{"product_id":"kode9-astro-darien","title":"Kode9, Astro-Darien","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTriple Gatefold – Single green Vinyl 10” \/ Download\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Download comes with artwork PDF)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFlat002 strictly limited to 500 worldwide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is not available on streaming services .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease Date: 11th November\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAstro-Darien is a 26-minute sonic fiction about the break-up of Britain narrated by synthetic\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eScottish voices and framed as an eponymous video game. It is the 2nd vinyl release on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHyperdub’s sub-label Flatlines and its dark green 10” comes packaged in a triple gatefold sleeve, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith artwork by Kode9’s long time collaborators Lawrence Lek \u0026amp; Optigram. Whereas the first\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003erelease on the label, Mark Fisher and Justin Barton’s ‘On Vanishing Land’, wove an audio essay \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003earound a walk along the South East Coast of England, Astro-Darien takes off from a road trip \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealong the North Coast of Scotland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom a Caledonian heart of darkness to a supernova Scotia. The documentary fiction spirals\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003ebetween the role of the catastrophic Darien Scheme in the late 17th century in the founding of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe UK, when Scotland failed to colonise part of present-day Panama, and the contemporary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edisintegration of the union. In a somewhat wild extrapolation of the race to become the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScotland’s first vertical satellite launch station currently playing out between Sutherland Space \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePort and the Shetland Space Centre, independence is speculatively framed as an exercise of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eescapology, a jailbreak and exodus to an orbital space habitat, with all the risks and dangers that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eentails.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe loose plot follows a game designer from a fictional games company called 'Trancestar North' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewho, in attempting to lift the dark spell cast by Darien, models a counter-future by ingesting \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecosmism, the history of racial capitalism and the demise of Empire into T-Divine, the geopolitics \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esimulator of the game engine. She follows the Brexit algorithm as it runs to its logical conclusion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInitially conceived as an audio essay for diffusion on François Bayle’s 50 speaker Acousmonium \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor INA-GRM in Paris in March 2020, but subsequently postponed by the pandemic, Astro-Darien \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efirst surfaced as a 3-screen a\/v installation on the dance floor of Corsica Studios in June 2021. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cspan\u003eOctober 2021 it finally reached the acousmonium in Paris. 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