Introducing - Catartsis - Ainsi Vient Le Doute [ SousTraitance ]

Somewhere between memory sediment and subconscious drift, “Les matières errantes” marks the second solo expedition of the Sous Traitance timeline, this time led by Catarsis (aka Mathieu Bonnafous).

This new EP from the Parisian producer gathers four elusive productions, each one forged in a different temporal layer across a period of seven years. Oscillating between states, they reveal a raw urge to blur genre borders, where bass-heavy architectures bend into murky techno spirals, breakbeat fragments dissolve into dubstep low-frequency voids, and drum & bass pulses flirt with collapse. There’s no linear path here, only shifting zones and unstable rhythms, moving like tectonic plates beneath the surface of club logic.

A disjointed archive, a driftwork of forms—"Les matières errantes” doesn’t narrate a story so much as it exposes its own erosion. It’s a confrontation of industrial and natural environments for an unique, organic sound, making Catartsis a key figure in the renewal of the French Techno scene. 
Human Lessons premieres Ainsi Vient Le Doute  from the release.
credits

releases July 1, 2025
Artist: @catartsis
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catartsis_music/
Label: @soustraitance
Instagram: www.instagram.com/spiral.dance_x_soustraitance/


Text: Lois Markarian
Design: Max Colin
Music: Mathieu Bonnafous
A&R: Jean Sebastien Aknouche

HL Premiere : Catartsis - Ainsi Vient Le Doute [SousTraitance]

Introducing - Christian Duka - To Grow

“Mi costruisco e mi distruggo, I grow tall and deep, dhe e gjej veten”

Crescere is a 3-track EP released by Christian Duka, a producer, sound artist and DJ from the Albanian diaspora. The EP is a personal meditation on growth, capturing emotional states tied to transformation, vulnerability, and renewal.

Genre-fluid by design, Crescere blends emotive ambient guitars, slow-burning trip-hop-inflected breakbeats, and spectral dub-ambient. 
Human Lessons premieres To Grow from the release.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Christian Duka 
@dvka 
IG:https://www.instagram.com/christian_duka/
Artwork by Marco Maldarella
Release date: 15th of July

HL Premiere : Christian Duka - To Grow

Introducing - Abo Abo - Muscovite

Two resonant voices from Florence’s underground converge in this powerful collaboration between Abo Abo (Daniele Carcassi) and TOMO (Tommaso Andorlini) —  The co-founders of the DE RIO collective and record label both deeply rooted and active in Italy’s experimental electronic scene well  known for pushing the limits of tribe and mental sound presents their first LP on the Brussels based imprint and collective Alliance.
Abo Abo’s multifaceted practice moves fluidly between clubs, theaters, and DIY spaces, blending academic machinery with raw underground energy that oscillates between precision and chaos. Whether through DJ sets, performances, or installations, Abo Abo treats sound as a living, evolving material — a fluid architecture shaped by space and raw impulse he explores as a territory in constant mutation.
TOMO brings a vision shaped by fast-paced rhythms, glitch minimalism, and tactile sound design. His sets are deeply physical, polyrhythmic journeys where IDM, deep techno, trance and post-tribal textures bleed into one another. Every element in his sonic landscape pulses with tension — somatic, spectral, alive.
Together, they craft an immersive, borderless language where loop-driven hypnosis meets granular abstraction. This LP on Alliance Club bridges their worlds: club energy and sound research, intuition and structure — vibrating between movement and stillness
Human Lessons premieres Muscovite by Abo Abo from the release.

Written and produced by Daniele Carcassi and Tommaso Andorlini
Mastered by Baptiste Langlois aka OTON @ Analog Focus Studio
Artwork by Marco Maldarella
© Alliance Club 2025

Artist: 
@aboabosound
IG: https://www.instagram.com/abo_abo._/ 
Label: 
@allianceclub  
IG: https://www.instagram.com/allianceclub_/
Artwork by Marco Maldarella
Release date: 25th of July

HL Premiere : Abo Abo - Muscovite [Alliance]

@the_clearlight

IG: https://www.instagram.com/the_clearlight_/

Human Lessons #109 - Clearlight

@torimimasataka 

This is an exclusive live set for Human Lessons. 

