The ninth release of katharsis is the EP “Journey Before Destination” by @jjjacob, which is the first full release of the label founder on his own label. The EP spans six tracks and is quite a deviation in sound from his earlier releases on labels such as ANBA, high heal and Sweat Taste. Taking a step away from his usual tools of heavily automated synths and complex midi-based melodies, this EP focuses closely on recordings of acoustic instruments and vocals done by jjjacob himself throughout the pandemic year.

Journey Before Destination

Oneiric Plateau

1.N33D.4.M1R4C1_3 [ 13/0321 ]

Fifth  installment of our show on @ma3azef radio with guestmixes by @strachkvas & @toiretstatus

Gin&Platonic (00:00 – 01:00)
Sam Gendel – WAA
Scott Young – Tuck (with Joe Beedles) 
Ursula Sereghy - ???
Vina Konda - >0>
Proc Fiskal – Thurs Jung Yout
Wobbly – Thoughtful Refrigerator
Dave Saved – Collapsing Patterns
Queimada – My Other Self Said
CupoCupo – Wax
Maxwell Sterling – Decay Time
Eilien – Dawned
yokai kai – avei
Loraine James – Self Doubt (Leaving The Club Early)
silént phil & RareFlora – Wind
Tomáš Knoflíček – Brain Riot
Georgia – Mental Arena Mode
Teresa Winter – Energy Buoy
Basic Rhythm – Palace of the Peacock
Space Afrika – Version 1
Pan Daijing – Let
Ulla Straus – Both Feelings


60:00 – 00:90 - Strachkvas

Base de Funk - Estilo Bonde R300 (2017)
Omeed Norouzi - RS1
M.E.S.H. - Alright, NO/Scythians
Alois Hába - Suite for 4 trombones in quarter tones system Op.72
Sickly Spirit - Flayed / Lake Cocytus
Terrorythmus - Psy Drop
DJ IBON - Aleine i 120 over Hørte
TCF - HGPEi01sAZTlZwlmfG1r+ImMo0DFS8S19w5huSlOd9s=
Strachkvas - ???
Existing Boyz - Its Too Much
Lil Asaf - Wadi Saqra
DRONIC - The Revolution of Dronic 2020


00:90 – 120:00 - toiret status

Nelson Freire - Debussy:Preludes,Book 1 - La Fi
KOHH - Where You At? (toiret status EDIT)
Colin Stetson - Party,Crash
Jun Katagiri - voice of noise (toiret status EDIT1)
JOHNNASCUS - M@LWAR3+# [untitled_0018]]
Jun Katagiri - voice of noise (toiret status EDIT2)
The Psychic Paramount - DDB

Gin&Platonic w/ Strachkvas & toiret status - ma3azef.live - 25th June 2021

shimmer with didi & nuum - 13/05/2022

Hacked: By Dacia Vol.II

Packet Loss

In My Dreams (Part1)

terrorriba - when u club outside the walk n u see ur homie

Eterna - Don't Throw Dishes At Me

Connections 1 - 13

Obe - Wimp

SLA07: 'Angels In The Sand' by @avastarr

"Angels in the Sand is the second album from Berlin-based artist ava*. Told through swaths of ambience that reference ava*’s own childhood spent on the shoreline, Angels in the Sand poses the ocean as something metaphysical and elemental, the solid ground of the shore rooted in reality while the waves and endless abyss beneath them represent memories and the allure of nostalgia.

Floating in the depths of memories provides a sense of weightlessness, their currents blanketing and comforting but also overpowering and suffocating. Memories are all we have to cling onto, but they can’t be changed. The longer you spend underwater, the more you uncover, and the more it closes in on you. The ocean’s tides are cyclical, but unpredictable: you know you’ll return to its undulating patterns, but it’s unclear who you’ll be when you emerge. Its a sacrifice to go in, but you innocently fall into a belief that heremust lay the answer.

Angels in the Sand is a project about loss. It’s about spending too much time underwater, too much time in reflection, too much time in your childhood, where benign symbols like the beach or the gardenia tree planted outside of your bedroom window become tainted by trauma, their glow of purity tarnished as the picture becomes clearer and clearer. It’s teary eyes in the water, where childlike melodies still play on repeat, the echoes of your voice as a little girl barely audible through the crash of the water.

