Tedium is modernity in the waiting phase. A longed-for moment of stasis.
A compilation of 23 tracks that shows us a rather wide spectrum including diverse manifestations of modern electronics. Boredom and neurosis that hold hands and become a chameleon-like whole.

Sometimes this combination draws its essence from obscure ambient demotivating, other times steals the body of enormous noisy and granular flows.

An emblematic sound vessel capable of containing everything from the sharpest electro-acoustic resonances to the most deformed deteriorations of hip hop imagery.

released May 27, 2022

Curated by A Flooded Need and Eks.
Artwork by NMR.
Mastered by Guido Marziale at KU Studio.
FLOOD01 - A Flooded Need, 2022.

Tedium

Elves of Misty Valley

Talpah - Elves of Misty Valley

@penttt - Section 5, Insert 1 off of 29 Speedway: Channel Plus

Full compilation featuring trax by Xen Model, tofudj, Dekalb Works, AshTreJinkins, pent, K Wata, Ex Wiish, Special Guest DJ, LXV, Cajm, btw, J. Albert, Windowseeker, Opheliaxz, Axine M, Relaxer, and Ben Bondy

mastered by @ex-wiish

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cassette / download

pent - section5, insert1

The second single taken from Ans M's debut album 'Cicada Lullaby'.

Pre-order the full release now:
https://ans-m.bandcamp.com/album/cicada-lullaby

Cicada Lullaby is out on June 2nd 2023.
Written and produced by Ans M @anssss
Mastered by Harry Murdoch

Cicada Lullaby

Bandcamp

Ans M - Hypogean

𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ 𓈈⭒♬ ﾟ. from the EP ‘tilo’ by cusoon dj
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Cat#: RA:009
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tilo

cusoon dj - blud

@overmybodytw
Bandcamp: https://overmybody.bandcamp.com/album/fiori-notturni
Release Date: May 17th, 2024
Info: Capiuz returns on the label with a new club-ready album that slashes through a nocturnal forest landscape with fluorescents and violent bursts of color. Taking its name from a series of paintings called “Bande di Fiori Notturni” by Italian artist Alice Visentin, the project goes through a wide array of influences and bpms. Terra Nuda (naked earth) acts as an opener fusing a foggy drone with drum breaks and dance hall syncopations. Hectic follows up with a more bass oriented attitude incarnated in a heavy pounding kick pattern and driven by metallic drums with a restless spirit. The sounds and textures of Fiori Notturni are heavily inspired by the works of John Cage and his use of percussive instruments for both rhythmic and textural purposes. These influences become pretty clear in slower cuts like Black Needle and the title track, where jingles, rattles and other high-pitched instruments create a moving bed for the rhythmic section. Other works such as 0400 and the collaboration with label head B E N N, Lunar Eclipse, bring a faster pace to the project with a higher focus on rhythmic layering. Before giving its way to the Ancestral Vision remix, the “night” is closed off by Hallucinogen, a longer track driven by a steady kick that plays with different odd timed patterns to create an exciting and enveloping trip.

Capiuz is the experimental dance project of producer and performer Luca Favaro. Based in Italy, his genre-merging production focuses on exploring rhythm and sound design in a club context. Often leaning towards live performances, Capiuz’s music takes the form of a heavy hitting outburst filled with heavy bass, breakcore progressions and granular textures. He is currently the host of a show on Radio Raheem and has published with Unizone, Over My Body and Early Reflex. As a programmer he’s developing max for live devices with HIDE Productions, including granular audio effects and instruments and flexible percussive synths.

Jan Macháček aka Ancestral Vision is a Prague-based producer, sound artist, DJ and co-founder of Unizone label and radio show. His productions are full of experimental sound design that fills the gaps between earworm-ish melodies and contemporary club echoes. Compositions written by Ancestral Vision are often both epic and intimate, serving as a personal diary of his sound research practice and studio jams.

*PREMIERE* Capiuz - Hectic

Entrañas - Caverna
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM114
Format: Digital
Release Date: September 27th, 2024

Tracklist:
1. Indignado
2. Ajicito
3. Diclofenaco
4. Cruces
5. Cascada
6. Coscacho
7. Tigrillo (ft. Buena Tarde)
8. Nauseas
9. Toque De Queda (ft. Ene Ese)
10. Chivo
11. Muerto a Puntapiés (ft. Carlos Pabón)
12. Caverna

Ecuadorian producer Daniel Gachet “Entrañas” presents his debut full album Caverna on Infinite Machine. The project explores an amalgam of polyrhythms found in traditional Ecuadorian music such as bomba and albazo, blending them with jagged atmospheres of uk bass and grime. Through deliberate sound design, Entrañas seeks to place the listener within the unpredictable ecosystem of the city of Quito and its surroundings.

