Internet Archive - Collection: 12rec

Crepusculum - Sing on in Silhouettes [12rec060]

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:28:35 GMT

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Derrick Hart - Songs From A Cross (The Sea) [12rec.059]

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:29:42 GMT

Following Nic Bommarito's "Harp Fragments", this is part II of our "America, the beautiful" series. I am following the enigmatic Derrick Hart for quite a while now. Equally rooted in the chromatics of US-American Folklore and off-key Pop music, Hart is blessed with a wonderful voice and musical tale....

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Nic Bommarito - Harp Fragments [12rec.058]

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:58:51 GMT

For his new LP "Harp Fragments", Nic decided to hook up with us again. What luck! A lot changed since "Taciturn" and then again everything is the same. You have the dreamy melodies, the bitter-sweet melancholia, that specific Bommarito-feel of being lost in cinescope beauty....

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Nicolas Bernier + Simon Trottier - ... et retrouvé en fôret [12rec.057]

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:16:40 GMT

Do these guys need an introduction? Nicolas Bernier and Simon Trottier are two magnificent artists from Montreal, Canada. The former is rooted in academic electronic music and runs the ekumen platform....

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Klotzsch & Krey - Through All These Years Of Trying To Belong [12rec.056]

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:02:30 GMT

Emil Klotzsch has a couple of releases online, all of which are published by wonderful Netlabels including Autoplate, One and Zymogen. We are extremely happy to welcome Emil Klotzsch and Ruediger Krey with a new EP , exclusively released as MP3 download and DVD purchase....

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Portabot - There Must Be a Sunrise in Every Ending [12rec.055]

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:33:29 GMT

Portabot is a Spain-born graphic designer, director and musician who lives and works in London and Barcelona. He is co-founder of UK ESP media laboratory Actop and related to London's D-Fuse VJ crew. His engagement for fresh audio-visual talents involves artdirection for Rojo Magazine and its associ....

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The Sleeping Tree - Leaves and Roots [12rec.054]

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:37:29 GMT

The Sleeping Tree is Giulio Frausin from Italy. In the Spring of 2008, Filippo Aldovini of Zymogen Netlabel recommended this decent guy to us. We got in for a chat, failed to meet in Düsseldorf but agreed on a release somewhat later the year....

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Ian Hawgood - Enfants Ruraux [12rec.053]

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:49:48 GMT

Ian Hawgood, international man of mystery. Mr. Hawgood is a hard-working musician, with an impressive oeuvre spread over a dozen of quality record labels. While his Koen Park moniker is about IDM- and Hip Hop influenced Electronica, the music he publishes under his civil name can roughly be classifi....

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Plaistow - Do You Feel Lucky?

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:09:30 GMT

Formed during spring 2007 in Geneva by Johann Bourquenez (p) and Raphaël Ortis (b) and Cyril Bondi (dr) of Diatribes-fame, Plaistow released a first EP on the Swiss Insubordinations Netlabel in September 2007....

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Various Artists - Through the Mirror: adcBicycle Revisioned [12rec.051]

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:42:55 GMT

adcBicycle is Matt Chisholm from Ottawa, Canada. Matt had an EP on Kikapu (RIP) back in 2006 which was on heavy rotation in my player. After finishing his new album one year later, Matt decided not to release it....

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V.A. - So Much Achieved. So Much Left To Do.

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:59:35 GMT

Welcome to 12rec.050! For our 50th release, we decided to go for a compilation. All exclusive. All free. All for you. We drummed up the whole bunch and asked them to deliver the best they have. They did....

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Hermelin - Hermelin [12rec.049]

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:31:28 GMT

As 12rec. will celebrate it's fourth birthday this year, approximately four generations of musicians released their works with us. Hermelin, this wonderful Rock band from Hanover, Germany, came across your way as a 2nd wave 12rec....