Angels in the sand is a deeply personal record written, recorded, and mixed by ava* during intense periods of self-isolation, with little to no influence or reference, the writing process itself a silent, lived-in wave of reflection."

Production, vocals, mixing - ava*
Mastered by Jesse-Osborne Lanthier
Artwork by Amalcrossing
Video by Jenna St George
A&R by Otis Dehaes

ava* — Who Do You Love More

systematic overcoming of longing since 2016
record label, collective & common spirit 

http://ginandplatonic.online

~ press ~

Gin&Platonic: Sounds plucked off the floor after dripping through a black hole (Easterndaze)
https://easterndaze.net/ginplatonic-sounds-seemingly-plucked-off-the-floor-after-dripping-through-a-black-hole/

Unlimited Editions: Gin&Platonic (The Wire)
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/unlimited-editions-gin-platonic

nesso premiere on IA:
https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-nesso-bouncer-toss/

sorbitol drops' Remízek Music on Foxy Digitalis:
https://foxydigitalis.zone/2024/08/23/the-capsule-garden-vol-3-17-august-23-2024/

Remízek Music on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2024/09/10/sorbitol-drops/

sorbitol drops video premiere on Swine Daily:
https://swinedaily.com/swine-premiere-sorbitol-drops/

Racine interviewed for Full Moon Magazine:
https://www.fullmoonzine.cz/julien-racine-hudba-vznika-skoro-vzdycky-v-izolaci-music-is-created-almost-always-in-isolation

Racine's Boue on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2024/05/15/racine/

Racine premiere on IA:
https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-racine-boue-iv/

aircode's Surface Tension among the best albums of 2023 on ATTN:
https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/feature-review-of-2023/

Surface Tension on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/33450-tenniscoats-ryosuke-kiyasu-spykidelic-aircode-cassette-high-bias

Surface Tension on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2023/10/26/aircode/

aircode on Crucial Listening podcast:
https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/crucial-listening-141-aircode/

SINERAW's MIMETIC FAUNA on SilenceAndSound:
https://silenceandsound.me/2023/08/28/sineraw/

paszka's lapton on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/33125-the-quietus-best-albums-of-2023-so-far

Somaticae's Kleis among the best albums of 2022 on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/32400-the-quietus-top-100-albums-of-2022-norman-records

Oroboro's SPIKYMEMORY video on If-Only:
https://ifonlyuk.com/video-premiere-oroboro-spikymemory/

Ursula Sereghy on SHAPE:
https://shapeplatform.eu/2023/ursula-sereghy-i-cant-hear-myself-in-a-city

Ursula Sereghy interviewed for The Wire Magazine: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/thinking-outside-the-box-milos-hroch-interviews-ursula-sereghy

Ursula Sereghy's OK Box among the best albums of 2021 on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/30903-the-quietus-top-100-albums-of-2021

hmurd's Flower Knight reviewed on RA:
https://ra.co/reviews/34044

toiret status' liquid house on The Quietus:
https://thequietus.com/articles/30921-best-tapes-of-2021

liquid house on Juno:
https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2021/02/19/this-weeks-best-new-albums-7/

liquid house on Paynomindtous:
https://paynomindtous.it/toiretstatus-sabiwa-gnp/

Kindohm's Deserted / Reclaimed on Boomkat:
https://boomkat.com/products/deserted-reclaimed

Forces' Epoch on SBVRSV.press:
http://sbvrsv.press/premiere-forces-world-is-going-to-burn-gp012/

julek ploski's śpie on toneshift.net:
https://toneshift.net/2019/11/25/spie-by-julek-ploski/

śpie on nowamuzyka.pl:
https://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2019/11/13/julek-ploski-spie/

Queimada's Eremocene on Paynomindtous:
https://www.paynomindtous.it/ginplatonic-queimada-eremocene/

trngs' RLLY INTENSE .WAV FILES on Threshold:
https://www.thresholdmagazine.pt/2019/07/a-tecnologia-experimental-de-trngs-e.html

HIMERA featured on Ersa Magazine: http://ersamagazine.com/popnotes-penpals-three/

Strachkvas‘ mix of the month on A2larm: a2larm.cz/2018/11/mix-mesice-strachkvas/  

Kagami Smile’s Four Selves reviewed on RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/23134