@yoshitaka-hikawa-1
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.

jjjacob & Yoshitaka Hikawa - Pipe Dream [premiere]

@eschacold
@fauness

https://hahahafuckoff.bandcamp.com/album/lossy

Finally we can release this shit........

5 tracks toiled on over the last few years, smashing together all of our influences, working with artists we love into something cohesive or whatever.

We've written an alternate conceptual version of the EP, available as a hand assembled physical release. It follows the journey of a protagonist navigating through our problematic age of relentless self scrutiny and desire for perfection.

The finale 'Dysmorphia’ (Featuring Fauness) has an accompanying video we directed, produced and edited ourselves and is a brief encapsulation of the EPs themes of metamorphosis.

The whole things out 22nd June, available on dsps and all that
Thanks to everyone and anyone that's fucks with us
xo

Lossy

VIDEO

Escha & Ytem - Dysmorphia (Feat. Fauness)

Blessing 2 / Meek

Blessing 2

streets together

i like where we are 

https://serenrealm.bandcamp.com/track/here

here

bdstf X DJ Bboy (NF BLEND)

Sync-Up

Sync-Up (piranha hd Remix)

Long simmered tune from early '23 winter days smoking in the kitchen by Chickenmilk dot com and ANTHEM, once more flipping and screwing bambinodj's legendary 'Grim Flex' drum stems.

https://bambinodj.bandcamp.com/track/grim-flex


Buy: transatlanticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ar…world-01

Archiving The World 01

Chickenmilk dot com, ANTHEM - 'Mi World Burn 23'

In Honor Of Calvin Harris

WHAT YOU CAME FOR

11 - The Call

cardiac arrest

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