world (bob sinclar, florence sinclair, majoire w.c. sinclair)

TRYCE @3yyccee and Xenia Reaper @xeniareaper collaborate on Dream-Fighter, a limited 7" lathe cut, due for release on Unguarded February 14th.

Drawing from a collection of recordings made throughout 2021, the two producers bring to life a cold, icy two-track single spanning precision-cut breaks, breezy pads and fluttering digital arpeggios, laced together by laser tight impacts.

Written, produced & mixed by TRYCE & Xenia Reaper
Mastered by Tim Roth
Artwork by TRYCE
Cut by Disc Archive

Fighter (Echo Mix)

olé - 'Calyx' (TAR029)

olé refines and re-armours his hologram-projected dembow blueprint on 'Calyx', triangulating his vision in some third plane between grounded and otherworldly. It’s a hybridisation of earthly filth and uncanny cyberperfection, a world where fury and focus meet and meld. 

It’s big. The soaring, panoramic strobescape of ‘Sunflower Cache’ conjures glossy, hyperreal environments and piercingly blue skies stretching into infinity. The blistering urgency of ‘behind the windowpane’ pairs euphoric pad n synth interplay with primal drum lashings and a gradually unleashed gabber kick that could crush sand to glass. It’s a dance on a battleground where everyone wins, aural brutality and delicately wound melodies on a united front. It’s hard but it’s elegant. 

This is more than a show of force. ‘Embrace’, ‘Copper Fields’ and gasp-inducing bonus track ‘Behind the Windowpane (Airport Ambience edit)’ offer trance-like moments of drum-stripped sway and swoon. Whether it bangs or soothes or both simultaneously, 'Calyx' is a collection of dizzying heartstoppers, music to lose and gather and reconstitute yourself within.

Written & Produced by olé
Artwork by Tristán Alcover
Mastered by Isabel at OLO Mastering
Words by Madjestic Kasual

olé - Copper Fields

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

VRETCH

jjjacob - VRETCH

Cotton Mouth - Jökulhlaup

From @ssssofiiiii 's new EP "I want this feeling to last forever"

Stream & download: push.fm/fl/iwtftlfep

Emerging artist sofii, also known as Sophie Koella, announces her deeply personal debut EP I want this feeling to last forever, a self-produced meditation of 4 songs on emotion, memory, and the echoes of the unlived. Born from the necessity to process, the project weaves classical elegance, electronic textures, and lyrical repetition into a trance-like exploration of nostalgia: past, present and future.

Born in New Orleans to a French guitarist (who used to play with Bob Dylan) and an American mother, sofii’s life has been scored by contrasts: ballet and classic music discipline, jazz’s improvisation, and the restless energy of cities like NYC and Paris where she cut her teeth in its underground scene. After years modelling and djing, she stepped into music direction for Courrèges alongside Erwan Sene before claiming her voice as a solo producer. In 2024 she co-founded the Paris collective and event series More Hard Feelings alongside Emma DJ, Julia Lemaire, and Matière Noire inviting the likes of Skrillex, Varg2TM, Safety Trance and Bill Kouligas.

The EP’s lead single and title track is released with the album announcement with a music video. She elaborates:’Iwtftlf’ is a song about nostalgia for something we don’t yet know or have lived—also known as anemoia. It’s about a moment in time that stands perfectly still, a fraction of a second we wish would never end. This stillness, this calm before the storm, is at the heart of the track. It portrays a story suspended between the lived and the unlived, a memory that doesn’t belong to us yet aches like it’s already gone.

As for the rest of the EP, “Cry for Me” (reimagined with Greek producer Raed Raees) layers vocals like a cleansing tide, dissolving into a piano finale that nods to Sofii’s classical roots. The mantra “say it over” loops, invoking meditation’s rhythmic solace. “Remember“, penned in Paris, twists a crisis-born text message into pulsing synths and the EP’s only percussive heartbeat. And “Pocket Dial” samples a 3-minute voicemail from sofii’s grandmother—an accidental, aching relic of connection—set to wordless strings and synth.

Written, performed and produced by sofii
Additional production on ‘Cry for me’ by Raed Raees
Additional production on ‘Pocket Dial’ and ‘Iwtftlf’ by Lux18
Artwork by Marie-Mam Sai Bellier
www.instagram.com/sai.mam/
Master by Lorenzo Targhetta

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sofii - iwtftlf

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te adoro

Premiere : music lovers anonymous @emellay - I Can Feel You Through the Screen [katharsis] @katharsislabel

“Emellay” is the second EP released by Upstate NY-based artist music lovers anonymous (MLA). The project can be seen as a sort of sequel to his first EP, “Wherever Chance Leads Me, I Will Go As A Friend,” released on formforum earlier this year. There are familiar sounds: humble field recordings, string-like textures, with an increased emphasis on controlled discord. Samples from important periods in his life are re-contextualized into something individualized: an interpretive dance between the weight of life and the bliss of insignificance. A pseudo-self titled project, “Emellay” functions as an unfinished self-portrait. Or maybe rather, a blind contour. These tracks were created without an end—with closed eyes—like a story being told as it is written...a story taking place in a bedroom, at a laptop, with a MIDI controller. It is an ode to an undeveloped identity, leaving melodic artifacts in its wake.

This is music for headphones.

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Premiere : music lovers anonymous - I Can Feel You Through the Screen [katharsis]

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

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You Make It Look So Easy

From 're.gen', out July 18th on Mizuha 罔象.
FOR TO BUY: https://mizuhamizuha.bandcamp.com/album/re-gen

@azzrell 🪁
@neg-architect 💎
@mizuha-cc 🖲️

It's all about framing. That's how we cope. Framing is more than a device. It's a sanity maintenance system. It's all we have. All we have is framing. All is well and copacetic, all is spick, span and otherwise copacetic. It's all so copacetic. The frame: your meagre existence. The centrepiece: Azrel & Negative Architecture's 'Dawn Chorus', out on Mizuha 罔象, premiered by Madjestic Kasual. Copaceticism.

for to buy

Azrel & Negative Architecture - Dawn Chorus [MK PREMIERE]

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Aneurysm

explore my journey through your imagination
contact/booking: jacobfosgrau@gmail.com
1/2 of @jsliwa - founder of @katharsislabel
obscurities @bazura