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[12rec.048] Automassage - Ambience EP

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:06:57 GMT

Looking for organic Ambient music, Neuf Meuf's "It's Cold In Space", released back in 2006 as a cooperation project with Serein Netlabel, is one of the finest records you can get. Short after, Neuf Meuf aka Rok Vrbancic told me about the new band project he just joined: Automassage....

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Muhr - Anthèmes pour les Regrets [12rec.047]

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:38:04 GMT

Not only a musician for approximately ten years now, Vincent Fugère a.k.a. “Muhr” was around when the whole Netaudio thing initially kicked off. As he reports in a recent interview for Phlow Magazine, microscopic social networks, chipmusic and a Babylonian mishmash of different file types where....

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David Schweighart - Thanks For Listening To This Record Which Made My Hours Pass So Quickly [12rec.046]

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:12:47 GMT

How long has David Schweighart been around before we first came up with the idea of giving his widespread songs a proper long play release? And then, after a gracious weekend in Dresden, how long did it take to compile, master, design and communicate this precious gem of a an album? Feels like years....

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Protestant Work Ethic - Turned, and Turning EP

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:07:11 GMT

Protestant Work Ethic is Simon Usaty. Simon is songwriter and one quarter of KES (alongside Bernard Bauch ),eventually Vienna's finest alternative Rock- and Country-outfit and long-time inside tip (listen to "Nordwaggon" on 12rec.032)....

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Slon - Jelenka EP [12rec.044]

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:14:35 GMT

If you been around with us for a while you probably know about our good connections to the exciting Vienna underground. All these creative kids, assorted around the enigmatic Tupolev, writing and recording music between all genres and conventions....

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Bernier & Trottier - Objet abandonne en Mer [12rec.42]

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:19:33 GMT

I got in contact with Canadian Nicolas Bernier when I wrote a review for his recent solo-release "Ailet l'eau faille by" at No Type-Netlabel. He ordered a bunch of CDrs and after some email chatting, he told me about a special project he's been working on....

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Astrowind - Into Vernadsky EP [12rec.041]

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:58:20 GMT

Kriipis Tulo and Mahi Bukimi form the duo Astrowind. Travelling the rusty railroad between Riga and the white shores of the Baltic Sea, they met in 2003 to perform a few live improvisations on old Soviet synthesizers....

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herzog - ocean! be our blanket [12rec.039]

Fri, 18 May 2007 14:36:57 GMT

I recognized young Herzog a bit later than I could have. Being an important part of the Welsh Serein-collective, he contributed a wonderful piece of electro-acoustic ambient for the second label compilation OIO which, in a whole, was enjoyed a lot at the 12rec....

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Rob Hunter - EP [12rec.038]

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:09:21 GMT

Rob Hunter is a young fellow from the city of Bristol in South West England. He studies illustration (he did the artwork) and spends his time putting together tiny animation videos and making music. "I use whatever instruments i can get to make a sound, and layer it all up", as his myspace-account t....

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Nic Bommarito - Taciturn [12rec.037]

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:45:03 GMT

Nic Bommarito comes off like the all-American college boy. He's from a small city in the near distance to Detroit, Michigan. He studied philosophy in Ann Harbor and changed to Albuquerque, New Mexico to expand his Sanskrit-studies....

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Crepusculum - Sky Diaries EP [12rec.036]

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:18:56 GMT

The young lad behind the Crepusculum-moniker is Fred Baty from London. 'Crepusculum' is latin for sundown and suits the music of our December-release perfectly: the day is done, you're creeping home to take a rest, to chat with the ones you love, to do what life REALLY is about....

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Milhaven - I.M. Wagner EP [12rec.035]

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:53:03 GMT

Milhaven are a postrock-band from Bochum we discovered two years ago. Sven Swift recorded and produced their first album and this brand new EP. The story so far... After the release of Bars Closing Down in the early days of 12rec, Milhaven soon became one of our most downloaded artists....

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[12rec.034] Raflesia - Logenplatz im Pantheon

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:08:29 GMT

Hip Hop came a long way since it left the shady backyards of New York City. This Genre is a chameleon and all the differences between the diversified schools of Hip Hop make it difficult to distinguish good from bad....

