@wtnsmusic

WTNS announces the release of her new EP, vidéal, an experimental and bass-heavy exploration of the fluid boundary between ideals and perceived reality. Entirely self-produced, performed and designed by the Franco-Serbian artist, vidéal is a sonic journey travelling from neofolk, trip-hop, to ambient and club music that blends introspection, instinct, and technicalexperimentation.

production/performance: WTNS
mastering: Maximilien Dudemaine @ Sodasound

premiere: WTNS - myopic brain [self-release]

FLORAS

STRAYN

pre-order

jjjacob - STRAYN

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.

releases May 21, 2025

artworks & mastering by jjjacob

VRETCH

jjjacob - VRETCH

WARSH

premiere: jjjacob - WARSH

@satellitenavigation
@thebigoilrecordingcompany

SATNAV - the experimental electronic project of Sebastian Zieler (co-founder of The Big Oil Recording Company) - releases his debut concept album, every•thing•a•part, on June 13. A meditation on climate grief, the album imagines distant-future AI lamenting the loss of Earth’s living world. The first single, r u alpha waving at me??, drops May 8, but premieres on katharsis today, May 5th.

With detailed sound design, pop-inspired harmony and high-contrast sonic imagery, the album is a series of lamentations and love songs for nature. First single r u alpha waving at me?? is a lullaby for extinct species, whispered in binary. Its eclecticism moves from a dungeon synth-inspired intro to shifting avant-garde electronics - a fitting introduction to the album’s play with form and colour, described by SATNAV as “painting with an imaginary palette.”



premiere: SATNAV - r u  alpha waving at me?? [label: The Big Oil Recording Company]

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.

releases May 21, 2025

artworks & mastering by jjjacob



premiere: jjjacob - DANXAL

Them

tk Katharshis breakcore remix 凛として時雨

Love and chaos (TK Katharshis breakcore remix)

jjjacob - PLUCKA

Description: The title track from Svenne Spjut's second EP "Aegviidu", out now via Bandcamp: svennespjut.bandcamp.com/album/aegviidu

Full EP on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/svennespjut/sets/aegviidu

premiere: Svenne Spjut - Aegviidu [self-release]

@fayt1
@bewareilive
@hyperlinkfr

Hyperlink surfaces again with Global Tides, a compilation born from trust, instinct, and the sheer joy of making something together.

…What happens if we stop trying to make sense, and start trying to make contact? …What if a compilation was a séance? What if we told you Global Tides started as a ripple in the fabric? A strange invitation passed between frequencies, across borders, through the fog of daily mess? 

Built on friendship, laptops, and late nights, this one’s about opening doors and seeing what rushes in. Global Tides is a love letter to collaboration. To letting go of the map and building something you couldn’t draw in advance (even if your collaborator’s on the other side of the world). A shaky bridge built between cities, timezones, feelings. Each track is a little rift, a meeting point where two (or more) worlds rub against each other until something spills out. Sometimes it’s raw, sometimes it’s cinematic, sometimes it’s a noise that wasn’t supposed to be there, but we kept it anyway, because it felt like a truth. At the end, all of it feels real. 

This is a drift. A gathering of scattered thoughts and tangled dreams, shaped into music by people who trusted the process. There were no rules. Just collisions and alignments. No plan. Just a low, shared hum: let’s try. Some tracks dissolve, others erupt. One of them might haunt you.

The proceeds on Bandcamp go back into this machine made of glue and guts : mastering, artwork, promo... Hyperlink’s still powered more by feelings than funding.

releases July 2, 2025

credits:
❖ Mastering : Antoine Wolfermann (@bademjan)
❖ Artwork : Otieno (ok.tieno)
❖ A&R : Fanny Cahu (@fannuze)

Pre-save : https://fanlink.tv/hyperlink13
Pre-order : https://hyperlinkfr.bandcamp.com/album/global-tides

premiere: fayt & anima - relinq [label: Hyperlink]

@yibai100
@marmintagency

Cover art by
instagram.com/heraldry2
instagram.com/bloodythinkpad


Due to a recent law in Hungary, made to limit the right of assembly, amongst other minorities, the LGBTQ community and Budapest Pride face uncertain times.
The only answer to this, is to unite and let our voices heard.
We need to safeguard queer spaces.

Electronic music has always been a safe space for the queer community, so Marmint is launching a compilation in solidarity with Budapest Pride on the 28th of June, 2025.
The digital release is going to be accessible on Soundcloud, Nina Protocol, Bandcamp and other streaming services.

