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Regular 12th Isle affiliate Vague Imaginaires also features heavily, contributing synth work on Grenoble and his own extended digi bonus remix of 'How's Life'. As a collection, the 8 tracks show a studious, concise vision and combine influences from minimalism, concrete and avant-garde jazz and techno yet also embrace friendship, experimentation and curiosity whilst capturing 5 years of the artists own personal life. Some of the tracks have been circulating in various versions for a number of years now, with DJ support from Bake, Ivan Smagghe, Optimo, Lena Willikens, Huntley \u0026amp; Palmers, Orpheu The Wizard and, of course, 12th Isle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"12th Isle","offers":[{"title":"Black LP.","offer_id":50388419805515,"sku":"2167900","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_36_4ce0c38c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726341898"},{"product_id":"palta-og-ti-pa-den-tolyte-o","title":"Palta Og Ti Pa Den Tolyte O","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeemingly drawing from a slightly different well of influence from that seen across their prolific back catalogue, the Aarhus duo – going by the less common shroud of Palta and Ti – have hereby woven together a stylistically varied yet tonally concentric 3 track EP. Having produced a wealth of some of the most lovingly referential and consistent music of recent times, the tracks making up “Palta og Ti pa den Tolvte O” are slightly harder to pin down to exact genre markers. Each song is busy yet never overcrowded with elements; building concise and playful grooves which if forced we would say positions them somewhere in the ambient space between jazzy-improv-house and dubby, hypnotic electronics. That’s as absolute in adjectives as we would ever care to be. 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Firmly rooted in the city’s music scene, JD runs the Hypnotic Mindscapes parties and label whilst Jerusa works as a singer and multi-instrumentalist exploring traditional and fusion sounds centered around a Brazilian music repertoire. Introduced to us by our mutual friend Raf Reza, the pair began to jam together in the summer of 2020 with JD curious to incorporate Jerusa’s vocals into his often club-focused electronic productions. The results sit somewhere between the dancefloor and the living room, a psychedelic range of rhythm, melody and vocal harmonies that felt like an immediate fit for us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst sharing an early mix of ‘Pala Mo’, the rest of the EP began to form quickly based on further recording sessions and we at 12th Isle are ecstatic to share their work with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten and produced by JD Casas and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerusa Leao\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVocals by Jerusa Leao \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBass on ‘Pala Mo’ by Ariel Peckel\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"12th Isle","offers":[{"title":"Black | 12\"","offer_id":50417163534667,"sku":"2001465","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Dark_Farfisa_-_EP_6b5390f7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726719627"},{"product_id":"studia-spiritual","title":"Studia Spiritual","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest offering from 12th Isle collects a variety of recordings from Vasily Stepanov and Vlad Dobrovolski as part of their on-going S A D project (Udacha\/Muscut). As part of their process, S A D sample and distort old de-magnetised tapes, constantly adding to and reworking their own sound-world. Layers of kosmiche synthesisers, off-kilter woodblock percussion and lysergic field recordings interplay with dense ambient textures in a true collage-style approach to music making. Across the nine tracks, multiple collaborations and aliases coalesce to present a thorough look at both artists approach to communicating the world around them. Drawing influence from nature and the outdoor concerts of Vladislav’s band Kurvenschreiber as well as late night free jazz shows and a similar ‘hauntological’ approach seen in Dobrovolski’s recent ‘Playbacks for Dreaming’, the pair express a unique genre-traversing attitude. 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By looking to the future rather than the far-off past, he builds upon these early instances of technologically charged cultural geography and presents an authentically Greek reading of a parallel Athenian basin. Where his last work for 12th Isle explored once-forbidden tunings and unplaceable tonalities, these recordings further expand on the artist’s simultaneous concern for heritage and imaginary projection. Across the final Side D, Chondropoulos explores themes of maternal love present across the album by working with local singer Sofia Sarri to record six piercing, beautiful acapella phrases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"12th Isle","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50469866406219,"sku":"1150826","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/03da3441-cefd-4f69-a8f1-8c620235c981_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727368828"},{"product_id":"reverse-acceleration-of-dragons","title":"Reverse Acceleration of Dragons","description":"\u003cp\u003e12th Isle ready the first of many new releases after a break over the first half of 2025. Radx is a new collaborative endeavour between label artists X.Y.R. and Vlad Dobrovolski (½ of S A D) exploring a shared appreciation of vintage 80s \u0026amp; 90s synthesisers, ambient-adjacent furniture music and, er, dragons. 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