2024-03-30T02:32:15Z
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oai:archive.org:12rec.001
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majestik12
Lo-Fi
Rock
Indie Garage Rock
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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. You can tell the sound was corresponding to this equipment, but you will recognize the fun those guys had playing their music. They didn´t gave a shit about unique sound design or artistic homogenity. The recordings were released on tape and were sold at shows quite good. Additional to the band recordings on the A- side, side B contains two improvised dub-jams and two remixes, one of them by yokölast.
oldskool tape recorder and 2 microphones
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Majestik12 - File Not Found: Error [12rec.001]
majestik12
oai:archive.org:12rec.002
2019-01-15T01:18:39Z
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majestik12
Rock
Noise Rock
Indierock
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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. At this point the band wasn´t really existing anymore, and there were no shows, where they could have presented their CD. So this might be a pretty unknown release to many people. Moving beyond the naive crossover of the file not found: error lp to a colorful, heavy rocksound, that animated some people to comparisons to the QOTSA or Tortoise. The ep is freshed up with electronic add-ons and short skits and features a first remix by the sweet fuellsand boys.
8-track minidisc recorder
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Majestik12 - Catfish Took My Girl [12rec.002]
majestik12
oai:archive.org:12rec.004
2019-01-15T01:17:51Z
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0000-01-01T00:00:00Z
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the love songs
Synth
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This first work of the artist is based on the consideration that life in the city needs a new socialisation of botanic nature. Human cultural property and living nature exchanged positions in the modern urban jungle. "glitzern" starts this CD with the glitter of the needle, which goes through the lead-out groove. Intense synthesizer motives rise in addition from the depths of the vinyl to go down again. After this rather ambient exercise, "die schönheit der abnutzung" states the floorfiller of the record. Groove by brutal beat-boxing sounds. With "blumen in den fenstern", the love songs floats through the track in one single increase. The song is the key work of this ep. "ein sommer aus beton" closes the grünanlagen ep as crackling as it has begun. Watch out for the sequel in late 2004!
processed bodysounds and analog synths to HD
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The Love Songs - Grünanlagen EP [12rec.004]
the love songs
oai:archive.org:12rec.006
2019-01-15T01:17:51Z
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fuellsand
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"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. Fieldrecording, heavy synthesizer chords and the jazzy voice of Lena create a song out of this tricky loop. The eels ep started the fuellsand ep-trilogy, in wich three eps with two songs each are to be released.
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Fuellsand - Eels EP [12rec.006]
oai:archive.org:12rec.007
2019-01-15T01:17:51Z
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fuellsand
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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. "troutfishing" develops with a recognizable B4-motive and the straight use of live drums a more rockish atmosphere than the previous released tracks.
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Fuellsand - Two Songs For The Summer [12rec.007]
oai:archive.org:12rec.008
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fuellsand
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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. Plus: An euphorical tribute to the g-funk and hot chicks in the artwork. what more can you ask for?
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Fuellsand - Puzzled EP [12rec.008]
oai:archive.org:12rec.009
2019-01-15T01:17:51Z
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0000-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Yokoelast
BitPop
Electronica
Live
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Mateusz crafted the songs of his ZKM ep live within the context of the architectual JoxMox-exhibition in the "Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medien" in Karlsruhe, Germany. He interactively divided the installation of F. Winkler and J. Sturm into four suites, which Mateusz put together from prepared and spontaneously modulated audio-material. Thereby the music controlled the artist's visuals. This liveperfomance presents a conclusive destillat of his work back in the days. Four long arrays, you wouldn't guess they're improvised; pop and electronica, which do not level out to electronical popmusic.
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Yokoelast - Live At ZKM [12rec.009]
Yokoelast
oai:archive.org:12rec.010
2019-01-15T01:17:51Z
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2004-11-11T00:00:00Z
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Sichtbeton
Underground Hip-Hop
German Rap
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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. Noisy pads of expanded field-recordings float through the songs, cuts peel out of the mostly laidback rhythms, dusty drums clatter as there is no connection, but the vocals hold it all together. The tendency to the large gesture, that gives the sichtbeton LP its outrageous diversity und credibility, can be recognized in the choice of the samples. There´s no problem with orchestral strings close to kitsch or passionate synthesizer-flutes.
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Sichtbeton - Sichtbeton LP [12rec.010]
Sichtbeton
oai:archive.org:12rec.011
2019-01-15T01:17:51Z
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2004-12-08T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.011
jasmin
Jasmin
EP01
12rec
Postrock
Instrumental Rock
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'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. 'buenos aires' materializes itself out of strange glassy sounds, a feedback breaks up, then the band follows up and transfers the soundcollage suddenly into a song. 'vielleicht' resembles in its concentrated unanimity 'holger fach'. a guitar opens melancholy, a second scales itself in between. the bulky drums struggle against an open confession to pop, but sometimes aren´t able to resist rolling with them. 'vielleicht' ('maybe') jasmin's most accessible song. 'longing for moments of objectivity' (the video for 'vielleicht') is in its formal austerity and its minimalism the logical extension of the jasmin- universe. in the fine balance between sound and visuals the surface of the pictures dissolves and a suction tears us gently through the night.
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jasmin - EP01 [12rec.011]
Jasmin
jasmin
oai:archive.org:12rec.012
2019-01-15T01:17:51Z
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2004-12-12T00:00:00Z
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Fuellsand
Artronica
Electro-organic
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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 elements: Jazz-Trumpet player G. v. Abendroth and DJ Freeze focus and shape material that turned out rather ambient in the past, the love songs (now living in Berlin) adds explicit beats and Nils, Michael and Simon (of Majestk12-fame) improvise over heavy Rhodes-chords. Apart from that Marvin Gaye can start leaving the throne: Just listen to popsicle at the sewers!
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Fuellsand - The Days are just packed [12rec.012]
Fuellsand
oai:archive.org:12rec.013
2020-02-09T02:38:38Z
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2005-01-16T00:00:00Z
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James Gardner
Folk
Indie-Pop
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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. "Sad Sister," the opening song, is a call for a woman's liberation. It isn't simply an awkward "do your own thing" cliche, but a plea for individuality in a girl who is worth more than what she lets herself become. A descending melody phrase forms the minimal basis in "The Fifth Wheel" while James sings about the bliss of two others ...and breaks the hearts of the 12rec. A&Rs. "Venecian Blinds" is a concise folk miniature, "Clear Exotic Sea" the big pop-draft and sure to be his hitsingle. The EP ends with "An Imperfect Lovesong ..." which works beautifully with its spontaneous and scribble-like declaration of love to a small area of skin, with breathless melodica and fading voice. During "Clear Exotic Sea," Giraffe asks his swimming muse if the ocean might be compatible with him. We feel pretty sure that the answer is clear.
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Giraffe - Dusty Window EP [12rec.013]
J. Gardner
oai:archive.org:12rec.014
2019-01-15T01:17:52Z
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2005-02-04T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.014
milhaven
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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 first time, it was outside nearly as cold as inside. Remarkably less damp it wasn´t eighter down there, so that the sloppy roughcasted walls made a perfect ground for this magnificent mold. Simon plucked up all his courage and sat down on the scary looking couch (in a movie this would have made a smushy sound). Meanwhile I set up the old four track machine and the guys started playing to warm up. Our first plan, to record every instrument seperately, turned out as impracticable. This band doesn´t work as a combination of different musicians. Milhaven are so grown together with themselves, their instruments and the delay in rehersals (as on stage, if it runs well), that every try of overdubbing would equal an amputation. So we took the risk of a hearing defect and recorded it all live... Our production is surely only able to sketch a draft of the intensity of this band. But the love and the complete devotion of this young men to their rough, epic and unreal beautiful songs are indeed noticable in every note. Please listen to this LP as loud as possible." (Sven, 12rec.)
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milhaven - bars closing down [12rec.014]
oai:archive.org:12rec.015
2019-01-15T01:17:51Z
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2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
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Mateusz Parzonka
BitPop
Melodic Electronica
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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 potentiates the user to create his own 'instruments'. Hardware-synthesizer and mixer are sold soon, and in the course of one year Mateusz fills an entire CD with noisy and glittering track-sketches which, arranged and replenished by 12rec, represent Yokoelasts new EP. In comparison to his Live-EP the new songs appear more compact. Anyway, norznorznorz with nearly four minutes run-time is the longest track on the EP. Yokoelast cuts his usual path between repetitive rhythm, ambient textures and the contrast of noise and melody. His songs always unfold a hypnotic pull which is resolved by him in concrete harmonies. The iambored-artwork documents the destruction of the original sound storage medium.