All proceeds go to Budapest Pride (Szivárvány Misszió Alapítvány)

Following the more industrial and drum-oriented “Force Quit” (released by temporary nites) –, he returned to EXILES with “Hatch + Foster”, a 20-minute cassette exploring the fields of bass-heavy, dynamic ambient with an industrial touch.
yibai performed elements of the material at House of Music Hungary as the local support before Ryoji Ikeda’s concert, as well as the opening act before Ben Frost at the abandoned turbine hall of the Inota power plant.
He has recently played in Salo/Fuchs2 in Prague, leading up to his latest full-length album which is set to be released in the summer of 2025.

premiere: yibai - Time spent doing this is time well spent [label: Marmint]

@emellay

“Emellay” is the second EP released by Upstate NY-based artist music lovers anonymous (MLA). The project can be seen as a sort of sequel to his first EP, “Wherever Chance Leads Me, I Will Go As A Friend,” released on formforum earlier this year. There are familiar sounds: humble field recordings, string-like textures, with an increased emphasis on controlled discord. Samples from important periods in his life are re-contextualized into something individualized: an interpretive dance between the weight of life and the bliss of insignificance. A pseudo-self titled project, “Emellay” functions as an unfinished self-portrait. Or maybe rather, a blind contour. These tracks were created without an end—with closed eyes—like a story being told as it is written...a story taking place in a bedroom, at a laptop, with a MIDI controller. It is an ode to an undeveloped identity, leaving melodic artifacts in its wake.

This is music for headphones.

released July 7, 2025

mastering by Fausto Mercier
artwork by lyfegain

music lovers anonymous - Place Intro

music lovers anonymous - This Weight Is Too Heavy to Carry Alone

music lovers anonymous - Keeping Secrets

@hiiroissiki

Hiiro Issiki’ s "Tannins" is a 6-track mini-album that blends immersive ambient, cinematic dance music (CDM), and techno, crafted with minimal repetition to shape an environmental soundscape. Inspired by movie soundtracks and emotional atmospheres, it merges ecstatic expression with meditative stillness, questioning modern society through deep, unshaped sound waves and abrupt noises.

To transform the structured art of “music” into ambiguous particles of memory and space. It is neither “story” nor emotion. It is the sensation of fragments, the memory of reverberations, the minute tremors of the unconscious. In other words, I want to present as a work of art the very sensation of “a faint blur in the silence. Time is not a line but a layer, melody is not will but an accidental stain, and “ to listen” is not to enter into the sound but to be blurred by the sound. I want to scoop up the contemporary “submerged sensation of being flooded with sound.

premiere: Hiiro Issiki - Lachrymose [self-release]

XENIA REAPER graces Oscilla Sound's Liminal catalogue with seven deft cuts, gently fusing the outer realms of spectral ambience and delicate breaks. The tracks glisten with subtle detail, blurring boundaries and drifting through territories on the fringes, traversing liminal spaces.

releases July 25, 2025

Artwork by Jelly Works Studio.
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken.

XENIA REAPER - never let go  [label: Liminal / Oscilla Sound]

@arigto

This album emerges from the rediscovery of an accordion following the loss of a close relative-
an instrument that had been a constant companion throughout their life, weaving itself into the fabric of childhood memory. At its core lies the recognition that both human and accordion share the same essential act: breathing. 
The accordion becomes a meditation on mortality and memory, its bellows expanding and contracting like "lungs", its air valve releasing pure breath without melody—the raw pneumatic essence of life itself. Every sound originates from this single instrument, largely unprocessed, preserving the intimate relationship between human touch and mechanical response.
It’s an investigation of how an instrument can hold the memory of hands that no longer play
it. The mechanical whispers, the subtle articulations of metal and leather and wood become
a language of remembrance, breathed rather than spoken."

premiere: ARIGTO - Confined Lungs [self-release]

Hey there,
thanks for listening.
Would appreciate some resonance if you find something you like.


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Check out the new album release: 
"Anger-Management Programme" 
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explore my journey through your imagination
contact/booking: jacobfosgrau@gmail.com
1/2 of @jsliwa - founder of @katharsislabel
obscurities @bazura

katharsis is a label founded by @jjjacob focusing on the purification and purgation of emotions through music.

contact: jacobfosgrau@gmail.com

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