Written by @metaki and @hugocalcio
Produced by Hugo Calcio
Mastered by Bertrand Härdi
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℗ & © 2023 Promesses

"'Promesses Vol. 3' is the third compilation of the label including 31 tracks by 44 different artists from all around the globe. This release is built like the previous ones: a long abstract narrative journey composed of eclectic passages from ambient ballads to deconstructed pop club anthems. 'Promesses Vol. 3' is a good testimony of the current label work.

Here is the full list of the artists involved in the compilation: abel31 • ACAB (@_@) ROOKIE • Agazero • Amazondotcom • AYEGY • Baby Pantera • Bianca Scout • blastah & DRVGジラ • bod [包家巷] • Brodinski & Modulaw • Broosnica • Dviance • HAJJ • Jorrdan • Kelman Duran & Ans M • LacopinedeFlipper (prod. Amor Fati) • Lili Castiglioni & Vilhelm. • Mda (prod. ambeats) • metaki (prod. Hugo Calcio) • Nafftero • pam3 (prod. more eaze) • ptite soeur • Ragazza XXI • Safety Trance • salome (prod. Dviance) • Sébastien Forrester & Apulati Bien • Taraneh • TTristana & Miss Jay • Uliss (prod. Idée Noire & Jorrdan) • u o & lazza gio (prod. les angelos) • Yaka"

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metaki - doucethem (prod. by Hugo Calcio)

Pneumatic and Uriel proudly presents 'Divinity Reset’

Forged as a product of their move from Portland to San Francisco the project is an unapologetic exploration of avant garde composition personified by angelic synth lines and dissonant atmosphere. URIEL reflects and meditates on restarting/redefining their personal life and musical efforts through the lens of a celestial world.

Written and produced by Uriel (Jonathan Benz)
mixed by Jonathan Benz
Mastered by Reid Babbington

Available for Purchase through our Bandcamp

Uriel - Tarantula

The 40th release of katharsis is the EP “Life is Hard” by Malle Voss coming out on April 10th. Following up on his debut release “Death is Easy” on Blue Tapes from 2022, the artist expands his musical pilgrimage into pure and spiritual affection in chaotic and dark territory. By using emotion in a structural way, the 6 tracks portray deep truths of overcoming struggle and turning nonsense into meaning. The tracks work like dark botanical angel artifacts, each with its rituals and prayers of death motivation and enlightenment through hardship. The range of sentiments covers everything from both beauty and joy to aggression and ecstasy, in its messy-by-design style of maximalist minimalism.

Life Is Hard

I See Now

Malle Voss - I See Now

@jjjacob @hlodowigekdahl
The 42nd release of katharsis is the collaborative album “Soft Space” by label founder jjjacob and various other artists from around the world, coming out on May 31st. The album works as a sequel to his previous full-length release "Brutal Nature" from 2022, both in terms of the collaborational dogma in production but also in the thematic connection and contrast between the brutality of nature and the softness of space. All tracks emerged as infantile jjjacob sketches, then taking more form and gaining inspirational matter from the collaborating artists' conduct and care, before finally being concluded by the final touches of jjjacob again.

The result is as the title suggests smooth and gentle at most times, but it does though have more wicked and harsh moments and aspects throughout the album. The emotional journey of the album keeps pendulating between the pleasant floating sensations of celestial emptiness and the brute mysticality of the unknown. At times it feels aerodynamic or dissolving, at others it tastes crispy and anthemic, but the overall output is definitely ethereal and cosmic.

releases May 31, 2024
artwork & mastering by jjjacob

Soft Space

Late Laments (feat. Hlodowig Ekdahl)

jjjacob & Hlodowig Ekdahl - Late Laments

@starleaf
The 44th release of katharsis is the debut album “Late Bloomer” by the malmö-based entity Starleaf. A whisper caught between interstellar winds, a tale of a cosmic protagonist - something growing, something distant and near at once. The album manifests the ethereal spirit of Starleaf with deep rhythmic pulses of bass sprouting from the deep, strong melodic forces of trancey synths and hard-hitting space-warping percussion.

