themuru

Go to the website for themuru, a collaboration between KATARRHAKTES and Citizen Tank.

Bandcamp

Go to KATARRHAKTES' bandcamp profile, listen to a selection of material across the whole discography, and download several tracks and releases in a variety of formats.

myspace.com/katarrhaktes

Visit KATARRHAKTES on myspace and listen to current material.

myspace.com/katarrhaktesremixes

Listen to a selection of KATARRHAKTES remixes of other artists on myspace.

BLAM HONEY

'Industrial Gender Unit' BLAM HONEY were a force to be reckoned with back in the late '90s. Despite their limited back catalogue, their combination of textured noise and pounding, metallic rhythm made them quickly become one of my favourite bands, and the soundtrack to my daily existence. However, they dropped off the map seemingly almost as soon as I had begun listening to them. Several years later, it was announced that Tatsuya, who made up one half of the band, had died of acute leukaemia, and that a memorial CD had been planned for him. I submitted a reworking of SUSPECT off their album Typical Ingeniousness ~suggest~, and amazingly, it got through. I highly recommend you check out their earlier work, especially the aforementioned album and Grandiose Delusion. Short, but truly excellent.

Citizen Tank

This guy is pretty much the reason that KATARRHAKTES exists. If he hadn't contacted me and asked about a potential collaboration, the band would not be present in the same format as it is in today. You can hear what came of those sessions on a couple of tracks on KALI YUGA - SILENTIUM IN CAELUM and . Oh, and he's done some pretty wild remixes as well that you can hear on THE ICONOCLASM OF TISIPHONE EP. Check him out for sure.

Fwonk*

Vasko [see below] introduced me to this net label. In fact, he recommended me to them after hearing my NO FUTURE remix album. I listened to some of the other bands they had 'signed', and liked what I heard quite a bit, and so, you can now download that entire album for free from them. Look them up if you like some really out-there electronica and noisecore between your ears.

.Human

The name may be different, but it's still the same person - Jake Neale, aka Ambient End, aka .Human, a production genius and maker of some very fine music, indeed. As I was so impressed with his practice as a musician, I contacted him about exchanging remixes, which came to fruition with great success.

Kalaallit Nunaat

Greenland-based band Kalaallit Nunaat contacted me on the subject of - you guessed it - a collaboration. Well, sort of. It was more like a split EP, with each band producing different songs, but rather than being slapdash and hoping both halves fit together, it was thematically agreed upon and discussed beforehand. After working on and off on the EP for a while, Asphyxia was born, with Kalaallit Nunaat creating the huge expanse that is Uunartoq Qeqertoq, a wash of noise, distorted vocals, undefinable drones, and what I can only guess are broken electronics - one track, over twenty-six minutes of music.

So Young

When I was approached by Joey Levenson [So Young, SPC ECO] for a collaboration, I was lost for words. Any question of what we might work on together couldn't be further from my mind.
What I sent him originally was arguably one of the strangest ambient pieces I had made to date, but to my amazement, he got back to me with two brilliantly dark, vibrant guitar tracks that completed the track in question - The Reticulation Of Narcolepsy. After that, we immediately began work on liana, which would ultimately become the first ever katarrhaktes track formally released. Although simple, it was the hardest piece I have written, taking over a month on composition alone [I might add that this was through no fault of Joey's].
He has since provided me with a drone n beats version of liana, and in turn, I have created a re-interpretation of his track Divebomber (get ready).

Vasko_the_Pig

Vasko's music is hard to describe, as it bridges so many genres that it's almost undefinable, sometimes even within the same track. He introduced me to Fwonk*, a mainly electronica net label that offers free downloads from all of its artists, where my album NO FUTURE found a home. In addition, he's given me a brilliant, ear-splittingly noisy rendition of The Reticulation Of Narcolepsy. He's currently working with the legendary Dean Garcia [Curve, SPC ECO] to produce an EP that should be available this year, under the moniker Inkraktare.
Please note that any resemblance to any mandala-esque artwork that I've done for KATARRHAKTES is purely coincidental - I was using this method to create art long before I even knew that Vasko existed.