12k is one of those rare labels that manages to stay in business despite the fact that they fly completely under commercial radar and that they’ve been quietly hosting some of the best electronic music out there for a couple of years now. I stumbled across their roster purely by accident, and come to think of it, I’ve never heard a whisper about them from the mainstream press. Many of their artists cross-pollinate with German minimalist label Mille Plateaux, and there’s a shared style between the two labels, but where Mille Plateaux tends to trade in dry academics, 12k works from a more organic and emotional template.
Shuttle358 is the alter-ego of Dan Abrams, who had a track under his own name on the second Clicks & Cuts compilation. Like his labelmates, he makes very quiet, minimalistic stuff. If you’ve heard Sogar, Vladislav Delay or Pan Sonic, it’s in that vein. Continued...