Core LP(XM5)

Mastering: Angel Marcloid @ Angel Hair Audio (angelhairaudio.com)

Album Art: Jaxon Demme @_kazooie

Core

Timesaver is Xen Model’s third full length album and second release on the Causal Chain imprint. The 9-track LP stays true to the duo’s eccentric sound while delving into the introspective side of their productions. Club-focused head nodders “Pin Cycle”, “Face Forward”, and “Controller” accompany key tracks like “Arm’s Edge Reach” and “Grip Dial”, which channel the duo’s affinity for ambient music. “A Bright Star” spotlights a catchy guitar hook and features close collaborator 11ai. Xen Model’s signature play on halftime structure is engaged in bass-heavy cuts “Ripstream” and “Local Group”. The album comes to a close with a radio edit of their previously released track “Lurch”, which clusters the duo’s myriad styles and influences in an encapsulating statement of the Xen Model sound.

Track produced by Xen Model (@xenmodel) & 11ai (@il-ai).
Mixing and mastering by Xen Model.
Released by Causal Chain.
Album art by John Bonetti.

Timesaver

A Bright Star (ft. 11ai)

Xen Model - A Bright Star (ft. 11ai)

Elephant Man X U ✩°｡ ⋆⸜ 🎧✮ zourry blend

Monks on Planes - Canyon feat. Dove [YKG022]

Production & Arrangement: Monks on Planes
Lyrics/Vox: Dove
Violin: Avi Schneider
Mix & Master: Monks on Planes

Photo by Nadine Fraczkowski 
Cover by Yegorka

Monks on Planes - Canyon feat. Dove [YGK022]

𝙰 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚕𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗

𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴: 𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘱𝘴://𝘥𝘶𝘯𝘦-𝘢𝘴𝘣𝘭.𝘣𝘦/
credits


Artwork by @4kfairyfantasy
Mastering by @drgibby

music by @myentericplexus @duality6371209 @djsportium @djhristos @spaansekech69 @axemblem @trillosta @golce-dabbana @leop4rdi @lukasoppenheimer @taucontrib @k-e-n-a-iiiiiiii @jr_bst @umbra-abra @autism101

tau contrib - genru

aya and BFTT - Up And At Them!

buy/stream: https://johnobject.bandcamp.com/album/plead
written and produced by @ludwig-wandinger and John Object

If there was something else that felt like this, it would be bought and sold as we breathe.

My Life, The Remix

This is not me. I am not a soldier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, wearing my father's wartime uniform, on a laptop in a basement somewhere. I am an experimental producer.
but for some reason Russians want me dead, therefore
This is not me. I did not produce these wonders of soundwave, I did not mix the remix and master the masterpiece. I am a soldier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, wearing my father's uniform.

But a heart is a heart and there are eleven hearts here and they are S280F and Grischa Lichtenberger and Angelo Harmsworth and Galen Tipton and sv1 and trngs and Sara Persico and Hwoaranng and Ludwig Wandinger and Ross Alexander and John Object. I am a file on their drives and they are the song in my heart.

The idea for a John Object compilation would seem obvious to some, as I really do know some of the greatest Ableton Live users to ever stumble upon this plane. I never had the heart to ask!

Ludwig Wandinger and Ross Alexander are two of my friends from Berlin, and they are, to date, the only people that made it their business to bring me to play in that blessed city. I played at 8MM Bar both times (that place is fucking sweet) at Salon Oblique events. Now, at this war, in what I can only describe as a gesture of love and tender caring, they called upon the geniuses of today to work on my work and provided me with an album where there could not be one. This is a remix compilation that I found out about only when it was already release-ready.

I really only could take one night off, walked to the nearest village, and my dear friend Andrii, a soldier himself, brought me my camera, and I titled the compilation in blood. Then for a month I worked on a .pdf booklet for the digital edition, that, really, tells the whole story.

I think this is probably the wildest, most advanced music ever to be released by a soldier in active service.

I can't adequately express the crushing magnitude of tenderness, love and gratitude that I feel towards every person involved.

Thank you S280F: https://s280f.bandcamp.com
thank you Grischa: https://grischa-lichtenberger.com
thank you Angelo: https://angeloharmsworth.bandcamp.com
thank you Galen: https://o0o0o0o0.bandcamp.com
thank you sv1: https://sv-1.bandcamp.com
thank you trngs: https://trngs.bandcamp.com
thank you Sara: https://sarapersico.com
thank you Hwoarang: fantasyfictionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/won-for-the-heart
thank you Ludwig: www.ludwigwandinger.com
thank you Ross: https://rossalexanderpayne.com
thank you Andrii for being the best friend in peace and in war.

This all happened only because Ross brought me to Berlin for Salon Oblique at 8MM Bar www.salonoblique.net, and then Ludwig brought me to Berlin to record with him and play at Salon Oblique again, and then because they cared about me, and because my friend Andrii brought me the camera and helped me find the right way to call this.

