Mixtape by Cagey Oil Driller (aka @acadjmia), out via New Work City Records (@newworkcityrecords) 

Read: https://bit.ly/3g5Wx1D
Download / Order: https://bit.ly/3wUsTlW

The first original production from Cagey Oil Driller, a sound-design mixtape called Lungs. Made with the Erica DB-01, the mixtape was inspired by a DJ set he performed recently for Common Multiverse Initiative titled 'coughs.' It's available as a free download on New Work City Records' Bandcamp page.

Cover art by Ibuki Kuramochi
https://www.instagram.com/ibuki_kuramochi/

Mastered by Dominic Clare at Declared Sound
https://www.instagram.com/d.glare/

Released by New Work City Records

Download / Buy

Premiere: Cagey Oil Driller - Lungs [New Work City Records]

Almost one whole year has passed since the foundation of katharsis was laid down with the launching of the label by the release of the three elemental compilations, The Flow of Water, The Burn of Fire, and The Breath of Air. Since then, seven different artists have put out EPs, albums and even a cassette tape on katharsis, yielding a total of 10 releases through this first year of existence. 

The vision of the label was to show the world how music is our best tool to process moods, thoughts and emotions by self-therapeutic involvement with the arts, which the artists have truly realized for the label by sending us incredibly stellar music to release throughout the year. The support from the community has been overwhelming, and we feel it is time for us to give something back to you. 

Therefore, we have scanned thoroughly through our discography to chop and collect small snippets of sounds, compiling a sample pack of ready-to-use .wav-files for your DAW of preference. This simultaneously reflects the aim and philosophy of katharsis, to enable and accommodate all people in their potential for making art and to break down the boundaries of creativity resulting from our copyright infringed society. Go ahead and use the samples in your productions, we are already excited to hear what will come out of it.

As a demonstration of the contents of the sample pack and its creative abilities, label founder jjjacob have put together a track only using sound material from the sample pack. The result is a ethereal landscape sequenced from the extracted emotional core of the katharsis discography, that will hopefully inspire you to take the samples in use!

jjjacob - Emotional Core Sequencing

Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Exegesis

Yen Tech - Sentry

Taken from SBKT041: NET GALA - 신파 SHINPA
Release Date: 25th June 2021

Written, Produced by NET GALA
Mixed by Kim Kate
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Cover by Kynan Puru-Watt
Photo by Bakya

A regular at Seoul’s ‘Cakeshop’ and member of LGBTQ collective Shade Seoul, NET GALA’s SVBKVLT debut is named after Shinpageuk (신파극), a form of theatre from 20th century Korea. In contemporary context, Shinpa is a synonym for ‘tears and overwhelming emotions,’ but when it was first introduced to Korea, Shinpa was used to express progressive political views, cover social issues, and later the melodramatic domestic tragedies. There is a vast gap between the past and current context of Shinpa, and as such there has been a lot of mistranslation or misconception between the two.

After their first EP [re:FLEX*ion] (NBDKNW – 2019), NET GALA spent time researching Shinpa, finding parallels between the work they were making and the traditional theater style. The emotional, dramatic nature of Shinpa echoed the exaggerated affection of ‘pop’ – in which NET GALA searches for the impact on one’s own narrative and emotion. The ‘mistranslation’ applied to the terms history is reflected in the changing course between the two EPs – how one can reinterpret or warp one ‘lost’ cultural concept into another.

From the stretched-out ‘The Ha Dance’ sample combined with traditional Korean percussion and 808s on ‘Shpiral’, to the sample of a Korean lesbian protester struggling to claim her existence through the blasting drums on Dodomzit, ‘신파 SHINPA’ is NET GALA’s interpretation of the Shinpageuk. The EP is packaged with remixes from Amazondotcom, ZULI and Menzi further reinterpreting the original work.

신파 SHINPA

NET GALA - Dodomzit (A Radical, Cynical Tool)

trngs on Ma3azef ft. Fausto Mercier

WAV.M8'S returns with a mix from @personalbrand following on from their track 'Pyrite Feelings' on Ware 2021. 

tracklist:
1. Lica - Junjianyan memories /01
2. DIGITONICA - WONDERLAND
3. Emma Dowdy - Hallways
4. Ma Sha Ru - Seismic Energy
5. Kotrina - Infierno
6. Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Goofing Off
7. silént phil + EPIPHAGI - Titan
8. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Virtual Odorat ft. emma dj
9. Laza, Chiclosx - Na Onda Do Mete Mete ft. MC Danny
10. Kessler - Onion Muncher
11. SNKLS - Half Horn
12. Sozorie - Soft Face
13. RUI HO - Couture
14. Yogev Freilichman - Thermal
15. trngs - Organic Fabrication Core
16. Siete Catorce - Serrano
17. MAAY - Chaotic Adorable Criature

WAV.M8'S 065 - personalbrand

All I Wanted - Paramore

Crystal Blue Feat Tuco ( Hard-Style )

" El juicio de las sombras "    (Turrikto,  Darkmoon, Edudp) (Stormriders edit )

@lighghtmusic

Edited Arts is launching ‘Endorphins’, the first in a new series of charity compilations. Endorphins features contributions by Cassius Select, Ccontrary, DJ TESS, Emily Glass, furious styles, Hard Fantasy, Jaeho Hwang, Jasper Jarvis, Lighght, d0us, Shelley Parker and terribilis.

‘Endorphins’ is a compilation of pre and post cathartic visions & sounds. Embodying the alleviating potential of club music, 12 artists have made sonic references to the happy hormone that acts to relieve pain. Vigorous drums, shy wubs, disobedient trance, lifting breaks, and reclining interludes work towards the unrestrained mindset of this collection. This is the first release from a series that recreates psycho-sensory states of happiness, or the lack thereof.

Profits from this release will go to Black Minds Matter and Drake Music. 

Mastered by hmurd
Artwork by +777000

Tracklist:

terribilis - Having To Come Back Down
Cassius Select - Cradle 2
Hard Fantasy - Body Prison
Emily Glass - Hollow Butterfly Charm 
Lighght - Excruciating Brightness (Ode To DJ Netflex)
d0us - prec1 
furious styles - admit it, you wish i was here
Shelley Parker - Tramadol Roll
DJ Tess - Legrina 
Jaeho Hwang - Jangdan1-Pyong
Jasper Jarvis - Birth 
ccontrary - Voices 

We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy the music. Thank you for listening.