Website: 
https://www.nuoac.com/
Bandcamp: 
https://torimimasataka.bandcamp.com/album/voquoxy
IG:
https://www.instagram.com/torimimasataka_nuoac/?hl=en

Human Lessons #110 - TORIMIMASATAKA (Live set)

@a-m-u-w-a 

SC: (Oomycota)
https://soundcloud.com/oomycota_label
Bandcamp: 
https://amuwa.bandcamp.com/track/goblin 
IG:https://www.instagram.com/amuwa_mwah/

Human Lessons #111 - amuwa

@eszaid-377145560

IG: 
https://www.instagram.com/louisvial.eszaid/ 

Tracklist
https://www.instagram.com/p/DODkVqhCtcI/?img_index=2

Human Lessons #113 - Eszaid

@xeniareaper 

IG: 
https://www.instagram.com/dolphindream_/

Human Lessons #112 - XENIA REAPER

@melmann

Human Lessons #117 is a special collaboration episode with Mostra, featuring guest Nicolas Melmann. 
This episode was recorded from his live performance at Mostra in 2025. 

Nicolas reflects on this set:
'It was truly exciting to premiere my new album Música Aperta at the Mostra Festival, in such a carefully curated environment with an audience so devoted to the sound experience. The design of the space — in total darkness and surrounded by an exquisite sound system — created a collective sound meditation room for more than 10 hours each day, a unique experience that I had never seen at a festival before.

Música Aperta is an electroacoustic piece and immersive performance that explores the perception of time through sound. Using string textures, bowls, and organs, the music cultivates an atmosphere of active stillness and contemplation, inviting the exercise of deep listening. In this context, Mostra was the perfect place to express the concept of the album, which is essentially about creating a space of resistance to the fast pace of modern life. I'm super thankful to the festival team and the audience! " 

Website:
https://melmann.site/ 
FB: 
https://www.facebook.com/nicolas.melmann 
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/melmanns 
Bandcamp: 
https://melmann.bandcamp.com/ 
Songkick:
https://www.songkick.com/artists/6556139-melmann 
IG: 
https://www.instagram.com/xoxmelmann/



@mostrabcn
Mostra is a project that comes straight from the heart. An independent, small-format festival of avant-garde and experimental electronic music which emerges as a counterpoint to the macro-festivals and the overcrowded, commercial and rather impersonal offerings of other large events held in Barcelona.

Website:
www.mostra.barcelona/eng/
IG:
www.instagram.com/mostrabcn/
FB:
www.facebook.com/MostraBCN
X:
x.com/MostraBCN

Human Lessons #117 - Nicolas Melmann(Live)@Mostra 2025 [Human Lessons × Mostra]

Introducing Arsène Martinet - Conjuration 

Multidisciplinary label Face Æ steps into new territory with its first solo EP, inviting Arsène Martinet to deliver a deep and introspective exploration of sound.

Arsène Martinet approaches music like one would explore a hidden territory—slowly, deeply, with the attentiveness of someone listening for the silence behind the sound. Inspired by the languages of nature and the invisible architectures of the mind, he crafts introspective techno at the crossroads of ambient, mysticism, and the tangible.


Through misty pads, mineral textures, and subterranean pulses, his sound evokes both drift and ritual: a sensory experience that invites presence, the gentle unraveling of fixed points, and the union of opposites. First revealed on the label Aedi, he continues to trace his path with a distinct sonic identity, where each frequency seems to speak with the invisible.


Arsène Martinet doesn’t simply compose tracks, he carves out spaces... 

