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A rare plant that flowers only once in seven years and then dies has blossomed
The chrysalis may appear in our dreams to alert us
Change is taking place within us on a very subtle level
Wind blew and turned dust and debris into rocks
I’ve been having strange dreams
strangestrangestrangestrangestrange dreams

Apu Nanu - Sepia Rainbow

UNSLS34

Athens-based storyteller, sound artist, and producer Apu Nanu draws inspiration from post-internet aesthetics, microtonality, neoclassical themes, and video game nostalgia, blending these influences with playful MIDI manipulation and collage-like sound design. Trained in both Western and Eastern music traditions, they are a multi-instrumentalist interested in exploring new approaches to digital composition.

In 2024, they released their debut EP The Untold Saga via Polish label BFF Music -a cinematic soundtrack to an imagined gamespace. Their collaborations include work with artists such as Galen Tipton, Julek Ploski and Oliver Torr, while their music has been choreographed by Zoi Tatopoulos and featured by brands like Valentino. Their work extends to compositions for performances and art installations presented at venues like the Benaki Museum and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. 

Following their debut, they began performing across Europe, with appearances in cities such as London, Berlin, Milan, Prague, Brussels and more.

Music composed and mixed by @apunanu

Mastered by Apu Nanu

Artwork by petrkolmas

Released on unseelie, 2025.

I've Been Having Strange Dreams

Sepia Rainbow (UNSLS034)

@simonk_music

The winds are blowing. Bringing fragments of phrases, half-faded memories.
Tune in to the frequency — B Station is calling. Waves of new hope and tender recollections move through the soft melodies and lingering reverberations.
With gentle distortion and melodic drift, the artists trace moments suspended in time: the warmth of a voice, the ghost of a phrase, the glow of distant hope. Echoes of the past, and dreams of a distant future.

The compilation is available for purchase via Nina Protocol and Bandcamp.
DSP release arrives on September 4.

Mastered by FMSAO
Cover by jacksheartt

Simon K - Topos Exotica

Premiere : music lovers anonymous @emellay - I Can Feel You Through the Screen [katharsis] @katharsislabel

“Emellay” is the second EP released by Upstate NY-based artist music lovers anonymous (MLA). The project can be seen as a sort of sequel to his first EP, “Wherever Chance Leads Me, I Will Go As A Friend,” released on formforum earlier this year. There are familiar sounds: humble field recordings, string-like textures, with an increased emphasis on controlled discord. Samples from important periods in his life are re-contextualized into something individualized: an interpretive dance between the weight of life and the bliss of insignificance. A pseudo-self titled project, “Emellay” functions as an unfinished self-portrait. Or maybe rather, a blind contour. These tracks were created without an end—with closed eyes—like a story being told as it is written...a story taking place in a bedroom, at a laptop, with a MIDI controller. It is an ode to an undeveloped identity, leaving melodic artifacts in its wake.

This is music for headphones.

Premiere : music lovers anonymous - I Can Feel You Through the Screen [katharsis]

@emellay

“Emellay” is the second EP released by Upstate NY-based artist music lovers anonymous (MLA). The project can be seen as a sort of sequel to his first EP, “Wherever Chance Leads Me, I Will Go As A Friend,” released on formforum earlier this year. There are familiar sounds: humble field recordings, string-like textures, with an increased emphasis on controlled discord. Samples from important periods in his life are re-contextualized into something individualized: an interpretive dance between the weight of life and the bliss of insignificance. A pseudo-self titled project, “Emellay” functions as an unfinished self-portrait. Or maybe rather, a blind contour. These tracks were created without an end—with closed eyes—like a story being told as it is written...a story taking place in a bedroom, at a laptop, with a MIDI controller. It is an ode to an undeveloped identity, leaving melodic artifacts in its wake.

This is music for headphones.

released July 7, 2025

mastering by Fausto Mercier
artwork by lyfegain

music lovers anonymous - This Weight Is Too Heavy to Carry Alone

olé - Behind The Windowpane (Airport Ambience Edit)

c+ is an audiovisual project, mapping the human condition through a network of images, sounds and textures. woven into immersive works, these artifacts are amplified to explore the liminal space between nostalgia and catharsis, inviting others to process emotion in parallel.

a member of cult label chaogardem, c+ now works with denver-based lithocene and its sister collective faith changes the world, while also curating the internet public radio show, neutral air. they’ve collaborated with artists like FITNESSS, s280f, 011668, kilbourne, alice glass, and snow strippers, and have designed visual systems for artists across the global underground.

for this mix, c+ traces a path through euphoric recall, longing, and grief — an hour of fragments, echoes and fleeting connection.

@containmentsystem

TRACKLIST:
halo 3 ODST - deference for darkness
jack kilgore - confrontation
bod [包家巷] + phoebe Isobel + drogas + losty - axial prayer crucible
tryce - closer
shapes - whre
xhl unit - zygoteee
plexøs + flucc - repeat after me
bad zu - ghost in the machine
lou kessler - neoreactionary
olmatri - maserati
azrel - deluge
baby pantera - victoria
forever united - all i wanted was you
yaka - all i think about is you
e-saggila - stars dying in succession
comechelet + mantris nikkita - yo te amaba
hyperbaile + pzzs - eu fico de 4
in my talons - in silence we march
nunu - hands on your knees dj sliink ntp edit
iva peralta + alex compton - nazaré
renslink - static (IM103)
tryce - fighter (echo mix)
europa - exo
frank ocean + ico - ivy heal (bdstf blend)

RADIO:TRAUMA 052: c+

Trees Would Never Lie

Music inspired by the dystopian futures of Blade Runner, I Robot and all the wonderful Science Fiction of the Past and Future.

NEXUS: ABOVE THE CITY

hey, who really cares

What if sonic practice were not only artistic expression, but a mode of critical reflection — a way to generate knowledge about the positionality of both producer and listener?
To explore this, I invited the artists I interviewed to contribute sound samples — fragments from their production process — to build a collective sound “database.” With this samples gbw9, Melag0m, Kurzschluss, Mahée and HAUSVRAU produced soundpieces - which are released in the format of this compilation.
Here, sound is activated as a method: both a tool of knowledge and a relational medium. The resulting sample pack reflects diverse sonic practices and acts as a collaborative, affective archive.

Infestation as Sonic Resistance
I use the term infestation to describe how certain practices — deemed disruptive by dominant standards — disturb normative structures, much like weeds invading a manicured garden. Infestation stands for persistent, collective disruptions that challenge the status quo.
This concept ties into anti-capitalist modes of music production. By embracing collaboration, shared authorship, and relationality, the sample pack resists neoliberal values of individualism and competition. It becomes a sonic commons: a space for co-creation, not extraction.
INFESTATIONcan be thought of as a harmful seed, a seed that grows subtly, slowly. The sounds creep in sideways — rough edges, broken rhythms, distorted textures. Infestation is when sounds start growing in the cracks. Cultivated through collaboration, Infestation values disturbance, tension, connection, shared creation and finding new paths.
Some artists in this compilation are boycotting Spotify due to its investments in the arms industry. In solidarity, we are releasing the project exclusively via alternative platforms like SoundCloud and Bandcamp.

your seeds make gardens of doubt

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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