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Yokoelast - On Marx/Mosp [12rec.015]
Yokoelast
oai:archive.org:12rec.017
2024-03-11T10:49:41Z
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2005-04-18T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.017
Tupolev (Holy, Vatagin, Scholler;Schweighart)
Chamber Music
Slow Rock
Improvisational post-modern alternative folk
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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. it's just a further instrument to accomplish their certain vision of contemporary avant-garde folk music. throughout that EP there is a feeling of vagueness and stumbling. tupolev play very slow, add a lot of time-changes and keep rolling around all common harmonies. it's a kind of jazz music, for tupolev know exactly what they're doing: song number four, called as for misery, sounding like a sad drunken sailorman walking home at five o'clock in the morning, deep minor chords, singing, fieldrec, a little drums. but boy, after seven minutes the sun seems to rise; sounds increase like the city awakens and a melody as-beautiful-as-it-can-get emerges from the depths, lasting only for a few seconds before the song ends. on the other end of the spectrum there is rnd, the song afterwards, a mathematical piece of chamber-folk, precise and perfect. due to all mentioned musical qualities, also the tupolev-sound is awesome. the piano is dry and dusty, the drums sound everything else but fat and vocals aren't put upfront. simply perfect, no doubt!
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Tupolev - Tupolev EP [12rec.017]
Tupolev
oai:archive.org:12rec.018
2019-01-15T01:18:39Z
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2005-05-23T00:00:00Z
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Sichtbeton
Electronic Hip-Hop
Abstract
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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 expand the borders of hip hop into ambient and electronica. for instance, he does no straight rapping on this record, although he is working with voices extensively. the songs billow up and down, layer-by-layer jens adds synthesizers, vocal-fragments and field-recordings, always approaching climax from the back, still being able to find the right moment to let the songs end. foggy jazz-chords give rise to simple but effective melodies. there is a certain connection to the works of anticon's sole and especially cLOUDDEAD, with whom sichtbeton share the 'flow' on this record: pieces quite ambient (harmonizer) are next to downright house tracks (der antistatische mann) and moody instrumental hip hop, like it's nothing special. you can find the sichtbeton LP's disenchanting realism being outlined though the 3bit pankow EP (produced within the same year) by sort of artificial darkness, that does not emerge from berlin-pankow backyards. for real, it comes deep from the listener's hearts. 3bit: heart, soul, mind.
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Sichtbeton - 3bit Pankow EP [12rec.018]
Sichtbeton
oai:archive.org:12rec.019
2019-01-15T01:17:52Z
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2005-06-28T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.019
Stephane Obadia
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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 more academical reasons, something about recycling, glitch-asthetics and stuff? thing is, as we here at 12rec believe, stéphane prefers fooling around with genres. if you listen to the hot new rob steady EP, you'll find him getting more abstract and experimental. stèphane asked us not to write too much about the music, so we're just trying to give you an idea. what do you expect? hurry to order the CDR, as first edition copies come up with a limited nice little poster to decorate your living room.
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Rob Steady - Ask No Lies [12rec.019]
oai:archive.org:12rec.020
2019-01-15T01:18:39Z
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2005-08-19T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.020
Zeugwart Hallbauer
Jasmin
Rotesonne Records
Electronic
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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. did somebody say these guys were playing electronica? their music is sort of loop based, two or three main rhythmic motives and a line to carry the melody. dont get me wrong: the 'koelner sommer EP' isnÂt really minimal. zeugwart hallbauer superimpose many loops on top of each other, create swinging, even polyrhytmic patterns of synthetic melodies and grooves. you can dance to it, but you donÂt have to. you can also chill and nod your head while trying to figure out the many influences zeugwart hallbauer melt together: house and techno-music (obvious), pop and jazz, hip hop, maybe 70Âs electronic music (sometimes klaus schulze comes to my mind). it took a while to release the EP because weÂve been waiting for the videos to be finished. hugs and kisses to matthias groebel and rick silva for their great video-works! and to amaia martiÂn and rui oliveira who designed the CDR-package. please check rotesonne.com with whom weÂre releasing this great EP for some detailed information and further linkage.
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Zeugwart Hallbauer - Koelner Sommer [12rec.020]
Zeugwart Hallbauer
oai:archive.org:12rec.021
2019-01-15T01:18:41Z
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2005-07-26T00:00:00Z
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VA
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VA
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. just scroll down for the individual download. additionally, we added sort of a DJ-mix of this sampler to the open audio archive. get the sven swift mix if you like it better this way. the love songs w/ wixel hornets (radio edit) - preview the love songs is one of the first 12rec-artists. the new EP will features four or five tracks of warm and noisy drone-music. metal machine music for airports, in his own words. und morgen, der asphalt da sind nur wir und sonst nichts - preview und morgen, der asphalt is a project out of the highly creative tupolev-sourroundings. this vienna-based band combines strange german no-wave sounds with folk and pop-influences. EP out on 12rec soon. fuellsand meer und weizen - exclusive track this new track shows the direction fuellsand are heading right now. there is more noise within the composition, still its quite dense and melodic. elektro krautrock, like rupert says. milhaven we talk, we die (new years edit) - exclusive track milhaven will be famous sometime, promised! sven added organ, piano and field-rec to this studio-track the band recorded short after the bars closing down session with sebastian 'the hat' behler. skism surfaise - preview david grogan is skism. this ireland-based guy combines melodic electronica elements with tight hip hop-beats. call it bleep hop or whatever, david knows how to write a catchy song. retrospective EP out on 12rec very soon! sichtbeton mecklenburg EP - excerpt in 2002, as legends say, lunte (MC of berlin hip hop duo sichtbeton) produced the mecklenburg EP on his own, being isolated somewhere in eastern germany. get the whole 30 minutes EP at funkviertel.de. moritz grund induvish - taken from orange album cologne producer moritz grund comes up with a colourful arrangement of differnet styles of electronic music. the whole album is avaible at legoego.de, get the CDR at the 12rec-shop. tupolev garlic (live in vienna) - exclusive track recorded at the fluc in 2004, this long song will catch your attention. tupolev settle between folk, slooow postrock and avantgarde-music. dont be afarid of vienna people chating! jasmin new tayyabs (demo) - exclusive track one of munics finest postrock-bands. the rehersal-recorded song you can hear on this sampler is quiete unusual for jasmin. simply a small gem of pop-music! EP02 out on 12rec soon. engine 7 it was nice to be alive (but I really must be going home) - preview alan mcNeill from glasgow will re-releas his hope street EP on legeoego.de very soon. the engine 7 sound is a hypnotizing mixture of trip hop beats and postrock melodies, very special. CDR on 12rec. yokölast spasern/ lachette (director's cut) - exclusive mix cologne back again! a special mix of the on marx/ mosp EP's last two tracks destilizes everything artist yokölast stands for: electronic experiments and cheerish pop-melodies. rob steady exemples de retenues - taken from miettes EP cut-up genious stèphane obadia with a song from the ask no lies prequel 'miettes'. he derives strange, somehow danceble pop-tracks from the big pile-up of commercial music. see clumsybeats.org for more obadia-madness! zeugwart hallbauer datteln - preview sven hahne and alexander peterhaensel of jasmin are zeugwart hallbauer. their music is a unique mixture of jazzy tekhouse, hip hop and acid-like sounds. once again, the EP will include a video by peterhaensel. giraffe camoflaughed killer (demo) - exclusive track after the sweet dusty windows EP, james gardner aka giraffe will release his album bull fighter at 12rec in a few months. this song is one of the many demos he sent us to get an impression.
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VA - Keepin´ It Real In 2005 [12rec.021]
oai:archive.org:12rec.024
2021-07-03T14:24:47Z
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2005-10-01T00:00:00Z
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David Grogan
Electronica
Instrumental Hip-Hop
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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 attvertisment-clip, and i was curious if skism couldnt have done as good as him. in fact hes good at melodies, his beats are as tight as playful, and david brings it all together in pretty firm songs. consider cylinder, melt or especially guido de montifeltros spring top hat (you might know this one from the sbh!-sampler, remember?). electronic hip-hop with a strong harmonic basement, and nobody misses the rapper! ghostbuster skism adds two upright jazzy interludes (GBS & the elevator muzak stodj) and gets in contact with early autreche at flere or surfaise. with the replacement of his main computer, david lost all his tracks and only a couple of mixdowns were left. thanks to dataman, we could give the remaining data a proper mastering, althought you might recognize some minor crackling that shouldnt be there. at least this must have been motorolas base motive for not getting in contact with david... no reason for you to miss his great EP!
