087X Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 7th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lyra Pramuk Fountain Electronica | Bedroom Community | 1LP Released 26th February 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lyra Pramuk Fountain £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Bedroom Community SKU: HVALREKI17LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th February 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marijuana Deathsquads Tuff Guy Electronics Electronica | Pioneer Works Press | 1LP Released 2nd November 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marijuana Deathsquads Tuff Guy Electronics £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Pioneer Works Press SKU: LPPW002 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things: Volume Two Electronica | Invada | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 29th November 2016 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things: Volume Two £28.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Invada SKU: INV177LP Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pram Across The Meridian Electronica | Domino | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 20th July 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pram Across The Meridian £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP434 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Brian Eno FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE Electronica | UMC | 1LP Released 14th October 2022 £30.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Brian Eno FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE £30.00 Genre: Electronica Label: UMC SKU: 4801356 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th October 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Glass Museum Reflet Electronica | Sdban Ultra | 1LP Released 29th April 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Glass Museum Reflet £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Sdban Ultra SKU: SDBANULP23 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View SURVIVE RR7349 Electronica | Relapse | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 26th September 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders SURVIVE RR7349 £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Relapse SKU: 0781676734917 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Royksopp Lost Tapes Electronica | Dog Triumph | 2LP Released 17th September 2021 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Royksopp Lost Tapes £29.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dog Triumph SKU: DOG041LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 17th September 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Colleen The Golden Morning Breaks Electronica | The Leaf Label | 1LP Released 6th October 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Colleen The Golden Morning Breaks £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: The Leaf Label SKU: BAY48V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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