A Lie, A Lie

"@hydropsyche is hollowed out club music for the post-anthropocene. The debut album Scree, inspired by ancient history and the vestiges of our own time explores evolving polyrhythmic melodies and composition within a pre-defined tonal structure. 
In the future, our civilisation is detectable as a sediment layer of aluminium. The instruments this music was made on, the speakers it was played on, and the club it was played in will all be the same matter, and the humans that listened to it a layer of carbon beneath."

Artwork by Lilian Hardouineau 
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Scree EP

Horizon Zero

Hydropsyche - Horizon Zero

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https://soundcloud.com/unitedstatesof0

dial-up 34 /// UNITEDSTATESOF

Niagara Falls

Cclcng, 'In Promise' (2020). Courtesy Quantum Natives.

hello, my name is ana and i made this for you.  

I don’t believe that you truly need to know what I meant or wanted to say in order to go on a journey with this work. Only thing you truly need is yourself and this work and the rest like my words, my explanations, my excuses will be just a distraction from ur way.

but to do a bit of  justice——
i can say that this work came out of a very fucked up brake up experience. experience that pours a lot of poison on everything inside you, on everything you think you know. makes you go through hell. but after hell comes all the beauty. and it seems that hell and beauty together make everything. 

so like I promised
I can make you everything
freeze the universe
and split the sun.

Hey Ana

"cnp4486" is the fourth track on "abundance at the expense of life EP", out now on portuguese label @eastern-nurseries ; listen on its entirety and buy here: https://eastern-nurseries.bandcamp.com/album/abundance-at-the-expense-of-life

Abundance At The Expense Of Life

abundance at the expense of life

cnp4486 [EN12-FULL EP OUT NOW ON Eastern Nurseries]

Floating by a landscape of decay on the river of death
As the smog vanishes from the morning to the gateway of the sun
Past mothers whisper the spells of love and the curse of knowledge
An immortal creature lies upon the mountain of flowers and fruit
When the ancient manuscript echoes through the hall of the temple
We will all dream about the myth of our afterlife


Mastered by RO Zar
Artwork by René Mariaca


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After launching his new label katharsis with a 30 track compilation trilogy featuring a big range of artists from all across the globe, jjjacob caries on with his own music by releasing the 6-track EP Mythos under his alternative moniker Basura on the label. The EP will be released on September 12th with premieres coming out on AQNB, Soul Feeder and Ma3azef the previous weeks.

With katharsis, jjjacob has set out to explore how we as humans find emotional cleansing in music, which was showcased thoroughly on the compilation trilogy by thematizing the affective value of the basic elements: The Flow of Water, The Burn of Fire and The Breath of Air. The fourth element of earth seems to be missing, but this is exactly what Mythos tries to deal with by submerging in the ancient mythologies of humans on earth.

On Mythos, Basura sends us on a range of spiritual journeys through the archaic stories of past civilizations. With heavy use of granular synthesis, odd time signatures and clusters of obscure samples, the EP takes us through landscapes of death, scriptures of mysticism and sagas of our souls. The grandiose melodies of jjjacob are to be found on some of the tracks, but as Basura he covers them in strange textures and murky drums. Dive into Basuras musical tales of sorcerous seeresses, prehistoric rituals and underworldly atmospheres.

Mythos

Basura - Styx

"PALESTRA" consists of sonic fragments, intercepted from a secret compound in Abruzzo where male models and female pole vaulters are trained in ancient combat. Cut off from the modern world, they train to the sounds of organic psytrance, romantic hardstyle and 90's techno pop sensation Antiloop, all psychoacoustically engineered to promote peak physical performance.

@sun_angels

Trailer: www.instagram.com/p/CINutnklLuf/

PALESTRA

Sun Angels - Brokken

CONVULSIONS

melon.obi - Imum Coeli mix 013

@sortlegeme
The first release of the year on katharsis is the album “wandering” by danish artist sortlegeme. As the titles of the tracks reveal, the album takes the listener through different dreamlike sceneries with a eerie sense of anxiety as the common denominator. With jjjacob on the mastering and artwork of the album, sortlegeme’s album “wandering” sends the listener on a suspenseful trip of ambivalent melancholy.

The artist, who has earlier released tapes on labels like Moral Defeat and Perfect Aesthetics with styles ranging from tribal techno to noisy ambient, takes an even more filmic approach on wandering by interpreting the ghostly atmospheres and strange feelings he experienced throughout the pandemic year.

The incorporation of rhythms from genres usually foreign to him like hip-hop and jungle suits the artist’s narrative style and brings very vivid pictures the mind of the listener - stretching from the paranoia and psychotic mood on the track “climbing” to the dramatic chase-scene of “pursuit”. His more ambient style is present in the uncanny intro and outro tracks “turn” and “return”, but also on the gloomy yet picturesque track “shrinking”, which was premiered with the pre-order of the album.

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

wandering

sortlegeme  - shrinking

Permanent Melody™

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– The New York Review of uhhh

A Lie, A Lie

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