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Skism - Skism EP [12rec.024]
David Grogan
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2005-12-11T00:00:00Z
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James Gardner
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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'. folks gone mad, booing and whisteling. once more, the artist was ahead of his followers, and critics nowadays praise the bob dylan songs with his guitar amplified and overdriven more than his folk music tunes. where's the connecting to james gardner a.k.a. giraffe except the fact both guys are wearing tastily hats? if you know james' dusty window EP at 12rec. (which you should), you might have a similar expectations compared to the people back in the days waiting for dylan to pick his acoustic guitar. james also plugged in his guitar and turned up the volume- well, most of the time. the shift from spare and acoustic folk-songs to his current sound of opulent lo-fi progrock hasn't been the decision of a single night. when we got to know him in the summer of 2004, he already talked about his plans to get more into rock- and blues music. the dusty window EP was sort of a last point and set him free to expand his songs with a lot of strange instruments (he's into woodwinds), drums and distortion as well as swirling synth-lines, programmed beats and field-recordings. in 2006, noone should get shocked by this. like the late elliot smith, james injected his unique style into a more opulent setting. he puts his music on a higher level and prooves himself as a great musician and composer. james manages to focus a dozen different instruments on a four minutes-popsong without loosing tension and harmonical grip. you'll love it. thanks to andrew a. peterson for the nice cover painting!
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Giraffe - Giraffe LP [12rec.026]
James Gardner
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2005-12-27T00:00:00Z
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jasmin
Jasmin
EP02
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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. it is more about the beauty that lies beyond. taylor mixes modern classical music, bebop and free jazz. jasmin add portions of rock and pop. the three chaps from munich present their second EP on 12rec in another exclusive collaboration with rotesonne records. lernen von maedchen starts with some programmed beats and a filtered vibraphone. clean guitar- and bass-tones are added and sketch the typical harmony-patterns your know jasmin for. everything remains fragile until the drums come in. a repetitive guitar formulates the songs main motive, volume increases, and distortion and feedback gather like storm clouds at the horizon until the song erupts in a monsoon-like shower. heute im stadion is jasmin's version of contemporary hardrock. the title refers to 'stadium' and can be read as an ironical statement concerning huge rockband-riffing. read this one within the (soccer-) context of holger fach from the first EP! rote sonne spins forth the thread of high-energy riffing. but jasmin take it very slow this time, the song has a nearly sluggish feel. as if they had recorded it in scorching heat. does koeln (cologne) ultimately really last for eight minutes? the EP closes with a bewitching popsong that makes time fly by. jasmin throw out their net of entwined jazzy harmonies and pull it back with rich prey. 12rec loves you, guys. bettina rhymes found some warm words about the video for koeln on the 12rec. release page.
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jasmin - EP02 [12rec.027]
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2006-02-17T00:00:00Z
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Daniel Maze
12rec
daniel maze
electronic
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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 haptical sound; on the other hand, a lot of strictly experimental music uses noise as the main source of audio, shifted in frequency and amplitude, fed back to the machines or distorted and delayed. why do you have to know about noise when you want know about daniel maze? his treehugger EP is full of noise! like a graphic designer adding certain samples of pixelated dirt to his 'clean' graphics, daniel uses different forms of unspecific audio to break the unreflected beauty of his compositions. april and pantomime for example are tricky four-to-the-floor house-tracks, with a beat that's playful and danceable, good melodies and a lot of warmth. still they might sound a bit 'easy listening' if the noises were missing. but they don't! jan jelinek's farben-alter ego might be a good reference. for manhattan and playground minaturette, daniel adds some more pop and gives his music a more indietronic-appeal without loosing relevance. the title track and ambulance chase at position five and six get into pop-music even deeper- pearling piano motives, smooth guitar pickings and vocal-samples make daniel sound like akufen, 70s electronic music and, ähem, art rock. you've got to listen to believe. after all, daniel maze is familiar with drone, harsh noise and experimentalism, too. if you listen to his former and future releases at italian netlabel sinewaves, you'll find deleting nearly all residues of pop in his music. both sides are important and require themselves, as he says.
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Daniel Maze - Treehugger [12rec.028]
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2006-03-06T00:00:00Z
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oliviero farneti
12rec
el senor ciuf ciuf
pop
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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. just check the first song i feel like a clean blackboard: along with his mates matteo mohorovicich at sax & clarinet and daniele dalla pellegrina at trumpet, oliviero farneti creates a surprisingly catchy and slightly surrealistic pop-song that knows about dance-music, lo-fi indierock and jazz (!). bet you'll whistle this one when you leave the house. we the ants sucks you in with his beautiful warm guitar-riffing. this song didn't leave my head for weeks! it ends with a little free-jazz woodwind-intermezzo. stunning. i think i saw a dead person walking yesterday expands olivieros sound-cosmos back to the sixties- these sweet vocal-harmonies in the middle make you think of the beach boys immediately. along with cheap synth-melodies, noisy wall-of-sound guitars and the trademark-woodwinds of matteo and daniele, by the way. demons, song seven, introduces the housy bassdrum and could have fit on the last gorillaz-album without a problem. the unspeakable chant of a collapsing universe afterwards exactly sounds like this: about nine minutes of psychedelic kraut-pop build on a small repetitive synth-motive. el senor ciuf ciuf waves hello to the early flaming lips. indeed, this description might sound a little weird. the album doesn't! although there are a lot of moods and styles to be heard, oliviero's melodies, his voice and his sound of lo-fi homerecording hold it all together. the beautiful artwork is an adaption of a comic short story by joey weiser from the US. the CDR-edition (limited to 50 hand-numbered copies) comes with four coloured cardboard-cards printed with the story "flight". check his homepage and order all the other mini comics, they're worth it!
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El Senor Ciuf Ciuf - As Seen From Above [12rec.029]
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2006-04-24T00:00:00Z
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Junique Fois Pi / Hermelin
postrock
noiserock
instrumental
avantgarde
rock
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hermelin
junique fois pi
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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. the one small group, four young lads from hanover in germany, call themselves after an elegant little beast of prey former kings made their coats from- hermelin ( ermine ). risen from the ashes of their old name, they are striking for the grail of avant-garde rockmusic without vocals but melody and fine dynamics. hermelin emancipated from grunge and alternative rock just now and still you may recognize some hardrockish elements in their music. no stupid jokes about hanover, please! the band manages to integrate these influences harmonically and develops its own sound between acts like juno or the early shudder to think . the three chaps from the other group seem to be a bit older. junique fois pi (don't wonder 'bout the name) settle their rough music right between noise- and postrock. the bass guitar is distorted and mixed upfront, the songs are pushing forward, their jazzy melodies are dosed with care. in a straight line from chicago to new york and washington junique fois pi bring forth their dischord -sound from the city of electronic music, cologne, and succeed in avoiding any heavy metal-shallows. comparison? think of unsane , lungfish or a gentle version of shellac . the kids are into music, you realize. not the one you can hear on the radio, music you have to know about, music you have to look up. if 12rec's been a help to find what you are looking for, we're done. hit this link for a fast & easy 60MB zip-file download, including all MP3-tracks, printable artwork and thumbs.
