@star_shiftmusic

The 45th release of katharsis is the EP "Intrusion" by Italian artist Lefka, releasing in full on October 28th. Throughout the six tracks of the EP, Lefka swaddles the listener in a dense and distorted quilt of sound that feels both heavy and light at the same time. "Intrusion" is a release that aims to sonify the acceptance of intrusive thoughts through a kathartic and emotionally intense experience.

Through heavy use of granular synthesis and electric guitar recordings, the release varies from calm, introspective moments to peaks of intense sound pressure. Like through glass, the sounds refract and are broken into pieces, creating an aural effect of rebound and confused scattering, and like intrusive thoughts, the tracks have abrupt peaks that reset the silence with unsettling intensity.

Lefka is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. As in a stream of consciousness, his own productions are characterized by an irreverent and disillusioned approach, which aim to detach from a precise genre-categorization.

released October 28, 2024

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by Lefka

Intrusion

Rain Away

Lefka - Rain Away

You can encircle cities with your hungry restless, but can you round the coast? Meeting you, Pacific, was like hearing an echo sent to self from the distant future of the past. We rode to the desert often, looking for the glimpse of pale pink, so that I would feel less gaunt, and look a little less sickly. Rock folds like paper origami, and sierras stretch up north, rushing to your currents. Plaques colored brown notify us of our location, we are entering yet another natural park. I neatly fold the weed into the grinder, rolling out a tightly packed joint. Suckling, slowly lighting it hit after hit, like a christmas light on default setting, flickering at night in your living room. These days I am busy confronting certain images, it is hard to place their origin, source or time. Some might feel like memories, but certainly of fantasies. Phantom pain - that's what I imagine haunting of the past feels like. There is a unifying quality to all of them, and I am certain if there was a form of a deep dive into the MTV aesthetic of a certain period, these magical images would only be symptoms. Signs of the cold war won, the prize is enterprise. My rhymes are cheap today, and the sun is blazing through the end of September in the valley. I miss signs of autumn, but the leaves are so saturated in the backdrop of a clear blue sky. Shadows play a pattern, and the fuzz of the heat lingers in the atmosphere. Slowly zooming out, the gaze defocuses, and the natural miracles fade into the mundane. My body collects the summer dew, sweat folds like little mountain lakes. “We should break up”,- the sentence curves and comes out in italics, as if the font had a certain tune. Soon, I will leave you in the golden warmth of California.

words written and read by Lana Romanova

meeting you, Pacific (ft svetlana romanova)

For this show we present Cime´s very own Guitar Hero to align his most favorite guitar-featuring tracks next to other highly emotive musical expressions. It’s all about them feelings. 

Cime w/ Guitar Hero on Radio 80000 (November, 5th, 2024)

Für november : small collection of voices that carry heavy emotional content, while being capable of slipping behind your ears
you can decide to pay attention ; or let the voices craft a soundtrack, a backdrop for other actions. 


MOANS & GRUNTS w/ Raphaël Massart (12/11/24)

With „I DARE YOU II“, Xzavier Stone unlifted the veil: Removing the usual hard-hitting drums and pop structures he highlighted the meticulous sound design that has made up a big part of his signature sound. This culminated in a soothing and ever evolving 26 min soundscape. With I DARE YOU II (Interpolated Versions), the artist invites friends to re-interpret his sonics. Whether it's made up of one sequence or many; there weren’t any rules to the creation process. This open approach resulted in a variety of interpolations - featuring a vocal debut by American musician and DJ P. Morris, the Dutch duo KEY/GEN, Montreal’s producer and DJ Martyn “M.” Bootyspoon, Swiss producers and artists 2AAB, Kombé, Modulaw and Tobias Koch, french pianist Joseph Schiano di Lombo, genre-bending French producer Brodinski and Xzavier’s frequent collaborator Phillip Jondo from Cologne.

Original compositions by Xzavier Stone
Mastered by Modulaw
Artwork based on a still by Enayet Kabir's video work for "I DARE YOU II"
www.instagram.com/_enayet/

I DARE YOU II (Kombé Interpolation)

An edit of 'Chegou Sua Hora Amor (DJ Russo edit)' by MC Lan & MC Pikachu x Hildegard von Bingen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddzKmN2sAp0

This is a love letter to baile funk and to Rio de Janeiro. I hope you enjoy :)

Cover art by Kristian Spears
www.instagram.com/shaderpack/
Letter mark by Michael Wasiak
www.mwasiak.com

redeemer (edit)

@bademjan

The 46th release of katharsis is the EP “Plumage” by french artist Bademjan, coming out in full on November 18th. "Plumage" takes the listener on an epic voyage guided by the arcane wisdom of synthetic bird-guides, mysterious creatures leading the way through haunting and sublime realms. The EP emerges as a reflection on the pursuit of elusive truths and their role in shaping identity, and unfolds like an initiatory journey, inviting the listener to explore realms of feelings unremembered and times that never were.

