FRAGILE - FRAG1 EP

taken from "Decolorized idylls":
https://xxxglamourxxx.bandcamp.com/album/decolorized-idylls

it’s 9 AM, you’re in a bathtub, you put your head under the water, everything gets fuzzy.
‘life is good’ you think ✧

“Decolorized idylls” somehow feels like seeing a blurry mirage or falling asleep in a bath.
Hiroki Yamasaki (running an absolutely brilliant Ukiuki Atama label) proves once again that he’s the master of ambiguous soundscapes always being soft and sharp / calming and unsettling / new age and post-internet / cute and spooky / ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡ and (･:ﾟдﾟ:･) at the same time.
so good to have him here in glamour ♡

woopheadclrms
"This album, as the title suggests, is a decolored version of the pastoral soundtrack. Density is reduced and gaps are left open. I leave it to you to fill in the gaps."

music and master by Hiroki Yamasaki
@woopheadclrms
woopheadclrms.com/

artwork by goudgiie
www.instagram.com/goudgiie/

𝒢°13

woopheadclrms - Rural

A collection of brain debris from September. Exploration of texture and dynamics in a glitched harsh noise environment. Sampled from future projects, while sitting in my hollow.
Most things about this project has been crudely rushed together, out of spite of my own overthinking.

Full audiovisual: youtu.be/rRyF5unWOd4

Backwards, Through Concrete

Fracturas

Mt. Fuyu - A Mirror To Weave
Cat. Nr: DN024
Format: DL
Release Date: June 2, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/MtFuyu

A grave and sprawling epic, Mt. Fuyu’s A Mirror to Weave swells with implication. Written, recorded, and produced from the heart of a person who’s lived through life’s struggles much too young, the album is a ferment of ideas and experiences that together capture the sheer strangeness, beauty, and terror of existence. Born in China and immigrating to the United States with his parents in infancy, the Kansas City-based artist—otherwise known as Fu Liu—moved from the coastal province of Shandong to America’s Midwest in the early 2000s. The dot-com crash to follow led to living precariously with his father in Canada, then a short stint in foster care, before settling into a strict regimen of academic and musical pursuits on the family’s return to the US.

This classical jazz education and scholarly background comes through in A Mirror to Weave, where an endless inventory of influences—crossing Coil, The Caretaker, Burial; Mark Fisher, Hito Steyerl, Carl Jung, and more—is steeped in a sublime brew of drone, post-industrial and ambient; hauntology, dub and bass. Rife with the trauma of the past, and the expansive landscapes of the present, opener “Temple” billows with decayed, distended, and eerily pitched vocals, as an arrhythmic pulse grows then crashes in a surge of noise and distortion. The disturbance rumbles through other tracks too, as the subaqueous current of “Swamp Nymphs” roils and fizzes around a crumble of pads and sine waves, while resampled and effects-laden drums charge head-first into the spooky atmospherics of “Ovre” with an erratic urgency.

Although often muted, muffled or restrained, the voice and its whispered words play a central role in A Mirror to Weave. It’s in the existential drift of “Shells”, as Fu Liu’s sweetly sung words (“seen it all/ a black hole”) ripple over a melancholy piano solo; environmental field recordings fluttering delicately just beneath the surface. The audio is taken from the parks, streets, bars, as well as online spaces Fu Liu inhabits, giving the record its heavy sense of grief and alienation. Wandering through the emotional state of pandemic-era estrangement, while also mourning the passing of friends, A Mirror to Weave is a requiem for the worst that’s already been, and an exaltation of the best that’s yet to come. 

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Niels Wehrspann and Solène Gonnet

A Mirror To Weave

buy / stream

Mt. Fuyu - Close2U

Reforged. Reimagined. Elements tamed and wielded. Distilled frequencies sent back through to the world. Re-focused and reconstructed. A transmutation of will, etched to disc. The long journey’s end. A signal sent between worlds and back again, a vision realized and now, delivered.

Original music by VR Chads.
Remix by Klotang (@klahrk x @djjoeleb).
Mastered by SIM.
Album cover by LCL Stream.

C U On Da Flipside Remixes

Forsythia.glb

VR Chads - Forsythia.glb (Klotang Remix)

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

heart bleeds only in the weekend

leop4rdi - heart bleeds only in the weekend

@luviate
https://www.instagram.com/luviate_
https://x.com/luviate_
https://luviate.bandcamp.com

luviate - do you think about me

Warning: This track may cause an involuntary 'Stank Face.'

This is a relentless barrage of glitched-out synths and earth-shattering bass. The pure, unfiltered energy you feel when the beat hits just right.

If you feel your face scrunch up on the drop, I did my job.

Thanks for listening! Like, share, and follow for more heavy tunes.

Stank Face

Follow @fixmybrain
Spotify -https://open.spotify.com/artist/35u73hUKo2I3UV2W25oavG
https://linktr.ee/fixmybrain

Angel Tears

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0CB0KdBoZVNztkPwN84Rqp?si=t8jXSTzLSOaZ1Jf7pOHBbg
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/bw/album/frag1-ep/1421939040
Bandcamp: https://calmdot.bandcamp.com/album/frag1
Tidal:tidal.com/album/93114475

Breath

Vocals & Magic https://soundcloud.com/eatqs

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0CB0KdBoZVNztkPwN84Rqp?si=t8jXSTzLSOaZ1Jf7pOHBbg
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/bw/album/frag1-ep/1421939040
Bandcamp: https://calmdot.bandcamp.com/album/frag1
Tidal:tidal.com/album/93114475

Fever Dreams Ft. EATQS

I Like It

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0CB0KdBoZV…zLSOaZ1Jf7pOHBbg
Apple Music: itunes.apple.com/bw/album/frag1-ep/1421939040
Bandcamp: calmdot.bandcamp.com/album/frag1
Tidal:tidal.com/album/93114475

Tantrum

Engame & Chai T   (22nd February 2017)

Contact: calmrecs.uk@gmail.com
@calmrecs
FRAG1 Out now everywhere:
Bandcamp: https://calmdot.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Isbm9UzWSgqy6A9Da5pi1?si=t8jXSTzLSOaZ1Jf7pOHBbg
Tidal: https://tidal.com/album/93114475 
Perishable Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRFlKQLd8PA&t=6s

Fever Dreams Ft. EATQS

FRAGILE

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