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Jisatsuken is a netlabel releasing emotional electronic music.

04/02/2024

We have just transferred all funds raised from Bandcamp sales of our Kokaku 3 compilation to a cause we believe to be significant.
We believe no child should be left alone dealing with terrible circumstances it has no control or fault of. We believe in sharing and compassion.

Ива е само на 5 години. Като всяко друго дете, с нетърпение очаква Коледните празници. Но малко преди Коледа, животът на Ива и семейството ни се преобърна, когато тя, с...

03/12/2023

So honored to be selected out of 6113 artists and labels! Respect to all artists who took part in Kokaku 3! 🙏

22/10/2023

Kokaku 3 compilation out today on Bandcamp!
Featuring tracks from: Mloski, Ivan Shopov (Cooh/Balkansky), Polygon Ring (1/2 Portable Elephant), Moodix, Virtually J, Bogiwork (Bosto), Tishbite, Skylined, Esem, Qsenq (1/2 Roboknob), Nisho (Warm Aquarelle), Proyko, Trx and Translucid Objects (Rės).

16 track album

22/10/2023

20 years Jisatsuken ReBonkers - Jisatsuken presents: Kokaku 3. Thank you all!
Photos by 5L5 Photography

20/10/2023

Не пропускайте да ни подслушвате на https://jisatsuken.bandcamp.com - където ще имате възможност да се включите в Listening Party на новата ни компилация Kokaku 3 на 21 октомври, събота в 21:00ч., както и да получите пълен достъп до всички тракове на участващите артисти рано на следващия ден ❕

19/10/2023

❗️JisaT-shirts now available 🥷🏻

19/10/2023

ありがとう

20 години след зараждането си, българският нетлейбъл за експериментална електронна музика Jisatsuken се завръща с компилацията Kokaku III.

17/10/2023

На 21 октомври в ReBonkers ще ви посрещнем ето така:

[18:00-20:00] 「qsenq + trohi」 - live & improvisations
[20:00-21:00] Oshogy - 「Jisatsuken 2003-2015」Retrospective DJ set
[21:00-22:00] Oshogy - Presents 「Kokaku 3」 Compilation (Listening Party)

07/10/2023

20 години от появата на Jisatsuken е повод за истински празник за нас и за да го отбележим подобаващо, ще се съберем в есенната съботна вечер на 21 октомври в 18:00ч. в гостоприемното пространство за независима култура ReBonkers във Варна да послушаме музиката, която ни събра и направи приятели през всички тези години… а и да споделим нещо ново.

23/09/2023

On this date back in 2003 our netlabel, established by two close friends, came into existence, presenting a different and unpopular for its time concept and spirituality.
To celebrate Jisatsuken's 20-year anniversary, we are thrilled to announce...

22/09/2023

Благодарим че споделихте с нас това пътешествие през историята на Jisatsuken от появата на лейбъла през 2003г. до последното издание през 2015г. Прекрасната музика, която ни срещна и сприятели с прекрасни хора през този период, оставяме свободно достъпна тук: https://archive.org/details/ заедно с дълбоката ни благодарност към всички за споделеното време, енергия и емоция.
До следващия път...
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Thank you for joining us in this journey through the history of Jisatsuken since the label's inception in 2003 until the last release in 2015. The wonderful music that acquainted us and befriended us with wonderful people during this period will remain available here https://archive.org/details/ along with our deep gratitude to everyone for their shared time, energy and emotion.
Until next time...

22/09/2023

*Memories* Zarevo and Mloski resting at 2008 Beglika Fest

22/09/2023

Lo Five is an UK-based artist whom Jisatsuken had the pleasure to harbour in 2015 with his “Look To Me For Love” EP – a mixture of beautiful, emotional and nostalgic sound saturated with lucid memories of joyful childhood. Lo Five explained his feelings about him contributing to Jisatsuken in person:
"This release is an important one for me, as it's the first time I've worked with a label. I'm really pleased to be working with the people at Jisatsuken, they have an ethos of releasing emotionally engaging music - something that I've always aimed to do since I started doing this a couple of years back.
This EP is a repackaging of older tracks that didn't get the proper treatment first time around, plus some new and unreleased material that brings it all together to make a more consistent and cohesive release than before.
The inspiration behind all this has been bubbling away for years. It's a culmination of all I've learnt from writing music in various bands, plus the love I've had of instrumental, melodic music that started when I first heard Roygbiv by Boards of Canada.
Since then there have been loads of other producers that have continued to inspire me, like To***co, Ulrich Schnauss, Jon Hopkins, Tycho etc - electronic music has come a long way, it's become much more accessible and more interesting now, as a result of bedroom producers just basically doing whatever they feel like. That's the whole point of Lo Five really, just me making music for me.”
“Look To Me For Love” EP is now available for free download.

