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Kode9's First Solo Album Will Combine J-Pop, Horror Soundtracks, Grime, and Footwork

The album, titled 'Nothing,' is out November 6 on Hyperdub.
Philip Skoczkowski

Kode9's first solo album will be called Nothing—and it will be out November 6 on (where else?) Hyperdub. According to a release, "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, jagged cut-ups of androids gone haywire, threaded through twitchy, transatlantic rhythms and sub-bass inaudible through your laptop speakers.

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Nothing will also bear traces of The Spaceape—Kode9's frequent collaborator who died in 2014—through tracks like "Third Ear Transmission," "Void," (which Spaceape was originally intended to contribute vocals to), and album closer "Nothing Lasts Forever," which contains nine minutes of silence.

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In 2016, Kode9 will embark on tour with a live A/V set involving a luxury hotel known as the "Nøtel," which bears a corporate logo also seen on the album's cover. "The project explores a post-scarcity world in which the only thing in short supply is human," the release says. The performance will guide guests through the hotel's futuristic architecture of slick glass corridors, quantum clouds, gravitational pools, dancing voids and holograms of the dead.

Tracklist

01. Zero Point Energy
02. Notel
03. Void
04. Holo
05. Third Ear Transmission feat. The Spaceape
06. Zero Work
07. Vacuum Packed
08. Wu Wei
09. Casimir Effect
10. Respirator
11. Mirage
12. 9 Drones
13. Nothing Lasts Forever

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