Giuseppe Ielasi - Tools [2010, cd, 12k]

15 june 2010

lbl: 12k

#: 12K2018

electronic, acoustic

electroacoustic, experimental, avant-garde, glitch, abstract, sampling

320kbps

1. Cooking Pan

2. Rubber Band

3. Polystyrene Box

4. Metal Rod

5. Aluminium Foil

6. Paper Lamp

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total time: 19:47

note: "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 (12k1051) completely broke that mold, turned heads, and quickly became one of his most critically acclaimed releases. The fractured, almost jazz-like rhythms pieced together from sampled fragments that graced Aix has been taken one step further in concept with Tools.

Created as singular studies into the physicality of everyday objects, each track on Tools, named for the object from which it was made (“Cooking Pan,” “Rubber Band,” “Paper Lamp”), is a wonderfully playful trip into new ways of listening and experiencing our everyday.

With a title such as Tools, Ielasi has set no preconceptions or metaphors with his music except for the idea to make an experimental (and somewhat ironic) play on the traditional “DJ-tools” type of record that contains buiding blocks to allow a DJ to layer and combine with other records. In Ielasi’s case, however, the twist is in the fact that these tracks, despite being simple and stark, are complex,captivating structures and explorations of physical objects, composed in a way that is becoming signature Ielasi, that becomes perfect experimental music for hazy summertime listening. – 12k"

elektroakustycznej zabawy ciąg dalszy, szkoda tylko, że to co dobre szybko się kończy.

[7.8]

it's fu****' dark!

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Taylor Deupree - Shoals [2010, cd, 12k]

15 june 2010

lbl: 12k

#: 12K1060

electronic

ambient

320kbps

1. Shoals

2. Rusted Oak

3. A Fading Found

4. Falls Touching Grasses

note: okładka mówi właściwie wszystko, godzina [zastanawiam się czemu te 4 tracki mają razem 45 minut :>] naprawdę uroczego, medytacyjnego czilu nad bagnami. żadnych irytujących sprzężeń, nagłych zwrotów akcji czy skoków dynamiki - wypoczynek totalny.

[8.0]

little frog relaxing on a leaf

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Alva Noto - For 2 [2010, cd, line / 12k]

march 2010 [collects music made between 2003 and 2008]

lbl: LINE [Line is a division of 12k]

#: LINE_044

electronic

minimal, ambient, field recording, experimental, avant-garde, drone

320kbps

carborundum [9.3]

1. Garment

2. Villa Aurora

3. Pax

4. Argonaut

5. Stalker

6. Sonolumi

7. Interim

8. T3

9. Early Winter

10. Anthem Berlin

11. Ans

12. Argonaut-Version

producer: Carsten Nikolai [DE]

note: "A second album of dedications from Carsten Nicolai, once again presented by 12k offshoot label Line. Perhaps reflective of how varied this artist's output has become over recent years 'For 2' represents an incredibly broad range of styles and approaches, though the music always manages to retain the all-important sonic signatures unique to the Alva Noto sound. Over the past decade or so Nicolai's music has transcended the hyper-minimal rhythmic motifs that defined so much of his early work, exploring the possibilities of collaboration, live instrumentation and reconstituted orchestral ambience among other things. Accordingly, on For 2 (which collects music made between 2003 and 2008) you can expect surely the most expansive repertoire of sounds than has ever been gathered for a single Alva Noto album, something that's in-keeping with the diverse set of dedications - works for Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, fellow minimalist composer Phill Niblock, industrial designer Dieter Rams and dramatist Heiner Muller are all included, prompting greatly diverging works from Nicolai."

calculated field

[fixed / 28 march 2010, 4shared]

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Minamo - Durée [2010, cd, 12k]

12 january 2010
lbl: 12k
#: 12K1058
electronic
ambient, experimental
320kbps
topaz [8.0]

1.		Elementary Domain
2.		When Unwelt Melts
3.		Individual Synesthesia
4.		Helical Scenery
5.		Help Ourselves
6.		Be Born
7.		First Breathing At Last
8.		Beginning

Minamo: Keiichi Sugimoto , Namiko Sasamoto , Tetsuro Yasunaga , Yuichiro Iwashita.

note: "Durée, their last studio work since 2007’s collaboration with Tape, and their follow-up to Shining on 12k (12k1031, now out of print), takes influence from the French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson’s concept of “pure durée,” an idea that one’s consciousness is a constant flow and not something that can be divided, reversed, or measured. Minamo used these ideas in creating their music, despite the contradiction of the time-stamped CD format, to try to subvert the ideas of compartmentalized “time” and “space.” With a strong sense of non-linearity and flow taken from Bergson’s ideas, Minamo have created a colorful, skittering wash of music, noise, and texture that embraces a sense of out-there-ness." - distributor.

durée in constans



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Savvas Ysatis + Taylor Deupree - Hourglass [2009, vinyl, 12k]

17 november 2009
lbl: 12k
#: 12k2015
electronic
minimal ambient, pop
320kbps
hubscale: tungsten [7.5]

A1.		Clouds
A2.		Hourglass
B1.		Like Ice On A Summer's Day
B2.		Somewhere On Earth

note: "Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Deupree were at it again in Deupree’s country studio, about two years after the creation of 2007’s The Sleeping Morning CD-EP. They gave themselves one week to see what they could create with the studio as a blank canvas, and the two emerged with Hourglass, four songs of carefully crafted pop-infused ambient music destined for release on 12" vinyl." - experimedia.

wake up, honey



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