The third munki album. Now released. Thank you so much for listening

Act III: SMIL :3

Stolen Velour, FLOCO & Aria SL - Holdfast EP
ID010
Released 11th April 2025

https://illegaldata.bandcamp.com/album/stolen-velour-floco-aria-sl-holdfast-ep

1. Estuary
2. Long Way Round
3. I live, I let go 
4. Lilium 


Balancing analogue & acoustic soundworlds with digital and synthetic aesthetics, Stolen Velour, FLOCO & Aria SL first began working on the EP back in 2022. They debuted their lead single ‘Lilium’, a cover of the main theme to anime ‘Elfen Lied’ which is written in Latin, at Loughborough Junction’s Spanners alongside a lineup including Petal Supply, Himera, Iglooghost & Umru. Some months after, they continued to perform iterations of the track amongst other music at varied spots like The White Hotel & Laylow, which informed their approach to music as three collaborators. They eventually completed ‘Long Way Round’ over the summer of 2023 via several sessions across London & Leeds. In a sudden burst of creativity, they completed the final two tracks a year later, forming a fully-fledged EP spanning contemporary classical, folk, pop, experimental electronic and more. Using extended classical and experimental techniques within a pop music context, the EP foregrounds narrative leitmotifs to chronicle a departure from naivety and innocence into a darker, more complex world. With all three artists coming from their own corners of the music world, their EP ‘Holdfast’, named after the anchoring root system of seaweeds, enmeshes their love of synthetic & analogue technologies with the beauty inherent in periods of personal transformation.

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Stolen Velour, FLOCO & Aria SL - Long Way Round

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Julek Ploski  (03/04/25)

FLORAS is the new album from katharsis founder jjjacob, releasing on May 21st to mark the five-year anniversary of the label’s first output. A celebration shaped by time, patience, and transformation, FLORAS is an assemblage of seven tracks - each with its history. The oldest dates back to 2018; the newest bloomed only months ago. Initially intended for other projects or collaborations that never fully took root, these compositions have been reworked, reimagined, and refined - transformed by years of quiet attention. Stylistically, the release moves between the physical and the introspective - crushed drumbreaks, poignant basslines, grand synth melodies, and obscure granular vocals.

Each track is like an ancient, fluorescent flower rediscovered in a distant cave, alien in form yet deeply familiar. Cyclical in structure, they mirror the seasonal processes: emerging, flourishing, decaying, returning. There’s a strange botanical logic at play, as patterns and shapes reappear like genetic echoes, and even discarded stems sprout new life. Melodic ideas and textural procedures reverberate across tracks like shared ancestral material, connecting them like a hidden underground network. Some tracks still bear traces of feedback or collaboration that never fully materialized - ghost limbs and branches that helped shape the whole.

Built from ambient textures, hard-hitting percussion, and sonic details that reward deep listening, FLORAS is a meditation on growth, time, and potential. The release reflects not only a shift in jjjacob’s personal process, but also a new chapter for katharsis itself: after five years of near-monthly releases, the label now turns toward a slower rhythm - giving each release more space to breathe, settle, and take root before moving on.

releases May 21, 2025

artworks & mastering by jjjacob

FLORAS

WARSH

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premiere: jjjacob - WARSH

sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas

Scrying into the weird and wonderful, dark and twisted, and everything in between. Music to play into broken obsidian mirrors.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/kavari/episodes/kavari-7th-june-2025

SCRYING w/ KAVARI 070625

Split CD-R with Marcus Whale out now via. Blue Void. Text by Gus McGrath @cbrfreewifi

1. Grasps - You Make It Look So Easy
2. Grasps - YMILSE (Afterimage)
3. Marcus Whale - Eye
4. Marcus Whale - Pit

Lyrics:

I could look into the past
steady open my eyes
Is this all there is
Is this all there is?
Take me by the hand
show me that there's more than gin & wine just to past the time
Can you force a life?
don't watch me die
when I cross the line
Skin porcelain

& give me your hand to hold
or take me by the throat
I got nowhere to go
Walkin' on my own

You make it look so easy
the mind takes, the body breaks weary
You make it look so easy
no more
I can't handle it

https://www.instagram.com/grasps_
https://instagram.com/marcuswhaleinlandsea
https://grasps.bandcamp.com
https://marcus-whale.bandcamp.com

Split

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You Make It Look So Easy

Info & tracklist: www.radioflouka.com/shows/bda3a-badaro-invites-suta-03-07-2025

Bda3a: Badaro invites SUTA - 03/07/2025

room_between

The Afterlife of Egypt

Messing around with more samples n getting into some wave trap, hope you enjoy!

WAVES

contact & booking: christian@grasps.club

'Field of Dreams' monthly mix series on @hkcrlive

@agonyintl
@user-662985221

Releases with:
@eternal100000000
@wearetar
@sidechainsclub
@alldayfreeself
@00nekyia
@cvlt_records
@parkingstone

You Make It Look So Easy

Grasps_