@david_engelbrecht
"Memory Music" is the debut EP from Danish composer and sound artist David Engelbrecht, aka Dudde, coming out in full on April 24th on katharsis. Crafted over several years through the careful gathering and processing of sonic fragments, the release captures the emotional weight and wonder of sound as memory. Each track is a small time machine, inviting listeners to drift between past and present - those moments when a single sound unlocks a flood of forgotten feelings, places, and people.

Moving seamlessly between ambient textures and sharp, high-paced drum patterns, Memory Music balances clarity and chaos with a sense of play. Breakbeats collide with nostalgic synth lines, melodic motifs shimmer alongside digital shadows, and echoes of vintage videogames flicker in and out like ghosts. It’s music that remembers and reimagines all at once - where fragments of the past become blueprints for the future.

releases April 24, 2025

artwork by ZECIN ( www.instagram.com/zecin_001/ )
mastering by Dudde
trumpet on "Core Memory" by Carlo Becker Lauritsen
guitar on "Sunday scaries" by Lola Hammerich

pre-order

premiere: Dudde - Core Memory

Isabelline curator and label head Practitioner reveals a stunning selection of his own archival productions with 'Portobello Innocent', the third release on the mysterious and acclaimed Berlin-based imprint.

Recorded between 2016 - 2024, these five selected works offer a broad look into Practitioner’s sonic sphere. Introspective club reflections that cover a grand scope of machine-translated human emotions. The EP feels like a dug-up lost tape, timeless tracks untouched by current modes or trends, each composition progressively digging deeper into unknown chasms of the enigmatic producers' distinct sound.

premiere: Practitioner - Male to Female [label: Isabelline]

premiere: Dudde - Shopkeeper

@allenheimer
@goodmoondeer

Symbols echoing like cymbals. The deafening noise of steam-powered looms. The rallying calls of demagogues. Sickly wallpaper peeling from a wall. A brick crumbling in a field. Tarnished coins in a fountain basin. Words and images like rings around some heavenly body. A tangled web, contorted like a rhizome, silken threads resonating with the strange songs of a thousand ragged ghosts.

releases April 29, 2025

Music and artwork by Atli Bollason and Guðmundur Úlfarsson.
Mastered by Miles Whittaker at Full Range Mastering.
This record was made in Fabryka Sztuki in Łódź, Sláturhúsið in Egilsstaðir and at home in Reykjavík.

premiere: Unfiled - The Image and the Word [label: Unfiled]

@cargaerea
@colectivo-casa-amarela

The EP is called Sonda and that name came about as a bit of a silly exercise in trying to name the songs, which ended up making more sense as I thought about it and developed the idea. I thought I'd name the songs after the months when I wrote them (between September 2019 and January 2020, more or less, which was the time I was on Erasmus in Holland), and the initials of the months gave me “sondj”. That led me to probe, and from there I started thinking about various things. How the EP was born out of a process of research and inner searching, compositional and even academic, to a certain extent, to try and overcome a creative block; how each of the songs is a bit of a portal to memories of very specific moments, feelings, places and people, all closely linked to that time; let's ignore the obvious thing about having “sound” in the word.

Music by Carga Aérea
Mastered by Bruno Pereira
Artwork by Mafalda Melim

premiere: Carga Aérea - outubro [label: Colectivo Casa Amarela]

@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]

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

jjjacob - VRETCH

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]

Hey there,
thanks for listening. I am just a spaceman orbiting life, passionately doing my thing. Stay around for more if you like. 🖤

**NEW ADDITIONS TO COLD SCAPES ... ENJOY!**

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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