a little life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbRBRn0rsDk

note: also left 2 free cassettes @ 'het bos' (venue in antwerp) including this set, on a-side as well as b-side

Virginia Waters, RIP DRARI - why u ringing me, drari speak up [BLXP042]

@leo_la_vie
The 42nd release of katharsis is the collaborative album “Soft Space” by label founder jjjacob and various other artists from around the world, coming out on May 31st. The album works as a sequel to his previous full-length release "Brutal Nature" from 2022, both in terms of the collaborational dogma in production but also in the thematic connection and contrast between the brutality of nature and the softness of space. All tracks emerged as infantile jjjacob sketches, then taking more form and gaining inspirational matter from the collaborating artists' conduct and care, before finally being concluded by the final touches of jjjacob again.

The result is as the title suggests smooth and gentle at most times, but it does though have more wicked and harsh moments and aspects throughout the album. The emotional journey of the album keeps pendulating between the pleasant floating sensations of celestial emptiness and the brute mysticality of the unknown. At times it feels aerodynamic or dissolving, at others it tastes crispy and anthemic, but the overall output is definitely ethereal and cosmic.

releases May 31, 2024
artwork & mastering by jjjacob

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premiere: jjjacob & LÉO - Flower Flood (La Pluie Efface)

SS-063 is DJ NJ Drone - Corn Sound / Collapse SYN

Plundering our crops at an alarming rate, the buzzing of the swarm keeps us awake.

Music by @r-i-p-dj
Mastered by @r-i-p-dj
Cover by @bruno-lauzon-tanzi & @r-i-p-dj
Text by @oneicom

SS-063

Collapse Syn

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DJ NJ Drone - Collapse Syn

Stolen Velour, FLOCO & Aria SL - Holdfast EP
ID010
Released 11th April 2025

1. Estuary
2. Long Way Round
3. I live, I let go 
4. Lilium 


Balancing analogue & acoustic soundworlds with digital and synthetic aesthetics, Stolen Velour, FLOCO & Aria SL first began working on the EP back in 2022. They debuted their lead single ‘Lilium’, a cover of the main theme to anime ‘Elfen Lied’ which is written in Latin, at Loughborough Junction’s Spanners alongside a lineup including Petal Supply, Himera, Iglooghost & Umru. Some months after, they continued to perform iterations of the track amongst other music at varied spots like The White Hotel & Laylow, which informed their approach to music as three collaborators. They eventually completed ‘Long Way Round’ over the summer of 2023 via several sessions across London & Leeds. In a sudden burst of creativity, they completed the final two tracks a year later, forming a fully-fledged EP spanning contemporary classical, folk, pop, experimental electronic and more. Using extended classical and experimental techniques within a pop music context, the EP foregrounds narrative leitmotifs to chronicle a departure from naivety and innocence into a darker, more complex world. With all three artists coming from their own corners of the music world, their EP ‘Holdfast’, named after the anchoring root system of seaweeds, enmeshes their love of synthetic & analogue technologies with the beauty inherent in periods of personal transformation.

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Stolen Velour, FLOCO & Aria SL - I live, I let go

Listen to 'Total Power' by Zack Christ taken from 'Underbearing' out on 10th February via katharsis

Pre-order: https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/underbearing

The 49th release of katharsis is the album “Underbearing” by Danish artist Zack Christ, coming out in full on February 10th. The album follows his 2024 album “𐘲(𐘨)𐚎𐘲𐝥𐃀𐘡𐘴𐝂.” released with the international artist collective glitch.cool, but takes a few steps away from his usual more cryptic expression by incorporating elements of crystalline clarity and stark four chord anthemic melodies. This clean sound design is juxtaposed by slightly out-of-tune vocals, obscure speech and saxophone(!) samples, and the at times anarchic compositional switch-ups.

