cycle is a record about time, repetition, routine and habits.

built on the same sets of loops, drums and synths, each track was an opportunity to write something continuous and familiar but in a different manner for each piece.

this limitation has been a key to develop and craft detailed layers and sound design to give songs entitled auras and personality to further the idea of our relationship with time and habits; a love/hate story.

'cycle functions as both break and culmination in nunu’s greater body-of-work. It is a love/hate story about time and habits, and a debut album that explores the French artist’s capacity to imbue individual works with personality and aura. Having spent the past several years releasing disorientingly beautiful edit packs and collections of archival material (from 2013 to 2019), cycle also operates as a reintroduction to an artist who is at their best when transforming the personal into spectacularly original sonic formations.

cycle has also provided nunu with an opportunity to write in a continuous and familiar manner, yet with a different set of contingencies for each track. Like past nunu works, including 2016’s Mind Body Dialogue and 2018’s SCUM, cycle revels in dissonance, but also takes the time to explore minute textural egresses and rhythmic blackholes. While a clear step away from past dancefloor-intended tracks, nunu’s progression through nine “cycles” is no less physically demanding.

Built on a single set of loops, drums and synths, the album has been constructed from a set of self-imposed limitations. Yet, rather than strive for an impossible minimalism, cycle is instead full of intriguing diversions, impossibly layered textures and sequence-after-sequence of drum-and-vocal intrusions. The result hues closer to nunu’s sonic vision than any previous release, an unholy assemblage that is as much a record about method and time as it is the artist’s relationship to their own tools and body' words by Gabe Meier

mastering by @dj-heroin
artwork by Aljoscha Lanz @lordsoft
fonts by Dinamo Typefaces @abcdinamo

cycle

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Alobhe, 'Doping with Impurities (ft. Elvin Brandhi)' (2022). Courtesy, Neoprimitive, Hamburg.

We're happy to release ++juanitaa++'s 10 minute piece called Oxalys! 
this piece is accompanied by a beautiful clip directed by Jameelah Saha: https://youtu.be/xsDK5qdShs0

Lettering by Laura Conant
Costume design by Jameelah Saha
Editing of videoclip by Julien Marcelle & Jonathan Cant

++juanitaa++   -  Oxalys

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The second katharsis release of the year is the EP “Chasms Where Streams Fall And Disperse” by Italian artist POL100, coming out on February 28th. On its five tracks, POL100 takes you on a deep reflective journey through his meditative sound design, by combining uncanny airy pads with stuttering effects and delicate synth melodies.

With each track named after a mineral, the artist aims to interpret how the flow of water sliding through the rocky veins of the earth creates unique textural objects. The technological nature of our planet is embodied by digital and organic ambiances throughout the EP. This very ambient sound expression is novel to the artist, whose latest release was the intense clubby EP “Sepsis” on Bound Centre in September 2020.

Mixed by Jacopo Massaretti
Mastered by jjjacob
Artwork by jjjacob

Chasms Where Streams Fall And Disperse

Epidote

POL100 - Epidote

Rainy - Central Lighting

From the new EP release 'Luna & Circulation (Last Breath) / Mother-of-Pearl (Excerpt)', due to be available on all major stores and platforms promptly.

All rights reserved. Recordings and songwriting by Drew Holliday (CITYTRONIX).

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“Vivi’s Meadow” by @mangbg is the first track from @katharsislabel 's debut compilation "The Flow of Water" out on the 21st of May

Pre-order: https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/releases
Read more: https://soulfeederweb.com/blog/premiere-mang-vivis-meadow/

[Premiere] Mang – Vivi’s Meadow

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