APEAK - After The Rains

A storm has washed over the city, the wet asphalt reflecting the inauspicious red sky. The time has come; to leave the towering city landmarks behind, to shed the skin of a past life, to be reborn in a high octane amniotic fluid.

'After The Rains' is the spiritual successor to APEAK's 2020 Changeless debut 'Grey Skies', which sees him working with vocalists again while expanding his sonic palette further. Following the foreboding opener 'Where We Are From, The Birds Are Dead', we are lulled by the seraphic voice of Helsinki-based real-life angel queendyster on 'See The Light'. The anthemic rumblings of 'Graze' cascade into the cavernous echoes of 'M-Way', which features the London-based Felix Lee on vocals. Closing the record off is 'Clocktowers' with it's blaring synths and noisy elements scurrying atop the monumental bass tones.

Produced by APEAK.
Vocals by Felix Lee.

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After The Rains

APEAK - M-Way (ft. Felix Lee)

Existence is merely an embarrassment, like remembering the lies you’ve said for the sake of a fix. We come and go like nobody’s business. Then we still have the audacity to claim that our intentions were always good, while living in a society on a one track path to hell while bumping into parasites. Sometimes, the parasites have the faces of lovers, our family, or friends. They are usually the hardest to pick out of the crowd. Sometimes we are conditioned to live with kindred foes. Betrayal is a simple word to describe such an immense dismemberment. The choice to let this sink in and not bother you, will be the medicine that soothes the pain of witnessing the mass fornication of interjections and blather that infect the world. 

  The digital replications of the visceral and physical aspects of our lives, are like the viruses that feeds and murders its host. The host, being the last vestige of humanity and soul. The clang through the train car hollering through the underground, the pitter patter of snowflakes on my black coat, late night birthday reminders of dead friends, the heartless singe at the edge of her eyes as she looks away, these amulets of inaudible memories wither together. Together, in the sandstorm of a pandemic of fear, which thrives in our collective isolation. Fuck, what a lovely hell to carouse for.

kindred / exoskeleton 

exoskeleton

These two tracks have always hit something deep inside me — “Glue” by Bicep and “Forever Melancholia” by I Hate Models.
They both carry that mix of nostalgia, euphoria, and raw emotion that defines why I fell in love with electronic music in the first place.

This mashup is my way of giving that same feeling back to you.
Close your eyes, let the melodies and energy merge… and just feel it.

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Glue x Forever Melancholia (Hard Techno Mashup)

Blackout Days (Stay Away) Schranz edit

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Mechatok - All My Time (FVBIO edit)

Felix Lee - Up Top (NAMMY WAMS REMIX)

Chasing the Sun

@wallermusic & @iamxato
The sixth release of katharsis is the EP, “Collapse” by waller & xato, two electronic musicians based respectively in UK and Greece. In these strange times of quarantining and limited travelling options, the two artists demonstrate on the EP, how we can find unity and peacefulness in music in the midst of the chaos and collapse.

This peacefulness is very vivid in all the tracks of the album, from the feeling of floating on a pink sky of emotional on tracks like “Doubtful Mercy” and “Crie”, to the felling of the autumn sunlight streaming through the colourful leaves of the forest trees on “Komorebi”, or even the cold feeling of the forthcoming winter on “Arctic Wolf”

On the other hand, the unity is demonstrated through the high level of communicative collaboration needed to execute a work like this through the online exchange of ideas and project files, which has been a big theme in 2020. The two artists state the following about Collapse:

“The EP came together slowly and unintentionally over the last year and a half - what started as Waller building from an early xato work-in-progress turned into a stream of ideas being sent back and forth and eventually narrowed down into a 3-track EP. The whole EP was made by raw emotions through the connection between distortion, psychotic euphoric and nostalgic progressions”

Collapse

waller & xato - Doubtful Mercy

The Lost Chapters of Hiraeth is a project constituted of debris meant for an aborted project. An epic tale that would've been exploring isolation through a new mythology and the span of a thousand lifetimes; but that will never see the light of day.

Buy on Bandcamp : https://kuramamusic.bandcamp.com

Artwork by Halvor Bodin
www.halvorbodin.com

Mechatok - All My Time (FVBIO edit)

FVBIO

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