Lana G is a DJ passionate about Afro House and African culture. Her journey started with her first love - dancing, through which she became more and more interested in House music and Afro sounds. In time, she founded a collective called Soulectors, dedicated to organizing events and building the Soulful and Afro House scene in her hometown. Her sets are filled with the sounds of Afro, Latin, Vocal & Soulful House, and she is no stranger to other genres such as Amapiano, Afrobeats, Soul, Funk and Disco. Lana also hosts a radio show on 1BTN, Brighton radio, UK, where she shares her love for music with a wider audience. Lana’s recent performances include the world-renowned BBE Record Store in London, as well as shows in other UK cities such as Hastings and Birmingham. In her hometown, you can catch her spinning at popular Zagreb venues like Funk Club, Peti Kupe, Masters, and Aquarius.

Listen to 1BTN radio show on the Mixcloud link below. 💙

Independent record label from Sardinia, est. 2007 — founded by Andrea Porcu.

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.

I'm Ryo Nakata.
I run small fragments recordings in Japan.
small fragments recordings is small music label.
ambient, drone, idm, classic and more...

OUT NOW
chihei hatakeyama / norma 

Future release:
Tobias Hellkvist /TBA/ end of 2012
Maps and Diagrams / TBA 


distribution

Experimedia[US]

Norman Records[UK]
Stashed Goods[UK]
RHYTHM ONLINE[UK]

P*dis[JP]
Linus Records[JP]

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.

:::ethereal sound art:::

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Rusted Tone Recordings is an independent tape label specialising in ambient, drone, and experimental music. Based in Farnham, Surrey, RTR releases limited edition cassette releases.

東京 founded organic minimalist label now based by the sea

thank you
ありがとう

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