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.

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Welcome to the Scrapyard Forecast, a place for musical and poetic discourse.

I am interested in music that exhibits styles of, or focuses on, minimalism, field recording, electroacoustics, noise, ambient, and/or musique-concrete, but never feel restricted to any of these. This site is also "about" Poetry and the prolonging of physical media. My interest in the latter leads me to avoid reviews of digital-only releases and digital versions of physical releases. Comments, questions and tactile submissions are appreciated.

Record label operating out of Cincinnati, OH. Active since 2005, Students of Decay publishes drone, ambient, musique concrete, and minimalist musics. Distributed by Morr.

Contemporary sound cassette label, est 2009 in Chicago.

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