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Junique Fois Pi / Hermelin - Split [12rec.030]
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2006-08-24T00:00:00Z
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VA
12rec
Mödling
Moedling
Austria
Indie
Independent
Avantgarde
Bernhard Bauch
Alexandr Vatagin
Djang Destructivo
The Clonious
KES
Kleines Einmannsportsegelboot
Peter Holy
David Schweighart
Lukas Scholler
Applicator 120
Ippolit
Tupolev
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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. From an outside point of view the various parts of this compilation may seem like a concise and tightly woven section of a tiny fraction of all the music on this planet, but diving into the contents offered herein, you'll find whole worlds opening to you. For instance The Clonious brewing memories to Pharao Sanders' late phase with Coltrane while spinning those echoy drums in a truly mental fashion. Alexandr Vatagin gives a little- glitch-goes-drone excursion, nothing big, but with lots of soothing effect on the mind. Peter Holy is taking his songwriting to a completely new level of emotism, mocking classical piano and then rocking it as if his heart depended on it. David Schweighart uses field recordings of birdsong and voices in the park to brighten his guitar-chords. Applicator 120 forage into some short but equally effective nullsonic-noise of electric interference on their Flug Der Todessonde Omega. Ippolit introducing a clarinet into a majority of the Tupolev fracas resulting in the loosest Masada you'll ever hear. Yes, the whole town riding the range and everyone having a good time while exploring the fringes of what they know. Mödling, the frontier town? Moreover Mödling ends with the enormous Tupolev and their Opus, which fits because Tupolev might be the best known band from the ones introduced here, the starting point for many music lovers to explore further (just like this compilation) and also seems to be a central point for the various players in the Mödling-scene. Peter Holy, Alexandr Vatagin, David Schweighart and Lukas Scholler all appear solo as well on the record, mostly with one or more of the others playing along. This kind of incest is a great thing as long as the closeness and intimacy is held up. If their regional closeness is but a coincidence, that is for you, the listener, to decide. But beware, as soon as you start to question your own judgements, you'll step up into air. Maybe you'll find, that the nothing underneath you will give you better hold than the ground far below. August 2006, Georg Cracked (head honcho of the non-existing info radiance Cracked Foundation for the Fine Arts) Get the whole text in the zip-file or at http://www.monochrom.at/cracked/.
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[12rec.032] VA - Moreover Moedling
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2006-09-19T00:00:00Z
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Raül Fuentes
12rec
Heezen
Electronic
Elektronika
Laptop
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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 bizarre found-sounds, fragments of vocals and a few drops of psychedelica. there's some kind of strange musique concrète-atmosphere in his tracks that makes me think of late 60's avantgarde films and ambiguous surrealists like René Magritte, Man Ray or collagist Max Ernst. His loops are like spirals of fireworks that interfere with each other to build new patterns of sounds and melody. On his Secret Speech EP, Raül combines two sets of tracks he already released one on his own: Fractura, Pirotecnia and Martin De Vivies are in the middle of the EP. These tracks got a pretty straight beat and intensify layer-by-layer. Raül bridges from electroacoustic minimal-music to deep house, home-grown electronica and back. For the other three tracks, Raül comes up with a more ambient vibe. You can find pulsing synthesizers (Secret Speech), a complex composition of guitar, certain glitches, sampled vocals and a string section (Lastre) and the smooth, introspective cut-up collage of Le Cannard that marks the end of the EP. Heezen created a dark sparkling gem of electroacoustica. His influences are legion, but due to his abilities as a sound-designer and songwriter, he managed to destillate them all in highly conclusive compositions that never forget about a certain amount of catchyness and, yeah, emotionality.
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[12rec.033] Heezen - Secret Speech
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2006-10-12T00:00:00Z
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Raflesia
12rec
Raflesia
Rap
HipHop
Beats
German
Lyrics
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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. Pure underground exists next to bling-bling mainstream-rap, MCs preaching hate & love in one single track and your up-to-date indierock boyfriend thinks that 'it's just sampled...'. Well, all of this is true. Another point that is important when you're talking about Hip Hop leads us to Raflesia: Rapmusic depends on where you're from. Even Jennifer Lopez claims to know it! Raflesia are two MCs and a DJ from Dortmund in western Germany. Raps are German and Spanish, both MCs have a classical, straight-forward style of rapping. While the vocals are quite old-school, DJ Feezen Freezen put up a fresh production that combines rough beats with catchy synthesizer-arrangements and a whole load of little electronic noises and samples from old films and stuff. His productions have a huge pop-appeal. Still, Feezen knows how to disturb the listener every once a while to let him know: this ain't chart music! Amigo and Cachafa spit their lyrics between coming-of-age, high-handedness and scents of battle and sketch the whole range of Hip Hop's thematic repertoire. Amigo is the thin white duke, his texts have a strong philosophic (even therapeutic?) background. Cachafas' Raps are more gangster. While Amigo is the storytelling guy, Cachafa seems to draw inspiration from beef and battle. You can hear both MCs had been infected in the 90s, probably they admire german rap-groups like RAG and the infamous Stieber Twins and you'll recognize they've grown up between smoking slots and soccer in the Ruhr Area. This is probably our straightest release. But we love it, and we're proud to release a tight piece of Rapmusic that fits the region like nothing else. Wir tragen dein Herz auf der Zunge. Word!
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[12rec.034] Raflesia - Logenplatz im Pantheon
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2006-11-02T00:00:00Z
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Milhaven
Milhaven
12rec
I.M. Wagner
Postrock
Instrumental
Guitar
Beauty
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Sven Swift / Milhaven
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. In the Winter of 2006, nearly one year ago, we met in their old, dirt-laden rehearsal room and started to record new songs. Hooked by the success of the debut LP, Sven thrashed the old tape-recorder and spend all his money on a 10-channel audio-interface. Milhaven gone digital! We were planning to release the EP in the spring of 2006 until Milhaven got thrown out of the rehearsal room- the ancient school-building we were recording in was said to collapse! Two months went by searching for a new location. When it was found in the blooming hills of a small city at the edge of the Ruhr-area, the sound was completely different to the old room. All set to zero, we re-started the recordings. In the scorching heat of Summer we banned this four songs on tape. While the debut was recorded wearing woolly hat and scarf, this time the band was lost in sweat and fatigue. I.M. Wagner is less intimate than Bars Closing Down, but there's a trace of frantic power in the new songs that'll be new to you if you've never seen Milhaven live on stage. Check the noise-eruptions in half-improvised Lord Of Birds or the all-consuming end of Oh! Great Pacific. Still, there are expanded moments of gentle guitar-play you can find a lot of beauty in; the initial parts of Clean Room and the final acoustic-track Firnis maybe just the most obvious examples. Milhaven refined their songwriting both at the quiet and the loud parts and managed to record a dignified successor to the highly acclaimed debut LP. Go spread the word!
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Milhaven - I.M. Wagner EP [12rec.035]
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2006-12-17T00:00:00Z
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Fred Baty
Crepusculum
Fred Baty
Guitar
Acoustic
Instrumental
Folk
Melodic
Herzog
12rec
12rec.036
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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. This ambience of being-at-home is a also a fairly good Christmas-motive, so maybe the best time to enjoy Fred's Sky Diaries EP is now... What does it sound like? If you're down with the 12rec.-backcatalogue, you'll probably remember the Dusty Window EP by Californian Giraffe. Like him, Fred uses his acoustic guitar for most of his compositions. Folk is an important influence, and the boy Baty surely enjoys the last 40 years' classical Pop-bands. But in distinction to Giraffe, Fred doesn't intend to write 'songs' like them- his instrumental Pop-music avoids vocals, is built from clever structures, unusual harmonic layering and a talent to let songs end. No psychedelic Freak Folk-jams in here! The late Talk Talk might be a good comparison, you can mention Brian Wilson, Sufjan Stevens or German Postfolk-duo Taunus. In all, you will enjoy his music even if it is of no importance to you that Fred's influences are more like jazz, contemporary composing or folklore - beauty is something everyone understands. Big shout-outs to Bill 'Herzog' Bawden from the Serein-collective who contributed the remix!
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Crepusculum - Sky Diaries EP [12rec.036]
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2007-01-28T00:00:00Z
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Nic Bommarito
Nic Bommarito
12rec
12rec.net
Instrumental,Guitar,Shoegaze
Indie
Electronic
Atmospheric
Introspective
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Nic Bommarito
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. This trip took him across 2/3 of the US, but the next relocation was even more thoroughgoing . In 2006, Nic moved to Lhasa in Tibet, Republic of China. Nic is the unresting type. Due to his studies, he runs several websites, draws small comic strips, releases philosophical prose and documents his travels via a nice photo-blog. What's interesting for you: Nic Bommarito is a talented musician, too. He got in contact with us in late 2006, and we spontaneously decided to release his Taciturn LP at 12rec. The Taciturn LP fuses instrumental Rockmusic with moments of Alt. Country and epic Indiepop, keeping an eye on melody and structure. Imagine a mixture of Canadian GY!BE, the Americana Avant-Garde of Chicago's Brokeback and the huge melodies of Italian Postrockers Giardini di Mirò. Nic might not be the perfect musician, but he knows how to build up a song. For example, Taciturn I lasts nearly 10 minutes but you won't regret any single second. There's a strong sense of yearning throughout the whole LP that invokes a lot of pictures. Badly Asbestos-Covered sounds like desert and sea at the same time, bringing together slide guitar and accordion. The heavy string-arrangement for the final track I Never Listen is among the most touching I've ever heard.
