Name: Salted frog vampire town **’ by Memu 眠 母 ꒱ ̖
Duration: 3 min 14 s
Description: 恩恩 ,The vampire frog by the river prefers blood with a savory buttery taste, but with all the cake you've been eating... your blood has become unappetizing

katharsis is a label founded by the copenhagen-based artist jjjacob in the spring of 2020 focusing on emotionally charged music. The vision of the label is to show the world how music is our best tool to process moods, thoughts and emotions by self-therapeutic involvement with the arts. katharsis showcases various different branches of electronic, ambient and experimental music on their releases featuring artists from all across the world. On this monthly radio show on Ma3azef.live, jjjacob and invited guests who are involved with katharsis exhibit their current musical inspirations for 2 hours. 
After a break in the Ma3azef.live program for the cause of Palestine, katharsis returns with 2 hours of experimental music. jjjacob starts off the show with the usual mixture of melodic synth-driven floaters and a few more hard-hitting tracks, before he lets @zerocrossingpoint and @nexcyia showcase their ambient selections of the moment.

Tracklist:
jjjacob [00:00:00-00:53:43] jjjacob - Oxygen Demand
°w°s - 22 (oklou x taylor swift medley)
Lost Salt Blood Purges and Boring Bathtimes - 'The Violent Light,
Maxwell Sterling - Speaking In The Tongues Of Angels
Concrete Fantasies - An Effigy of Tears
Whitearmor – 13
Parish - Cascade I
HERBARIUM - See You Soon
Clark – Small
ABADIR – III
Chance - Babamın Korunması
Barmer Boys + Himmelrum - Nagma > Ranaji
Oliver Coates - 10 Honey
jjjacob - The Tower
Samuel Organ – A
mo chuisle – corrosion
Mang - All The Glittering Blades
Cor2Pel - hyper careful sweet
danish nxc - waiting here 4 u
jjjacob - ??? 

Zero Crossing Point [00:53:43-01:30:01]
Gabriel Yared - Betty et Zorg
Treha Sektori - Solvah
Ancestral Voices - Eiyani
TCF - 54 c6 05 1c 13 cc 72 e9 cc dc 84 f2 a3 ff cc 38 1e 94 0d c0 50 5c 3e e8 (IDOUL)
Atrium Carceri - Warden
Ital Tek - Deletion Quarter
Liturgy - Glass Earth
Last Life - VAR 3
Clark, Yair Elazar Glotman, Yamila - Shut You Down
FITNESSS - F20 - FAITH
Kashyyyk - The Chestnut Tree
Zero Crossing Point - Karplus-Stuck

Nexcyia [01:30:01-02:00:00]
Oneothriz Point Never - Nothing's Special
Racine - Sous La Poudre
Corporation - Scene
TIBSLC - Beach Life
TIBSLC - Nightmode
picnic - 12 folds and rips (Huerco S. version)

katharsis w/ jjjacob, Zero Crossing Point & Nexciya

Maths Balance Volumes follow up their acclaimed 2020 release A Year Closer with a further and sturdier bucket of songs scraped from the dust of being. Haunted, fragile and beautiful, this is music that explores the ghostly zones of its own creation. The loneliness and vulnerability that unfolds with the opening cut Stay lays the way for exploration of sound and song as simple melodic guitar and organ whilst the subsequent and subsequent Janet’s Song weaves these elements alongside the sound pebbles entering a water. 

This is evocative music made thoroughly by humans with the most basic of tools. Unafraid to step away from their screens Maths Balance Volumes stroll with breezy resistance to the current thread of platform regurgitation. 

Tonight flips the song on its side as a barnstorming melange of concrete hustle made from shakers, animals, humans and beelzebub knows what. Egyptian Wedding sounds like Still House Plants if they operated off the depths of a rotating well. Forming a round is a dusty scratchy heartbreaker that encapsulates the hybrid Smithsonian Folkways label approach that only MBV do. 

There is something enormously human about Maths Balance Volumes take on underground experimental music, one far more so than the human pitched music made in the mainstream today. In the 20th Century it was the other way around. What has happened ? I will let you contemplate that. But for me, in this case explicitly this press scribe is chuffed at the consequence of this reversal. Very happy indeed. 