Starleaf is an organism thriving on the edge of the comprehensible, drawing from energies that defy the natural laws we claim to know. In its branches, rhythms weave, harmonic growth pulses, and textures bloom from the nexus of the organic and the alien. Its origins are a paradox of seed and starlight, where sound becomes a tendril, twisting through Malmö’s underground and far beyond.

releases September 30, 2024

Artwork by jjjacob
Mastering by jjjacob & Starleaf

Late Bloomer

Brucebo

premiere: Starleaf - Brucebo

@starleaf
The 44th release of katharsis is the debut album “Late Bloomer” by the malmö-based entity Starleaf. A whisper caught between interstellar winds, a tale of a cosmic protagonist - something growing, something distant and near at once. The album manifests the ethereal spirit of Starleaf with deep rhythmic pulses of bass sprouting from the deep, strong melodic forces of trancey synths and hard-hitting space-warping percussion.

Starleaf is an organism thriving on the edge of the comprehensible, drawing from energies that defy the natural laws we claim to know. In its branches, rhythms weave, harmonic growth pulses, and textures bloom from the nexus of the organic and the alien. Its origins are a paradox of seed and starlight, where sound becomes a tendril, twisting through Malmö’s underground and far beyond.

Artwork by jjjacob
Mastering by jjjacob & Starleaf

Jester (feat. Gina040)

Starleaf - Jester feat. Gina040

(+)earth w/ xato

@star_shiftmusic

The 45th release of katharsis is the EP "Intrusion" by Italian artist Lefka, releasing in full on October 28th. Throughout the six tracks of the EP, Lefka swaddles the listener in a dense and distorted quilt of sound that feels both heavy and light at the same time. "Intrusion" is a release that aims to sonify the acceptance of intrusive thoughts through a kathartic and emotionally intense experience.

Through heavy use of granular synthesis and electric guitar recordings, the release varies from calm, introspective moments to peaks of intense sound pressure. Like through glass, the sounds refract and are broken into pieces, creating an aural effect of rebound and confused scattering, and like intrusive thoughts, the tracks have abrupt peaks that reset the silence with unsettling intensity.

Lefka is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. As in a stream of consciousness, his own productions are characterized by an irreverent and disillusioned approach, which aim to detach from a precise genre-categorization.

released October 28, 2024

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by Lefka

Intrusion

Into My Bones

Lefka - Into My Bones

welcome to my advent calendar !
today @vildetuv and I split the mix,
have a glowy Wednesday ❤︎

TRACKLIST
Vilde Tuv - XX
Miyon - Why ?
Vilde Tuv - Frukthagen (Solplomme)
Vilde Tuv - XX
Vilde Tuv - Babypuls (Unison Puls)
Torus (@torvs) - Sound Of The Drums 
Astrid Sonne (@a_sonne) - Light and heavy
Simon & Garfunkel (@simon-garfunkel-official) - Scarborough Fair / Canticle
Dida (@didasy) - Cream
Simili Gum (@similigum) - sign from
Air (@officialair) - Homme Lune
The High Llamas (@the-high-llamas) - Hawaiian Smile

24 mixes before xmas, day 11 : with Vilde Tuv

mix 155 by @kakhagelashvili ᡣ𐭩

ᯓᡣ𐭩 monker178 - cicadas tall shadows of the afternoon
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Camille Keller - Get it
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Elevation - scrolling dirtydirt instagram on Glenwood Ave
ᯓᡣ𐭩 beloved trinket  - Meek
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Sioban - If a prey crossed our path
ᯓᡣ𐭩 vio lino - empire
ᯓᡣ𐭩 cash - cloudburst (cenaceae remix)
ᯓᡣ𐭩 vio lino and tettix hexer - chasing butterflies (porter robinson - sea of voices mothcore flip)

(155) Kakha Gelashvili

Tracklist:

TOPS - Outside (pauline)
OLODUM - Farao Divindidade Do Egipto (distruktor)
OKAY VIVIAN / SABAHYILDIZE - Prenses Kyle (desirè)
SUMO - Heroin (divisas)
THE DURUTTI COLUMN - Sketch For Dawn (meryll)
DYLAN BRADY - My First Time (thomas)
DESIRE - Aqui Dark (desire)
BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND - Ever New (pauline)
MARIA MINERVA - Unchain My Heart (divisas)
WHITE RAINBOW - Touchdown (divisas)
LORNA BENNETT - It's My House (pauline)
JESUS & MARY CHAIN - "Happy Place (distruktor)
PAVEMENT - Summer Babe (divisas)
LAURA LES - Darkest Part Of The Day (thomas)
ISABELLA - Vain (meryll)
DESIRE & THOMAS & ZOE - La Chapelle Jet Set (la normandie 2020 rough mix)
DIVISAS - Commie des Garcons (la normandie 2020 rough mix)

DIVISAS - "and so on and so forth"

Fruit of The Loop