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Nic Bommarito - Taciturn [12rec.037]
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2007-03-28T00:00:00Z
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Rob Hunter
Rob Hunter
glitchpop
pop
funk
cut up
beats
guitar
synth
sample
12rec
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Rob Hunter
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 tells us. He released a cassette at UK Tapeclub Records before he joined the 12rec-family in late 2006. Say hello to Rob! With a strong sense for funky grooves and heart-warming melodies, Rob ransacks a genre you used to know as Pop music. His attempt is DIY, his beats are cut-up, the sound lo-fi. Spectrum mixes an old drum machine-beat, dinky noises, Rhodes-chords and French synthesizers (see Rob, Phoenix). Waiting is body moving sample Funk with acoustic guitars and a lush bass-line. For Spill, Rob even raises his voice. Pay attention to the short piano-sketches! Wow. Image a mixture between 12rec-labelmate Rob Steady and electronic music prodigies Hot Chip from London (UK, indeed). Song Four (at position five) is another example for Rob Hunters talent to fuse tight Hip Hop beats with lush melodies. Once again, his simple vocal-lines will make you stuck. The last two tracks are a little less danceable but add a certain mood of melancholia. Especially First Day Back is an oh-so-beautiful piece of miniaturized independent Pop with cute synthesizers and re-sampled guitars. Music for the young at heart.
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Rob Hunter - EP [12rec.038]
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2007-05-18T00:00:00Z
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Bill Bawden
herzog
Bill Bawden
12rec
12rec.net
electronic
electroacoustic
ambient
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Bill Bawden
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. world headquarter. We got the Crepusculum EP in the pipe and planned to add a remix to give Fred Batys' folklore music a decent electric twist. So we got in contact with Bill Bawden a.k.a. Herzog. His idea of transforming analogue sounds into short-form ambient-compositions fit our intentions perfectly. After the great success of 12rec.036 back in December 2006, Bill told us about some new stuff he was preparing for a future release. In addition to the songs on both of the Serein -samplers he had two EPs online and we were happy to have the man for a special 12rec-release. Ocean! Be our Blanket consists of eight relatively short pieces each built around a single musical element or sound-idea. For In the Background, Secret Armies Bill distills the cozy melancholia of a delayed piano-motive with warm cracklings and low-key synthesizers. Woke Up Surrounded by Enemies has a rather ominous feel. You'll recognize the beautiful noises (some kind of Herzog-trademark), but there are no ‘real' instruments to be heard. Bubbling loops of synth-drones interfere, swell up and fade like a bad dream. The piano is back at Here Come Our Fathers afterwards. Bill opens his sound-repertoire a bit and shifts microscopic loops and distorted vocal samples in the wide echo chamber of his piano strokes. Listen to Adjusting to the Light to catch Herzog fusing guitar- or harp-sounds with some well-defined rhythmic elements. Crisp! If you want to hear one of my odd comparions- think of Pharrell Williams remixing Gastre Del Sol. Huh? Warm, quite focused, hypnotic and neat. Herzog delivers a beautiful study on sound and structure that surprises with emotional discernibility and uniqueness. An experimental release for 12rec. after so much popmusic recently, but a record you shouldn't have missed.
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herzog - ocean! be our blanket [12rec.039]
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2007-08-09T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.041
Tulo / Bukimi
Astrowind
Into Vernadsky
Paleopsychedelic Ambient
Ambient
Electronic
Synth
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Astrowind
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. Things did seem to work out and Astrowind decided to go ahead with their cinematic music. I got in contact with Tulo and Bukimi for my review of their debut EP "The Night the Stars Flew" which has been released at the Russian ElectroSound-Netlabel. Immediately I fell in love with their beautiful and anachronistic Paleopsychedelic Ambient (as Astrowind term their music) and was happy to hear that there is a couple of new tracks waiting for a release. That's how "Into Vernadsky" came to be. While the debut was more like watching the stars on a windy night, "Into Vernadsky" has a rather oceanic feel. “Welcome to the Past” starts off with fat sonar-like bleeps while the harmonic synth- and organ-chords in the back seem to pass tons of salty water before they reach your ear. The second song, mysteriously entitled “Rusty Trumpet of Youth”, has a similar feel. Squeaking synthesizers and a millions bubbles beneath. The “Connections of Everything”-trilogy afterwards marks the slow ascension from the bottom of the ocean to the bright and lovely shores atop. If you are a fan of the Herzog EP we released in May 2007, maybe you dig these tunes, too. Despite all the differences. The second half of "Into Vernadsky" EP begins with “Vernadsky Choice”. Astrowind combine sweet organ-chords with a crackling and hissing synthesizer pulse. Check the Jean-Michel Jarre filter sweeps! At position seven, “Starry Night Horseriding” takes on a slightly more resolute temper. Very dense, you can imagine the starlight landscape taking a flight before your eyes. “I’d Like to Return” is the last song before the EP fades out with the final tune “Blake”. There is a strong atmosphere of menace in it, a certain kind of tension… haunting. Reminds me of German Krautrock pioneers Cluster- and that is the best I can give!
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Astrowind - Into Vernadsky EP [12rec.041]
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2007-10-25T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.044
Slon
mödling
postrock
12rec
guitar
instrumental
band
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Slon
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. Young at age, but wise concerning their musical knowledge. In Fall 2007 we're off with three new releases from Mödling, Vienna. Opening act: Slon. Slon (Russian for elephant) are a new act to the scene. The band consists of Andrei Jafarau (git), Bernhard Baumann (git), David Wukitsevits (dr) and Alexandr Vatagin on bass, cello and electronics. On a formal level, one can say Slon are a Post Rock-band. So far, so common. But if you zoom a bit closer into the Slon-sound, you will find a million influences, a rhizomatic meshwork of inspirations and an amount of musical ideas other bands could compose whole discographies from. Curtain fall for “Jelenka”! The intro called “Stillleben” was written by Tupolev-bassist Alexandr Vatagin. A soulful and gently aching melody, bowed cello and a few percussion sounds. Sparse and touching like a Jewish elegy. Titletrack “Jelenka” at number two introduces the rest of the band. While both guitarists unfold a simple Jazz melody, Vatagin's cello sets interesting harmonic courses. The whole sound is very intimate and close, nearly chamber musical. Like a mixture between Karate (Jazz), Slint (sparingness) and Gastr Del Sol (experimentalism). “The Negroni Massacre” is rather ambient, a draft of piano and plucked guitar, with delicate feedback and a lot of warming noises in the back. Ominous tune! The tension unleashes with “Chisum” afterwards, the most aggressive song. Jafarau and Baumann let their guitars ring like June of 44 never split up. Final composition “Um Leere Räume zu Füllen” (to fill-up empty rooms) is the culmination of “Jelenka”. The songs starts with an expanded electronic intro, incorporating bass and piano. The guitars take on a humble melody, drums and piano join and bring the song to a prosperous ending. Credits: the artwork is built from an awesome photo taken by Vanessa Arn, Peter Holy helped with the mix
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Slon - Jelenka EP [12rec.044]
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2023-07-12T18:24:51Z
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2007-12-05T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.045
Simon Usaty
Protestant Work Ethic
Folk
Indiepop
Alt Country
Singer Songwriter
Acoustic
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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). According to the name of his solo-project, Simon stripped of every superfluous knick-knack, focussing on a few acoustic instruments and his juvenile voice. But as a /protestant work ethic/ might imply a success-orientated, rather rational concept for life, Simon decided to break with the cultural surplus of his moniker in this point. His work ethic is an emotional one. In North America, kids grow up with Folklore and Country-music. And although 99% of the commercial Western & Country-genre is bullshit, 1% settles seed in bands like Wilco, Califone or the Bright Eyes. Right here, Simon Usaty manages what so little European musicians achieve: authentic, alternative Country-music. His voice has a certain moment of failure, still he's an awesome vocalist, on stage and on his recordings. The chords he picks draw influence from Folk and Blues, the instruments are well chosen: acoustic guitar, banjo next to harmonica, cymes, accordion and bits of percussion. The overall feel of his EP is melancholy, but every now and then Simon pushes aside the clouds ("Walk the Plank"), at least a bit. Beach Boys-style vocal harmonies ("Weather Side") take turns with introspective instrumentals ("Duba Ktana") and shyly shivering gems of Pop-songwriting ("Set Out to Take on"). If you'd like to see Protestant Work Ethic compared with other 12rec.-artists, you can imagine Simon's music standing between UK-based Crepusculum and Californian Giraffe . The "Turned, and Turning EP" is a destillate from Simon's self titled debut-album released back in 2005. The CDr-version won't include the outtakes, but you can ask for the whole thing if you dare. Furthermore, look out for the magnificent new KES -longplayer "Tous Les Soirs". We'll keep you posted.