Released June 30, 2023

Maths Balance Volumes - Stay

Scène XV - 11/05/2023

Cassette/digital release available from https://soundcloud.com/mappaeditions
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/chim-ras

Named after the mythological hybrid of the chimaera, Forces’ first collection for mappa was put together in a similar fashion. The sounds all stem from a fruitful residency at Stockholm’s EMS Elektronmusikstudion in May & June 2022, leading to a bounty of source material with which to build. The sounds and concept are equally chimeric, stringing together disparate and unintuitive jams, the music mimicking the multi-limbed, sewn together beasts of both creative open source coding and destructive multinational concerns who hide their cores amid endless appendages. Like Doctor Moreau, Forces - aka Finnish artist Joonas Siren - weaves wildly varying attributes into something new, from short-circuiting 8-bit dream ambience to fractured digital groans, drones, and noisy freakouts.

Though EMS is best known for its Buchla and Serge modular systems, Forces went ‘digital’ and largely navigated a lesser-known synth rack one can wheel between studios, affectionately known as the ‘90s Wagon’. “It housed different digital rack synth modules,” explains Siren, “ like the super unknown EVS-1 by Evolution Synthesis, a UK company who only produced this one rack synth only and then vanished.” Some truly alien sounds emerge from Forces’ creative misuse of forgotten 90s boxes and sampled modular jams. The result is an erratic trip through mismatched circuitry and digital codes, slipping between emotional artifice and harshly logical music.

The track titles stem from both famous mythological chimaeras and multinational arms dealing conglomerates. “Different quite sinister firms can operate in broad daylight, easily hiding their true nature. Many of these mega-corporations have different branches (like chimeric limbs) that are producing quite normal mundane every-day items, as well as mass-producing weapons.” A dedicated SuperCollider user too however, Siren states how open source coding snippets are also ‘chimeric beings’. “You end up always using some part of some old code and then building completely new work on some old idea,” Siren explains. Despite its misuses, there’s also something hopeful in the malleability of ideas, and the ability to creatively collage the world as it is into something wholly new, even better.

Complete gear list:
SuperCollider
Evolution Synthesis EVS-1
Yamaha TX81Z
Nord G2 Modular
Nord Wave
GRM Plugins
OddVoices website
Omnisphere VST
Vital VST
Diva VST
Waldorf Microwave XT
Serge Modular
Buchla 200 System
Buchla 100 clone 

credits
released August 10, 2023

Recorded, coded, composed, performed & mixed by Forces (Joonas Siren)
joonassiren.fi
www.instagram.com/fffforces/

Recorded at EMS Stockholm, June 2022, with the digital synths of the "90's wagon" synth rack, and the SuperCollider programming language

Artwork by Marutonkun
www.marutonkun.com
www.instagram.com/marutonkun/

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Words by Tristan Bath
Photography by Zoltan Czakó

Released by mappa as MAP039 in 2023

Chim​æ​ras

Forces - Rheinmetall (from Chim​æ​ras, MAP039)

glueing, overlayering these past few months

The committee “Justice pour Sourour” and the Pacifique Records music platform is launching a series of compilations to raise awareness on the fight against police violence and collect funds to ensure justice for Sourour: beloved sister, mother, daughter, and friend, who died in a police station in Brussels on January 12, 2023. For this first volume we’re bringing together friends and allies: artists of the experimental and bass music scene, each presenting a track.   The fight we’re waging is relentless, we need to keep everyone’s attention so that the struggle doesn’t lose momentum, so that even more people feel concerned and join us, and so that similar violence can never happen again. We want to believe in a united, supportive and politicised music scene. As artists, musicians and cultural actors, and with your support, we can play a precious role in this fight.

Thank you for Sourour and the Abouda family.

Matteo Coffetti & Reptilian Expo - Argimuschio

恩恩 ,The vampire frog by the river prefers blood with a savory buttery taste, but with all the cake you've been eating... your blood has become unappetizing

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