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[12rec.033] Heezen - Secret Speech

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:48:52 GMT

Heezen is Raül Fuentes. He's a non-musician from the city of Castello in the east of Spain. As he told me, Eno was a non-musician. Satie also didn't study it. Raül extracts the technique of sampling old vinyl-records from hip hop and combines it with minimal synthesizer- and guitar-loops, a lot of....

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[12rec.032] VA - Moreover Moedling

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:53:39 GMT

Lower Austria Independent Music (...) An adventurous mindset is about the only thing the bands on this record have in common. They draw their influences and ideas from a diverse array of areas that range from the serious to the absurd and from the pragmatic to the highly complex....

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Junique Fois Pi / Hermelin - Split [12rec.030]

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:44:08 GMT

did you ever wonder what these kids are doing in their free time? you watch them talking to each other in the tube, realize their worn out shoes and shirts with names you never heard of, hair too long and dirty to suit any future mother-in-law....

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El Senor Ciuf Ciuf - As Seen From Above [12rec.029]

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:11:15 GMT

i got an email from our dear friend stephane obadia. he told me about this guy from italy that calls himself after the sound of a steam train, ciuf ciuf, got it? steph was very excited bout his music and so are we....

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Daniel Maze - Treehugger [12rec.028]

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:57:11 GMT

there are different approaches to noise in electronic music. technically, noise is described as an equal amount of output in all present frequencies ('white noise') and sounds pretty boring. people tend to mix their original signals with fragments of noise to get a more individual, maybe more haptic....

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jasmin - EP02 [12rec.027]

Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:26:05 GMT

does complex music necessarily have to sound complicated? jasmin are back with four more songs to find out about. like on cecil taylor's 'unit structures' it is not about naming every note or every odd meter....

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Giraffe - Giraffe LP [12rec.026]

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:01:53 GMT

newport, 40 years ago. this is what the folkies must have felt like: they came to see their idol, they came to see the saviour. when bob finally entered the stage, the first thing he did was pluggin' in his guitar and let his fans taste the new 'electric dylan'....

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Und Morgen, Der Asphalt

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:32:13 GMT

kesselring's german vocals are the most important element in the und morgen, der asphalt-songs. the music is build around them, harmonically and structural. you can hear influences from 80's avantgarde-pop and independent-music; kesselring is not trying to sing most beautiful but lets the expression....

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Skism - Skism EP [12rec.024]

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 06:53:18 GMT

have you seen this short mobile-phone commercials a few month ago? you can watch a cool beauty folding her apartment and interior together, putting it all in her cute hand-bag. do you remember the soundtrack? i was confused finding more or less-known american bleep hop-kid dabrye set the music to an....

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Zeugwart Hallbauer - Koelner Sommer [12rec.020]

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:59:29 GMT

zeugwart hallbauer like to use reverb. many sounds seem to circulate in a far distance, diving in and out of the listenerÂs ear. and they create a lot of room for these sounds, still there are always walls somewhere to stop the sounds from floating into total oblivion....

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VA - Keepin´ It Real In 2005 [12rec.021]

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:05:34 GMT

after nearly one year of 12rec-music, we would like to say *thank you* to everybody that supported us, said hello or just grabed the MP3s. we're happy to be here. this online-sampler contains loads of exclusive material we compiled from the secret 12rec-archives....

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Rob Steady - Ask No Lies [12rec.019]

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:43:46 GMT

when you go through the reviews stèphane received for his obadia-release with ADIM, you'll find critics being confused about how to judge his music. is it danceable, does it move my butt? might stèph even be innit for popmusic as you can always find a moment of melody to stick to? or are there mor....

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Sichtbeton - 3bit Pankow EP [12rec.018]

Mon, 23 May 2005 04:29:30 GMT

compared with the sichtbeton LP, you might find the former 3bit pankow EP more low-keyed or even less catchy; rap music as a guide for producing does not play an important role after all. lunte, who has contributed most of the beats and sounds, uses his background as a source of inspiration to expan....

