12 Apostles Records
Our London HQ: art and music combine. Artists on the label have included dsico, ollo, girl talk, the mavs and more
12 Apostles have embarked on a ministry of twelve acts of atonement at 45 revolutions a minute.
12 Apostles are a willing conduit for the reconciliation of capital with creativity and seek nothing for themselves.
12 Apostles
exo records - melbourne
exo
Great Melbourne label who we do co releases with the emergency...loads of other fantastic acts on the label as well
Great Melbourne label who we do co releases with the emergency...loads of other fantastic acts on the label as well
ROC
ROC
Dazed & Confused 1994 by Jefferson Hack
R.O.C make you feel like covering your ears and turning the volume up at the same time.
You're not supposed to understand R.O.C. They want to confuse you. They've released four very different but brilliant singles and have managed to avoid becoming pigeonholed, championed or chartbound with any of them. Their debut single "God Willing" released at Christmas last year is fantastic, pseudo-religious spokenword over ambient pop, it better's The Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" and if it was the only record R.O.C ever made it would still put them in the top 50 best British bands. R.O.C have since released the rocked out and charming, "Girl With The Crooked Eye"; "Exine", a sexy synth-pop Parklife meets Duran Duran; and most recently the deliciously weird and curiously sublime "White Stains".
Night Fold Around Me reviewed by Andrew Eaton, The Scotsman 9/6/06
A FASCINATING cult oddity, ROC spent the 1990s making two brilliant but willfully uncommercial albums that were all over the place stylistically, mixing occasional Saint Etienne-style dreamy pop with relentless eight-minute instrumentals and unremittingly bleak ballads full of swearing. If that made them a tough sell, their attitude didn't help - their own label, Setanta, wrote an open letter to the music industry branding them egotistical (Virgin released their next album anyway).
Ironically, the trio have now made their most accessible album at a time when few people care anymore. This is a terrific collection of lush, intelligent electro pop full of beauty, tempered optimism (the quietly anthemic Sink a Bite into Life) and gallows wit. Princess is a hoot - a love song that proclaims "everything's gonna be fine" despite "all the torture and the maiming and the horror and the raping and the slaughter and the pain". Not for everyone, but oddly life-affirming
Dazed & Confused 1994 by Jefferson Hack
R.O.C make you feel like covering your ears and turning the volume up at the same time.
You're not supposed to understand R.O.C. They want to confuse you. They've released four very different but brilliant singles and have managed to avoid becoming pigeonholed, championed or chartbound with any of them. Their debut single "God Willing" released at Christmas last year is fantastic, pseudo-religious spokenword over ambient pop, it better's The Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" and if it was the only record R.O.C ever made it would still put them in the top 50 best British bands. R.O.C have since released the rocked out and charming, "Girl With The Crooked Eye"; "Exine", a sexy synth-pop Parklife meets Duran Duran; and most recently the deliciously weird and curiously sublime "White Stains".
Night Fold Around Me reviewed by Andrew Eaton, The Scotsman 9/6/06
A FASCINATING cult oddity, ROC spent the 1990s making two brilliant but willfully uncommercial albums that were all over the place stylistically, mixing occasional Saint Etienne-style dreamy pop with relentless eight-minute instrumentals and unremittingly bleak ballads full of swearing. If that made them a tough sell, their attitude didn't help - their own label, Setanta, wrote an open letter to the music industry branding them egotistical (Virgin released their next album anyway).
Ironically, the trio have now made their most accessible album at a time when few people care anymore. This is a terrific collection of lush, intelligent electro pop full of beauty, tempered optimism (the quietly anthemic Sink a Bite into Life) and gallows wit. Princess is a hoot - a love song that proclaims "everything's gonna be fine" despite "all the torture and the maiming and the horror and the raping and the slaughter and the pain". Not for everyone, but oddly life-affirming
Ollo
Ollo
Thet have been compared to Matthew Herbert, Fourtet, Prefuse 73, Caribou, The Triffids, The Flaming Lips, David Sylvian, Jarvis Cocker, Beta Band, Can, Massive Attack, David Bowie, Department of Eagles, Ultramarine, Errors, Tunng, Air and Basement Jaxx. So no-one can quite tell which is always a good sign
Some Press On Album "The If If"
"it’s rare that a duo blends the heavily layered jamming of Can with the downtempo groove of Massive Attack but ollo succeeds with flying colours. On their 2nd full length these Australian multi-instrumentalists serve up a handful of Kraut Jams incorporating spastic live drums, wah-pedaled guitars and funk bass from space. If it’s not the trippy guitar solos on “summer salt” that weave you into the boys interplanetary web it’ll be the always shifting synth pads that reel you in and take you under" [XLR8R, USA]
"...The second album from Sydney’s Ollo, The If If, doesn’t disappoint; it’s a strange and imaginative collection of anti-pop songs that uses simple, melodic electronica to create trance-like soundscapes. ...an eerie and well crafted musical excursion where you never quite know where you’re heading, or where you’ve just been."
[Rolling Stone :: 3.5 stars]
Thet have been compared to Matthew Herbert, Fourtet, Prefuse 73, Caribou, The Triffids, The Flaming Lips, David Sylvian, Jarvis Cocker, Beta Band, Can, Massive Attack, David Bowie, Department of Eagles, Ultramarine, Errors, Tunng, Air and Basement Jaxx. So no-one can quite tell which is always a good sign
Some Press On Album "The If If"
"it’s rare that a duo blends the heavily layered jamming of Can with the downtempo groove of Massive Attack but ollo succeeds with flying colours. On their 2nd full length these Australian multi-instrumentalists serve up a handful of Kraut Jams incorporating spastic live drums, wah-pedaled guitars and funk bass from space. If it’s not the trippy guitar solos on “summer salt” that weave you into the boys interplanetary web it’ll be the always shifting synth pads that reel you in and take you under" [XLR8R, USA]
"...The second album from Sydney’s Ollo, The If If, doesn’t disappoint; it’s a strange and imaginative collection of anti-pop songs that uses simple, melodic electronica to create trance-like soundscapes. ...an eerie and well crafted musical excursion where you never quite know where you’re heading, or where you’ve just been."
[Rolling Stone :: 3.5 stars]
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