In this record Entrañas searches for a sound that conveys both the infrastructural chaos he experiences currently in his home city, while also reflecting the hauntingly beautiful and seemingly perpetual terrain just outside of Quito. Not far from the frequent and unpredictable power outages and city wide lockdowns which are now commonplace due to the ongoing narco wars, there is an Andean stratovolcano visible from many parts of Quito, including Entrañas own bedroom window. Ruco Pichincha stands nearly 5000m in height, attracting awe and curiosity of many who happen upon it, perhaps by way of its beauty as well as its innate potential for mass destruction. A particular location of interest for the artist, the mountain emits a kind of objectivity that is distinct from the urbanscape of human activity; it asserts itself, unobservant of the adjacent violence, trials and tribulations. Its very name–“Ruco” translated in English to "old" from the indigenous Quechua language–seems to reflect both its acquired reverence from native inhabitants of the region, as well as the relative incomprehensibility of such natural monuments.

On Caverna, references to Quito and its encompassing geography are apparent in ways that are direct at times, nuanced at others. “Toque de Queda” (trans. “lockdown”) was produced in real time during a city wide lockdown in which Entrañas and his collaborator Ene Ese were unable to leave an apartment for hours on end. The sheer apprehension of such a situation can perhaps be gleaned from the seething claps and non-melodic droning atmospheres that build, producing a tone of frustration and unease. Tracks like “Coscacho”, “Muerto A Puntapiés” and “Cruces” seem to take on a similarly minimal approach, focused on brooding heavy bass lines and relentless polyrhythms that become increasingly menacing as the tracks build. A listener might imagine these compositions to conjure the rumbling subterranean activity of Ruco Pichincha. As their names might imply, “Caverna” and “Cascada” take a different approach, building up shimmering soundscapes reminiscent of 90s new age. These ephemeral sequences seem to summon meditation on natural landscapes in a way that feels lighter and more optimistic, unveiling a softer vision.

In light of his prolific catalog, Entraña’s twelve-track work reaches into territory that feels both more personal and experimental–though these compositions are undoubtedly dance-floor ready. Caverna brings together anthems of leftfield club music with chambers of ambient reflection–both of which read as significant and distinct to the artist’s background and day-to-day experience in Quito. As the majestic and humbling mountainous surface of Ruco Pichincha might resemble, Caverna’s title track ends the record with a reminder; a gentle nod to the significance of such sacred wonders as places of refuge in our human experience; whether we can grasp them, or see them from our bedroom window.

Artwork by Benfika
Mastered by Fausto Mercier
Words by Sueuga

Entrañas - Cruces

The final katharsis release of 2024 is the 26-track compilation “Physical Force” featuring a wide range of affiliated artists from both the international and local Copenhagen electronic music scene. As the title hints, Physical Force delves into the visceral, bodily aspects of music, inviting its contributors to explore the theme of movement as a central element in their compositions. Each artist was encouraged to focus on rhythm, groove, energy, and the physicality of sound, which resulted in drum-heavy release from start to finish. While there is a consistent emphasis on rhythm and a bodily connection to the music, the tracks vary widely in style and sonic texture, ranging from big melodic anthems, gritty experimental techno, heavy jungle bangers, and beyond.

released December 23, 2024

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

Physical Force

Squeeler

Flexitrax - Squeeler

mix 155 by @kakhagelashvili ᡣ𐭩

ᯓᡣ𐭩 monker178 - cicadas tall shadows of the afternoon
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Camille Keller - Get it
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Elevation - scrolling dirtydirt instagram on Glenwood Ave
ᯓᡣ𐭩 beloved trinket  - Meek
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Sioban - If a prey crossed our path
ᯓᡣ𐭩 vio lino - empire
ᯓᡣ𐭩 cash - cloudburst (cenaceae remix)
ᯓᡣ𐭩 vio lino and tettix hexer - chasing butterflies (porter robinson - sea of voices mothcore flip)

(155) Kakha Gelashvili

Hollow Clip

Dark Triad

Shake

katharsis is a label founded by @jjjacob focusing on the purification and purgation of emotions through music.

contact: jacobfosgrau@gmail.com

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