THE RARE PLANTS GARDEN // The Rare Plants Garden [12rec.064]

“Russian duo The Rare Plants Garden is beatmaker 813 and Nienvox, two fellows that made a good list of solo and cooperative appearances via Bump Foot, Dusted Wax Kingdom, 813’s own Pop Errors Gallery, and just recently Error Broadcast and Project Mooncircle. From this genealogy one might expect THE RARE PLANTS GARDEN to sound just like the other Russian duo here at 12rec., 2010’s high-flyer Monokle & Galun. However 813 and Nienvox concentrate on psychedelic left-field Pop music, banning the razor-sharp future funk of 813 completely from The Rare Plants Gardens selftitled debut EP, making the six tracks suspicious being brainchild to Damon Albarn rather than Flying Lotus.”

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Format: 6 x File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps
Released: 28 Feb 2011
Style: Folk, Pop

ECHO GARDENS // Midnight Run [pin007]

This time Pincet presents pop music (you can add word “indie” for your own desire). Echo Gardens from Ternopil, Ukraine, produce lovely sounds with electronics, guitars, flutes and vocals. The basic idea for this release was to create a quality product with no restrictions on style. No doubt, with listening to this album you’ll have a relaxed good trip, with big pleasure to repeat it.

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Format: 9 x File, MP3, Album, 320 kbps
Released: 24 Dec 2010
Style: Indie, Pop

TRACING ARCS // Eye See You [iD.063]

“On their iD.EOLOGY debut Tracing Arcs combine both aspects into a thrilling aesthetic overall experience. As soon as the first notes hit your ears, a film noir starts rolling in your head. Classy triphop beats, elaborate jazz-chords and deep upright basses skillfully sketch out a closed-off world in subtle shades of black. With the dark attraction of a femme fatale, the nuanced and seductive voice of Fran Kapelle enters the scene, inevitably putting the listener under her spell. With every word of the sometimes cryptic, sometimes promising lyrics he keeps falling for her further and without notice, he’s become a detective in his own case, delving deeper and deeper into a secret that lies hidden within.”

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Format: 7 x File, MP3, Album, 320 kbps
Released: 2010
Style: Trip Hop, Downbeat, Pop

THE! & Ruben D’Hers // Confetti – Live at Fusion Festival [hplive011]

Rubén D’Hers is from Caracas, Venezuela and actually located in Germany. Since his great album on 2063music.de relesed six years ago, there was silence. This new release is a live recording of a concert performed at the FUSION festival (Germany) 06/26/2010 10pm at querfeld-floor.
THE! & Ruben D‘Hers are:
Clemens Wegener – laptop
Tommy Neuwirth – microphone
Ruben D‘Hers – guitar

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Format: 7 x File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps

Released: October 2010

Style: Experimental, Pop

Band website: MySpace THE!, MySpace Ruben D‘Hers