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Protestant Work Ethic - Turned, and Turning EP
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2008-02-14T00:00:00Z
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David Schweighart
david scweighart
12rec
moedling
austria
indie
avatgarde
folk
adult pop
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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. With his enormously entitled "Thanks For Listening To This Record Which Made My Hours Pass So Quickly" solo album, David Schweighart enters the stage as one of Vienna's most talented musicians. From the scratch, he plays drums and guitar at Tupolev, tours with Vanessa and Eric Arn as Primordial Undermind and joined the KES-liveband just recently (KES, as you might know, is the Indierock-outfit of Protestant Work Ethic). David is gifted, and he is addleheaded. He's a cute guy and he's in love. For the third and final part of our Austrian Autumn Winter Special, David Schweighart discharges a cornucopia of Folk-, Psychedelica- and chamber Pop-influenced lo-fi goodies he kept secret for a long time. His album incorporates calm improvisations and simple Folk-tunes, exhausting experiments and rich orchestrated Adult Pop. His "Prager Lovesongs" are touching at first go, "Ich Bin Gleich" and "In Die Sonnne Lachen" are delicate and advanced pieces for guitar, cello, trumpet and the inescapable harmonica. "Eisstockschiessen" (as heard on Mödling Moreover) and the warm and drony remix of Lukas Scholler's "Opticplus" (from his critically acclaimed At Land EP) are highlights, too. The album closes with a difficult song. "My Head in the Harmonium" is constructed from various layers of voice and harmonica that, very similar to "." from the Tupolev EP, constantly interfere with each other. Harmonies come and go, dissonance changes place with melody. Here, David Schweighart proves himself as a soulful crooner, and then, at some point, the fireworks start...___Please listen carefully!
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David Schweighart - Thanks For Listening To This Record Which Made My Hours Pass So Quickly [12rec.046]
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2008-03-28T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.047
Muhr
muhr
12rec
ambient
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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 the primordial soup for the Netaudio scene to emerge from. Actually, Vince is the face behind the respectable Camomille Netlabel and Apegenine recordlabel. He released a whole bunch of EPs at hipster places like Zymogen, Serein, Miasmah and many more. We’re happy to have Muhr joining the 12rec.-family for his most recent album “Anthèmes our les Regrets”. — Equally influenced by various forms of electronica, film music, Folk and Postrock, Muhr is about organic Ambient music. Vince’ compositions and improvisations fathom the space between synthesizer oscillation and guitar delay, they focus on background noise and the spatial hiss of his lo-fi recordings. “Our Tired Souls” and “Le Cycle est sans Retard” start the album with a good amount of melancholy drones, blending delicate feedback with field-recordings and substantial sketches of piano. For “Le Cycle est sans Remords”, Muhr gets a bit closer to something you might call a song. As he’s from Montreal, people will probably declare a Constellation-influence. “Improvisation II” is a soothing 15-minutes meditation on unwound guitar and certain effect-treatments, reaching hands to the Stars of the Lid. After this break, “Mes Ruines, tes Ruines” and “Sonnete pour les Perdus” are booming and enthralling Ambient Noise before Muhr gently kicks our asses goodbye with the tiny Folk jewellery “Eschatology”.The stunning artwork for “Anthèmes our les Regrets” is based on three paintings by Portland-peintre Eric Adrian Lee. His textural works beautifully resemble the Muhr music and bring forth a new level of interpretation to both aural and visual components. Like Vince, Eric accepts (and facilates!) elements like dirt, noise and error in his producing. Like him, texture and detail are more important than sheer tangibility.
Muhr - Anthèmes pour les Regrets [12rec.047]
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2008-05-10T00:00:00Z
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Automassage
Automassage 12rec. guitar noiserock
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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. Vrbancic teamed up with his Slovenian buddy Samo Ismajlovic and Gottfried Krienzer from Graz (active in Code Inconnu and under the name of Kauders). Accomplished by Markus "Maex" Sworcik of Hella Comet on drums soon after, the band recorded their debut "The Ambience Between Your Ears Is Noise". At 12rec., you can download an exclusive EP-selection from their full-length CD. The digipak CD is published by God Bless This Mess (SLO) and Chamfu Nocords (AT). The "Ambience EP" is a furry little beast. Automassage fuse abrasive instrumental Rock music with elements of Ambient and Avant-Garde. The crackling guitar sound of Code Inconnu ain't far, still Automassage add a their two cents of Psychedelica. Opening track 'Vortex Diva' sounds a bit like Jazzrockers Slon for the middle part but develops in noisy guitars towards the end. The loop-like guitars at 'Alice' bring forth an idea of Folklore, slighty permutated and processed. Here, Vrbancic's synth textures are unmistakeable (the vocals are his, too). Another consuming tune is 'Ert'. The song is based on a simple bass pulse played in the back of diffuse field recordings. Layers of aquatic guitars, synthesizer and trumpet make 'Ert' swell with gloomy noise. Last track 'Crepinje' is a slow motion waltz with Ismajlovic's shy violin, a Hawaiian guitar interlude and blissful distortion in the end. Beautiful fall of curtain, indeed.
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[12rec.048] Automassage - Ambience EP
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2023-05-10T18:26:47Z
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2008-06-06T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.049
Hermelin
Hermelin
12rec
Postrock
Indierock
Rock
Guitar
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Hermelin
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. act. Remember their Split LP with Cologne Noiserockers Junique Fois Pi? It's the kids, hell yeah. In 2008, Hermelin show up with their full-length debut album. We're happy to support the band and bring forth their new album for free download and CD purchase. Hermelin didn't change their style too much. The music on the actually self-titled LP is a dense mixture of Post- and Indierock, instrumental end to end, with shining melodies and a good amount of fuzz. Appropriate in production, "Hermelin" enables you to enjoy the full range of the band's interplay, their dendritic guitar melodies over warm Postpunk bass-lines and straightforward drums. In direct comparison to the second truebred Postrock-act at 12rec., Milhaven, Hermelin are less dreamy or ethereal. Hermelin rock harder. And their composition might need a second try to reveal all secrets. But if you check "Pliant Fur", "May 91313", the sonic re-make of "Nova Police" or the sluggish fuzz-monster "Mellow F.S.", you'll probably agree that Hermelin are worth every second of (repeated) listen. The "Hermelin" LP is online for free download and available on CD. The band pressed 300 copies and crafted the sleeves on their own. Hurry to the shop and order your copy! Or check the Hermelin website for live dates and buy the album directly from the band.
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Hermelin - Hermelin [12rec.049]
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2008-07-24T00:00:00Z
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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. Seventeen chosen songs from recent and future 12rec. artists. You can download the compilation for free. You should do so! But if you really really want to support 12rec. and our artists, make sure to take a look at the fine digipak CD we got done.
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V.A. - So Much Achieved. So Much Left To Do.
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2008-09-11T00:00:00Z
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Matt Chisholm & others
adcBicycle
Matt Chisholm
12rec
12rec.net
electronic
glitchpop
remix
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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. He got in contact with a bunch of artists he is friends with or fan of, asking them to revisionize his tunes. We are proud to publish this versatile compilation album of boundless and blissful Pop music!
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Various Artists - Through the Mirror: adcBicycle Revisioned [12rec.051]
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2008-09-11T00:00:00Z
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Bourquenez, Ortis, Bondi
Plaistow
Johann Bourquenez
Raphaël Ortis
Cyril Bondi
12rec
12rec.net
Jazz
Trio
Improvisation
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Plaistow
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. Their most recent record "Do You Feel Lucky" is our 52. release. The three members met through various Netaudio- and improv music networks, like eDogm and Audioactivity. The band name comes from a Squarepusher's track, “Plaistow Flex Out”, and the piano/ bass/ drums formation is a Jazz archetype. The Plaistow project is based on the common will to keep the energy and freedom found in free improvisation and mix it with an electronic Rock- and Noise inspired vocabulary (without ommiting some visits to Steve Reich!). The Plaistow music goes through all extremes. Sometimes close to silence, sounds and gestures slackened, an idea of calm and contemplative meditation might form. The feeling to be able to compose with a slow progress of time. And then, at some point, a kind of anger is given voice, just like in a brief scratch or a long howling. Forms are neglected, there is a will to get out of style and decency, a will to adopt an attitude both offhanded and intense. Up to now, the repertoire consists of original compositions solely. Arrangements are made during an intense collective work, the trio creating a tentaculary soundscape as concerts and residences go along... Words by Johann Bourquenez
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Plaistow - Do You Feel Lucky?