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Tupolev - Tupolev EP [12rec.017]

Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:02:31 GMT

it takes tupolev three songs and exactly 12 minutes and 17 seconds to raise their voices. and when they do so, nothing really happens- their singing isn't meant for grapping one's attention, to carry emotion or even content....

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Yokoelast - On Marx/Mosp [12rec.015]

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:22:25 GMT

After the release of his live-performance (12rec.009) glitch-pop jack-of-all-trades Mateusz Parzonka publishes another pearl from the binary archives of his Powerbook. In search of alternatives in generating sounds and structures, Yokoelast discovered the programming user interface Max/MSP which pot....

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milhaven - bars closing down [12rec.014]

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:03:32 GMT

This release comes up with heavy guitar-drones. Comparable to mogwai or do make say think, these guys combine the groove and harsh power of noiserock with unearthly beautiful melodies. No need for a vocalist when you're able to let your guitars sing! "When Simon and me entered this hole for the firs....

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Giraffe - Dusty Window EP [12rec.013]

Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:57:37 GMT

Dusty Window, the first Giraffe EP for 12rec., is a collection of spare and beautiful folk songs. With intricate guitar-work and a characteristic voice, Giraffe is able to reveal more wisdom in a few minutes of his music than most artists can articulate on the length of a full album....

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Fuellsand - The Days are just packed [12rec.012]

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:01:11 GMT

Strings, Harps, Child Choirs. Fuellsand rallied a bunch of friends from the extended 12rec. network round themselves and created an atmospheric and intense collection of dark song hybrids. The path of minimal music, indierock and electronica, prescribed by the 3 EPs is getting expanded by different ....

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jasmin - EP01 [12rec.011]

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:45:32 GMT

'holger fach' opens the first jasmin-EP with a plain, repetetive motive. bass and guitar interlink like gear wheels, weave a carpet. the drums join in and carry the song calmly on their cymbals. a break, a gentle increase and 'holger fach' culminates bitter-sweetly....

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Sichtbeton - Sichtbeton LP [12rec.010]

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:35:54 GMT

Luntes raps talk about human mindstates, sometimes introverted-abstract, then again in direct connection to the city and their residents. Urbanity as inevitableness, not as a farce. On the instrumental level the sichtbeton LP doesn´t move on the safe paths....

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Fuellsand - Puzzled EP [12rec.008]

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:18:49 GMT

Track five and six of the fuellsand ep-trilogy. The new compositions appear more intense and compact. With "i didnt even notice" there is a synthie-groover and "the approaching siren" catches up to "sun and paper industry" of the eels ep as a dark jazz-hybrid with heavy stage piano chords....

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Fuellsand - Two Songs For The Summer [12rec.007]

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:17:41 GMT

Part two of the ep trilogy. "dyskoteka", polish for discotheque, opens with a sample you should recognize by yourself in its unique sound asthetics. Within the song an organ appears for the first time, even tough there are bouncing synths and distorted guitars....

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Fuellsand - Eels EP [12rec.006]

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:16:27 GMT

"this afternoon we went for eels" opens with a dominant rave-motive, cricketchirping and a neckbreaking rythmshift. The grumpy drums accentuate the synthline unobtrusively. "sun and paperindustry" is mainly build on a strongly repetitive glockenspiel pattern....

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Majestik12 - Catfish Took My Girl [12rec.002]

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:15:20 GMT

Artisticly grown and with clear concepts majestik12 wanted to face their second release. Recorded on eight tracks, carefully microphoned and with best intentions, it took until 2001 to release the catfish took my girl ep....

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Majestik12 - File Not Found: Error [12rec.001]

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:14:12 GMT

Someday in summer of 1998 this local young rockband, majestik12, borrowed two microphones at the local youth center, plugged them into a tape recorder and recorded their songs live and without overdubs....

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