From the discovery of a hidden chapel where stained glass whispers vivid secrets, to eerie calls piercing the night in a moonlit forest, each of the seven tracks reveals a new chapter in this overarching tale. Throughout the journey, the mystical birds appear briefly but meaningfully, offering both an unsettling and comforting presence as they help us navigate the shifting sands of self and accept the inevitable decay of all that we hold dear.

On “Plumage”, Bademjan unfolds his full potential by materializing his sonic development with incorporation of the electric upright bass as the backbone of the record, with its sound manipulated and processed to evoke a spectrum of emotional textures, from delicate pizzicato notes to deep sub-bass roars and gritty bow strokes. This organic foundation is enriched with woodwind-esque synths, ethereal vocal harmonies and the uncanny chirps of artificial birds, creating a sonic fable that feels both eternal and ephemeral.

Bademjan has previously put out releases with labels White Garden and Olga Productions, and contributed to compilations from Club Late Music, 90000realms and evo-natura besides figurating on the katharsis compilations “Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light” and “Infinite Summer: Fantasi”.

artwork by Pierre Guais ( @swoydgarden )
mastering by @jjjacob

Bademjan - Guided by Owl Calls

Organ Tapes and friends play disparate music plied and wrenched together with religious fervour. Sound of E5 上海 monthly on a Monday. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/organ-tapes/episodes/organ-tapes-18th-november-2024

Organ Tapes w/ Lanny 181124

Buy: https://bugbuspiano.bandcamp.com/album/passing-through-all-happy-dreams-like-hallways-2

‘Passing Through All Happy Dreams Like Hallways’ is an album by New York City-based artist Bug Bus Piano (@goodnightbed). It’s on TT.

It’s a world. A zone of elusive memories and insomniac fog. An album of murky mirages, slow-spiralling smoke plumes, gently bobbing streetlights viewed through bleary eyes during hours outside of time. Dream-to-mp3 conversion.

The spectral hypnagogia of ‘Blue And Purple Ribbons In The Hallways’ and ‘Tired’ haunt and soothe in equal measure, while the low-lidded vignettes of ‘Unlucky’ #1 through #6 conjure ghostly, stairwell-dwelling figures. Sleep paralysis angels. Whispering windows and shadows that sigh.

This is night music. ‘Open-Air Factory (Entering The Battlefield Version)’ is a mind playing tricks on itself, ‘All Clocks Stopped And The Dream Rewound’ is pure sleepwalking sugar. Songs that flicker and glow like candlelight, music about half-hallucinated conversations that might have meant everything or nothing at all. Blurry mnemonic outlines of encounters that feel significant, if you could only bring them to mind. There’s truth in dreams, but a weary head is hard to trust.

Per ‘Lucky’: “The path into the light seems dark. The path forward seems to go back. The direct path seems long. True power seems weak. True purity seems tarnished. True steadfastness seems changeable. True clarity seems obscure. The greatest art seems unsophisticated. The greatest love seems indifferent. The greatest wisdom seems childish.”

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Released on TT.

All music by Bug Bus Piano
Mastering: Robert Venning, aka DJ Pitch
Cover art: Bug Bus Piano, Josh Crumpler
Words: Madjestic Kasual
A&R: Madjestic Kasual

Bug Bus Piano - Unlucky #6

Music as well as content artisan blu-e (@blu-e-music) inside of Farm for pod. The boy makes fire as frick music AND funny ahh TikToks, as well as having thoughts that many consider listenable. A renaissance geeze.

We discussed matters like making music to supplement his true calling as a TikTok satirist, the high of a fire reel, Eating With Tod and the uncanniness of foodfluencers, believing in the algo, the impact of Odd Future/Tyler, The Creator, learning to love Mk.gee, the looming shadow of 2016-era ‘starter pack’ content, the doomer industrial complex devaluing crit theory engagement, making bloke content, the degree to which he has binged with Babish, muntjak hunting, dipshit rizz vs. mongoloid magnetism, an homage to Epic Meal Time, the ‘leftfield’-pop-music-to-creative-director-moodboardcore pipeline, the value of the coveted Björk co-sign, radio plugging/payola, and Pitch’s return to randiness. 

If you can’t bring a d8 bring a m8 😮🍔

FULL EP: https://www.patreon.com/c/CloutFarm

full episode of pod

Episode 32: "AN INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL" feat. blu-e *FULL EP ON PATREON*

Saccharine Giiirls

Label and occasional function
Run by @djpitchdj + @maya-garside + @madjestickasual
General inquiries - info.TT.label@gmail.com
Demos - demos.TT.label@gmail.com

Art Direction
@josh-crumpler
www.joshcrumpler.co.uk