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[laridae024] core worqs

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on laridae by kompaqt.core

core_worqs by the promising new laridae artist kompaqt.core will abduct you to the abstract territories of experimental sound design. messing around with his glitchy, ploppy sounds and profound melodies in extremely diverse ways, he manages to establish an absorbing atmosphere of alienating strangeness that seems to ensnare and reject you at the same time.

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[laridae001] va - our old toys

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on laridae by microtonner vs lynxx

the first release on laridae - a label compilation containing tracks from several quite different artists. der reisende starts with his own kind of electropop songwriting, firnwald delivers a poppy idm track with vocals by seven, beitegeuze provides sort of a retro ambient piece, phonomat (aka schaua) makes sweet melodic lo-fi trash, welk gets an industrial ambient breakbeat remix by photophob, woycheck kicks some asses with a cocky disco trash noise track and microtonner do what they do best: industrial-electro-rock. that's what you'll get from laridae.

Tags:AT THE BEACH, TO CHILL,

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They Went To Titan

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on Jahtari by Blue Vitriol

3...2...1...LIFT OFF! On October 15th, 1997 the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built left Earth for the vast Saturnian system - the Cassini orbiter with its attached Huygens probe. After a seven-year journey through the roaring silence of space Cassini finally reached its goal: the majestic
rings, dozens of frozen moons and huge magnetosphere of Saturn that has intrigued human imagination for centuries.

TITAN, Saturn's largest moon, is one of the most mysterious objects in our Solar System. Scientists think that its atmosphere resembles that of a very young Earth. The Huygens probe was released from Cassini in December 2004. Two weeks later it entered the murky atmosphere of TITAN and descended via parachute onto its mysterious surface. The ESA Huygens probe was the first to land on a world in the outer Solar System.

BLUE VITRIOL are supplying the soundtrack to every aspect of this revolutionary mission with their 'THEY WENT TO TITAN'-EP on JAHTARI. A long journey to the outer regions of Dub itself, made for listening as a whole - over and over again. The dense atmosphere of TITAN becomes almost palpable in each track, every crag in the clifted surface of that strange moon an own sound. Hear vast Methane oceans moving in slow motion. Space suits hissing, scanner data transmitting, control lights flashing. Rockets igniting into the screaming magnetosphere, radar echos penetrating the thick clouds, echoing back around the rings of Saturn. Deep and lightyears away.

Commencing landing sequence to your sonic orbit now!

http://www.jahtari.org/music/JTR%20EP03.htm

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JTR NET05

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on Jahtari by Blaze Dem

BLAZE DEM - Martial World / Dubness Of This Creation

Two very deep tracks this time coming from BLAZE DEM here on Jahtari-Net-7" number five!

'MARTIAL WORLD' is a straight subbass smasher, shaking the very roots of dub. Drilling its way continuously forward - and inward - while sending delays off along every axis of the room and bending waveforms around them a huge melody materializes from the sheer space and stays forever! A track full of greatness, raise your fist to that one!

'DUBNESS OF THIS CREATION' puts the bass in even deeper and rougher territory, paving the way for incredible soundscapes containing the message of Rastafari itself! Slightly different and very subtle approach to the field of Digital Laptop Reggae.

Truths And Rights!

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http://www.jahtari.org/music/JTR%20NET05.htm

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JTR NET09

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on Jahtari by Roots Ista Posse

Better put in some teeth protectors before you listen to this one in front of your favourite bass speaker! A MASSIVE wall of dubness coming at you from new Jahtari artists ROOTS ISTA POSSE, right from ParisTown / France.

"8BIT BATTLE DUB" lifts off with some serious 8bit-laser-cannon action, followed by some heavy, heavy basslines. Chords and echos land in from all coordinates of the room, rolling onwards with unstoppable steppa force.
Gut-shaking track!

"HOOKED MI UP DUB" is built on an off-groove low-bass foundation that will bring every sound system to its limits. Deep chords and shuffling drums are wrapped up in HiHats which are underway in various echo chambers at the same time.

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JTR NET02

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on Jahtari by disrupt

Jahtari Riddim Force - Loose In Space /
disrupt - The Stars My Destination (Net 7")

So here is our second NET 7" for the month of December and without exaggerating it can be said that this release features two of the deepest JAHTARI tracks ever! Both tracks are based on one of the most hypnotic WACKIES riddims that are, named 'UNDER WORLD' in one version and 'BASEMENT SESSION' in another. We picked up a loose trail from both these versions. While the A-Side is following more the first one, the B-Side goes for the latter.

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http://www.jahtari.org/music/JTR%20NET02.htm

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JTR NET04

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on Jahtari by disrupt

disrupt - Central Dubbing Unit

A slamming, shuffling and highly kicking piece of true Digital Laptop Reggae! Raw and biting chords over crunchy, deep-rolling and onward-driving basslines on a re-adjusted riddim-grid are the foundations of our fourth NET-7inch here on Jahtari. Bits in several tape delay engines, reverbs coming from nowhere going to elsewhere, a break you might not have expected and always a surprise behind each offbeat!

The dub on the B-side is a bit more reduced in its elements, thus creating more space for the hypnotic aspects of the riddim and the evolution of effects. Enjoy this one with headphones and a halucinogen of your choice!

more info on:
http://www.jahtari.org/music/JTR%20NET04.htm

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JTR NET06

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on Jahtari by disrupt

BAUHELM is the title of our new NET-7“ number 06 coming from BO MARLEY. The ones of you who speak German will wonder at the marvellous twists and turns that beautiful tongue can take when it gets into the crazy tape loops of the BO MARLEY universe, where Dub is transmitted as voltage and Reggae roots have the form of an analogue-synth cable patch bay!