Across its 9 tracks, “Underbearing” offers an emotional snapshot of a tumultuous time in the artist’s life, marked by loss and new beginnings. While the album resists strict thematic boundaries, it’s suffused with feelings of grief, transformation, and resilience. Layered with undertones of global and personal crises, the music captures a striking duality—holding both gravity and playfulness in equal measure. In this poignant rollercoaster of sound, meaning remains open, inviting the listener to explore their own interpretation of its vivid contrasts and complexities.

Links:
Zack Christ
https://soundcloud.com/zack-christ
https://www.instagram.com/103_zacksyv
https://linktr.ee/zackchrist
katharsis
https://soundcloud.com/katharsislabel
https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/katharsislabel


Underbearing

Zack Christ - Total Power (katharsis)

taken from "Age of Bloom"
bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-bloom

—

CONSUMER WARNING
This album is composed of 100% Vulnerable and Sincere Music®.

♧
💻
♧

2025, Poland, Winter

Dear A,

during these brain-freezing months of hardship and cold, my thoughts are drawn to my little, childhood room in my hometown where I’ve been exploring vast, unfamiliar, digital worlds…
I must admit I really miss those days… or at least those feelings.

Listening to “Age of Bloom” transfers me again and again to a certain memory of coming back from school in the late afternoon when everything is pitch black, when the snow is gently touching my hair and red cheeks, when the wind is blowing on my face and when being overwhelmed feels good - almost like blue steel’s softly lingering pads and his lush sounds inviting me for a dance.
The day was hard as fuck. Being trapped in the school system is usually a burden, but not in THIS EXACT moment. Not in the middle of an empty street, not in between those white snow curtains.
And so I run, imagining I’m in my safe, virtual world.

What for me usually is so seductive in video games is the music, and “Age of Bloom” with its mix of Akira-like finality, Spielbergish sense of adventure, and virtual utopian sound palette is literally fucking terraforming my soul as I'm listening to it.
So sick. So immersive.
It gives me the power to keep up and to try again in those hard moments - percussive patterns feel like a fight scene, watery keys make me contemplate, nature soundscapes envelop me in a yellow cocoon shell.

Life, my dear A, is a Skyrimish adventure in a way.
Remember the arrow perfectly smashing up your knee? It was just a mere limitation that you set yourself a long time ago when you buried that inner child. You need to try to find it again. Try and try and try.
And then you gonna beat that final boss and then you gonna beat that stupid, fucking, ugly, rotten life and then you WILL be complete again.

Remember, it’s dangerous to walk alone… so please take this album with you and treat it like a friend, like a backpack, like a companion.

♡
💻
♡

〉music by blue steel
www.instagram.com/b_steeel
blue-steel.bandcamp.com

〉artwork by lyfegain
www.instagram.com/lyfegain

〉master by Fausto Mercier
linktr.ee/faustomercier

♫°008

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Fast Travel (Intro)

Experimental and nuanced introspection in four lush pieces by UK / DK based Liminal State.
Masters by CTRLS / Troels Knudsen
Artwork by Jan Sandrej

premiere: Liminal State - Collisions [label: Outer Village]

Elvira del Rocío // échec split EP is OUT now 😌🪽

Bringing together Valencia-based composer and singer Elvira del Rocio (@maleficae) & the neo grunge failcore Brussels-based duo échec (@echecband). 
Blossoming songs, tender folk-shoegaze ballad, dreamy wistful pieces.. short, euphoric burst, scattered vocals & gentle guitar melting into a reflective sonic journey. #SitBack&Relax

Mastering by @d_viance
26th march 2025
ISENGARD SPLIT EP 005 💭

OUT NOW 🔓

Elvira del Rocío - Among This Dusty Trunk

Archive records (Last music ever provided anymore)

No distribution

Merry go round of life - cover (Record #2939)

https://open.spotify.com/album/19y6Etid2UnEf9vjjmIV97?si=awucWZznS6CEtuU6l8SUfQ

hibernation ☃❅

Permanent Melody™

"☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆" 
– The New York Review of uhhh

a little life

John Object 3