trngs on Ma3azef ft. Fausto Mercier

Taken from Daphne X (@spindle-whorls) new album The Dissolution of Eva, out July 19, 2021, via EXILES (@exiles-electronics)

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’This is the story of Eva, the first person to have their consciousness uploaded onto the cloud, with the help of Evergreen, an online platform specialised in digital immortality.

Successfully led through seductive visions, Eva's consciousness breaks free from the material realm and relocates itself in the virtual space of Lethe.

Once landed in her new state however, Eva realises that part of her contract with Evergreen is to execute the role of virtual assistant for the living customers for the rest of eternity.

Is this the new forever or is it Samsara?

The sleep of the beast is made of questions and Eva is the shadow of an old world, dreaming.’ 

Artwork by Joanna Dyba
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Typography by Adrienn Császár
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Mastered by Roland Nagy
https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier 

Released by EXILES

Premiere: Daphne X - Transparency into Information [EXILES]

Wtc rough, very rough

trngs (@trngs) remix, taken from Dahjyn (@dahjyn) debut EP The Gall, out August 27, 2021, via Most Dismal Swamp (@mostdismalswamp)

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The Gall is the debut EP from Brooklyn producer and vocalist Dahjyn, featuring additional remixes by Endgame, Thegn, and trngs. With relentless industrial gut-punch percussion, textural power electronics, and reflective baritone verse, these 5 tracks embody a convulsive tension between an abrasive physicality and a brooding emotionality: a visceral incantation working through aggregate layers of trauma.

Cover artwork by Olia Svetlanova

Mixing by Randall Dunn at Circular Ruin Studio

Mastering by Noah Kin

Released by Most dismal Swamp

The Gall

Premiere: Dahjyn - Stacks of Bleed (trngs Remix) [Most Dismal Swamp]

@cubanchamberofcommerce011
The 15th release of katharsis is the EP “Otra Vida” by Serbian artist Cuban Chamber of Commerce. Spanning four tracks, the EP portrays the gloomiest corners of your subconscious emotional landscape by blending ghostly pads and eerie sound effects with a deep reverberating bass. But even though the atmosphere is filled with tension and has a high chance of provoking goosebumps, the EP has a mysteriously hopeful and embracing quality to it.

“Otra Vida” is quite a deviation from the artist’s former releases, as his earlier works are more bass-driven and dancefloor-oriented. With two successful releases under his belt, respectively on Molten Moods and his own label kepasaparadoks, the artist now seeks to explore new sonic territories by putting emphasis on textures, atmosphere and field recordings instead of complex high-tempo drum patterns. As hinted in the title, “Otra Vida” carries a message of the different and unknown, which is well carried through to the listener by the ghostly mood of the EP.

mastering by @jjjacob
artwork by @jjjacob

Otra Vida

Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Brisa

Taken from Ursula Sereghy (@ursulasereghy) debut Ok Box, out September 12, 2021, via Gin&Platonic (@ginandplatonic)

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With a background in playing jazz and formative years of playing saxophone in a live band, Prague-based Ursula Sereghy stepped out of the hustle to focus, all while becoming a regular at the local Synth Library. A space where she found the support of the musically and politically like-minded and could nourish her newfound passion for experimenting with machines and exploring the limitless possibilities of sound design. An extensive period of voluntary detachment from everyday life during the pandemic gave rise to the stunningly confident debut album 'OK Box' fabricated by this dark horse of a producer.

Opening 'OK Box' reveals a truly multifarious microcosm. On her very first musical output, besides manipulated field recordings and widely used granular synthesis, Ursula draws wisely from her past musical practice as acoustic or synthesized samples of jazz instruments become the furtive common denominator of the record's sonic narrative. Circulation of the breath among the instruments chambers substitutes the streams of city dwellers flowing through the cramped city environment. With Ursula's entangled compositions, she creates the representation of revealing and embracing the intuitive connections of the experiences and thoughts with their mental and physical surroundings, at times leading the listener to melancholic placements, followed by moments of mischievous clarity and rational sentiment. But essentially, the longplay is a friendly ride following unusual mental maps and broadening the borders of the very cartographical ones, all with inconspicuous sideroad peeks of cheeky little creatures, still surveillance by destiny-bending spirits, and oversaturation of out-there emotional associations. Hang in there, you little civilians and slimy slugs alike. To cut a long story short - 'OK Box' houses a lively collection of warm-hearted and witty jams honoring the nature of reasonable escapism.

Artwork by Jiri Macku
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Mastered by Wim Dehaen
soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

Released by Gin&Platonic

Premiere: Ursula Sereghy - Clock)))Hunt [Gin&Platonic]

Taken from Lorica (@ubinas) new EP Adaptive Radiation, out November 5, 2021, via early reflex (@earlyreflex)

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For the next release on Early Reflex we welcome Frankfurt-based producer and composer Lorica (formerly known as Avbvrn), following his debut EP on Display and a split on Destitute.

Lorica filters a surgical attention to detail and sound design through a wide-scope approach to atmosphere and the spatial qualities of music. The resulting work conjures up dramatic, vivid, and tactile sonic landscapes that recall classical forms and techniques, while drawing upon contemporary textures and approaches to rhythm and memory.
Inspired by renaissance arts and their creative process ‘Adaptive Radiation’ [EYX005] stretches further Lorica’s experimental and oblique musical approach to the club-focused context of Early Reflex. The result is a 5-track EP blending cinematic sound design with traces of dubstep, drill, dancehall, trap, and more which is going to hit the listeners both physically and emotionally!

The opener ‘Baikal Rediscovered’ is a great example of Lorica’s production style where the composer blends together orchestral and atmospheric pads with incessant grimey beats and a deep bass-line making it a suitable tool for the club.
A storm of otherworldly sounds in contrast with its trapp inspired rhythmic session protrude in ‘Ochre Skeleton’ originating a surrealistic and peculiar atmosphere.
Approaching the end of the first half of the EP there is ‘Petrified Butterfly’, a dreamy and spooky interlude where synthesised flute melodies, fast-paced percussions and effected field recordings repeat and alternate themselves continuously while evolving every time differently in a never-ending loop until every sound dissolves in empty reverberated spaces.
Entering the second half of the release, listeners get hit by the drilling kick drum and the twisting sound design of ‘Sodiumglanz’, which lead to the closure of the EP.
In ‘Breccia’ Lorica explores further his blend of cinematic effects with the pronounced attitude for the club, delivering a track characterised by pitch-shifting electronic percussions and the harmonic progression of orchestrated instruments and strings.

Drawings by Giuseppe Cavuoto

Artwork by Alessandro Scanu

Mastering by Andrea Prato

Released by early reflex

Adaptive Radiation

Premiere: Lorica - Petrified Butterfly [early reflex]

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