produced by Kissen, Special Guest DJ, Ben Bondy, & nueen <3
@kissenirl @specialguest-dj @benbondy @nueen

Tijuana Fog

Kissen 'Tijuana Fog'

Troop 116

Esile, the visionary behind Berlin’s Xenial events, is a discreet yet meticulous DJ with a refined ear for ethereal soundscapes. In this new episode of Opposite of Lullaby, her poetic selection draws us into an immersive cocoon, bathed in light and nostalgia.
A true healing zone, a sanctuary where one can pause, breathe, and regain strength before moving forward. An interzone where time dissolves, giving way to an ever-expanding realm of imagination.


Opposite of a Lullaby VOL. 9 w/ esile (31/01/25)

 https://bio-future-lab.bandcamp.com/album/hell-is-now-love

"5NONE5 is an ambient/drone project by someone with a guitar background. In his previous bands, Ihor L. tried his hand at shoegaze (My Sister Specter, 2009-2012), noise (Autowoman, 2013) and minimal synth (Karr, from 2013 to today). The first EP consisted of reworks of the personal library of samples, while the next record was built around abrasive song structures akin to the witch house releases of the late noughties.
The name 5NONE5 is a visual parody of the iPhone5S model name."

A words by Olena from bubblegum zine:
«hell is now love is a return to texture and drone-focused sound that 5NONE5 started with but it also references the granular post-punk melodicism and builds a dialogue with the Ukrainian experimental and noise scene. The synthetic sound of previous releases reaches its peak here, bringing to mind Danish coldwave, particularly Vår, an important source of inspiration for the project. The sugary melodies of classic shoegaze fall apart across the album’s six tracks, but the process of self-destruction makes their subtle nature shine through.
A minimalistic FKA twigs rework adds to the record’s vulnerability just as much as the cover: a shot of a crumbling audio tower from the movie Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 resembling both a cross and a sword.»

[Premiere] 5NONE5 - 2 souls

Following a number of key contributions to Eastern Nurseries compilations, Romance Relic returns to the fold with their latest EP, “Hundred Petals of Suffocation”.

Expanding on minute moments of daily life, Romance Relic’s delicate layering of field recordings, melancholic clarinet passages and vlog samples is interspersed with juxtaposing bursts of SFX across the EP’s 6 tracks. Capturing beauty in the mundane, “Hundred Petals of Suffocation” seeks to emphasise the allure of imperfection, gesturing toward a corporeality of the sonic palette.

Respecting the limitations of one’s own body sits at the core of Jussi’s compositional ethos, where value is placed on striking a balance between the intended and the possible, culminating in a tender and deeply affecting sensibility.

Eastern Nurseries no. 40

Produced, mixed & written by Jussi Hertz
Mastered by Owen Pratt

Artwork by Tristán Alcover 

Hundred Petals Of Suffocation

Romance Relic -  Manifold Light Being

@david_engelbrecht
"Memory Music" is the debut EP from Danish composer and sound artist David Engelbrecht, aka Dudde, coming out in full on April 24th on katharsis. Crafted over several years through the careful gathering and processing of sonic fragments, the release captures the emotional weight and wonder of sound as memory. Each track is a small time machine, inviting listeners to drift between past and present - those moments when a single sound unlocks a flood of forgotten feelings, places, and people.

Moving seamlessly between ambient textures and sharp, high-paced drum patterns, Memory Music balances clarity and chaos with a sense of play. Breakbeats collide with nostalgic synth lines, melodic motifs shimmer alongside digital shadows, and echoes of vintage videogames flicker in and out like ghosts. It’s music that remembers and reimagines all at once - where fragments of the past become blueprints for the future.

releases April 24, 2025

artwork by ZECIN ( www.instagram.com/zecin_001/ )
mastering by Dudde
trumpet on "Core Memory" by Carlo Becker Lauritsen
guitar on "Sunday scaries" by Lola Hammerich

Memory Music

Crypt Walk

Dudde - Crypt Walk

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

pre-order

premiere: jjjacob - WARSH

shimmer w/ Misty Mirror - 23/05/2025

Welcoming POL100 to Eastern Nurseries, the Italian producer Paolo Maiarelli unveils "Voice From The Little House", a six-track suite of evocative soundscapes that expand on his distinct sense of storytelling.

Told in murmurs, textures, and spectral drift, "Voice From The Little House" conjures a liminal world shaped by dreams, folklore, and the half-seen. POL100’s sonic world feels unearthed rather than composed — layered, brittle, and blurred at the edges, like artifacts from a place where memory and imagination entwine. At once intimate and otherworldly, these pieces hover in a space between presence and disappearance. It's music that seems to breathe through the walls of a house buried in moss and time, its silence thick with memory.

The house speaks.

Eastern Nurseries no. 42

Written & produced by Paolo Maiarelli

Mixed by Lorenzo Corsetti
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken

Cover photo by Alice Pintus
Post-production graphic by Marco Calzolari 

Voice From The Little House

POL100 - Philip the Goat

@agilitaet

Artwork: Alexander Turovsky (www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky/)
Mastering: Christoff Riedel (@riedelchristoff) 
Catalogue Number: cime010 
Release Date: June 16th, 2025

https://cime-world.ban

AGILITÄT - Nicht stabile, sondern leicht verletzbare Konstitution

some lustrous rainbowed silverish post-transition metal 4 ur eardrumz <3

Bismuth

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