Lo Five is an UK-based artist whom Jisatsuken had the pleasure to harbour in 2015 with his “Look To Me For Love” EP – a mixture of beautiful, emotional...

22/09/2023

This is one particularly important release for Jisatsuken as it brings contribution by an artist that has almost legendary status from as early as the days of tracker scene (that’s the late 90’s, kids) when he was known (in his unique underground manner) as Terpo. His tracks , (although incredibly difficult to get hold of) expose magnificient talent, deep understanding of electronic music, skillful programming, attentive approach to sound design, proneness to irregular beat structure, and specific sense of sharp humour. Always being on the quietest side, not desiring attention at all, and very considerate about his contacts with people, Proyko blessed us with eight tracks of recorded live DAWless electronic experimentation which apparently happened on most (un)usual spaces of his everyday surroundings.
“[wrk_rec.1]” kicks in without any cheesy introductions, with shattering beats and noisy distortions building atmosphere that leaves no place for sentiments. [kitch*rec.2] is funky and playful and kicks so much bass in its first half, that when exposed to it your neighbours will surely call the police to take control of your audio speakers. Hopefully if resisting the urge, the listener(s) will witness the second half’s beautiful detuned arpeggio synth line of classic electronic bread and butter. “[kitch*rec.4]” is recording of synthesizers chattering between each other, subtitled by scary vocoded Japanese speech. “[kitch rec.5]” starts even noisier, midway shaping beautiful nostalgic pads that slowly take out the track. “[kitch rec.6] poretale” starts as a typical ambient track, then introducing one of the typical Proyko breakbeats that we love so much, that leads us to another example of beautiful melodic electronic piece, masterfully composed and performed. “[bæd* rec.7] cabeen” resembles the earliest Terpo classics in its structure and mood and the closing track “[kitch rec.8]” is a 25-minute slow experimental dub-noise techno opus that summarizes the free and light-hearted philosophy of this release.

Proyko’s “Keuken” is now available for free download.

Proyko blessed us with eight tracks of recorded live DAWless electronic experimentation which apparently happened on most (un)usual spaces of his everyday...

22/09/2023

“QaumanEq” EP is Rės (Corporales) third solo release for Jisatsuken which came in February 2014. It demonstrates much more detailed approach to arrangement and sound design and elaborate use of samples of various origins, as well as the love and praise for warm analogue sound. This release contains some very personal and intimate bits, starting from the cover photo, through choice of themes and track titles, to the sampled Rės voice and clutter from his parent’s tape recordings archives.
The opening track “Tx” starts with a droning pad which lasts for a decisive minute, supported by quiet noises of amateur tape recordings, before the kick and sub-bass take control and lead the track through the next minutes of building additional percussions and noises, unintelligible children spoken words and voices. “Rampjaar” kicks in with haunted swirls and distant phased arpeggios, hinting about darkness and hopelessness as the mid-tempo beat fills in the space with even more menacing bassline and high-pitched leading synth melody; all of this for a particular reason, since the track’s inspiration are the devastating war in year 1672 in the Dutch Republic, known to historians as “rampjaar” or “year of disaster”. The following track “Tlnv” is much warmer and brighter as its has its origins in the sunny summer days lazily spent by the author on the north Bulgarian Black Sea shores. “Ita” completes the EP with playful beats and percussions, sounding as if found incidentally at second-hand shop around the corner, while optimistic melodies and arpeggios, once in a while briefly interrupted by heavily distorted voice samples and field recordings, bring the track to its lovely culmination under sweeping saw synth lines.

“QaumanEq” EP is now available for free download.

“QaumanEq” EP is Rės (Corporales) third solo release for Jisatsuken which came in February 2014. It demonstrates much more detailed approach to...

