Taken from kodiki's debut album 'Your Excellence' (G&P029), out April 27, 2025

24 years old, the self-proclaimed 'clothed and courageous' kodiki definitely is one of the most promising artists to emerge from (not only) the Slovakian electronic scene in recent years. First and foremost, the jovial and ever-kinetic enigma is a producer, model, and performer known for his engaging stage presence that feels more like a performative adrenaline rush than a standard guy+laptop situation. After self-releasing a couple of singles, including '300dB' and the 'Muliebre' EP, he later doubled up with a well-received '600dB' EP, all while being busy playing prominent triple-A festivals as well as off-the-grid ratholes.
While live, kodiki's signature animated self-puppetry embodies the sound itself to the extent that it becomes an inseparable part of his real-time sonic narration. Highly recommended to catch him live with his highly anticipated debut album, which Gin&Platonic is now honored to present.

Right from the start, the airy longplay welcomes us with flappy open arms and pours over us with precise sound design and high-octane rhythms, leaving you with a grin from ear to ear. In Your Excellence, every beat dares to be both pristine and primal. Each one fabricates a pulse-pounding joyride through sun-faded ambience, perpetually veering from trancey euphoria into glitchy chaos and all the way back. It is sleek but always one slip away from getting messy – an intentional collision of composition that makes for an exhilarating listen as kodiki flexes some plot-twisting hard skills and masterfully builds and teases with the momentum of a surprise seismic catharsis.
Closely tightened with body movement, the album flows with an admitted spontaneity, as kodiki’s production is distinguished by a certain human touch that electronic music, with its often mechanical approach, frequently lacks. Your excellence, the tea is SERVED.

Written & produced by Miroslav Čuridlo (@kodiki)
https://kodiki.bandcamp.com/

Mastered by Samo Benko (@samo_benko)
www.instagram.com/samo_benko_

Artwork by Jiří Macků
instagram.com/jiri_macku

G&P029 🎩

Your Excellence

Bandcamp

kodiki - LTA

「 taken from 'Give up Chanel' 」
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/give-up-channel

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Julek ploski’s ‘Give up Channel’ is on mappa. It’s the follow-up to the Poland-based FL Studio demon’s ‘Hotel *****’, released via Orange Milk in 2023.

It’s an album that wrestles against a shadow self. It’s about shelter from the hailstorm of unwanted memories and guilt pangs and serrated blades of thought. It’s about clinging on to some semblance of hope, knuckles taut and teeth gritted.

The fragmented drift of opener ‘Naysayer’ flows forward like an anxious daydream, pad eddies and piano plinks anchored by Trapaholics drops and bursts of guaracha drums. It’s a mess of mind: the bleakness of ‘Truth’ is punctuated by gun cocking and bullet spray and sudden jester-like blasts of unhinged, schizo-whimsical melody. An internal war without a clear winner.

Shame snakes through this music like venom through an emaciated body. Blue screenlight in a dark bedroom, pulsating temples, lockjaw. ‘Titanic’ hits like the thrashing resistance of a being built for love grappling against the scalding vengefulness it’s forced to contend with, the song’s abstracted rave synths giving way to warped voices and spiralling derangement. ‘Hollywood’ is a scarred battleground, the martial bludgeoning of a tightly wound hardstyle stomp blistering and shredding a delicate piano-and-string arrangement.

This music is about deep solitude, a meditation on simmering, slow-marinating hatred. But it’s ultimately about prevailing. It doesn’t revel in negativity, it roils and twists and writhes against it. Dots of light in oppressive darkness. Clarity and purpose against chaos and filth. It’s a struggle worth waging. 

Composed, recorded and mixed by Julek ploski
julekploski.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/julekploski/

Additional production in Earth Trax / Bartosz Kruczyński
www.instagram.com/earthtraxonline/

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Artwork and design by Julek Ploski

Words by Madjestic Kasual
www.instagram.com/madjestickasual/


Released by mappa as MAP055 in 2025

Give up Channel

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Truth (feat—Martyna Basta & Patrick Shiroishi)

TRYCE @3yyccee and Xenia Reaper @xeniareaper collaborate on Dream-Fighter, a limited 7" lathe cut, due for release on Unguarded February 14th.

Drawing from a collection of recordings made throughout 2021, the two producers bring to life a cold, icy two-track single spanning precision-cut breaks, breezy pads and fluttering digital arpeggios, laced together by laser tight impacts.

Written, produced & mixed by TRYCE & Xenia Reaper
Mastered by Tim Roth
Artwork by TRYCE
Cut by Disc Archive

Fighter (Echo Mix)

Dream (Velocity Mix)

The 51st release of katharsis is the album Afterlife by Danish artist Johan Carøe. The album takes shape through a collection of synth vignettes and spectral landscapes, where fragmented strings and ephemeral pads merge into weightless, hyper-lush forms. Created in a period of both new life and impending loss, Afterlife lingers in the space between presence and absence—a fragile transmission of shifting states, quiet relief, and fleeting sonic imprints. It stands as an isolated relic of a time that no longer exists—a collection of echoes, projecting the paradoxical nature of life and death.

Created in solitude on headphones and a MIDI keyboard in a transitional period in life, the album embodies a raw and intimate catharsis—the word in its truest sense. Without the usual studio space, these pieces emerged through line-in synths, VST textures, and fragments of old recordings—saxophone, cello, violin—stitched together like distant memories resurfacing. The absence of microphones and monitors lends the music an eerily virtual quality—a small life in a small box, a stretched-out portrait of a passing moment. It is introspective yet expansive, a meditation on the transient nature of memory, sound, and being.

releases March 31, 2025

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

Johan Carøe - Dying

Johan Carøe - Abend Stimmung

@david_engelbrecht
"Memory Music" is the debut EP from Danish composer and sound artist David Engelbrecht, aka Dudde, coming out in full on April 24th on katharsis. Crafted over several years through the careful gathering and processing of sonic fragments, the release captures the emotional weight and wonder of sound as memory. Each track is a small time machine, inviting listeners to drift between past and present - those moments when a single sound unlocks a flood of forgotten feelings, places, and people.

Moving seamlessly between ambient textures and sharp, high-paced drum patterns, Memory Music balances clarity and chaos with a sense of play. Breakbeats collide with nostalgic synth lines, melodic motifs shimmer alongside digital shadows, and echoes of vintage videogames flicker in and out like ghosts. It’s music that remembers and reimagines all at once - where fragments of the past become blueprints for the future.

releases April 24, 2025

artwork by ZECIN ( www.instagram.com/zecin_001/ )
mastering by Dudde
trumpet on "Core Memory" by Carlo Becker Lauritsen
guitar on "Sunday scaries" by Lola Hammerich

pre-order

premiere: Dudde - Core Memory

Isabelline curator and label head Practitioner reveals a stunning selection of his own archival productions with 'Portobello Innocent', the third release on the mysterious and acclaimed Berlin-based imprint.

Recorded between 2016 - 2024, these five selected works offer a broad look into Practitioner’s sonic sphere. Introspective club reflections that cover a grand scope of machine-translated human emotions. The EP feels like a dug-up lost tape, timeless tracks untouched by current modes or trends, each composition progressively digging deeper into unknown chasms of the enigmatic producers' distinct sound.

premiere: Practitioner - Male to Female [label: Isabelline]

La Vie Douce Grandit En Silence

I struggled to come up with a name for this track. I feel like it captures a sense of wonder and discovery, so I decided to go with "Cosmos". The track is inspired by songs like M83's Outro or Un nouveau soleil.

Hope you'll enjoy it!

Cosmos

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

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