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2008-11-06T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.053
Ian Hawgood
Ian Hawgood
12rec
12rec.net
Ambient
Analog
Fieldrecording
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Ian Hawgood
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 classified as Ambient, Drone and Noise. His "The Fires Will Die At Night" at Resting Bell Netlabel is legend already. For 12rec., Ian Hawgood delivers an album completely recorded with analog instruments. His most subtle and personal up to date. As the title depicts it, "Enfants Ruraux" is a journey into his childhood when little Ian was nearly deaf; he got obsessed by simple tones and melodies in these days. On the one hand, "Enfants Ruraux" is a meditation on the elementary sound of the piano and the acoustic guitar. Hawgood is happy to be blessed with a musical family and circle of friends who lent pump organ, chimes, violins, trumpets and loads of other stuff for further investigation. On the other hand, the album deals with various aspects of traveling. UK-born, Ian Hawgood lives in Tokyo right now but that was able to call Spain, Italy and the US home before. Most of the album was made in Pennsylvania and on trains to and from New York City. Throughout the blissful layers of acoustic textures, field-recordings reverberate and bring forth impressions from all these different places. Especially the mystical Japanes countryside was inspiration to Ian while recording this twinkling masterpiece of calm Ambient music.
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Ian Hawgood - Enfants Ruraux [12rec.053]
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2008-12-10T00:00:00Z
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Giulio Frausin
The Sleeping Tree
Songwriter
Folk
Indiepop
Guitar
Giulio Frausin
12rec
12rec.net
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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. Giulio's blueprint of low-key Pop- and Folk music was absorbing from the first seconds of his heart rendering "Love is an Eternal Lie" hit single, online as a demo version at myspace back then. The Sleeping Tree appeared with a bitter-sweet street ballad on our jubelee compilation ("You've Got To Be Strong"), afterwards Giulio locked himself in to record and produce his debut album "Leaves and Roots" you are lucky to download now. Just in time for Christmas! Giulio reduced his music to the essential basics of Folk. Acoustic guitar and his wonderful voice, a little bit of melodica and mouth harp, some delay here and there, nothing else. His music has a stunning clarity and vulnerability that brings forth a strange feel of timelessness- The Sleeping Tree could equally be a contemporary of Nick Drake, Mark Hollis or Ben Harper. You like him if you dig Crepusculum. All these comparisons limp and the truth, as always, lies in-between. While the instrumental pieces on "Leaves and Roots" are introspect and melancholy, Giulio's vocal songs are well-nigh uplifting. A discreet Worldmusic influence is present, mixed with a grasp for melody that knows as much about Jazz as about Popmusic. Catchy, but never shallow. His voice is placed prominent in the mix, very intimate and beautiful, and his slight Italian accent is super. Giulio's dear sister Teresa did the harmonius artwork.
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The Sleeping Tree - Leaves and Roots [12rec.054]
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2009-02-07T00:00:00Z
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César Pesquera
Portabot
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12rec.net
César Pesquera
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César Pesquera
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 associated projects. His experimental short film Passer/8 made up load of praise all over Europe. All these laurels ain't enough, César Pesquera released an successful album under the name of "Shudo" back in 2000 via the welcome hands of Belgian Quatermass Records. Portabot, admittedly, is different. I stumbled about Portabot when Raül Fuentes aka Heezen asked me to review his Liquid Guitar mixtape at Audiotalaia Netlabel. The epic "Sorry" was featured in this collection and I was happy to find the whole respective album online at last.fm. Immediately, I tried to get in contact with César but failed untill in Summer 2008 he wrote me an email because he stumbled upon a review I wrote about him... God, or whatever you want to call it, moves in mysterious ways! Portabot is all about processed guitars, warm noise and the formation of textures from tones. The works of 12rec. artists Neuf Meuf and Heezen is audible, still Cesar's Summery drones recall My Bloody Valentine, Tim Hecker and Markus Popp as well. Packed with a stunning new artwork, sewn to quicksilver precision and slightly mastered by Sven Swift, we are happy to re-release "There Must Be a Sunrise in Every Ending". Enjoy it at a stretch for maximum impact.
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Portabot - There Must Be a Sunrise in Every Ending [12rec.055]
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2009-04-16T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.056
Emil Klotzsch & Ruediger Krey
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krey
emil klotzsch
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Emil Klotsch
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. "Through All These Years" was captured to battery-driven HD recorders deep in the woods of the Eifel region, a low mountain range South-west of Cologne. Home alone, Emil arranged subtle piano miniatures. Listening to these recordings via headphones, bass clarinettist Ruedige Krey improvised over Emils' introspect piano dashes sitting somewhere out in the field with wind and birds and rustling leaves around him. All this can be heard on "Through All These Years", especially if you use your headphones for listen. Emil Klotzsch enhanced the recordings by mysterious synth textures and reworked the piano and field recording stems. The outcome is stunning: Chambermusic, Jazz, Avant-Garde Pop. The later is true most notably for the final track "I See My Own". This track features the magic Werner Kitzmüller with a haunting vocal performance. All song titles are derived from the text, Kitzmüller recites with sepulchral voice.
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Klotzsch & Krey - Through All These Years Of Trying To Belong [12rec.056]
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2009-05-18T00:00:00Z
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Nicolas Bernier + Simon Trottier
bernier
trottier
electroacoustic
folk
canada
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netlabel
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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. The later is a Folk-influenced guitarist, one half of Ferriswheel you know from our compilation. Bernier + Trottier released their first record with us back in 2007 which soon became a favourite to both fans and critics. "... et retrouvé en fôret" is the direct successor to "objet abandonné en mer". The principal idea is the same: Nicolas and Simon get together, improvise, talk, record, refine, re-improvise, and so on. Next to Simon Trottier's imaginative and unworldly melodies, field-recordings play a huge role. Just like "objet", "fôret" is a highly emotional project, with strong connections to the Quebecois countryside. All is sewn to quicksilver beauty by Nicolas Bernier. His big talent is contextualisation - underneath wistful and strangely remote melodies, Nicolas mixes field-recordings, subtle synthesizers and certain percussion elements. Bernier mirrors Trottier like a feedback. Eventually, and this is the biggest strength of "... et retrouvé en fôret", improvisations and drones become songs again. Indeed one of our best and most important releases. Limited edition box set! Purchase both "objet abandonné en mer" and red hot "... et retrouvé en fôret" in a hand numbered, 50-copies-only edition including an extra folder and two exclusive bonus tracks by mighty Nicolas Bernier and Simon Trottier. BETTER BE FAST
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Nicolas Bernier + Simon Trottier - ... et retrouvé en fôret [12rec.057]
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2019-01-15T01:19:14Z
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2009-08-17T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.058
Nic Bommarito
Nic Bommarito
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Postrock
Folk, Instrumental
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Nic Bommarito
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. While Nic Bommarito is still a loner (despite assistance from his buddy Michael Connolly on viola and harp), the sound on his new album is much more that of a band, a rock band even more. His rhythm section, slightly awkward back then, is replaced by thundering drums (listen to the first track "200 Sugar Packets" to get an idea!). Tender and fragile parts change with fuzz-soaked, shoegazing noise passages that never let miss melody and bliss. Everything is tight and dense, and although the production is not always hi-fi Nic found the perfect form for his beautiful, emotional music. On "Better Than Way Too Post-Rock", all that is Nic Bommarito today is summed up in 5:30 wonderful minutes. The golden ration of crestfallen Americana, North American Folklore and shoegaze Indiepop. Only for this tune, Nic uses a vocal sample, like building a bridge to "Taciturn". And the circle closes... Thank you Nic!