22/09/2023

The artist producing music under the alias The Late December contacted Jisatsuken in 2014, providing five deeply emotional short compositions apparently extracted from author’s heavy and burdened heart right after experiencing personal tragic event. All of this determines “May You Sleep In A Dream Full Of Happiness” to be an utterly raw and direct release, revealing the feelings of facing the inevitable end of soul’s journey on this Earth.

“May You Sleep In A Dream Full Of Happiness” by The Late December is now available for free download.

The Late December presents us five deeply emotional short compositions apparently extracted from author’s heavy and burdened heart right after experiencing...

22/09/2023

At the end of 2011 Jisatsuken went international with the release of Eta Carinae - a solo project of Marko Hupel, hailing from Gernsheim, Hessen. Starting as a death metal artist in 1995 and later developing his discourse as a writer, Marco soon began delivering his emotional notions through music and sound, already influenced by many other examples of Art.
Deep into the roots of man's soul, Eta Carinae has uncovered sources of inspiration for his classical and post-rockish-ambiental project entitled "Sister Anorexia" EP, a title that is only to imply very personal experience and introvert perceptions transformed into deep pads and nostalgic melodies.

Deep into the roots of man's soul, Eta Carinae has uncovered sources of inspiration for his classical and post-rockish-ambiental project entitled "Sister Anorexia" EP, a title that is only to imply very personal experience and introvert perceptions transformed into deep pads and nostalgic melodies

The EP consists of three tracks, each being a different exploration of inner self. "Spätrot" opens with a blend of field recordings and echoed piano, only to evolve some minutes later into a majestic cinematographic piece accompanied by female speech carrying out personal confessions and and statements. Quite the opposite, "Membran 21.G" is cold, minimalistic, dark and industrialized piece, structured as a world of despair and regret. This track however ends somehow unexpectedly as piano piece falls out of nowhere in order to bring in some human presence and to comfort the listener enough for the next extraordinary track - "Spektrum XYYX". And this is where Marko has focused his storyline by bringing our attention to child's cries, church bells, unearthly choirs, ghostly moans, and all this mixed into a 16-minute dark ambient lecture about life, death and the meaning of both.

"Sister Anorexia" EP in now available for free download in its original 256 kbps mp3 audio format.

Eta Carinae is a solo project of Marko Hupel, hailing from Gernsheim, Hessen. Starting as a death metal artist in 1995 and later developing his discourse as a...

21/09/2023

Following Trx's debut EP, in 2008 Jisatsuken released his sophomore effort “Mist Chances” LP. Within only several months after his first release, Trx managed to attract wide attention and warm critical acclaim in the underground electronica scene in Bulgaria and to provide various tracks and remixes for other labels and artists.
His first album however was intended exclusively for our label and this time Trx managed to present even more mature and attentive approach to music production and succeeds in conveying more eloquently his emotional messages.
The album starts firm and bold with the pulsating rhythm of “Advance 73” that serves in an excellent way its duty to introduce Trx’s growing self-confidence as an artist. “Amb 1” is a cinematic interlude that would make ideal soundtrack for any film noir. The scary title “When People Were Dying On The Roads” indicates a minimalistic track with menacing percussion and killer sub-bass that easily suggest that people die on the roads due to artist’s uncontrolled anger. “Being Social”, and its follower “Building Peaks For The Edges”, on the opposite, present the much brighter side of author’s mind, being finest examples of the IDM genre with their joyful approach to tunes and melodies over distorted and cleverly rearranged breakbeats and percussions. “We Are Still Growing” is an undisputable club banger with its distorted kick drum and delayed percussions. Raising even more the club heat, “Blooming Lynchs” introduces a surprising 303-bass line that relentlessly run against the unorthodox break beat. “Levitation (Ambient Mix)” proves Trx’s experience in classic piano and arrangements. And then there’s the replica to the earlier track “When People Were Dying On The Roads” – “When People Were Born On The Roads” – a masterpiece of melody, arrangement and sound design that captivates and obsesses the listener and demands more and more listens as the pads are so blissful, the piano melody is so delicate and emotional, and the simple repetitive beat serves its duty so bloody well. “All Things That Come In Pairs” is the album’s ballad, a classic ambient track impossible to dismiss. Then “Someone Has Erased My Memories” kick in with rather interesting percussion and playful kick drums, carrying the chords and reversed melodies so easily, that we can’t but wish that the said Someone keeps erasing Trx’s memories on a daily basis… well until “My Memories Have Erased Someone” reverses the whole idea backwards as a prelude to the albums finale “10yo” which starts dark, heavy, hectic and aggressive opening with a sample rather unconventional for a final track “OK, let’s get straight to the point” and continues with a blend of techno and drumandbass over a flowing sawtooth synth line that proves Trx knows his ropes extremely well and is confident in delivering finest examples of catchy electronic music.

