Our second holiday single as a little gift from us, to you.

We hope you enjoy warmth and coziness in circles that comfort you. If not, reach out to a friend, or us. You don't choose your families.

Love
Laura, Juul & Jonathan

épong - Hartig stuk plastiek

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2024 Jeep Gladiator

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The 42nd release of katharsis is the collaborative album “Soft Space” by label founder jjjacob and various other artists from around the world, coming out on May 31st. The album works as a sequel to his previous full-length release "Brutal Nature" from 2022, both in terms of the collaborational dogma in production but also in the thematic connection and contrast between the brutality of nature and the softness of space. All tracks emerged as infantile jjjacob sketches, then taking more form and gaining inspirational matter from the collaborating artists' conduct and care, before finally being concluded by the final touches of jjjacob again.

The result is as the title suggests smooth and gentle at most times, but it does though have more wicked and harsh moments and aspects throughout the album. The emotional journey of the album keeps pendulating between the pleasant floating sensations of celestial emptiness and the brute mysticality of the unknown. At times it feels aerodynamic or dissolving, at others it tastes crispy and anthemic, but the overall output is definitely ethereal and cosmic.

releases May 31, 2024
artwork & mastering by jjjacob

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premiere: jjjacob & LÉO - Flower Flood (La Pluie Efface)

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by YAQ ( https://soundcloud.com/yaque4 )

"A realm where clouds are within reach."


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Photography by Joshua Ezechiel ( https://www.instagram.com/joshuaezechiel )

YAQ * how does it feel to touch a cloud?

04 (@filezerofour) emerges from Puerto Rico’s electric haze, now hides out in the steamy corners of South Florida. A conjurer of sound, 04 stitches together fragments of TV static and MMORPG glitchscapes, crafting tracks that feel like forgotten relics from another dimension.

Nostalgia drips, smears, and sinks into each songs, creating a treasure trove of tracks that feel like they’ve always existed. Like an old memory you can’t place, but you can’t let go of either.

MUSIC : @filezerofour
ARTWORK : @aoibluevi
A&R : @fannuze

04 - Bless Via Flame

taken from "Age of Bloom"
bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-bloom

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CONSUMER WARNING
This album is composed of 100% Vulnerable and Sincere Music®.

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2025, Poland, Winter

Dear A,

during these brain-freezing months of hardship and cold, my thoughts are drawn to my little, childhood room in my hometown where I’ve been exploring vast, unfamiliar, digital worlds…
I must admit I really miss those days… or at least those feelings.

Listening to “Age of Bloom” transfers me again and again to a certain memory of coming back from school in the late afternoon when everything is pitch black, when the snow is gently touching my hair and red cheeks, when the wind is blowing on my face and when being overwhelmed feels good - almost like blue steel’s softly lingering pads and his lush sounds inviting me for a dance.
The day was hard as fuck. Being trapped in the school system is usually a burden, but not in THIS EXACT moment. Not in the middle of an empty street, not in between those white snow curtains.
And so I run, imagining I’m in my safe, virtual world.

What for me usually is so seductive in video games is the music, and “Age of Bloom” with its mix of Akira-like finality, Spielbergish sense of adventure, and virtual utopian sound palette is literally fucking terraforming my soul as I'm listening to it.
So sick. So immersive.
It gives me the power to keep up and to try again in those hard moments - percussive patterns feel like a fight scene, watery keys make me contemplate, nature soundscapes envelop me in a yellow cocoon shell.

Life, my dear A, is a Skyrimish adventure in a way.
Remember the arrow perfectly smashing up your knee? It was just a mere limitation that you set yourself a long time ago when you buried that inner child. You need to try to find it again. Try and try and try.
And then you gonna beat that final boss and then you gonna beat that stupid, fucking, ugly, rotten life and then you WILL be complete again.

Remember, it’s dangerous to walk alone… so please take this album with you and treat it like a friend, like a backpack, like a companion.

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〉music by blue steel
www.instagram.com/b_steeel
blue-steel.bandcamp.com

〉artwork by lyfegain
www.instagram.com/lyfegain

〉master by Fausto Mercier
linktr.ee/faustomercier

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