Thesis #1: significance

@promise-promise-promise
The 36th release of katharsis presents the debut EP, "Songs for Stamina," by Berlin-based artist Promise, set for release on October 23rd. Promise uses a radically minimalist framework, creating strictly monophonic compositions that bring forth vivid landscapes of intense and boundless energy. His inspiration is rooted in the compositional techniques of canon structures and melodic mirroring, which the artist skilfully uses to conjure the illusion of a vast polyphonic texture, by enveloping his driving melodies in expansive echoes.

The result is five distinct tracks with a hyper-digital sound and anthemic character, that immediately feel very emotional. The artwork by Elfy shows the five sonic miniatures as fragmented sketches that seem like something cute and raw. On “Songs for Stamina”," Promise immerses the listener in limited musical units to experience the geometry and dimensionality of a melodic cell.

Mastering by Giuseppe Lelasi
Artwork by Elfy ( www.instagram.com/eeeeelllfffyyyyyyyyy/ )

Songs for Stamina

Stamina Cell

Promise - Stamina Cell

@preciousmetalsx founder @therealendgame, AKA “the devil himself”, in the building for the latest podcast.

Co-founding the now-defunct Bala Club to launching Precious Metals, the NTS mainstay is one of London’s foremost underground operators: a prolific producer, DJ and label owner that counts the likes of Kamixlo, Yayoyanoh and Organ Tapes among his closest peers and collaborators. 

Committed to platforming emerging artists, no stone is left unturned in his label’s pursuit of dysfunction and emotive-driven, genre-bending cross-pollination. It’s music that draws from the chaos of the urban complex; intense, visceral, sometimes nocturnal, and, on occasion, violent in the extreme.

And where his own productions straddle the line between severe electronics, drill abstraction and Latinx styles, this mix treads a similar path. 

“The mix is the soundtrack to a inward spiral - propelled towards the blessed chaos of our inner most desires and fears, entwined in sacred rapture.” – ENDGAMƎ

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If-Only Podcast #128: ENDGAMƎ

Part of a special collaboration w/ https://soundcloud.com/metaphorecollectif for their 13 year anniversary. This episode features a mix of https://soundcloud.com/duality6371209

Metaphore Collectif - 13 years anniversary x (+)earth - Dua Lity

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the legs of your wobbly chair

Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (12.10.2024)

Artists: @nykolaes, Rimov & Poppy Whispers

Nykolaes & Rimov b2b Poppy Whispers @ Radio TNP 12.10.2024

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@2eine
Solitaire Radio Vol.V
Recorded 10.11.2024
Vienna, Autriche

Rites of Solitaire #5 w/ Eine

J.G. Biberkopf
'Fountain Of Meaning' EP
DN010
Format: vinyl / digital
Release Date: 8 December 2017
Mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M
@jgb-k


Fountain of Meaning is a new sonic fiction from sound artist J.G. Biberkopf following last year’s Ecologies II: Ecosystems of Excess released on Knives. Emerging out of a situation of overflow, the record burrows deeper into his practice of palpable audio theater with a study of object and relations across space-time specific sounds. 

The Fountain as a theme reflects a spouting and spilling of information, an erotic gushing of imagined aural history. “The Fountain was the source of water in the public space in cities,” J.G. Biberkopf explains. “Now it’s pretty much a sexualised architectural gesture of both beautification and the spectacle of dominant ideologies.” 

The western classical musical canon, much like the perpetual coming of the fountain, flush the headphone space with stimuli. Reflex and memory guides the listener through a semiotic architecture of processed recordings of masses in Catholic churches and contemporary performances of pre-medieval music. A liquidity of structure has an anxious influence and is a closed system approach to form and imagination. When water flows, it fills every space, then spills over to claim more. History is equally abundant and alive. We have never had as much history as we have now. We have never been able to see ourselves as we can now. 

A knowledge of a grander architecture of knowing and recalling oppress the ecologies of human decision-making.The nature of the archive has  transformed into a total and panoptic intelligence. A life is a gamble as the inventory of the world overflows into the production of a spectral third, an other, a confrontation. Fountain of Meaning offers a dynamic tension and release. A molecular tragedy, our abject recovery into a collaborative reimagining of a trauma long forgotten. 

What can be gleaned from this overflow?

DN010 - Fountain of Meaning

Fountain Of Meaning

J.G. Biberkopf - Delirium

Out now>> https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/album/ssiege-fading-summer-yocs2

SSIEGE - Fading Summer - YOCS2 - YOUTH

@ssiege

01 - Turbe In Sviluppo
02 - A Man
03 - Angelo Azzurro
04 - Biscotti 180
05 - Regina
06 - Boxe
07 - Chromatic
08 - Delete Instagram
09 - Swan
10 - Paradise Channel
11 - Novo Eden
12 - Blind

Limited edition cassette on YOUTH.

https://soundcloud.com/ssiege

SSIEGE - Fading Summer - YOCS2 - YOUTH (Clips)

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