@grasps
The 23rd release of katharsis is the collaborative album “Brutal Nature” by label founder jjjacob and various other artists. The idea of the project, which has been in progress for several years, was to extend the artistry to a more conversational form than the classic introverted style of the electronic music composer. The album shaped itself through several exchanges of ideas and stems between jjjacob and the numerous artists of the project.

The final product of the collaborations has a common theme of finding solace in the darkness and brutality of nature. This could be exemplified by the deep melancholy infused with an inner peace of losing a loved one in the mourning song “Threnody” with Hajj, or in the overcoming and healing of both internal and external wounds by the catharsis of music and art on the eloquent track “Trauma” with Bungalovv and Odete. As an introduction to the album, jjjacob and the local Beham created an auditory interpretation of self-blame with movie samples and abrasive low-end explosions, and to conclude it jjjacob and Slikback created the bass-heavy club lullaby “Bonum Nocte”.

The album follows jjjacob's previous two EPs on katharsis from last year, “Journey Before Destination” and “Internal Presence”, but it is his first full-length album since “Body Without Organs” released on the Spanish label Sweat Taste in 2020. The album artwork is a collaboration between jjjacob and Emil Stephensen, with the main motive being a painting by the latter.

Brutal Nature

jjjacob & Grasps - Lurking

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@ole123456 🕺
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@twinlite 🕺

BUY IMMEDIATELY: https://eshayoleole.bandcamp.com/track/feeble-beings-ol-twinlite-ali

It's a barricade, a wall, meaty ropes of resistance withholding you, a cosmic counterweight stymying you at every attempt. It's suffocating, but such is the lot of a person of you. No way forward no way back just pure paralysing stagnancy. You're atrophying. Or so you thought. olé, twinlite & ali's 'feeble beings', premiered on Madjestic Kasual. A breakthrough. You like, you share, you repost, you conduct covert experimental marketing techniques. You're in. You're up. You like it!

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olé, twinlite & ali - feeble beings [MK PREMIERE]

@blu5g Dasychira edit from her upcoming mix on unseelie

cover FX by @rroglerr on IG

**free download**

Blu5G - Dasychira Hollywood Forever Blu5G Edit

Haitian Prince of Music - 'HPoM Selected Ambient Works 2023-2024' (TAR027)

Sometimes all you need is to be alone and listen to Haitian Prince of Music.

Produced and mixed by HPoM.
Mastered by Christoff Riedel.

Full release out on 13.12.


Haitian Prince of Music - trans pacific highway

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how you do me

TeeZandos, EsDeeKid, Evanescence (50,000 Alchemical Tears Ed1t)

The Two Heavens "White Orca" project was born in the final weeks of summer 2024, a raw reflection of both loss and acceptance. This project holds deep personal meaning, with both tracks dedicated to a childhood friend who tragically passed away in a freediving accident in the Philippines. The music was crafted to evoke an emotional journey—blending profound sadness with moments of unexpected euphoria, capturing the complex beauty of remembering someone lost too soon. It’s a sonic exploration of grief, joy, and everything in between.

WHITE ORCA

Whatever

https://quemalotodo.bandcamp.com/album/qu-malo-todo

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underground emerald portal

explore my journey through your imagination
contact/booking: jacobfosgrau@gmail.com
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