Another standard bearing netlabel is 12 Records. Specializing in ambient and folktronica they’re close to achieving the milestone 50th release. On No. 46 they have the Austrian David Schweighart and on No. 47 they have Muhr whose Miasmah release is still doing chores on my playlists. Here’s what the label has to say about both [...]

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This weekend I’ll be sifting through some netlabel releases. First up is Cycles available from Camomille Records as their 100th release. A release spanning 44 tracks and over 3 hours of quality electronic/acoustic music! After 6 years of releasing free music to the world, Camomille is celebrating their 100th release with a great roster of [...]

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We’ve featured Tunng here before but they surely deserve another one.
Their second album Comments of the Inner Chorus is grande! I don’t know if critics will say, `this feels pretty similar to the former album`, the thing is there are many bands doing the whole folk-with guitar and soft naive songs thing and it’s [...]

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Now I know Tunng has been featured on many other mp3blogs however they deserve every bit of coverage on every media. We’ve all been obsessed with ‘Pool beneath the pond’ since our first listen!. I’m particularly struck with the medieval feeling, somewhere along Sopor Aeternus without the gothic feel. Small European towns under snow, ponds [...]

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(taken from his Maritime album on 4AD)
Minotaur Shock is David Edwards, from Bristol, and he has just released an outstanding 2nd album on 4AD released last month. . The album is labeled as folktronica by critics although he’s not happy with the generalisation (folktronica?!) . It’s a melodic album with a subtle dose of accoustic [...]

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