NORTHCORE: a music band involving me – Carl Northcore (producer, composer, performer); Jana (composer, performer, lyricist). With contributions and collaborations from a bunch of other talented musicians. For a long time Northcore was just me (Carl), and most of the stuff I wrote was techno, trance and chillout. Now it’s a broader mix of styles but it can generally be classified under “electronic”, “chill”, and “alternative”.

Technology and imperfection. The raw and the processed. Curator and curated. Solo explorer and gregarious collaborator. The life and work of Taylor Deupree are less a study in contradictions than a portrait of the multidisciplinary artist in a still-young century.

Deupree is an accomplished sound artist whose recordings, rich with abstract atmospherics, have appeared on numerous record labels, and well as in site-specific installations at such institutions as the ICC (Tokyo, Japan) and the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (Yamaguchi, Japan). He started out, in the 1990s, making new noises that edged outward toward the fringes of techno, and in time he found his own path to follow. His music today emphasizes a hybrid of natural sounds and technological mediation. It’s marked by a deep attention to stillness, to an almost desperate near-silence. His passion for the studio as a recording instrument is paramount in his work, but there is no hint of digital idolatry. If anything, his music shows a marked attention to the aesthetics of error, to the short circuits not only in technological systems but in human perception.

And though there is an aura of insularity to Depuree’s work, he is a prolific collaborator, having worked with the likes of Stephan Mathieu, Christopher Willits, Kenneth Kirschner, Eisi, Frank Bretschneider, Richard Chartier, Savvas Ysatis, and Tetsu Inoue.

Deupree dedicates as much time to other people’s music as he does to his own. In 1997 he founded the record label 12k, which since then has released over 80 recordings by some of the most accomplished musicians and sound artists of our time, among them Alva Noto, Steve Roden, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Steven Vitiello. Many share with Deupree an interest in stark minimalism, but the label has also found room for, located a common ground with, the acoustic avant-garage, the instrumental derivations of post-rock, and the synthetic extremes of techno.

And collectively, the cover jackets to the 12k album releases have served as an ongoing exhibit of Deupree’s photography, its lofi aesthetic, with an emphasis on damage and wear and antiquated tech, closely paralleling his music. (His photos have also graced numerous books, design anthologies, and other recordings and projects.)

Deupree continues to evolve his sound with an ambition and drive that is masked by his music’s inherent quietude. He approaches each project with an expectation of new directions, new processes, and new junctures.

With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.

BACK TO THE UNKNOWN - ALBUM OUT NOW

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FREYA [ Stone Seed ]
@stoneseed_music

Freya’s dark, haunting beats and thunderous basslines, paired with razor-sharp technical skills, have made her a force of nature in the electronic scene.

From underground raves to legendary festivals such as Earth Frequency, Elements, Dragon Dreaming, Earthcore and Halfmoon (Thailand), she’s left an indelible mark, repping Australia’s cutting-edge record label, Stone Seed.

With nearly two decades of DJing across Oceania, Asia, and the UK, Freya’s obsession with all things techno and progressive, fuels her creativity and drive her pursuit to create a legacy sound.  

Off the decks, her not-for-profit, Woof Doof Events, is a game-changer in Melbourne’s dance scene, championing causes for our four-legged friends.

KONCPT is Thailand's new collective for underground electronic music - Feat KONCPT Mgnt | KONCPT Lab | KONCPT Mix | KONCPT Live

All inquiries please get in touch jamieblac@koncepttechno.com

::: BLAC Koncept 
Standing at 196cm this tall enigma has been serving up his own brand of hard hitting funk and tribalistic Techno for the past 25 years, having secured himself as stalwart DJ in his native Australia, BLAC Koncept spread his wings further afield to Asia where he operates his latest
venture KONCPT in the Thai underground scene in Bangkok.

Spreading the sound and awareness of Techno has always been at the front of his endeavors, from running events to creating music in the studio as BLAC WHTE to sharing the stage with luminaries like Marco Bailey, Marco Lenzi, Arjun Vagale, Ecilo and Exos, his eye is always cast to the future and continuously evolving his sounds into their next form, as is true of Techno itself.

New video out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIjR-gOtIhE

It's a Synth is a Copenhagen based electro pop / synth rock duo. We come from a grunge/indie/punk rock background and blend the melodies and the energy from these genres with electro pop / synth rock to create big exciting four-minute floor fillers and epic evolving soundscapes, all filled with Scandinavian dark mood. The only but important dogma for our music is that no guitars are allowed. 

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