The Beautiful Beat is Back Eventually

Friends, the new BEAUTIFUL BEAT mixtape is online. After volume one @ mixotic.de and a self-published volume two, “The Fletcher Street Mixtape” is already the third installment in this series of free Hip Hop neckache.
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Welcome to 12rec.050!

For our 50th release, we decided to go for a compilation.
All exclusive. All free. All for you.

We drummed up the whole bunch and asked them to deliver
the best they have. So they did.
Seventeen chosen songs from recent and future 12rec. artists.

You can download the compilation for free.
You should do so!

Take me to the downloads

But if you really really want to support 12rec. and our artists,
make sure to take a look at the fine digipak CD we got done:

Yummy! This way to the shop.

Joining the jubelee party, Phlow Mag did an interview with 12rec. hobos Sullen and Swift. Read on!

Daisuke Miyatani at Ahornfelder: Diario (CD)

I got the new Daisuke Miyatani-record in the mailbox recently, and I’m very glad about it. “Diario” was released at the tiny German Ahornfelder-label and it contains about 15 songs, song-ideas, fragments and atmospheric skits of active memory. Sun music, Sunday music, summer music. If you’re looking for the Japanese musician at his artistic peak, order this beautiful Digipak CD right now!”I play the guitar, with field-recordings”, this simple yet oh-so-true self-definition introduces the reader at Daisuke Miyatani’s blogspot and leaves him curious about the music. After recommendable free and semi-free EPs at MiMi, Rain Music and Magic Book Recordings, “Diario” is Miyatani’s full-length debut.

Tarkatak at Genesungswerk: Mormor (CD)

The electronic music-underground in the Ruhr Area is not too big. Visiting the right concerts and parties, you meet the same people each weekend. And although it feels a bit rural from time to time, quality ain’t the parameter to mourn about. It was back in 2005 when Martin Juhls introduced me to Mal Hoeschen, a stalwart guy who runs the nice Genesungswerk label. His industrial Ambient-band [multer] is one of the most sincere acts to have emerged from the dungeons of Dortmund, and I was happy to find a package of fresh Genesungswerk-stuff in the letterbox a week later. Recently, we met at a Milhaven show, and once again Mal got something for me: the “Mormor LP” by Bremen-based one man-band Tarkatak. Packed in a delightful cardboard-box with hand painted (!) artwork, Lutz Pruditsch a.k.a. Tarkatak delivers four very long pieces of energetic ambient noise, somewhere between electro-acoustic Krautrock, Industrial and maybe Minimal Music.