PAF: zeitgeist/ playlist #3 by levi

by Hugo Calcio (https://soundcloud.com/hugocalcio ) & leop4rdi (https://soundcloud.com/leop4rdi )

"Our best emotional songs as special purpose weapons
4ever up"

mastered by cellvl (https://soundcloud.com/celldj )

artwork by Sucedania (https://www.instagram.com/sucedania )

Hugo Calcio & leop4rdi * find

silhouettes edit

dmg.edits_18-24

vanished

The final katharsis release of 2024 is the 26-track compilation “Physical Force” featuring a wide range of affiliated artists from both the international and local Copenhagen electronic music scene. As the title hints, Physical Force delves into the visceral, bodily aspects of music, inviting its contributors to explore the theme of movement as a central element in their compositions. Each artist was encouraged to focus on rhythm, groove, energy, and the physicality of sound, which resulted in drum-heavy release from start to finish. While there is a consistent emphasis on rhythm and a bodily connection to the music, the tracks vary widely in style and sonic texture, ranging from big melodic anthems, gritty experimental techno, heavy jungle bangers, and beyond.

released December 23, 2024

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

inter alia - Sunbath

Listen to "CHANG" by jjjacob taken from "FLORAS" out on May 21st via katharsis

Pre-order: https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/floras

FLORAS is the new album from katharsis founder jjjacob, releasing on May 21st to mark the five-year anniversary of the label’s first output. A celebration shaped by time, patience, and transformation, FLORAS is an assemblage of seven tracks - each with its history. The oldest dates back to 2018; the newest bloomed only months ago. Initially intended for other projects or collaborations that never fully took root, these compositions have been reworked, reimagined, and refined - transformed by years of quiet attention. Stylistically, the release moves between the physical and the introspective - crushed drumbreaks, poignant basslines, grand synth melodies, and obscure granular vocals.

Each track is like an ancient, fluorescent flower rediscovered in a distant cave, alien in form yet deeply familiar. Cyclical in structure, they mirror the seasonal processes: emerging, flourishing, decaying, returning. There’s a strange botanical logic at play, as patterns and shapes reappear like genetic echoes, and even discarded stems sprout new life. Melodic ideas and textural procedures reverberate across tracks like shared ancestral material, connecting them like a hidden underground network. Some tracks still bear traces of feedback or collaboration that never fully materialized - ghost limbs and branches that helped shape the whole.

Built from ambient textures, hard-hitting percussion, and sonic details that reward deep listening, FLORAS is a meditation on growth, time, and potential. The release reflects not only a shift in jjjacob’s personal process, but also a new chapter for katharsis itself: after five years of near-monthly releases, the label now turns toward a slower rhythm - giving each release more space to breathe, settle, and take root before moving on. 


Links:
jjjacob
https://soundcloud.com/jjjacob
https://jjjacob.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/jjjacobdk
katharsis
https://soundcloud.com/katharsislabel
https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/katharsislabel

artworks & mastering by jjjacob

pre-order / bandcamp

jjjacob - CHANG (katharsis)

Paradise Music

Preda Rossa

@aulicveil

Artwork: Alexander Turovsky (www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky/)
Mastering: Christoff Riedel (@riedelchristoff) 
Catalogue Number: cime010 
Release Date: June 16th, 2025

https://cime-world.ban

Aulic Veil - H3ILIG3RHAIN

by the wood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSFb-YtFZnA

I went out to see a storm

🎧 | YouTube Discography: bit.ly/youtube-discography
🎧 | Spotify Discography: bit.ly/spotify-discography
🌎 | Instagram: instagram.com/oscurochill
🌎 | Facebook: facebook.com/oscurochill

Stream & Download

About You

Creation Myth

Les Polyphonies De Navarro

World Building

Through Towers

Principé Spiritual Mix

DJ Lostboi & Torus - The Flash

https://sitequeeste.bandcamp.com/album/the-flash
Available 24 January 2020 on LP and digital platforms. 

Following 2019’s hibernation, Queeste reappears with the mnestic soundscapes of DJ Lostboi and Torus’ split album The Flash. Across eight gossamer evocations—four from each artist—the duo reflect on individual journeys from airport to sea during the blissful embers of fading summer. Their gaze expands and contracts naturally with passing locations but lingers on the titular flash, what the two artists describe as “the rare sight of the sun giving off a bright green lightburst into the horizon.”

Made up of sounds sourced and appropriated from these commutes—pop music heard on the radio, jumbled street recordings, and everyday technological objects—The Flash evokes the melancholic pull of such recollections without ever succumbing to nostalgia. The moments eked from these samples stretch into quiet eternity—still and suspended—while retaining their quotidian, terrestrial qualities.

DJ Lostboi successfully refines the warped atmospherics heard on his previous edits of pop, rap, and emo. First track ‘Open World’ welcomes listeners with lapping waves and plaintive wavering tones—like a glittering video game environment—until real life interrupts on ‘Ordinary People’ as an automated answer phone message: an unknown voice lets out a weary sigh. Its foggy pianos and soft vocals offer melody and buoyancy where ‘LB 100’ circles on moody, dream-like pads. We follow the artist’s oceanic voyage to its culminating trance-like shimmers which dissolve into cool water: reflective, endless, yet ultimately hopeful.

Netherlands-based Torus foregoes the dancefloor dynamics of 2016’s Engine Malfunction for a series of calmer, cloudless drifts. On ‘Enter The Sun’—a sparse, yearning composition—washes of noise and clipped auto-tuned vocals pulse over a haunting refrain until ‘Pier’ arrives with whirring engines, sweet birdsong, and decaying synths. The album’s lightest piece comes with the skipping ‘Radiate 540’—euphoric dance minus the kick—which rises from a muffled human interaction until slow motion cinematics signal the trip’s end: ‘Arrival’ collapses into the sea elegantly mirroring DJ Lostboi’s final track.

Despite its hushed ambience, The Flash is an album committed to forward momentum. Each composition reveals a discrete chapter of DJ Lostboi and Torus’ journey building to a moment of bittersweet ascension. The results of such heartfelt wandering recall the spatial dynamics of The KLF’s zoned post-rave landscapes but these works flicker with thoroughly modern paraphernalia and emotions.

The Flash

DJ Lostboi - Ordinary People

Robert Miles - Children (Xtreme onction edit)

from FORTUNA minialbum dunnorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/fortuna

LUTTO LENTO - THE LAST SWEETHEART

SOUFFRANCE FM WAS HOSTED BY @hadji-hajj AND HIS SUFFERING FRIENDS ON @lyl_radio.

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https://soundcloud.com/souffrancefm/sets/souffrance-fm-seaon-1-lyl
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https://soundcloud.com/souffrancefm/sets/souffrance-fm-season-2-lyl
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https://soundcloud.com/souffrancefm/sets/souffrance-fm-season-3-lyl
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https://soundcloud.com/souffrancefm/sets/souffrance-fm-season-4-lyl
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https://soundcloud.com/souffrancefm/sets/souffrance-fm-season-5-lyl
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https://soundcloud.com/souffrancefm/sets/souffrance-fm-season-6-lyl
Season 7
https://soundcloud.com/souffrancefm/sets/souffrance-fm-season-7
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Robert Miles - Children (Xtreme onction edit)

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