With this album Trx develops his recognizable style even further, undoubtedly establishing
himself as one of the most interesting Bulgarian experimental electronica artists. “Mist Chances” is now available for free download in its original 320 kbs mp3 audio format.

With this 2008 album Trx develops his recognizable style even further, undoubtedly establishing himself as one of the most interesting...

18/09/2023

Late one night in 2007, the following online chat occurred between two certain Jisatsuken CEO’s: “And by the way, I got contacted the other day via Skype by this young guy from Plovdiv, his demo tracks are very well put together and are very very very melodic and emotional. How about letting him join our label, I believe his input would be very beneficial.”

Trx (Vassil Vladimirov) started his musical jorney in his mountain hometown Smolyan, where he dumped his classic piano lessons in favour of assisting his father’s live keyboard performances in local clubs. In the late 90-s Trx started bedroom-producing his own music, influenced by electro breakbeats, but soon was infatuated by other styles like drum-and-bass, techno, gabba, trance that lead him to joining emerging Bulgarian online communities for likemind non-professional artists. Tutored by the very KiNK, in the beginning of 2000’s Trx started to pay attention to the sound design and arrangement tricks, used by Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Amon Tobin. After relocatin in Plovdiv to pursue his education, in 2004 Trx visited the Ambient Festival in Sofia and got exposed to a live stet by Jisatsuken’s Mloski and Res which he then happened to hear for a first time. Countless hours of homemade musical experiments later, armed with only a midi keyboard (won in a musical contest) and crappy headphones, Trx was eager to present his art in public, and boy his demo tracks were such a pleasant surprise for us that we didn’t hesitate even a second to invite him to join us!

Trx’s first release for Jisatsuken is an EP called “Defamed”, inspired by the dark city streets during the winter of 2006/2007. It combines ambient moods with heavy and/or experimental beats into an athmosphere full of dramatism and dark spaces. The first track “Ber” opens the EP with droning athmospheric, drones and echoing percussions, rewarding the listener with heavy but restrained drumbeat well into the third minute mark, outlining Trx’s dubstep and triphop influenses. The transition between the opening track and its follower “Defamed Ji” is seemless, passing by a field recording of some random street chatter. The second track introduces a capturing drum beat with relentless kick drum and heavily modulated snares, while minor pads and melodies lead the listener through artists’ pessimistic observations. “Levitation” is a drum-driven gem that begins as a typical early-2000 Autechre rhythmic structure and get transformed by emotional and mild piano melodies layered over deep pad chords. “Hospital for Desprate…” is built around an uncanny low-pitched drone refusing to cease pulsating around the ears until cut down by the last masterpiece “Clocks Ire”. The final track is beat driven, courageous and daring, changing paces and progressing through various experimental melodies, thus displaying a well-deserved artist self-esteem that was only about to blossom in the following months and years.

“Defamed” EP by Trx is now available for free download in its original 256 kbps mp3 audio format.

Trx’s first release for Jisatsuken is an EP called “Defamed”, inspired by the dark city streets during the winter of 2006/2007. It combines ambient...

18/09/2023

2007 saw the release of “Suffer for Beauty Side Two” Ep – the second part of Bosto’s contribution for Jisatsuken, this time released under the Bogiwork alias, in order to emphasize a different approach to music exploration. This time our label mate revealed his softer side with six deep ambient tracks full of melodic experimentations concentrated on the personal and intimate aspect of music, continuing the first releases’ quiet exploration of a complex inner self that is rarely exposed to public. The first track “From the Bottom of Heart” is a deep and introspective piece that had been most probably recorded live late night in front of a window facing the dim glow of city lights. “The Blue, Green and Wet” begins rather meditative and self-centered, while midway suddenly introducing beautiful classic piano chords that slowly lead us deep into thrilling far away orbit travel. “The Player” then tells us a subtle love story of sci-fi romanticism. The fourth track “Something To Remember” is also the first time a lo-fi beat manages to cut through the dense digital soundscape, unintrusively, as if only to bridge the listener to the next gorgeous track. “The Guitar Player” has nothing to do with the mentioned instrument, as it’s a rhythmic arpeggio-driven piece that surprisingly engages a mangled beat loop and glitches into dub-like territories, similar to those in “Side One” EP. The exuberant finale “September Eleven” confirms the dub influences rooted deep into this release and arranges them into slow marching beat under the lead of eerie choir ending the EP in much darker territories than it had initiated five tracks earlier.

