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Founded in 1997 by Taylor Deupree, based in State New York. One of the most important ambient labels around, the catalogue includes albums by Simon Scott, Marcus Fischer, Janek Schaefer, Stephan Mathieu, Giuseppe Ielasi and many others.

 
"Shape Memory is the first full-length recording made through a collaboration between 12k label mates and friends Marcus Fischer and Simon Scott. In the fall of 2017, on a free day between US tour dates for Slowdive (for which Simon is the drummer), the pair managed to ...
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SHUTTLE358 - FIELD (LP)

"12k is very happy to announce a new LP from long-time label favorite and ever-elusive Shuttle358. With Field, Shuttle358's Dan Abrams returns to the beautiful roots he layed down with his now-classic Frame (12k, 2000) which Alternative Press heralded as "ranking ...
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new copies but all with seam split "Loss is the long-awaited and anticipated follow-up to Marcus Fischer's acclaimed Monocoastal. Fischer created Loss over several years, finding inspiration to complete it during his time at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, ...
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"Somi is the new full-length from Taylor Deupree following 2014's Faint. The release comes packaged as a CD inside a 20-page hardbound book of Deupree's photographs that inspired the creation of the music. For the music, made with a small number of instruments (electric ...
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"Gareth Dickson is ghostlike. From the dark outskirts of Glasgow he has sent three studio studio albums in to the world - Collected Recordings (2009), The Dance (2010) and Quite A Way Away (2012). These albums have bewitched a growing inner circle, including some of the ...
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"In the Lens, Solo Andata's fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and ...
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"12k is happy to present the debut release on the label from Argentinian composer Federico Durand who has had a series of amazing releases on labels such as Spekk, Own, and Desire Path. Federico and 12k crossed paths on a tour of Japan together in 2014 where the ...
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"Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer created their expansive debut In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes over four days in a frigid, snow-covered New York only a few short months after they met. Since then they have toured together, photographed, and written music together ...
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"Compressions & Rarefactions is the fourth solo release on 12k from New Yorker Kenneth Kirschner, who is widely known for epic-length compositions that challenge the forms of modern composition. The album is released as a single CD with a digital download of over five ...
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"With the days of synthetic minimalism fading beyond the horizon in our rear view mirror, we pick up where Chessa (12k1030) left off. In his most bold and experiential work yet, Shuttle358 (Californian Dan Abrams) pulls you into a highly immersive blend of cinematic ...
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"Parallel Landscapes is the first solo full-length album from Swiss artist Steinbrüchel on 12k, despite his relationship with the label and apperances on compilations, collaborations (Status, with Frank Bretschneider (12k1033)) and EP releases (Mit Ohne, (12k2010)). It ...
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PJUSK - SOLSTOV (CD)

"Sol - Sun / Stov - Dust. With their distant, icy ambient music in shades of pale blues and greys, the Norwegian duo Pjusk evoke lonliness, time and landscape with their sound that stretches slowly, carefully and patiently through the air. Having previously released two ...
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ILLUHA - AKARI (CD)

"Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011's debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013's Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices ...
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"This is the first album for 12k from renowned UK sound artist Janek Schaefer. He has been active in the music and art worlds for the past 20 years recording and creating sound installations for an impressive list of labels and institutions. In 2010 Janek produced his ...
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"Between You And The Shapes You Take is the second collaborative album by Richmond based musician/sound artists Stephen Vitiello and Molly Berg. As with the duo's previous release, The Gorilla Variations, tracks are created out of improvisations and sculpted through ...
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MOSKITOO - MITOSIS (CD)

"2007 saw the album debut of Moskitoo with 12k's Drape (12k1041). Since then, Moskitoo (Tokyo's Sanae Yamasaki) has been busy performing live, recording and releasing new work (including sound/voice for Japanese media/television and iOS apps) and expanding her talents ...
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"Start with a room, a cleanish one, not too rustic, not too slick, and then fill it with tools, fill it with anything that can be used to make other things. Put the room in the forest, but not too deeply in, let's have the city on the distant horizon. Then, let's have ...
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"The clock is slowing and time is held in a single, fragile moment as daylight falls from the horizon. Waking hours spin to a slow finale through a subconscious haze of mist flecked with deep autumnal reds and quiet yellows. Memories gradually transform into ripples on ...
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"The clock is slowing and time is held in a single, fragile moment as daylight falls from the horizon. Waking hours spin to a slow finale through a subconscious haze of mist flecked with deep autumnal reds and quiet yellows. Memories gradually transform into ripples on ...
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"The new CD-EP (clocking in at 20 minutes exactly) from Stephan Mathieu is a coda to A Static Place (2011, 12k), created with his highly focused setup of two mechanical-acoustic gramophones and computer. Coda (For WK) is dedicated to the legendary "quiet" pianist ...
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"In 1995 Steve Peters and Steve Roden toured as a trio with singer Anna Homler; sometimes they would vocalize behind her, and they liked the way their voices blended together. They then spent about 15 years saying that "someday" they should record a voice-based project ...
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"Kane Ikin is most well know as one half of Solo Andata alongside Paul Fiocco who have released critically-acclaimed albums on Hefty, Deisre Path, and 12k. Solo Andata's music goes to deep, dark places and is often made with homemade and found tools. Contrail marks ...
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"Twenty Ten is the latest epic from Brooklyn-based composer Kenneth Kirschner, who is known for his decayed, dark and usually long-form takes on modern classical and found-sound composition. With only 4 pieces spanning a 3-CD set, and nearly 3 hours of music, Twenty Ten ...
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"Fourcolor is the solo project of Keiichi Sugimoto (Minamo, Filfla) and should be well known to the 12k audience with his two previous releases, Air Curtain (2004) and Letter of Sounds (2006) both highly regarded and now out of print, which established him as one of the ...
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MOSS - MOSS (MCD)

"Moss, is a live recording from a unique collaboration by sound artists/musicians Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello. This was a midnight concert at the Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, CA which was part of the 01SJ Biennial. The final night was ...
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