Artist SC 
@arsene_martinet 
Artist IG
https://www.instagram.com/arsene_martinet 

Label SC
@face-ae
https://www.instagram.com/face_ae?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw%3D%3D

HL Premiere: Arsène Martinet - Conjuration [Face Æ]

Introducing OTON - H3KDP4 [ALLIANCE]

Fuelled by an endless fascination with sound in all its forms, OTON has spent over a decade navigating the vast spectrum of electronic music through producing, mixing, mastering, and DJing — with live performance at the heart of his explorations in all sorts of mental and hypnotic techno.In 2021, he launched Alliance Club, initially as a platform to share his own music with a growing audience. Today, the project has evolved into an independent collective, party series and imprint, known for its integrity and support of alternative artists and scenes. Alliance Club now holds residencies at some of Belgium’s most iconic institutions, including Botanique, Fuse, C12, and Listen Festival. After previously exploring sonic territories characterized by breakbeat rhythms, psychedelic textures, tribal drumming, and raw mental energy, OTON unveiled his critically acclaimed LP, New Forms of Silence, in March 2025. This landmark release marked a decisive and profound shift in his artistic direction, signaling a new chapter in his sonic evolution. This autumn, OTON is set to return with its highly anticipated sequel, New Forms of Silence 2. This new offering delves even deeper into the introspective and resonant side of techno, embracing dubbier elements while demonstrating a clear reverence for the genre's classic roots. Yet, OTON continuously pushes the boundaries of sound design, infusing each track with his unmistakable signature, all released under the Alliance Club banner. 
Human Lessons premieres H3KDP4 from the release. 


Artist SC: @oton
Label SC: @allianceclub
Artist Insta: instagram.com/oton____
Label Insta: instagram.com/allianceclub_



HL Premiere: OTON - H3KDP4 [Alliance]

@iamglisten

« The urge to squeeze a cloud between one’s palm. »
- Sanary, [Le Monde Toupie], 1942

I threaded the mix as a continuation of this phrase of Sanary I recently read.

Popsicle drip to stalactite. Swim to the surface. Wash off the shore. Drop glide along a wire. Muddled wired thoughts of ours.  

Tracklist:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOnofarCtxN/?img_index=2

IG: 
https://www.instagram.com/iamglisten/

Human Lessons #114 - Glisten

Introducing Sentient -A Shadow Flickers (Soreab Remix). 

Following his debut album last year, Sentient returns on the label with Unspeakable Periphery: Otherworld Transmission, a remix compilation that reframes his original work through the lens of a carefully curated group of artists.

From Alpha Solo’s dubbed-out abstraction to Clearlight’s tekker translation, from Soreab and La Serpiente tense rhythmic frameworks, to Left Path and Barking hypnotic and meditative zones, the compilation traverses overall percussive science and atmospheric deconstructions.

Closing the journey is a haunting illbient reinterpretation of the entire original album by Sentient himself, reassembling his own compositions into something more introspective - a stretched and fractured world somewhere adjacent to this one. As a bonus, the release also includes a continuous mix version of Unspeakable Periphery.  

Artist SC:
@soreabuk 
@sentientsound 

Label SC: 
@xcptmusic 

Artist IG: 
Soreab https://www.instagram.com/d.soreab/  
Sentient https://www.instagram.com/sentientsonics/

Label IG: 
https://www.instagram.com/xcpt__/

credits
releases October 3, 2025
mastered by Daniele Antezza / Dadub Mastering
design and print by Linkin Bios

HL Premiere: Sentient -A Shadow Flickers (Soreab Remix) [XCPT]

@thomastesink 

IG:
https://www.instagram.com/thomastesink/

Human Lessons #115 - TT_

@pushebp 

This is an exclusive live set for HL 

IG:https://www.instagram.com/push.ebp

Human Lessons #116 - push ebp (Live set)

Introducing Solma - Fixx 

Paris-based artist Solma delivers Fiber Bundle, a nine-track album deeply rooted in minimalism and psychedelia.

