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Artist:	MOSKITOO
Title:	Drape
Label:	12K
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	12K 1041CD

"12k kicks off its 11th year with a new release that takes the label down new sonic pathways. Caught between the organic and electronic minimalism that 12k is known for and the unconventional Japanese pop musings and songwriting style of Happy, Moskitoo's Drape is an infectiously strange, bleepy, and dreamy debut release. Sanae Yamasaki (Moskitoo) hails from Sapporo, Japan in Hokkaido, the country's northern-most prefecture. Perhaps a reaction to the cool climate of her home, her multi-instrumental talents bring a wide range of warm tones and textures to Drape by means of guitar, metallophone, organ, drum machines, synthesizers and nostalgic toy instruments. Yamasaki's gentle, airy vocals play off of broken beats and aqueous sound drops evoking half-awake memories lost and found. Influenced by visual art (she painted the cover image), modern electronic music and abstract pop, such as Eno's explorations in the 1970s, Yamasaki does not set out to write a particular style of music, but rather, lets her creative process emerge naturally, following whims and experiments. Drape is, by far, the most structured and songwritten release on 12k to date. It's a release that signifies not a complete directional change for the label but the creative go-ahead to add new nuances to the already established sound that the label has pioneered."

Artist:	MOSKITOO
Title:	Moskitoo Remixes
Label:	12K
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	12K 2006CD

"The Moskitoo Remixes CD is a 4-track single featuring remixes from Moskitoo's full length CD, Drape. Released as a limited edition of 500, the remix CD features 'Wham & Whammy' remixes by Raster/Noton founder Frank Bretschneider and SND's Mark Fell. 12k's Taylor Deupree remixes 'Skie' and the album version of 'Wham & Whammy' is present as well. Bretschneider's remix comes in his signature style of ultra-clean bleeps and bouncing machine beats, layered with Moskitoo's delicate vocals. Mark Fell takes a decidedly different approach chopping the original into hundreds (thousands) of fragments and recombining them into a jittery and jarring recontextualization. Deupree's 'Skie' remix adds organic tones and new layers of guitar and ambience to the lazy calm of the original." Last copies of this now deleted edition.

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