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Nic Bommarito - Harp Fragments [12rec.058]
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2009-12-24T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec.060
Fred Baty
Crepusculum
Fred Baty
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Guitar
Folk
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Crepusculum - Sing on in Silhouettes [12rec060]
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2010-02-17T00:00:00Z
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milhaven
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Guido Lucas / BluBox
German Postrockers Milhaven, nobody can deny it, are part of the intimate circle of artists that are closely related to 12rec. We published their first two albums, but now we are happy to pass the flame. Albeit, we keep on hand to the torch - their new album, entitled "Milhaven", recorded at the infamous BluBox studios by Guido Lucas, is on purchase in a high-quality book sleeve via Valeot Records. At the same time, we are happy to announce that it is available for FREE DOWNLOAD from the 12rec. servers. Hell yeah. This is how Milhaven say thanks to everybody who supported the fab four with their former music. "Milhaven" is simply the best, Milhaven not only recorded but wrote up to now. Their songs are epic and kinescope, still they never get out of hand or loose the melodic focus. This is classical Postrock, slightly experimental but eventually nothing else than sophisticated Pop music. Sure Milhaven might sound like Explosions in the Sky or Do Make Say Think every once a while. However, what makes them strong and unique is songwriting and integrity. Milhaven do not flirt with Gothic, Metal or razzmatazz alike, their sound remains that of delay and volume but not distortion, the chamber musical minimum of two guitars, bass and battery. Tracks like "Supervulkan", "Barnabas", "Animal 3K" or the intense, textural "The Trees are in Misery" are songs that will stick in your head, that take you on an aural trip and will enrich your life. What else can music offer?
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Milhaven - Milhaven [12rec.061]
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2024-02-19T02:14:00Z
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2010-06-01T00:00:00Z
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MONOKLE & GALUN
12rec
Monokle&Galun
electronic
free
hip hop
magic
pop
postrock
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The first time I had been in contact with Russian producer Vladislav Kudryavtsev was when he asked me to release the MONOKLE debut LP "TESAURUS" with 12rec. Although all the quality was there I did not feel it suiting the label sound too good. Fortunately, the album found a proper home with ideology.de early in 2009. When it turned 2010 Vlad was in contact again, this time pulling a collaboration LP with vocalist GALUN out of the magic hat. Sergey Galunenko aka GALUN is a former beatbox artist that moved from underground Rap to Pop, experimental Electronica and contemporary composition with stunning success. "IN FRAME" is the name of their red hot full-length as a duo - and this time I made sure to fix a release. What we get to hear on "IN FRAME" is a mixture from Hip Hop beats, quixotic Pop melodies and precisely these mesmerizing Postrock motives I was fond of with "TESAURUS" already. The whole production is dense and warm and full of details and influences. Neo-Krautrock acts like Fujiya & Miyagi, To Rococo Rot or Caribou might spring in mind and especially in combination with GALUNs' decent vocal performance, the solo works of Thom Yorke have to be cited. The frontcover comes from US-American collage artist Brandi Strickland. Laden with different textures and colour her Dada-inspired art is as lyrical as the music on "IN FRAME" is. credits released 01 June 2010 This is [12rec.062] All music by MONOKLE & GALUN Artwork by brandistrickland.com myspace.com/monoklemuz myspace.com/galunspace
Monokle & Galun - In Frame [12rec.062]
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James Gardner
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Giraffe - There Is No Devil [12rec.063]
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THE RARE PLANTS GARDEN
folk
free
left-field
pop
Berlin
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Russian duo THE RARE PLANTS GARDEN is beatmaker 813 and Nienvox, two fellows that made a good list of solo and cooperative appearances via Bump Foot, Dusted Wax Kingdom, 813âs own Pop Errors Gallery, and just recently Error Broadcast and Project Mooncircle. From this genealogy one might expect THE RARE PLANTS GARDEN to sound just like the other Russian duo here at 12rec., 2010âs high-flyer Monokle & Galun. However 813 and Nienvox concentrate on psychedelic left-field Pop music, banning the razor-sharp future funk of 813 completely from THE RARE PLANTS GARDENs selftitled debut EP, making the six tracks suspicious being brainchild to Damon Albarn rather than Flying Lotus. In the aftermath of Britpop, acts like Gryff Rhys, Gorkyâs Zygotic Mynci, The Beta Band or Blur released awkward and subtle music that denied the grande gesture of Pop but offered beauty on second listen. THE RARE PLANTS GARDEN can be reviewed as heirs to this short-lived trend. Their compositions bow to 70s psychedelic Rock, UK Pop and Russian folklore simultaneously. Being well aware of what is happening in nowadays music however THE RARE PLANTS GARDEN do not sound retro a bit â the foggy and slightly mysterious sound of their EP would suit any hipsterâs âchillwaveâ and âwitchhouseâ act equally good. A stunning release.
THE RARE PLANTS GARDEN - s/t [12rec.064]
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Nicolas Bernier, Simon Trottier
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folk
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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. Nicolas teamed up with Montreal Folk- and improvisational guitarist Simon Trottier for some kind of a concept EP dealing 'bout a stranded objet abandonne. They jammed with acoustic and electric guitar, laptop and toy piano, diverse stringed instruments, percussion and microphones. Being familiar with Nicolas' work under his own name and as part of the Milliseconde Topographie -series, I was very curious what this promissing duo would sound like. After weeks of careful yet extensive post-production, the outcome blow both our minds. The Objet abandonne en Mer-EP consists of four tracks with the title track being sub-divided in parts one to three. Opener Harmattan starts with a loop of rhythmically ordered glitches. Two entangled layers of acoustic guitar burst in, the slide-guitar rises and invokes an intense feeling of being lost. Bow and synthesizer replace the slide until an acoustic guitar introduces a simple Folk-melody. Objet abandonne en Mer is dominated by diverse field-recordings and crackling glitches. The feeling of being lost created in the first song is altered to a vague idea of rolling with the waves. The electro-acoustic cacophony of the introduction gives rise to a calm guitar melody. For the end, a thousand small Herzog-style guitars arise and consume the spectrum 'till single tones and chords begin to establish on top. The third track opens with a nice Blues-motive on electric guitar and Nicolas' trademark noises. The initial melody disappears in reverb while a diffuse second layer gains contour beneath the surface. Just before the 1.000 Hours of Staring-similarity become too evident, a firm and catchy guitar emerges to make you hum along. Something like the album's dramaturgic peak. Bourrasque afterwards is the final tune. Mainly made of Simon's wonderful guitars, the songs starts with a lot of them piled up efficiently. After all, one singular Folk-melody survives just to drown in the sound of seagulls, oceanic hissing, noise and the distance echoes of Nicolas' and Simon's voices. More than just intriguing.
Bernier & Trottier - Objet abandonne en Mer [12rec.42]
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Kesselring, Holy, Vatagin
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Und Morgen, Der Asphalt
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 follow the content of his lyrics; you have to acclimatise because it sounds different from the music you use to know! maybe it's more easy if you can understand his surrealistic, dark and bloomy lyrics. enough talk about the vocals! i told sim that und morgen, der asphalt always reminds me on a modell railway landscape, nice to look at in a whole and picked with dozen of details most people simply overlook. synth-sounds, field-recordings and electronic rhythm-patterns are entwined by guitar, bass, drums, piano (of course!), banjo. i don't know how these guys achieve a music this close and self-contained. thanks to cryptic scenery for the remix, tanja elentári nepomucky for the artwork and matija schellander for playing the contrabass at ich versuche dich zu lieben.
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Und Morgen, Der Asphalt
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2019-01-15T01:19:13Z
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2009-11-29T00:00:00Z
http://archive.org/details/12rec059
Derrick Hart
Derrick Hart
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Pop
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Singer Songwriter
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Derrick Hart
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 talent that makes his compositions shine like nothing else I heard in a while. His four track "Songs from a cross (the sea)" EP is probably the shortest 12rec. release ever - but one you do not want to miss. "Songs from a cross (the sea)" kicks off with "Sunchild", a febrile and angst-driven piece of Indiepop that marries the grandezza of Arcade Fire with the broken beauty of Brian Wilson. "Sad Leafless Trees", the instrumental intermezzo afterwards, is a digestion of Hart's Americana-sound. It is exciting to follow its textural drift. "You're winning so I quiet" is Derrick Hart in full effect, a larger-than-life DIY Country hymn. Hart's great ability is to play it candy - but not much. For "Rest Well", clarinet and cello strike up for a melancholy ballad that makes me think of Vincent Gallo and, ehm, Chris Isaak at the same time. Timeless! Shouts go out to Justin Robert Wierbonski, Kirill Nikolai, Josie Stawicki, Peter Glenn, Jeremy Powell, Phil Norman and Stacy Price who helped making "Songs from a cross (the sea)" what it is.
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Derrick Hart - Songs From A Cross (The Sea) [12rec.059]