So much never happened, and so much never will, because of Russians and their deep-seated hatred of me, of everyone I love, and everyone Ukrainian. I am still at war and I am still under threat of violent death every day. Many people I knew and served with have already been murdered by Russians. I am just lucky.

Coming soon:
Limited edition engraved USB carabiner drive with Plead, .pdf booklet, and a recording of a John Object live set at Salon Oblique on October 18th, 2021, when the war seemed so very, very unlikely, and this existence was not imaginable at all. Ships starting November 1st.

And, lastly, https://alightineverydarkness.com

Ludwig Wandinger Medley

The 38th release of katharsis and our final release of 2023 is the prodigious compilation "Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light" featuring a vast array of artist beloved by the label. Throughout the grandiose line-up of the 36 tracks, the listener is absorbed by various differing interpretations of the theme outlined in the title of the album. Some of the invited artist went full into introverted progressions and meditative sounds, while others focused on aggressive rhythms or anthemic melodies. But even though the styles and techniques of the songs differ from each other, the artists seem to have some commonality in their sonic palettes that binds it all together in a mutual love for music as a healing force of nature <3

releases December 29, 2023

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

pre-order:
katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/embr…bing-light

Embracing Darkness  Absorbing Light

Pushed Into Myth

Klahrk - Pushed Into Myth

YOU INTEND TO PAY WHAT YOU WANT FOR IT: https://gonebaby.bandcamp.com/album/linus-haint-lives-here

From the album 'Haint Lives Here', out on Gone Baby.
@imgonebaby 😃

You have friends and a purpose-driven with life, a life studded with meaning and all manner of extracurricular activity. You're accounted for. You've arrived, you're in safe have, reaping only ever reaping. Abundance abundant. But there is lack. A spiritual crevice, a fulfilment draught blustering through your lived experience. But no more: you listen to 'lacombe' by Linus, liking it and sharing and reposting and the like. You've arrived.

haint lives there

You'll buy

Linus - lacombe [MK PREMIERE]

We are pleased to host multidisciplinary artist and Fixed Adobe label head Rainy Miller for the 13th episode of the Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency, unveiling ‘My Wings, Never Clipped / But They Began Semi-Broken’, an uplifting abstract soundscape not just to be listened to but, most of all, to be felt.

Rainy Miller, birth name Jack Bowes, was born in Longridge, a small market town eight miles from Preston. Subservient to the northern city in which he was born and raised, the region’s nearly forgotten underbelly is sewn into the fabric of Rainy Miller’s music and motif.
His passion for music and production can be traced back to the idiosyncratic grime sound that swept through his hometown in the early 2000s, a hyper-localised scene that paired grime beats with rapid-fire bars. After moving to Manchester, Rainy quickly became integral part of the North West experimental electronic scene alongside artists such as Iceboy Violet, Space Afrika, and Blackhaine. 

Integrating aesthetics from his childhood through a DIY approach, Miller’s own output is nothing if not strikingly unique. Rejecting any attempt to define ‘genre’, he shapes emotionally charged soundscapes intertwining cinematic autotune vocals around deconstructed drill and industrial ambient soundscapes.

His debut release ‘Limbs’ in 2019 already showed the signs of his very own approach: a soulful neo-R&B excursion throughout ten tracks of emoting autotune over smooth, moody melodic beats interspersed with dabbles of Preston chitter-chatter. 
In 2020, a long-time collaboration started with Blackhaine, whom Rainy shared the studio with. The same year, Blackhaine released his debut EP ‘Armour’ produced by Rainy on Fixed Abode, followed by the co-produced ‘And Salford Falls Apart’ (2021 via The White Hotel’s HEAD II label) and ‘Armour II’ (2022 via Fixed Abode).
Following his second solo project, ‘A Choreographed Interruption’ (2021 via Fixed Abode), in 2023 Rainy released ‘DESQUAMATION’ via HEAD II, his latest and most ambitious project to date. A full bloodied, emotionally visceral piece of work segueing and stretching across a sound world of contorted pop and laconic drill that will cement Miller’s position at the cutting edge of contemporary electronic music, pushing the culture to always move forward.

Rainy Miller will be teaming up with Emma DJ to perform at WE TRAVEL TO KNOW OUR OWN GEOGRAPHY, the two-day festival on April 18th and 19th presented and co-curated by Kuboraum together with Terraforma, in partnership with Combo, during the Opening of the 60th Venice Art Biennale.

Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency: www.kuboraum.com/digital-sound-residency/

This track has been shared exclusively with all subscribers to our newsletter. Subscribe to bit.ly/KuboraumNews to access exclusive content & download the next episode of the Digital Sound Residency.

Rainy Miller - My Wings, Never Clipped / But They Began Semi-Broken

Ruffien - Regen (Bonus Track)

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

contact: jacobfosgrau@gmail.com

Klahrk - Pushed Into Myth

katharsis

Recent comments

mel.

Gauze

Related tracks