Almost one whole year has passed since the foundation of katharsis was laid down with the launching of the label by the release of the three elemental compilations, The Flow of Water, The Burn of Fire, and The Breath of Air. Since then, seven different artists have put out EPs, albums and even a cassette tape on katharsis, yielding a total of 10 releases through this first year of existence. 

The vision of the label was to show the world how music is our best tool to process moods, thoughts and emotions by self-therapeutic involvement with the arts, which the artists have truly realized for the label by sending us incredibly stellar music to release throughout the year. The support from the community has been overwhelming, and we feel it is time for us to give something back to you. 

Therefore, we have scanned thoroughly through our discography to chop and collect small snippets of sounds, compiling a sample pack of ready-to-use .wav-files for your DAW of preference. This simultaneously reflects the aim and philosophy of katharsis, to enable and accommodate all people in their potential for making art and to break down the boundaries of creativity resulting from our copyright infringed society. Go ahead and use the samples in your productions, we are already excited to hear what will come out of it.

As a demonstration of the contents of the sample pack and its creative abilities, label founder jjjacob have put together a track only using sound material from the sample pack. The result is a ethereal landscape sequenced from the extracted emotional core of the katharsis discography, that will hopefully inspire you to take the samples in use!

jjjacob - Emotional Core Sequencing

Alfacenttauri's debut EP "Mercy" is a clash between abrasive trance arrangements, dark approaches to hyperpop, and roughly pointillistic club melodies.

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Mercy

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PREMIERE: Alfacenttauri - Œdipus

Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Sentry

This week for Valley Radio we enter a hair-raising posthuman dreamscape, fabricated by Argentinian DJ and producer Lichi1000000 (@lichi1000000). With eerie and ethereal voices guiding us along some serious hardcore tempos into experimental territory and back, Lichi1000000 once again reminds us of her talent for putting together a well-balanced mix with otherworldly ambiance.

Cover art by @marandozaton
Lay out by Oliva Rawlings

Valley Radio 059 - Lichi1000000

Kill Your Shame

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Lucem Demostrat Umbra (L.D.U.) & AARTS - Break Down ( Original Mix)

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w y m e specialises in blending highly functional yet hybrid and time-tested with sound of tomorrow into one coherent sonic trip. She is a founder xeno- An experimental party series that focuses on all things weird, post and present with an open, safe and non-hierarchic vibe for the neglected creatures out there.

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(っ◔◡◔)っ LiviNG,LearniNG,EvolviNG (intro)
wristboi - MACHiNE.DF
Yre Den - Crystal Tongue
Puzzy Stack - 酒歌 Edit
wristboi - need me
eo eintu - Every Morning
Moonstones - Yen Pox
HANAH -  Comic Sans Trap
Hydrax  - Hasley Without Me (Bootleg)
Louis Me - No Sé Tú
t0ni - angel_stance
WRACK - AREA03 (ft T5UMUT5UMU)
Ayesha Erotica - Hard
Evian Christ - Ultra
Miss Jay - need m3
Kaskade & Deadmau5 - Move For Me (Extended Remix)
Louis King ft. Brain Rays - Why Pree- (Ice_Eyes Remix)
Cousin - 4GOT
Cardi B ft Megan Thee STallion - WAP [TAAHLIAH Remix]
Splash Pattern - Scold
Monotronique - Fly Like That
DJ Swisha - Spirit Airlines Distress Track
Ma Sha Ru - Unbalanced Circle
TAAHLIAH - 1 2 STEP
Drumskull - Negative 7
Dmize - Nuclear Winter

Streamed October 27 2020 on RadioVirus, Macaomilano

Wyme - Avant Radio mix n.54

Starting this new year with a mix by @klahrk ! He is the founder of @warecollective and member of Quavis, Klotang & Viscount. A multimedia artist and serial collaborator, their work and projects span across an array of genres and mediums. Most recently releasing a jungle, hardcore & hard dance inspired tape under the alias of Klotang (with Otang) 2021 holds a year with more solo projects and releases than previous years including an upcoming EP on SFX and many more projects across the year including work with KAVARI, CITYTRONIX & as Quavis.

Tracklist : 

KAVARI & xato - Nereids
Miss Jay - 46262
Klahrk & CITYTRONIX - I.D
Syz - Bunzunkunzun
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Goofing Off
COLLO - Bantu
Emily Glass - Uvula
Chatline - Glasss (Wee Bey Last Minute Mix)
Mamboussa - Open
Druid - Cyber Time Crisis (Margari's Kid Remix)
Klahrk - Send It!!!
Root For The Villian & Calculon - Collusion (AFruit Remix)
Penelope's Fiancé - Futile Endeavours
Halber Ball - Centrifuge Fif (Yoofee Remix)
Hyph11E - Shatter
Amazondotcom & Siete Catorce - Absent City
Yssue - Riddim The Dirt
DJMTN9090 - Coisas Suficientes Já Pt 4
Will Penn - Stijl
Jel, The Digital Dream Girl + Himera - Whisper (Klahrk & CITYTRONIX Remix)
CITYTRONIX - Crystalline Skies
Ana Caprix x Kamixlo - Como Si Fuera Tu Ultimo

HYPERLINK MIX #16 w/ klahrk

From CLAM006 | PHANTASMAGORIA

@voronhil

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam006-phantasmagoria

WWW.CLAM.LIFE

VORONHIL - 11

Interview: https://www.instagram.com/p/CL9YX6mLdgM/

@slowmotiondancer is a music moniker of a Prague based artist, university teacher and producer Dominik Gajarský. Characterised by evocative vocals in contrast with slow, sober sounds, his musical output is slightly sardonic yet oozing with emotion. The last album Empathy was released via the Genome 6.66Mbp label.


Tracklist:

Kassandra K. Bak - ecotone
Léo Hoffsaes & Loto Retina - Red Feelings
Maxwell Sterling - Fake intimacy
Mark Leckey - This Lingering Twilight 
Sparkle Side B (excerpt)
Henry Earnest - Breathe
Double Virgo - wake up worse
rogergoon - don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head
Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas - Circa New Year (excerpt)
eydn - One Last Kiss
eterna - june
Aphex Twin - Piano Un10 It Happened
Frederik Valentin - Blue Ft. Jeuru
Tom Nook - Don't Think I'm Not (Tweaker Edit)
Mica Lévi - Rose
rogergoon - kiss me thru the violin sheet
7038634357 - Afterall

Mäss MÏX007 - Slowmotiondancer - Closeness

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