April 12th, 2021
Vague Culture 3
JWR040

Artwork by Get Face
Mastered by Colin Moir

https://soundcloud.com/bedoublensound
https://soundcloud.com/dreamgoth
https://soundcloud.com/theuropeancanon
https://soundcloud.com/mxntrxss
https://soundcloud.com/porqueria
https://soundcloud.com/dannyhelll
https://soundcloud.com/rvincenzo
https://soundcloud.com/SunshineVendetta
https://soundcloud.com/symdk
https://soundcloud.com/rougeh0tel
https://soundcloud.com/ravencomptonparis
https://soundcloud.com/softieseason
https://soundcloud.com/poly-armour
https://soundcloud.com/wifeof_lot
https://soundcloud.com/djturian
https://soundcloud.com/iamxato

Softie - Rotting Orchids

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estoc & Ana Caprix, 'The Lake'

Second single from @farwarmth 's upcoming release "A Blue Wind Is Now" out on the 6 of June.

Stream & Download: push.fm/fl/abwin2

Music by @farwarmth
Stunning artwork by @nilfernandez
Mastering by @dj_ghepard

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FARWARMTH - Twigs In The Salt Mines

The 23rd release of katharsis is the collaborative album “Brutal Nature” by label founder jjjacob and various other artists. The idea of the project, which has been in progress for several years, was to extend the artistry to a more conversational form than the classic introverted style of the electronic music composer. The album shaped itself through several exchanges of ideas and stems between jjjacob and the numerous artists of the project.

The final product of the collaborations has a common theme of finding solace in the darkness and brutality of nature. This could be exemplified by the deep melancholy infused with an inner peace of losing a loved one in the mourning song “Threnody” with Hajj, or in the overcoming and healing of both internal and external wounds by the catharsis of music and art on the eloquent track “Trauma” with Bungalovv and Odete. As an introduction to the album, jjjacob and the local Beham created an auditory interpretation of self-blame with movie samples and abrasive low-end explosions, and to conclude it jjjacob and Slikback created the bass-heavy club lullaby “Bonum Nocte”.

The album follows jjjacob's previous two EPs on katharsis from last year, “Journey Before Destination” and “Internal Presence”, but it is his first full-length album since “Body Without Organs” released on the Spanish label Sweat Taste in 2020. The album artwork is a collaboration between jjjacob and Emil Stephensen, with the main motive being a painting by the latter.

jjjacob & Hajj - Threnody

Celes is an artist based in New York. Her music melds the enigmatic and the technical, traversing uplifting rave performances, crushing drone, synthetic machinations and beyond. She mines hidden, deeply felt emotional territory, capturing and channelling chaotic sensory entities and redirecting them toward a heartstopping emotional release.

Café is her debut Club Paradiso release. The album is a transference of divine energy, bound, distilled and purified. Artificial angels reconstituted from charred selkie matter: strobe haloes, hardcoded virtue sensors, plied and fused mechawings. Brutal cyborgian femininity, a slow-swaying dance on the border of Nothingness and Totality. Café sighs and shimmers like a digital mirage, blissed out and blessed up in equal measure.

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Celes: @celes11235
streaming: artists.landr.com/692531896988
Bandcamp: clubparadiso.bandcamp.com/album/caf

Master: Cell van Lommel @axemblem
Cover design: @daffyscanlan
Text: @madjestickasual

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CD + Download

Celes - Siren

from 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0KsphDsmIA

no sleep

2018 - 2022

Artwork by Giusy Amoroso and Aaron Jablonski 

https://www.instagram.com/marigoldff/
https://www.instagram.com/exitsimulation/

Levitate

Scim - 'Abyssal Plain'
24 Jan 2023, digital
@scim1
Download:
formforum.bandcamp.com/album/abyssal-plain

Scim - Sessile

To be released on Genot Centre on March 19 (tape & digital).
Pre-order now → https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/misinput-tycoon

On Misinput Tycoon (GEN052), https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier returns to Genot Centre with an album full of intricately engineered, futuristic sound explorations. Quirky, syncopated, even grimy melodies emerge between sounds reminiscent of cinematic automatic sliding doors, plasma-filled light cannons and full-spectrum boot-up sounds. The approach is bio-mimetic, elastic, fizzy, accelerating and decelerating, like listening to a process of wringing out an artificial fabric, or rupturing ultra-light fibrous materials in incredible resolution. More than ever, this album is littered with colorful, even contemplative segments: having an orchestrated, playful feeling. But make no mistake: more than mere intermezzos, this only a further dimension of the album's depth, the bright timbres ready to interface with a stroboscopic, liquid, granular counterpoint at any time.

// Roland Nagy (https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier) about GEN052
“I’m constantly watching pixels since I was 5. This album reflects wasted time and digital traumas. MISINPUT TYCOON is a sequel of my FULLSCREEN album from 2019 (also on Genot) - a sonic playground that feels much safer to me compared to my previous works. Also, it's the first album I made without hearing „What would XY think about this track?” in my head. These are my hymns for healing from the digital core - hope it will help.”

// BIO
Roland Nagy (he/him) is a Hungarian sound engineer, ex-media arts student and producer. Ever since 2016 he has released music under https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier moniker on labels like on EXILES, Kaer‘Uiks, Pointless Geometry, Infinite Machine or Genot Centre. His work in the field of electronic music production, while resonating with hardcore digital culture and bouncy rhythmic heaviness, is closely connected to his fascination for natural soundscapes and their fractal nature. In particular, Nagy skillfully manages to depict a violent, tense world populated of minuscule yet grand sound variations, intertwined in a web of apparently chaotic textures. He was part of Shape Platform roster in 2020.

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