"Suffer For Beauty Side Two" EP is now available for free download in its original 256 kbps mp3 audio format.

2007 saw the release of “Suffer for Beauty Side Two” Ep – the second part of Bosto’s contribution for Jisatsuken, this time released under the Bogiwork...

13/09/2023

Apart from spending time and energy for his collaboration and live performances with Mloski, between 2005 and 2007 Res began acquiring new production techniques, experimenting with various audio software and plug-ins and shaping his own sound. His solo efforts from that period reflect his personal experiences and observations with human nature thus the dark atmosphere on the majority of his tracks. By the end of 2006 Res had become weary of absorbing negative conclusions and pessimism and transferring them into sound, so he needed to envelope all such emotions into a therapeutical release that would let his thoughts free. The result was “Skeaf” LP – 14 track mammoth of deep, introvert, melancholic and at times chilling tunes rich of detail, that demanded attentive listen. The album cover was designed by Tishbite of Zvuked label, who managed to capture the mechanical nature of distanced surveillance and analytical interpretations that Res introduces in the tracks.
The album’s opener “4v2” is an excited and hectic collection into Res’s earlier influences by certain Warp artist’s ambient releases, a track driven by fast headbanging beat of rolling and flanger effected percussions, punishing snare drum and menacing muddy bassline under dreamy chords and pads. Then “Petminutishest” carries on with apparent melancholy, unfolding slowly around simple glitchy loop, repetitve chords and droning pad that successfully stay away from becoming boring, supported by scarce particles of melodies and deconstructedn drumbeat, naturally flowing into to Skeaf’s third track “Through the mist” which opens with washed out heavily downsampled and distorted percussion, suddenly replaced by gorgeous downpitched lead synth and percussion that seems to enjoy being manipulated and distorted under the relentless pace of a simple but convincing beat, that regardless of dominating the track’s structure eventually fails to hold itself tight, disintegrates and submerges into decay and delay. Then “Mdrrd” confirms the classic IDM roots of this release with heavily distorted drumloop and moody melody fragments. “Object of attack” is aggressive, pessimistic beat-driven track with marching percussion, influenced by contemporary civilization’s war machine and its embracement by public media. “Seelvii” starts where the previous track ends, with a reverberated sample of late-night Bulgarian national radio news report on war, introducing alarming and worrisome sounds that soon give way to another pessimistic story of obliterated and ruined cities. “Hostelled in art (vable inet mix)” is a leisurely paced calming revisit to a track from Res’s 2005 debut EP and also a breath of fresh air in the middle of what has already become quite disturbing release. “S9” is the soundtrack of software crashing competition, leading into glitched out decay. “Indvs” aggressively runs down the already troubled listener with percussions boxing each other until they somehow manage to rearrange and calm down under stormlike noises, bursts of delayed stabs and sampled mumbling monotone voice resurrected from “Seelvii”’s ashes. “Kamm” is another brick into Skeaf’s glitched beats wall, injecting even more hopelessness into Res’s prediction on the future for the human kind. “Ymbolichsptl” is cold and sterile in its first part and midway slows down into calming beat and wide reverberations. “Aim haire” resembles “4v2” in its emotion, expression and motives, but is much simpler, focused, moodier and (surprisingly) merrier. “Under a tree” abruptly slows down the tempo, uncomplicated and unoffensive, and would perfectly ease off the exhausted listener if it wasn’t for the album’s final track – the agreessive and asskicking “Contour 3”, another remix of a track from Res’s 2005 debut EP, lead by relentless kick drums, releasing revengeful and merciless fury, transforming it into nearly two minutes of digital glitched waste of unidentified origin that thankfully ends its existence down the gutter.

“Skeaf” LP is now available for free download in its original 256kbps mp3 audio and high quality FLAC format.

Sounding much different from what has become a distinctive mark of his collaboration with Mloski, Res's sophomore release for Jisatsuken in 2007 displays...

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