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utf-8 - lovestory

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Christoff Riedel - slowww

The 38th release of katharsis and our final release of 2023 is the prodigious compilation "Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light" featuring a vast array of artist beloved by the label. Throughout the grandiose line-up of the 36 tracks, the listener is absorbed by various differing interpretations of the theme outlined in the title of the album. Some of the invited artist went full into introverted progressions and meditative sounds, while others focused on aggressive rhythms or anthemic melodies. But even though the styles and techniques of the songs differ from each other, the artists seem to have some commonality in their sonic palettes that binds it all together in a mutual love for music as a healing force of nature <3

releases December 29, 2023

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

pre-order:
katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/embr…bing-light

Embracing Darkness  Absorbing Light

encripted missing calls

brescia - encripted missing calls

Seeping Through

Lilac Pavilion - Seeping Through

“Exstasis: Restored” is a reimagining of Azrel’s 2023 album, featuring remixes from genre-defining artists such as ‘Quit Life’ and ‘Sun Angels’, along with 2 new original songs to act as bookends. This new project recontextualizes the ideas of the original album through a cohesive and wide-ranging set of productions; moving from pure ambience to euphoric ecstasy as each artist breathes their own new life into the vapors of their respective tracks. “Exstasis: Restored” further delves into the relationship between the natural and synthetic as shining saw leads intertwine with soft piano and strings. The track ordering is restructured from the original, and along with the new songs at each end, “Exstasis: Restored” creates a new ebb and flow of energy as the album progresses, exchanging each artist’s lens on the body of work as it moves.
Azrel is an ambient/trance producer based in Tokyo. His debut album ‘’Exstasis’’ released in 2023 on Mizuha, exploring the deconstruction of the typically dance-heavy soundscapes of trance music; reforming them in a more experimental context - pairing trance plucks and arpeggios with acoustic elements and delicate ambient pads. ‘’Exstasis’’ acted as a foundation for Azrel’s experimental style focusing upon a fantasy-like, naturalistic feel. His signature style tends to adopt a playful and meditative grace, yet occasionally exploring a more melancholic catharsis in places to add to the narrative feel of his projects. ‘’Exstasis: Restored’’ comes as the result of links made with like minded producers, many of whom inspired the sounds on the original album. This new project acts as to solidify the concepts of the dynamic between natural and robotic through collaborations ranging from Lorenzi’s bouncy futuristic style, to Ichiro Tanimoto’s own nostalgic and peaceful take on ambient trance. Azrel’s production style is distilled at the two poles of Exstasis’ original dialectic between ambient and trance / natural and electric, and with the two songs punctuating ‘’Exstasis: Restored’’s runtime they serve to finalise the essence of ‘’Exstasis’’ before exploring something new in future releases.

Azrel - Radiance (Quit Life Remix)

SITOI 'Kuori II'

'Kuori' is a story about a shift in identity following the collapse of reality. The double EP examines gender and sexual identity, mental health, and existence within forced, rigid societal norms. It's a portrayal of confusion, the relentless hold of anger and loneliness, constant change, and finding softness and tolerance. SITOI transforms the mundane into abstract imagery. Their spoken word poetry is reunited with the familiar unforgivingly abrasive yet somber noise, expanding upon the sonic foundation laid by 'Kyyhky' with more pummelling and techno-infused percussive production.

’Kuori II’ is a continuation of the storyline from the first released half of the double EP. ’Kuori II’ is a raw, vulnerable yet keen attempt to shed the hardened skin, the shell created to numb and protect oneself but which serves that purpose no more. It’s about the fear of letting go, accepting and embracing the weariness and disappointment in order to find joy, comfort and pleasure and to connect to oneself and others.

As on ‘Kuori I’ and ‘Kyyhky’, Exploited Body is back on production duties for ‘Kuori II’. The record flails violently between the sparse and morose atmospheres of tracks like ‘Faux Uterus’ and ‘Exuviae’, and the unrelenting storms of noise on ‘Varsat’ and ‘Hän’.

Kuori II

SITOI - Kulo

From the upcoming debut album "Coágulo" by Yvu.

Art: Yan Higa

Coágulo

Agora

Volume 2 of Aken Aten Records...VA featuring various styles from artists across the globe.

Cover made by Valentina Vargas

Tracks mastered by Sienna Sleep

Xiao Quan -Monsoon Diversion

mix (146) by @user-801127773

  ִֶָ 𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆TRACKLIST⋆  ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃 ִֶָ

がくがく - メルメル
Regent Cid - Target [se]
NIKIUNLUCKY ☣︎☣︎ прыгать не преступление
Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin - Grief (feat. Lex Amor) [se]
DJ Kuroneko - space
fur:trash - sadb0i dariacore
DJ PLEASE - Back In The Matrix (VIP) [se]
KUTHI JIN - TRIKZ
Hoang Thuy Linh - See Tình (Cukak Remix)
GoldenEggs - Watch Me Drop It Like [se]
fur:trash - alone in this world
Gizmode - Reality Hits You Hard Bro
MEGTŰRTEK - KÉK PUSZTÍTÓ
MEGTŰRTEK - FENT VAGY A LISTÁN
Genick - Coordinates [se]
Ship Sket - Spike the Milkman
kLap - SHOCK (feat. Israel Paixão)
Dominimál - Furulya
PASSENGER OF SHIT + ETHEREAL GIRL - CARNIVAL MELODY
AbC - Our Memory
dzirksts - kkookikjkkjk
PASSENGER OF SHIT + ETHEREAL GIRL - SPACE CLOWN INTERLUDE
這些藥物正在殺死我，伙計。*[╥_╥]*。我希望這個狗屎更容易。當歸4。
卂кㄩяཞѵѳяㄒёཞ̸̛̠̱̻̱̹͐̂̌̒̇͂̐͛͘̚͜
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 MEGTŰRTEK - FENT VAGY A LISTÁN [se]
Sam Bassline - Want Me [se]
Thorpey x More Fool U - Amaze Me

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(146) Shoggoth 79

Xenotools for the nest! 

A fourth addition to our UNITED series, which for each EP, one member of the GUN community collaborates freely with other artists of their choice. After opening in 2019 with Interbeings, we follow up with :

Griigg - multimedia landcrafter and CLM x GUN admin

And a gathering of GUN members, featuring texture makers and rhythm choppers :

1.5L, Alice Anyway, Bademjan & Sha Sha Kimbo

For 
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Scorobee

a collective laboratory playing with alien fiction, UFO culture, and their power to imagine vibrant ecosystems, intriguing creatures and new ways to be with the world. 
Like an insectoid genetic pool, it combines otherworldly textures with abrasive vocals, corrosive percussions, and crawling synths, turning the club into a spaceship to the sublime Void.

++ TRACKLIST ++

01. Griigg - I, Swarm
02. Griigg & Bademjan - Headcrabs On My Face
03. Griigg & Sha Sha Kimbo - ayy lmao
04. Griigg & 1.5L - Chestburster
05. Griigg & Alice Anyway - KW Doom

++ CREDITS ++ 

Tracks produced by Griigg in collaboration with 1.5L, Alice Anyway, Bademjan & Sha Sha Kimbo
https://soundcloud.com/griigg
https://soundcloud.com/1virgule5litre
https://soundcloud.com/aliceanyway
https://soundcloud.com/bademjan
https://soundcloud.com/shashakimbo

Cover & visual works by MYEN
https://www.instagram.com/myen_000/

Mastering by Bademjan

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Griigg & Alice Anyway - KW Doom

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Wevv - Bby this is not enough

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