Anima is the new EP of Berlin based multi instrumentalist and music producer Tom Willems (TCV @tcvbln).

The five tracks comprising the record showcase digitally heavy, brute soundscapes full of uncompromising rhythm and melody. Drawing inspiration from classic genres like gabber and industrial, TCV articulates a sound that is highly abrasive but often surprises with poetic verity.

As the track names indicate, the record conceptually is concerned with the human body and its perception as something which can be both fragile and powerful. TCV unveils, that a traumatising phase of his life, inspired him to process his impressions of lifelessness being inhabited by machine-power. Witnessing how new wealth and vitality is being pumped into a corpus made him fascinate about this passive recreation. The idea of a life depending on mechanical forces, repeating and recovering, is echoing through his acoustic concept. Each track thereby communicates a different stage of a physical transitioning, thus a metamorphosis in whole.

Anima

TCV - uncut

“If we blackened out the sky we can turn it to light 
I wanna find you in the rhythm 
I wanna gift you the night 
I'm trynna pull up on your fears and disappear them from sight 

…we come alive in the basement, we come alive...” 

written and spoken by Moonflower (Vernon Jordan III) 

After releasing an EP, "Angeltribe" on London label TT in 2020, and "Vorphic Skin" on Toothgrinder Press in 2023, Kat Nzingha's debut album "Grind" will be released on AngeltribeXTL in May of 2023. Based in Philadelphia, Kat Nzingha is a multidisciplinary artist that explores experimentations with abstruse textures. By combining their sculptural works with heavy low-end frequencies and celebratory tones they create blissfully cryptic sonic materials that are the extended bodies of modified objects of which they consistently fabricate. "Grind" conjures the spirit of the sculptural entity that is physically attached to Nzingha's body as seen on the album art. The sculpted spirit is manifested through the sonic form of convulsing kicks, metallic percussion, and hyper-processed textures. 

"It's finally time to release "Grind" after sitting on the album for two years. The end of 2020 was when I started to build...  more
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released May 12, 2023 

Album Cover Photography by Dante @adeaddog 
Sculptural Entity by Kat Nzingha 
Mixed by Kat Nzingha 
Mastered by Skyshaker 



tysm for being apart of the album <333 tati au miel and sky

Kat Nzingha & Skyshaker - & Eternal Violence

From the album "What Stays In Vegas" out 22 November.

A chance meeting in Bucharest two summers ago saw Ratty Slay Johnson and Soopie reunite. It has been a much discussed topic amongst art and music circles as to how and why Rat Section abruptly fell into obscurity in the late 90s and up to this point their sudden disappearance remains a mystery.

Their sparse back catalogue seems inaccessible now. A dedicated collecting community known as ‘Club Rodentia’ sought to preserve their tape and vinyl output, amassing releases from Ratty Slay Johnnie’s sophomore release ‘Tails from Estonia’ to Soopi and Slay John’s last known excursion ‘Tashkent Knights’.

An unfortunate occurrence led to the destruction of this archive in 2005. Member of Club Rodentia Carlos Moscato was quoted in an article of NME magazine saying “In the dark of night, a fire emerged, I was responsible at the time for the care of the archive, as standard Rodentia protocol we would move the collection every 3 months, for both preservation and for local access to Rat Sections catalogue. On the final night of my duty I heard footsteps, a crash, and before my eyes years of hard work erupted in flames. Since this incident I haven’t found even a crumb of Rat Sections body of work and people say we will never see them again." Carlos Moscato was correct, until now.

Rat Section have been active for the last two years with appearances in London, Berlin, Malmö, Melbourne, Paris and Los Angeles, it looks like we are finally going to hear Rat Section again. They have found a home for their debut album on Halcyon Veil.

Rat Section are back in the spotlight.

Follow Rat Section
@ratsection
https://www.instagram.com/rat.section/
https://ratsection.bandcamp.com/
https://ra.co/dj/ratsection

What Stays In Vegas

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Rat Section - Rat Lifestyle

"Standing Silver in Deep Rivers" is the first installment of the 2-tracks project “Alabaster”, by Colorado-based artist HÉRISSÉ. A soothing, yet rough and harsh drone track, featuring eerie vocals and noisy sound design, embracing the composition of the song.

As the second and final installment of the project, "Blood Cross" shares a strangely blissful atmosphere, with a melancholic aspect on the sound palette. Powerful and cathartic vocals add an antithesis between the rest of the elements, enduring a stronger bond of feelings that creates while listening to the progression of the drones.

Artwork, Written & Mixed by HÉRISSÉ
Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis.

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HÉRISSÉ - Blood Cross

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

Christmas is now drawing near at hand (feat. Zackarias Elwin &amp; Stella Explorer)

Quartermaster - Christmas is now drawing near at hand (feat. Zackarias Elwin & Stella Explorer)

Chalk Cave Visitors

Ancestral Vision - Chalk Cave Visitors

Welcome to renewed Research Facility!

In the first chapter of this compilation we will introduce you to musicians and producers whose sound we characterize as “ozone layer restoration technologies” - uncompromising textural landscapes, brought to crystallization in sterile conditions. Weightless motives, supported by avalanches of broken drums and high clicks of percussion - this is the Air-Cleanse Unit.

Featuring Yoko Xama, Teko Inon, DIGITONICA, Michelle, RareFlora and SIQMENT.HIDDEN.

Streaming links: linktr.ee/researchcore

22.12.2023 #RESEARCHCORE #AIRCLEANSEUNIT

DIGITONICA - mark as read

@merdhlaleh @lighyer
https://summ0n.bandcamp.com/album/villagers

Merdh Laleh, lighyer - Engine Enigma

cold days cold hearts

unable to fall asleep, at 6am my body starts to shiver

Burial - Forgive (IDKLANG shivering mess)

Happy to release a second single by Sunchaser called 'Witness'. A fresh take on the hushed lushness of dreampop, it's a hypnotic tune that's been stuck in our heads for months.

Available now to stream anywhere!

Catch Sunchaser playing live on the 21st of February at Beurs Café in Brussels.

Mastering by Victor Gybels
Cover pic by: Kieran

Sunchaser - Witness

From 'Why do people vomit?', out February 23rd on TT.

For to purchase: https://eye-measure.bandcamp.com/album/why-do-people-vomit

@eyemeasure 🤢
@rian-treanor 🤮
@tobago-tracks 🤑

To stunt perchance to go off or maybe to run it up and possibly go ham on business. To do that and feel perfectly, to enter a state of unimpeached resolution. To listen to Rian Treanor's remix of eye measure's 'Why Do People Vomit', to like and share and engage by every possible means. To do it now.

Why Do People Vomit

For to purchase

eye measure - Why do people vomit? (Rian Treanor Remix) [MK PREMIERE]

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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