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IELASI, GIUSEPPE - TOOLS (CDS)

"Tools is the latest creation from Italian experimentalist Giuseppe Ielasi. While Ielasi's work over the years as a guitarist and drone artist has become highly regarded his work on 2009's Aix completely broke that mold and quickly became one of his most critically ...
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12K2018 | 12K

MINAMO - DUREE (CD)

"Back in 1999, on the forefront of the Japanese electronic/acoustic microsound scene, was the then two-piece live improvisation band Minamo (two more members were added in 2001 to make the current four-piece lineup). Their live concerts helped pioneer this hybrid of ...
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12K1058 | 12K

SMALL COLOR - IN LIGHT (CD)

"Four years after the release of their debut album Outflow, Japan's Small Color, a duo comprised of Rie Yoshihara (aka Trico!) (accordion, voice, vintage keyboard instruments) and Yusuke Onishi (guitar, banjo, bass, programming and production) are back with the ...
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12K1057 | 12K

SOLO ANDATA - LOOK FOR ME HERE (CDS)

"Look For Me Here is Solo Andata's accompanying single to their self-titled, full-length 12k album (12k1056) which, in addition to Solo Andata's album mix, includes two exquisite remixes from Japanese legend Ryuichi Sakamoto and 12k visionary Giuseppe Ielasi. With ...
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12K2014 | 12K

PILLOWDIVER - SLEEPING PILLS (CD)

"Sleeping Pills is the debut release from Germany's Pillowdiver, whose concepts of simplification and minimalism led him to self-imposed limitations for the creation of this work. Utilizing primarily a Fender Jazzmaster, with a small amount of synthesizer and field ...
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12K1054 | 12K

BERG, MOLLY + STEPHEN VITIELLO - THE GORILLA VARIATIONS (CD)

"This is the first full-length collaborative release by Richmond-based musician and sound artists Molly Berg and Stephen Vitiello. The CD title, Gorilla Variations came about from a request for a short-soundtrack from Ader Santos, a Brazilian video artist who Vitiello ...
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12K2013 | 12K

AMPLIFIER MACHINE - HER MOUTH IS AN OUTLAW (CD)

"Amplifier Machine began in 2002 with James Dixon (Swordfish, Supagroop, James Dixon) on guitar, Korg & piano, Seth Rees (The Spheres, This Is Your Captain Speaking, I Want A Hovercraft, Seth Rees) on drums, violin, samples, piano & guitar and Alex Jarvis (Automatic, ...
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12K1049 | 12K

STEINBRÜCHEL - MIT OHNE (MCD)

"Mit Ohne is a sound documentation of an audio/visual installation by Yves Netzhammer and Steinbrüchel. The installation entitled "The feeling of precise instability when holding things" was part of the group exhibition "Wohnträume/Wohnräume" exhibited 2003 at the ...
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12K2010 | 12K

MACHINEFABRIEK + STEPHEN VITIELLO - BOX MUSIC (CD)

"Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail. A simple note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic e-mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This all happened in a very short period, both musicians being very ...
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12K1048 | 12K

AUTISTICI - VOLUME OBJECTS (CD)

"In the desire to make recorded sound as tactile as possible Autistici (UK), recently featured on 12kâTs Blueprints compilation (12k1039), has sculpted found objects, broken acoustic instruments, synthesizers and environmental recordings into Volume Objects. Expertly ...
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12K1045 | 12K

YSATIS, SAVVAS / TAYLOR DEUPREE - THE SLEEPING MORNING (MCD)

"All of the instrumentation; acoustic guitar, autoharp, various bits of percussion, and analog synthesizers, were performed directly to multi-track with very little editing (they preferred to re-take rather than edit). The duo recorded much of the sound with with ...
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12K2007 | 12K

CAVE, JODI - FOR MYRIA (CD)

"On his cd debut, UK sound artist Jodi Cave creates seven short compositions united by themes of singularity and natural randomness. One of the most immediate features of For Myria is its restrained sound palette. Like an instrumentalist who has laid a small collection ...
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12K1043 | 12K

MOSKITOO - DRAPE (CD)

"12k kicks off its 11th year with a new release that takes the label down new sonic pathways. Caught between the organic and electronic minimalism that 12k is known for and the unconventional Japanese pop musings and songwriting style of Happy, Moskitoo's Drape is an ...
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V.A. - BLUEPRINTS (CD)

"Blueprint: a plan, a model, a template. Over the past 10 years 12k has established itself as a label on the forefront of minimalist music and has become home to some of the most important artists of the genre. It is label that time and time again has not been afraid to ...
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12K1039 | 12K

SEAWORTHY - MAP IN HAND (CD)

"Seaworthy, a three piece collective based in Sydney, Australia that revolves around core member Cameron Webb as well as Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird, was formed in early 2000 to explore melodic and experimental approaches to the construction of minimalist sound scapes ...
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12K1040 | 12K

FOURCOLOR - LETTER OF SOUNDS (CD)

"Following the release of his work as part of the electro-acoustic quartet Minamo on 12k and the proto-pop outing under his new moniker Filfla, Fourcolor (Keiichi Sugimoto) is back with his second release on 12k, Letter of Sounds. His previous work, Air Curtain (12k) ...
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12K1038 | 12K

ROUX, SEBASTIEN - SONGS (CD)

"Songs is the much-anticipated follow-up to Parisian sound designer and musician Sebastien Rouxs beautiful cd Pillow (Apestaartje, 2004). The simple title of Songs hides a deep work that Roux states is based in mathematics, symmetry (and assymetry) and organized ...
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12K1036 | 12K

RANNISTO, ANTTI - ÄÄNIESINEITÄ (CD)

"12k is proud to release Ääniesineitä, the debut full-length CD by Antti Rannisto. Rannisto [b1978] is a Finnish artist whose ultra-spare sound was formed via a diverse background of hip-hop, house, and experimental electronic music. Despite the highly improvised and ...
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12K1034 | 12K

MOTION - EVERY ACTION (CD)

"12k presents "Every Action," the 3rd full-length release from the UK's Motion (Chris Coode) and the follow-up to 2002's critically acclaimed "Dust" (12k1019). In addition to his work with 12k (Dust, as well as a collaboration with Doron Sadja on 12k's recent Two Point ...
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12K1027 | 12K

SADJA, DORON - A PIECE OF STRING, A SUNSET (CD)

"a five movement CD exploring the subtle fluctuations in tone and amplitude created by the combination of sinewaves nearly identical in pitch. Utilizing a 144 note per octave scale, A Piece Of String, A Sunset is made up of chords containing notes 1/12 a semitone apart, ...
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12K1023 | 12K