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Sonic Brief: Mood: Elegiac | Texture: Cinematic Strings | Rights: Cleared Placement News: Laura Masotto’s “Nereide” now scores the new Dior AW25 spotlight film. Her glacial orchestral textures elevate the collection’s minimal silhouettes. → Hear the Dior selection
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Mood: Textural | Texture: Grainy Analog | Rights: Cleared We welcome Studio Lumen, the award-winning colour collective known for shaping the visual language of modern fashion films. Their first sync brief is live on Catalog—seeking “warm electronic minimalism with emotional lift.” → Listen to their brief
Track Spotlight
Timeless Sounds for Tomorrow's Stories: ‘Atlas’ by Battles (Warp Records, 2007)Some tracks do more than define an era; they create new ones. For their 2007 masterpiece ‘Atlas’, Battles enlisted director Timothy Saccenti to create a video that reflected the track’s precision, as well as the title
Track Spotlight
A widescreen folk-western moment of tension and beauty. Perfect edit point: 0:38 — galloping drums enter. Playlist: [Catalog Playlist Link]
Track Spotlight
The shoegaze anthem of swirling guitars and adolescent euphoria. Perfect edit moment: 0:52 — swirling lift before the chorus. Playlist: [Catalog Playlist Link]
Singular Voices
Cinematic electronics built from organic instrumentation and global texture. Perfect for: slow-travel films, emotional montages, luxury atmospheres. Sonic Brief: Mood: Uncanny Texture: Grainy Scene: Sci-Fi / Hauntology → Bonobo Essentials
Chamber pop stretched into surrealist dreamworlds. Her music floats between baroque texture and avant-pop minimalism. → Julia Holter Essentials
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Sonic Brief: Mood: Hypnotic | Texture: Lo-fi Glitch | Rights: Cleared Glasswave Recordings is now officially on Catalog. The imprint is home to left-field pop, weightless ambient, and textural dance music. First batch includes 48 tracks cleared for sync. → Explore Glasswave
Curated Content
New York’s chaotic, sweat-soaked nightlife returned with The Dare leading a new wave of raw hedonism. A scene built on messy glamour, late nights, and music that feels like a dare in itself. Read the full story → VICE
The stories behind the sound.
How a fringe experiment became one of the most influential sonic movements of the last 30 years. By the early 1990s, electronic music was splitting in two. On one side, dancefloors demanded straightforward rhythms: house, techno, hardcore, jungle. On the other, a parallel current was forming — music that borrowed the