The A-Side is an absolute eardriller with unforgettable refrain and all-over poetic lyrics that will puzzle you for weeks! The ultra-heavy riddim comes along with a great horn section, pumping bassline and smashing drums, all roasted between analogue synth modules in high current mode. On the B-Side the Dub version kicks in with full delay force over an even deeper bass. Horns and vocals get caught in several filterboxes while the rest explodes off to outa space.

Our first vocal release, by the way! Stay tuned for more!

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JTR NET10

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on Jahtari by disrupt

On our TENTH Net-7" we're back with two digital riddims in da original computah game stylee that'll leave a taste of burned-out chips in your ears!

First off on the A-side is 'BLAST YOU TO BITS', ripping up a deep and shuffling echo space with a pumping bassline, groovy SEGA-offbeats, some creepy sounds of a crashed harddisk and a blasting melody hook. "Master Control Program sent you down here to the game grid to get the bits blasted out of you." - So simply fight back with some high power dubness!

In 'ASTEROID DUB FORCE' the speed-o-meter is set to an higher level. You're underway again in your funky Hornet space fighter (which some of you might still remember from Wing Commander I) - and right in the middle of a deadly asteroid belt! But no panic: simply switch on the huge speakers, throw in this intense cassette and hold tight to your joystick. ATTENTION: The echo waves in this tune will definitely bring down your protector shields while the C64 beats might thouroughly crush your hull!

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JTR NET07

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on Jahtari by Volfoniq vs Trema

Three digital sub-bass smashers coming up from VOLFONIQ this time. Afterwards absolutely check the intactness of your amp! :)

On the A-Side 'RECREADUB' starts off with warm organ sounds rotating within an atmospheric wideness hard to believe. Reversed echo explosions, crashing drums and evolving soundscapes on full force over a hypnotic sub-bassline.

The B1-track 'HEROINA DUB' switches on the bitcrusher for a trip on a bassline that is impossible to forget. Glitching chords change harmonies crossover and around the stereo field in offbeat mode.

'SPEAK'N'SEX - MAAAGIK DUB' finishes off the last intact parts of your hifi with a gut-ripping bassline, wah-wah plucks underway in the delay box and a raging computa voice straight from the CPU core! Ultra-heavy bit niceness!

http://www.jahtari.org/music/JTR%20NET07.htm

Tags:LO-FI FREAKS, C64 LOVERS, AT THE BEACH, DIGITAL,

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Converge

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on Bump Foot by Jupiter Makes Me Scream

Jupiter Makes Me Scream

"Converge"

1.Morning Whispers
2.Mist
3.Here And Now
4.Dive Into
5.Incidents
6.Blow
7.Rockets
8.Shine Shine Shine !!!

PRODUCED BY Karolis Burzinskas
WRITTEN, RECORDED AND MIXED @ JMMS Studio
PHOTO GALERY BY Robertas Rezgevicius ( www.skybaba.lt )
COVER DESIGN BY Robertas Rezgevicius & Karolis Burzinskas

JUPITER MAKES ME SCREAM 2007

www.jmms.lt

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Through The Mirror: adcBicycle Revisioned

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by zanf

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! The fun starts with a dizzy electro rap-track by umami from Seattle. allthatfall from New Orleans then add his idea modern up-tempo Pop in a indietronic outfit while Albatrocity of Kansas goes for the Folk- and vocal-harmonies in Matt's music. In his Fell disguise, Seattle sound engineer John McCaig guides adcBicycle into his echo chamber and delivers a steel drum-driven piece of enthralling electro dub. Five is zanf (UK) with damped trumpet and a thousand pounding drums. Roughly divided into two parts, the poppy one is capped by Wisconsin He Can Jog's magnificent adaptation of the bicycle music.
Scotland based Wii wizard The Amazing Rolo opens the second part with a playful remix. Afterwards, map~map (Portland, USA) takes you on a smooth boat ride with chimes and processed guitars before it is North Carolina's Chimp Logic who sends adcBicycle into space and beyond. UK all-rounder Autistici delivers an amorphous track between field recordings and live-processing and, finally, Portland shoegazer The OO-Ray proves his mastership in mighty cello drones. Lean and boneless beauty overall. You don't want to miss this record.

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Turned, and Turning EP

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by Protestant Work Ethic

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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I.M. Wagner EP

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by 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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Taciturn LP

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by 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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There Must Be A Sunrise In Every Ending

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by Portabot

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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EP01

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by jasmin

'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 arenÂ´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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Giraffe LP

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by Giraffe

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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Ambience EP

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by Automassage

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.

Tags:INSTRUMENTAL,

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Dusty Window EP

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by Giraffe

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.

Tags:FOLK, INDIE POP,

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Enfants Ruraux

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by 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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Thanks For Listening To This Record Which Made My Hours Pass So Quickly

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by David Schweighart

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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Secret Speech EP

2025-12-31 9:34:14

released on 12rec by Heezen

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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Rob Hunter EP

2025-12-31 9:34:15

released on 12rec by 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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Logenplatz im Pantheon

2025-12-31 9:34:15

released on 12rec by Raflesia

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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