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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.

 
"Often cited as the most classic and groundbreaking of all of 12k's releases, Shuttle358's Frame ushered in an era of humanism, melody and organics in the era of Microsound and the Clicks and Cuts movement at the turn of the century. While it was still steeped in ...
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"Marcus Fischer's Monocoastal is one of the most defining moments in the arc of 12k's evolution. Released over 10 years ago (CD, 12k1063) and long-since out of print, Monocoastal shaped the sound to come for the label for a decade and beyond. It was also Marcus ...
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"Wayfinding is Christopher Bissonnette's sixth solo studio release and his first, of hopefully many, for 12k. The album embodies an evolution of Bissonnette's work, moving from an exclusively synth-based series of explorations to an amalgam of electronics and acoustic ...
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"This Valley Of Old Mountains quietly creates the folklore of an imaginary land. From a hemisphere apart, Taylor Deupree and Federico Durand share simple sounds with complex stories. Their music balances an edge between translucency and exploration, focusing on ...
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"Five Wooden Frames marks the return of Italian artist Giueppe Ielasi to 12k after his captivating polyrhythmic explorations on Aix (2009). He completely abandoned the guitar in the mid 2000's to explore minimal electro-acoustic abstractions (see his releases on his own ...
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"M. Grig is a multi-instrumentalist who specializes in dobro, lap steel and pedal steel guitar living in Durham, North Carolina. His songs are beautiful, slow, wistful and lonely. The hazy, sliding sound of the guitars steep the music in nostalgia and mystery as these ...
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"Corey Fuller is one half of the duo Illuha on 12k and Break is his first solo recording for 12k. A crashing wave, the breaking dawn, an impact, the crushing of emotional spirit. the breaking of a storm. These are all relevant ideas behind his choice of a title for this ...
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"Both Stephen Vitiello and Taylor Deupree are seasoned collaborators. Each new collaboration is a new context, a new conversation and a unique opportunity to learn. Fridman Variations is Vitiello and Deupree's third release together and continues their tradition of ...
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"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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"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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"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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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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"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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"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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"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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and Taylor Deupree. "Recorded live on April 10th and 11th, 2010, Tasogare: Live in Tokyo documents the performances of five 12k artists at two temples in Tokyo, Japan. Komyoji Temple (April 10th) saw the first-ever performance in Japan by Australia's Solo Andata, known ...
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