Co-founder of Virtual Forest Records, a key platform within the French low-end psychedelia scene, Solma sharpens his distinctive sound — moving fluidly between deep techno, mental tribe and halftime rhythms to build a dense yet spacious world of sound.

Drawing from the hypnotic pulse of modern deep techno and the vibrant energy o0f UK bass music, Fiber Bundle explores a precise and immersive approach to production. Each track unfolds as a self-contained environment, where repetition, texture and motion intertwine to form a meditative, psychedelic continuum.



Artist SC: @solmadj
Label SC: @allianceclub
Artist IG instagram.com/solma.als/
Label IG: instagram.com/allianceclub_

HL Premiere: Solma - Fixx [Alliance]

Aurora CD compilation ´Beta´. 24 carefully selected sonic sculptures from artists across the globe, glimpsing through different realms and synergies, inviting the listener to a deep journey of imagination and self-discovery.  
Human Lessons features RXEX - Obsidian Ritual from the release. 

All profits from the release will be donated in equal parts to:
Palestine Child Relief Fund & Medical Aid for Palestines
Save The Children Sudan
Alzheimer research UK
Ovarian cancer research UK
Artwork: Elfy 
Mastering: CTRLS 

Artist SC: @rxexx  
IG: https://www.instagram.com/rxex.inner_spire/ 

Label SC: @aurorarec 
IG: https://www.instagram.com/aurora_rec/

HL Premiere: RXEX - Obsidian Ritual [Aurora]

Strange autumn rains are falling, revealing hidden pathways.
Time for 𝕍𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝 𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥 ℝ𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤 to bear a new twin fruit.

𝔻𝕚𝕡𝕝𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒 is a celebration - of our beloved corner of the underground, of community beyond geographical borders, of creative interconnection. Thirteen masterful collaborative tracks from all corners of the world, by spearheads of the underwater avant-garde, ranging from the darkest dubstep to the most abyssal tribe. The soul and essence of tomorrow's hybrid deep-end scene, condensed into a timeless gemstone.
Human Lessons premieres  Viscous Behavious by Kick21 & Trois-Quarts Taxi System.  

artwork by hypereikon
mastered by AES Dana at Ultimae studios
distributed by Underscope

Artist SC: 
Kick21 @kick_21 
Trois-Quarts Taxi System @troisquartstaxisystem 
Artist IG: 
Kick21 https://www.instagram.com/kick21__/
Trois-Quarts Taxi System : https://www.instagram.com/trois_quarts_taxi_system/?hl=fr 

Label SC: 
@virtualforestrecords 
Label IG:
https://www.instagram.com/virtualforestrecords/#

HL Premiere: Kick21 & Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Viscous Behavious [Virtual Forest Records]

@foreseeruk 
IG:https://www.instagram.com/foreseer_music/

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I would like to thank Emika for inviting me onto her beautiful platform. And to take a moment to share a few words about this mix, which marks a special moment for me. It’s been years since I last created a full-scale, serious production mix, so I took this opportunity to showcase some unheard tracks and exciting new forthcoming releases.
The last two tunes in the mix are particularly special. John (Heavenly Bodies) and I thought our “Ourá” project was complete with our album. However, I recently rediscovered some forgotten demos, and together we decided to revisit and build upon the new sound we had developed—this is reflected in track 16.
To close the mix, we present an emotional magnum opus: a remix of “Heavenly Bodies - Prima Materia”, which we expect to release sometime in 2026.
– Drew Carpenter / Foreseer 　

The Silvery Water 
@thesilverywater 
IG: https://www.instagram.com/thesilverywater/ 

Starry Earth  
@starryearth 
IG:https://www.instagram.com/starryearth_/ 

Tracklist : https://www.instagram.com/p/DRJ_FZQCoTM/?img_index=2

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